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  • A. Community
  • B. Ecosystem
  • C. Biosphere
  • D. Microhabitat

Explanation: A community is a group of interacting species, which live in the same location.

Correct answer: Community
  • A. Lithosphere
  • B. Hydrosphere
  • C. Community
  • D. Biosphere

Explanation: The biosphere is the part of an ecosystem which integrates all living organisms and their relationship with one another.

Correct answer: Biosphere
  • A. Commensalism
  • B. Parasitism
  • C. Mutualism
  • D. Predation

Explanation: A symbiotic relationship, or symbiosis, is a close and long-term biological interaction between two different species.

Correct answer: Mutualism
  • A. Primary successions
  • B. Secondary successions
  • C. Seres
  • D. Xeroses

Explanation: The term specifically used for each individual succession in animal or plant is called seres. Therefore this is the right option here.

Correct answer: Seres
  • A. Niche
  • B. Biome
  • C. Ecosystem
  • D. Habitat

Explanation: The given statement is the definition of Niche given by Grinnell. Therefore opt A is the right choice here.

Correct answer: Niche
  • A. T1
  • B. T2
  • C. T3
  • D. T4

Explanation: Herbivores which are the primary consumers belong to trophic level 2.

Correct answer: T2
  • A. 5
  • B. 3
  • C. 6
  • D. 4

Explanation: A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food is called a food chain.

Correct answer: 4
  • A. Mutualism
  • B. Commensalism
  • C. Predation
  • D. Parasitism

Explanation: The relationship in which one organism gets benefit and the other is not affected is called commensalism.

Correct answer: Commensalism
  • A. Lichens
  • B. Shrubs
  • C. Moss
  • D. Herbs

Explanation: Lichens: This option is the correct answer. Lichens are the first organisms that typically colonize and establish on bare rock during…

Correct answer: Lichens
  • A. 1
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 2

Explanation: D option is the correct answer. The trophic level of a herbivore is generally at the second level.

Correct answer: 2
  • A. Primary consumer
  • B. Primary producer
  • C. Tertiary consumer
  • D. Secondary consumer

Explanation: Secondary consumers belong to trophic level three, they feed on primary consumers.

Correct answer: Secondary consumer
  • A. Photosynthesis
  • B. Sun
  • C. Plants
  • D. Water

Explanation: Sun is the ultimate source of energy because it is the source of most of the energies on Earth.

Correct answer: Sun
  • A. Detritus
  • B. Herbivores
  • C. Green plants
  • D. Omnivores

Explanation: The living part of the food chain always begins with plant life, as plants are the only organisms that get their energy from a nonliving…

Correct answer: Green plants
  • A. Pioneers
  • B. Xerosere
  • C. Succession
  • D. Secondary succession

Explanation: A broad definition of succession states: 'Ecological succession is the process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes…

Correct answer: Succession
  • A. Bacterial reduction of NO3- ions to N2 gas.
  • B. Active uptake of Nitrate ions by plant roots
  • C. Drainage of manure from fields
  • D. Leaching of nitrate ions

Explanation: Denitrification is a natural soil microbial process where nitrate ions are converted to nitrogen gas which is then lost to the atmosphere.

Correct answer: Bacterial reduction of NO3- ions to N2 gas.
  • A. Nutritional Cause
  • B. Hormonal Causes
  • C. Skeleton Damage
  • D. Genetic Defect

Explanation: Explanation: Microcephaly, the small-sized skull, is usually due to a genetic defect.

Correct answer: Genetic Defect
  • A. Hensen's Node
  • B. Primitive Ridge
  • C. Gastrocoel
  • D. Primitive Gut

Explanation: Explanation:At the cephalic end of the primitive streak, closely packed cells form a locai thickening known as Hensen's node.

Correct answer: Hensen's Node
  • A. Muscle cells
  • B. Gut
  • C. Notochord and neural tube
  • D. Larval epidermis

Explanation: [A]Sarcoplasm is the cytoplasm of muscle cell which is yellow in colour[B] Gut is produced by grey vegetal cytoplasm[C] Notochord and…

Correct answer: Notochord and neural tube
  • A. Mesoderm
  • B. Ectoderm
  • C. Endoderm
  • D. Mesoderm and Endoderm

Explanation: Option [A]Mesoderm gives rise to muscular,skeletal and reproductive systemsOption [B] After embryonic development the body layers[…

Correct answer: Ectoderm
  • A. Non-competitive
  • B. Competitive
  • C. Irreversible
  • D. Isosteric

Explanation: In noncompetitive inhibition, the inhibitor binds at an allosteric site separate from the active site of substrate binding.

Correct answer: Non-competitive