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03/02/2025, 19:51 Living World Sigma Institute Sigma Institute Anmol Sharma NEET 2025 Living World Date: Feb 04, 2025 Time: __mins/hrs Total Marks: 90 X 1 = 90 Topics covered Biology The Living World - Living World - Characteristics, Diversity in Living World, Taxonomic Categories, (4) Sub class Subject : Biology No. of Questions : 90 7. Systema naturae is published by 1. Match the following and choose the correct option: (1) Linnaeus Column I Column II (2) Darwin A Family P tuberosum (3) Ernst Mayer B Kingdom Q Polymoniales (4) Aristotle C Order R Solanum D Species S Plantae 8. Identify the 'order' from the following. E Genus T Solanaceae (1) Carnivora (2) Muscidae (1) P-D, Q-C, R-E, S-B, T-A (3) Insecta (2) P-E, Q-D, R-B, S-A, T-C (4) Panthera (3) P-D, Q-E, R-B, S-A, T-C (4) P-E, Q-C, R-B, S-A, T-D 9. Members of biological species are potentially able to 2. Biological species concept was given by (1) Compete (2) Interbreed (1) Aristotle (3) Introgross (2) John Ray (4) Express all the same genus (3) Ernst Mayr (4) Buffon 10. ‘Order’ related to “brinjal” is 3. Metabolic reactions takes place in which of the (1) Poales following? (2) Sapindales (1) In living organisms only (3) Dicotyledonae (2) Both in living and non-living organisms (4) Polymoniales (3) In cell-free systems 11. Which taxonomic term may be suggested for any rank (4) Both 1 and 3 in the classification? 4. Given below is the botanical name of mango. Mark the (1) Class option in which the name is correctly written (2) Order (1) Mangifera indica (3) Species (2) Mangifera indica (4) Taxon (3) Mangifera Indica 12. The correct order of Taxonomic categories in (4) Magnifera Indica ascending order is I. Kingdom → division → class → order →family → 5. The housefly belongs to which order in taxonomical genus → species classification? II. Kingdom → division → order → class →family → (1) Musca species (2) Diptera III. Kingdom → species → order → class → family (Descending order) (3) Muscidae IV Species → genus → family → order → class → (4) Insecta division → kingdom 6. A number of families having common character is called (1) II (1) Order (2) I (2) Class (3) III (3) Phylum (4) IV 1 03/02/2025, 19:51 Living World Sigma Institute 13. Which of the following is a defining characteristic of 22. Statement A : The scientific term for these categories is living organisms taxa. (1) Growth Statement B : Characterisation, identification, classification and nomenclature are the (2) Unable to grow processes that are basic to taxonomy (3) Reproduction (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is incorrect. (4) Response to external stimuli (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is correct. 14. Reproduction can occur within members of a (3) Both Statements are correct. (1) Genus (4) Both Statements are incorrect. (2) Species 23. Patient in "COMA" can show (3) Order (1) Irritability (4) Family (2) Self consciousness 15. Which of the following is a class (3) Consciousness (1) Insecta (4) Metabolism (aided by Machines) (2) Mammalia 24. Which is the correct sequence of taxonomic (3) Dicotyledonae categories? (4) All of them (1) Species → genus → kingdom → phylum 16. Polymoniales and Sapindales represent (2) Species → order → phylum → kingdom (1) Genus (3) Genus → species → order → kingdom (2) Class (4) None of the above (3) Order 25. Dicotyledonae represents one of the taxonomic (4) Species category of mango. The similar taxonomic category of man is 17. Statement A : In Binomial nomenclature, the specific epithet tells us about the more common (1) Mammalia feature. (2) Chordata Statement B : In Binomial nomenclature, the generic (3) Primata name tells us about the more characteristic (4) Eutheria feature 26. Which is a common phenomenon exhibited by living (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is incorrect. and non-living organisms to show the feature of (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is correct. growth? (3) Both Statements are correct. (1) Increase in mass (4) Both Statements are incorrect. (2) Cell division 18. Reproduction is synonymous with growth in which of (3) Increase in replication rate the following set of organisms? (4) Cell differentiation (1) Bacteria, unicellular algae and Amoeba 27. Statement A : The scientific names ensure that each (2) Bacteria, Amoeba and fungi organism has only one name. (3) Unicellular algae and fungi Statement B : The vernacular names ensure that such a (4) Unicellular algae and multicellular algae name has not been used for any other known organism. 