The Living World - NEET PYQ

Living World

The chapter “The Living World” is the very first chapter of Class 11 Biology and often introduces basic yet important concepts that form the foundation for further studies. In NEET, questions from this chapter usually test the understanding of definitions, characteristics of living organisms, taxonomy, nomenclature, and classification systems. Previous Year Questions (PYQs) commonly focus on topics like binomial nomenclature, taxonomical hierarchy, taxonomical aids (herbarium, museum, botanical gardens, zoological parks), and contributions of scientists like Linnaeus. Though the weightage of this chapter is comparatively low, 1–2 questions are usually asked every year, and they are mostly direct and memory-based. Practicing PYQs from The Living World helps students quickly revise factual concepts and score easy marks in NEET.

Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?
Isolated metabolic reactions occur in vitro.
Increase in mass from inside only.
Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory.
Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally.

What is ‘Living’?*
AIPMT 2011
Biological organization starts with:
cellular level
organismic level
atomic level
submicroscopic molecular level

What is ‘Living’?*
AIPMT 2007
The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for:
interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
reproduction
growth and movement
responsiveness to touch

What is ‘Living’?*
AIPMT 2007
The most important feature of all living systems is to:
utilize oxygen to generate energy
replicate the genetic information
produce gametes
utilize solar energy for metabolic activities

What is ‘Living’?*
AIPMT 2000
Select the correctly written scientific name of Mango which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus.
Mangifera indica Linn.
Mangifera indica
Mangifera Indica
Mangifera indica Car. Linn.

Diversity in the Living World
NEET 2019
Which of the following is against the rules of ICBN?
Generic and specific names should be written starting with small letters.
Hand written scientific name should be underlined
Every species should have a generic name and a specific epithet.
Scientific names are in Latin and should be italicized.

Diversity in the Living World
NEET 2019
Nomenclature is governed by certain universal rules. Which one of the following is contrary to the rules of nomenclature?
The first word in a biological name represents the genus name and the second is a specific epithet.
The names are written in Latin and are italicized.
When written by hand, the names are to be underlined.
Biological names can be written in any language.

Diversity in the Living World
NEET PHASE - 1 2016
Which one of the following organisms is scientifically correctly named, correctly printed according to the International Rules of Nomenclature and correctly described?
Musca domestica-The common house lizard, a reptile
Plasmodium falciparum-A protozoan pathogen, causing the most serious type of malaria
Felis tigris-The Indian tiger, well protected in Gir forests
E.coli-Full name Entamoeba coli, a commonly occurring bacterium in human intestine

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 2012
ICBN stands for:
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
International Congress of Biological Names
Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Indian Congress of Biological Names

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 2007
Biosystematics aims at:
the classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters.
delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships.
the classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics.

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 2003
What is true for individuals of same species?
Live in same niche
Live in same habitat
Interbreeding
Live in different habitat

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 2002
The book 'Genera Plantarum'was written by:
Engler and Prantl
Bentham and Hooker
Bessey
Hutchinson

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 1999
Linnaeus is credited with:
binomial nomenclature
theory of biogenesis
discovery of microscope
discovery of blood circulation.

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 1993
The term "New Systematics" was introduced by:
Bentham and Hooker
Linnaeus
Julian Huxley
A.P. de Candolle

Diversity in the Living World
AIPMT 1988
In the taxonomic categories which hierarchial arrangement in ascending order is correct in case of animals?
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Kingdom, Class, Phylum, Family, Order, Genus, Species
Kingdom, Order, Class, Phylum, Family, Genus, Species
Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Class, Family, Genus, Species

Taxonomic Categories
NEET 2022
Which one of the following belongs to the Family Muscidae?
House fly
Fire fly
Grasshopper
Cockroach

Taxonomic Categories
NEET 2021
Match Column I with Column II for housefly classification and select the correct option using the codes given below.
Column I Column II
a) Family i) Diptera
b) Order ii) Arthropoda
c) Class iii) Muscidae
d) Phylum iv) Insecta
(a)-iii , (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- ii
(a)- iii, (b)- ii, (c)- iv, (d)- i
(a)- iv, (b)- iii, (c)- ii, (d)- i
(a)- iv, (b)- ii, (c)- i, (d)- iii

Taxonomic Categories
NEET PHASE-II 2016
Study the four statements (I-IV) given below and select the two correct ones out of them.

(I) Definition of biological species was given by Ernst Mayr.

(II) Photoperiod does not affect reproduction in plants.

(III) Binomial nomenclature system was given by R.H. Whittaker.

(IV) In unicellular organisms, reproduction is synonymous with growth.

The two correct statements are:

(II) and (III)
(III) and (IV)
(I) and (IV)
(I) and (II)

Taxonomic Categories
NEET PHASE-II 2016
The common characteristics between tomato and potato will be maximum at the level of their:
family
order
division
genus

Taxonomic Categories
NEET Karnataka 2013
Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular taxonomic category?
Tiger -tigris, the species
Cuttle fish - mollusca, a class
Humans - primata, the family
Housefly - musca, an order

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 2011
Species are considered as:
real basic units of classification
the lowest units of classification
artificial concept of human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms
real units of classification devised by taxonomists.

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 2003, 1994
The practical purpose of classification of living organisms is to:
explain the origin of living organisms
trace the evolution of living organisms
name the living organisms
facilitate identification of unknown organisms

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 1999
'Taxon' is the unit of a group of:
order
taxonomy
species
genes

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 1996
Sequence of taxonomic categories is:
class-phylum-tribe-order-family-genus-species
division-class-family-tribe-order-genus-species
division-class-order-family-tribe-genus-species
phylum-order-class-tribe-family-genus-species.

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 1992
The term phylum was given by:
Cuvier
Haeckel
Theophrastus
Linnaeus

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 1992
A group of plants or animals with similar traits of any rank is:
species
genus
order
taxon

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 1992, 91
Static concept of species was put forward by:
de Candolle
Linnaeus
Theophrastus
Darwin

Taxonomic Categories
AIPMT 1988

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