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ORGANISMS AND POPULATIONS MCQs

Total Questions : 57 | Page 6 of 6 pages
Question 51. Survivorship curve gives an accurate idea of an organism’s growth rate and growth rate strategy.
  1.    True
  2.    False
  3.    A is correct and R is incorrect
  4.    Both A and R are incorrect
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> True
:
A
Survivorship curves are good indicators of lives of animals, their growth rate, growth strategies, how much parental care they provide and how they survive. For example,in grey seal, they generally follow K strategy of growth. However, the males have to fight each other to find mates. This weakens them and makes them more vulnerable and an easier prey. Thus, more number of males die early and the curve falls more rapidly forming a type II curve, whereas there is greater survivorship among female seals forming a type I curve. Survivorship curves for male and female seals are given below:
Survivorship Curve Gives An Accurate Idea Of An Organism’s... Survivorship Curve Gives An Accurate Idea Of An Organism’s...

Question 52. When one animal copies the appearance, actions, or sounds of another animal to avoid predators, it is called
  1.    Commensalism
  2.    Mimicry
  3.    Competition
  4.    Aposematism
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Mimicry
:
B
Unpalatable organisms develop honest warning signals to display their unpalatability andare avoided by predators, who quickly learn after a bad experience not to pursue the same prey again. This phenomenon of displaying antipredator signals is aposematism. However two or more distasteful species, that may or may not be closely related and share one or more common predators, tend to mimiceach other's aposematism, this is called mimicry or more specifically Mullerian mimicry. By developing similar warning signals, they enable their common predator to learn their unpalatable nature relatively sooner and more efficiently, compared to a scenario where the predator had to learn two separate warning signals.
Question 53. Choose the correct statements:
  1.    The Mediterranean orchid employs ‘sexual deceit’ to get pollination done by a species of bee.
  2.    One petal of its flower bears a strange resemblance to the male bee in size, color and markings.
  3.    The female bee is attracted to what it perceives as a male.
  4.    The female bee pseudocopulates with the orchid
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> The Mediterranean orchid employs ‘sexual deceit’ to get pollination done by a species of bee.
:
A
The Mediterranean orchid employs ‘sexual deceit’ to get pollination done by a species of bee, but one petal of it's flower bears a strange resemblance to the female bee in size, color and markings rather than the male bee. This attracts the male bee, that psuedocopulates with the flower and in the process carries of the pollen grains from the flower. They then deposit these pollen grains, when they psuedocopulate with another mediterranean orchid that once again fools the bee.
Question 54. When population size is equal to the carrying capacity, the population will show
  1.    Zero growth
  2.    Higher mortality than natality
  3.    Lesser mortality than natality
  4.    None of the above
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Zero growth
:
A
Carrying capacity is the population size that a habitat can sustain, therefore once a population reaches its carrying capacity it will not increase further and the growth ceases. At this stage the mortality is equal to the natality. When the mortality is higher than natality the population size decreases and when the mortality is lesser than natality the population size increases.
Question 55. Penicillium kills the bacterium Staphylococcus. This sort of relationship is called
  1.    Commensalism
  2.    Predation
  3.    Ammensalism
  4.    Mutualism
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Ammensalism
:
C
Antibiotics produced by fungi eliminates bacterial population. The fungal population is not affected by this interaction. This type of relationship that harms one species but does not have any effect on other species is called ammensalism. For example, interaction between Penicillium and bacterium Staphylococcus. Penicillium eradicates the growth of Staphylococcus by producing antibiotic penicillin.
Question 56. Which of the following sentence(s) are incorrect?
  1.    Biomes are characterized by the major vegetation type and fauna found in a specific climatic region.
  2.    A pond and a single tree can also be examples of an ecosystem.
  3.    One type of biome can be present in different continents.
  4.    Populations in all the biomes are similar.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Populations in all the biomes are similar.
:
D
Biomes are classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment. One type of biome can be present in different continents, for example the tropical rainforest are in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia and this is because of the climatic condition of these region being similar.
An ecosystem is where communities of organisms rely on each other and their environment for their nutrition and survival. So even a single pond or large tree could have the biotic and abiotic components essential to form ecosystems by themselves. Populations are organisms of a species found in a given area. The flora and fauna of an area is majorly dependent on its climate and bear various adaptations to suit the same. For example, the polar bears are found in the arctic biome and the lions are found in the grassland biome.
Question 57. In a population, if the rate of addition of new members is higher than the rate of individuals lost, it shows:
  1.    Exponential growth
  2.    Declined growth
  3.    Zero population growth
  4.    none of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Exponential growth
:
A
Population growth is always an exponential function. When the resources are plenty, population increases, that is the rate of addition of new members is higher than the rate of individuals lost. Such a population grows exponentially until it reaches a stage where resources are limiting and the growth ceases. During this stage the rate of addition of new members is equal to the rate at which individuals are lost from a population. This stage appears as a plateau in the graph. When the rate of addition of new members is smaller than the rate at which individuals are lost from a population, the population is in a declining phase.

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