19. Higher level of organisation emerges from (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is incorrect. (1) A tissue itself (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is correct. (2) Interactions among organisms (3) Both Statements are correct. (3) Organelle itself (4) Both Statements are incorrect. (4) Interactions between the chemicals and organelles 28. Select the correctly written scientific name of Mango 20. First act of taxonomy is which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus (1) Description (1) Mangifera indica Car. Linn. (2) Identification (2) Mangifera indica Linn. (3) Naming (3) Mangifera indica (4) Classification (4) Mangifera Indica 21. Taxon refers to 29. Which of the following is not an universal rule for (1) Species nomenclature of organisms? (2) Family (1) New names are derived from Latin or are Latinized (3) Genus (2) The name, when handwritten, should be separately (4) All of these underlined or printed in italics. (3) The first word denoting genus should always be in capital letters while species name starts in a small letter. (4) Each taxonomic group above the rank of species can have more than one correct name. https://www.cleverb.in/branch/exam/generate-paper/27542 2/6 03/02/2025, 19:51 Living World Sigma Institute 30. Dead organisms (2) Class (1) Grow (3) Order (2) Do not grow (4) All of these (3) Sometimes grow 40. Match the following columns and select the correct (4) Exhibit external growth only choice 31. A true regeneration was observed in Column I Column II (1) Hydra A Family P melongena (2) Sponges B Kingdom Q Polymoniales (3) Planaria C Order R Datura (4) Fungi D Species S Plantae E Genus T Solanaceae 32. Which one of the following taxonomic categories tops the hierarchy of categories? (1) A - T, B - S, C - Q, D - P, E - R (1) Genus (2) A - T, B - Q, C - S, D - P, E - R (2) Kingdom (3) A - P, B - Q, C - R, D - S, E - T (3) Class (4) A - P, B - Q, C - S, D - R, E - T (4) Phylum 41. Which of the following is a defining characteristic of living organisms? 33. In Mangifera indica L.,L is for (1) Growth (1) Indica (2) Ability to make sound (2) Mangifera (3) Reproduction (3) Linnaeus (4) Response to external stimuli (4) None of these 42. Statement A : Biological names are generally in italics and 34. All living organisms are linked to one another because written in latin. (1) They have common genetic material of the same type Statement B : They are Latinised or derived from Latin (2) They share common genetic material but to varying irrespective of their origin. degrees (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is incorrect. (3) All have common cellular organization (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is correct. (4) All of above (3) Both Statements are correct. 35. Which of the following can be considered as the (4) Both Statements are incorrect. defining property of living organisms? 43. Higher taxa share i. Consciousness ii. Growth (1) Least common characters iii. Cellular organisation (2) Maximum common characters iv. Metabolism (3) No common characters v. Reproduction (4) Character as a point is never considered (1) i, ii, iii, iv (2) i, iii, iv, v 44. Choose the correct statement about reproduction I. It produces progeny with more or less similar (3) i, iii, iv features to parents (4) iii, iv II. It occurs by involving one parent (sexual) or two parents (asexual) 36. Metabolism is III. It is through budding, fragmentation, spores or (1) Release of energy gametes (2) Gain of energy (1) I, III (3) Release or gain of energy (2) All except I (4) Catabolism of a reaction (3) All 37. Lowest category of animal kingdom is (4) All except III (1) Genus 45. Identify from the following the only category that has a (2) Species real existence (3) Kingdom (1) Phylum (4) Taxon (2) Kingdom 38. A human being and a cow can be differentiated in the (3) Genus following defined feature (4) Species (1) Growth, Reproduction 46. Nomenclature or naming is only possible when the (2) Reproduction, Metabolism organism is described correctly and we know to what (3) Cellular organization, Reproduction organism the name is attached to. This is (4) Self consciousness (1) Taxonomy (2) Classification 39. Taxon refers to (3) Binomial system (1) Division 3 03/02/2025, 19:51 Living World Sigma Institute (4) Identification 55. Statement A : Increase in mass and increase in number of individuals are twin characteristics of 47. Two different genera are classified in the same growth taxonomic category, family. Which of the following Statement B : In majority of lower animals and plants, statement is correct about their classification? growth and reproduction are mutually (1) The same class but different species exclusive events. (2) A different class and different order (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is incorrect. (3) The same phylum but different class (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is correct. (4) A different kingdom and different phylum (3) Both Statements are correct. (4) Both Statements are incorrect. 