Organisms and Populations

Two butterfly species are competing for the same nectar of a flower in a garden. To survive and coexist together, they may avoid competition in the same garden by :

1. Predating on each other
2. Feeding at the same time
3. Choosing different foraging patterns
4. Increasing time spent on attacking each other

In spite of interspecific competition in nature, which mechanism the competing species might have evolved for their survival?

1. Predation
2. Resource partitioning
3. Competitive release
4. Mutualism

Amensalism can be represented as :

1. Species A (+); Species B (0)
2. Species A (-); Species B (0)
3. Species A (+); Species B (+)
4. Species A (-); Species B (-)

In the exponential growth equation Nt = N0ert, e represents

1. The base of geometric logarithms
2. The base of number logarithms
3. The base of exponential logarithms
4. The base of natural logarithms

Match List-I with List-II Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

1. (A) is false but (R) is true
2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
3. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
4. (A) is true but (R) is false

Secondary metabolites such as nicotine, strychnine and caffeine are produced by plants for their

1. Nutritive value
2. Growth response
3. Effect on reproduction
4. Defence action

Which of the following is not an attribute of a population?

1. Natality
2. Sex ratio
3. Mortality
4. Species interaction

Niche is

1. all the biological factors in the organism’s environment
2. the physical space where an organism lives
3. the range of temperature that the organism needs to live
4. the functional role played by the organism where it lives

Which one of the following population interactions is widely used in medical science for the production of antibiotics?

1. Commensalism
2. Mutualism
3. Parasitism
4. Amensalism