48. Which ofthe following ‘suffixes’ used for units of classification in plants indicates a taxonomic category 56. The odd taxonomic category among the given options of ‘family’ is (1) –ales (1) Triticum (2) –onae (2) Homo (3) –aceae (3) Musca (4) –ae (4) Polymoniales 49. Viable and visible taxon is 57. Genera consists of which of the following (1) Order I. order II. class III.f amily IV. species (2) Family (3) Species (1) I only (4) Class (2) II only (3) IV only 50. Prerequisite to observe metabolism is (4) I and III only (1) Growth 58. Choose the correct match (2) Cellular organisation (3) Reproduction (1) Order - a group of related division (4) Consciousness (2) Genus - a group of related species (3) Class - a group of related genera 51. All the given options represent the basic process of (4) Division - a group of related phyla taxonomy except (1) Classification 59. Linnaeus is credited with (2) Identification (1) Binomial nomenclature (3) Specification (2) Theory of biogenesis (4) Nomenclature (3) Discovery of microscope (4) Discovery of blood circulation 52. House fly belongs to (1) Order - Insecta 60. Statements unrelated to Systema Naturae is/ are (2) Family - Musca (1) Written by Linnaeus (3) Genus - Diptera (2) Has description of systematic arrangement/ (4) Phylum - Arthropoda classification of animals (3) Animal names in this book are coined following 53. Binomial nomenclature means binomial nomenclature (1) One name given by two scientists (4) Specific group of plants are described ahead of his (2) Two names, one scientific, other local time. (3) Two names, one latinised, other of a person 61. As we go from kingdom to species in a taxonomic (4) One scientific name consisting of a generic and a hierarchy, the number of common characteristics specific epithet (1) Will decrease 54. Identify the incorrect statement: (2) Will increase (I) Characterisation, identification, classification and (3) Remain the same nomenclature are the processes that are basic to (4) May increase or decrease taxonomy. (II) A true species consists of a population that are 62. Ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic reproductively isolated categories is known as (III) The sum total of all the chemical reactions occurring in our body is metabolism. (1) Classification (IV) All plants, animals, fungi exhibit metabolism and (2) Key microbes donot exhibit metabolism. (3) Taxonomy (1) I,III (4) Hierarchy (2) I, IV 63. Assertion : Systematics is a branch of biology that deals (3) I, II, IV with classification of organisms (4) IV Reason : Aim of classification is to group the organisms in orderly manner https://www.cleverb.in/branch/exam/generate-paper/27542 4/6 03/02/2025, 19:51 Living World Sigma Institute (1) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is 71. Choose the correct one correct explanation of Assertion. i. Growth cannot be taken as a defining property of (2) Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not living organism. the correct explanation of Assertion. ii. Dead organism do not grow. iii. Reproduction cannot be an all inclusive defining (3) Assertion is true but Reason is false. characteristic of living organisms. (4) Both Assertion and Reason are false. iv. No nonliving object is capable of replicating itself. v. Metabolism in a test tube is non-living. 64. Which is a taxonomic category? vi. Metabolism is a defining feature of all living (1) Canidae organism. (2) Felidae (1) i and iii (3) Phylum (2) All except iii (4) Solanaceae (3) All except v 65. Which of the following statements is correct for (4) All except i families in taxonomy 72. Wheat belongs to which family (1) Animal families ends with suffix - idea (1) Solanaceae (2) A family is a group of related genera with less number (2) Anacardiaceae of similarities as compared to genus and species. (3) Liliaceae (3) Both vegetative and reproduction features are taken as the basis of plant classification (4) Poaceae (4) All of the above 73. Class mammalia consists of 66. Statement A : The word systematics is derived from the (1) Order primata Latin word ‘systema’ which means (2) Class primata systematic arrangement of organisms. (3) Order carnivora Statement B : Linnaeus used Systema Naturae as the title (4) Both 1 and 3 of his publication. (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is incorrect. 74. Specific epithet is (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is correct. (1) First word in the scientific name of a species (3) Both Statements are correct. (2) Second word in the scientific name of a species (4) Both Statements are incorrect. (3) Both 1 & 2 (4) None of these 67. Select the correct related to man (1) Genus - Homonidae 75. Identify the incorrect statement: (2) Order - Primata (I) Consciousness therefore, becomes the defining property of living organisms. (3) Family - mamalia (II) Biodiversity means the number and types of (4) Division - Chordata organisms present on earth (III) Solanum and Panthera are species. 68. Identify which organism can sense and respond to (IV) Arthropoda -three pairs of jointed legs. environmental cues? (1) I,II, III (1) Prokaryotes (2) I, IV (2) Eukaryotes (3) III, IV (3) Both 1 and 2 (4) IV (4) None of them 76. Plants grow throughout life by which method? 69. Generally growth and reproduction are- (1) Cell dedifferentiation (1) Mutually inclusive events (2) Mitosis (2) Mutually exclusive events (3) Cell division (3) Either (1) or (2) (4) Both 2 and 3 (4) None 77. Statement A : Non-living objects exhibit external growth. 70. Which one of the following has least similar Statement B : Increase in biomass due to accumulation of characters? biomass on surface take place in non-living (1) Family things. (2) Class (1) Statement-A and but Statement-B is true. (3) Genus (2) Statement-A is true but Statement-B is false. (4) Species (3) Statement-A is false but Statement-B is true. (4) Statement-A and Statement-B are false. 78. The word ending with -aceae indicates (1) Genera (2) Family (3) Order (4) Species 5 03/02/2025, 19:51 Living World Sigma Institute 79. Why reproduction cannot be considered as an (4) None of these inclusive defining characteristic of all living organisms? 85. Musca domestica belongs to (1) Non-living organisms also reproduce (1) Order - Diptera (2) Some living organisms are sterile and cannot produce (2) Division - Chordata offsprings (3) Class - Mammalia (3) Some living organisms are sterile and can produce (4) Family - Poales offsprings (4) Both 1 and 2 86. The species (man, housefly, mango, wheat, dog, cat, lion, tiger, potato, brinjal, makoi, and leopard) given 80. Genus represents here belong to how many different families? (1) Group of unrelated species of plants or animals (1) 4 (2) A collection of plants or animals (2) 5 (3) Group of related species of plants or animals (3) 7 (4) A group of plants in a given area (4) 6 81. In the taxonomic categories which heirarchial 87. Select the incorrect statement about living processes. arrangement in ascending order is correct in case of (1) All living phenomena is due to underlying interaction. animals? (2) Properties of tissues are not present in the constituent (1) Kingdom, Class, Phylum, Family, Order, Genus, cells. Species (3) The interactions result in emergent properties at a (2) Kingdom, Order, Class, Phylum, Family, Genus, higher level of organisation. Species (4) Properties of cellular organelles are present in the (3) Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Class, Family, Genus, molecular constituents of the organelles. Species (4) Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, 88. Consciousness is the defining property of living Species organisms because (1) Photoperiod affects reproduction in seasonal breeders 82. “The Darwin of the 20th century’, this title is given to in both plants and animals (1) Mendel (2) Plants respond to external factors like temperature (2) Linnaeus and light (3) Ernst Mayr (3) All organisms handle chemicals entering their bodies (4) Ernst Haecke (4) All of the above 83. Which one of the following taxonomic categories top 89. The order-Carnivora includes family the hierarchy of categories? (1) Felidae (1) Order (2) Convolvulaceae (2) Division (3) Felidae and Canidae (3) Class (4) Canidae (4) Genus 90. Biodiversity can be best defined as 84. According to the binomial nomenclature, scientific (1) The number and types of organisms present on earth. name of an organism consists of (2) The number and types of organisms present in India. (1) Specific epithet (3) The number and types of organisms present in a state (2) Generic name. (3) Both 1 and 2 (4) Totally of genes, species and ecosystem of a given region https://www.cleverb.in/branch/exam/generate-paper/27542 6/6