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Among the following, increase in body mass can be taken as a criterion for growth:

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Important Questions on The Living World

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The difference between holophytic nutrition and holozoic nutrition is:
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Which of the following is not a defining feature of all living organisms?

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Nothing lives forever, but life continues. What does it mean ?
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Identify the wrong statement among the following.
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Choose the correct statements.
A) There are few uncatalyzed metabolic conversions in living system like protein degradation.
B) Study of energy conversion in the living cells is called Bioenergetics.
C) In DNA, each step of nucleotide pair will turn 36°.
D) The first amino acid in a protein chain is called C terminal amino acid.
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Study the following statements of plant growth. Choose the correct option ?
(i) One single maize root apical meristem can give rise to mor than 17,500 nerr cells per hour
(ii) A cell in watermelon can increase in its size up to 3,50,000 times
(iii) Growth of pollen tube is measured in the terms of its length
(iv) Grorth in dorsiventral leaf is measured in terms of an increase in its suface area

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Read the following statements and select the correct option:

A. Thousands of metabolic reactions occur simultaneously inside all living organisms, whether they are unicellular or multicellular.

BIsolated metabolic reactions in vitro are living things but surely non-living reactions.

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 An attribute found in plants but not in animals is
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The two events which are mutually inclusive in unicellular organisms are
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Which of the following is incorrect w.r.t. feature of life forms?
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Which of the following are characteristics of living things?
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Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?
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Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?
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Which of the following feature given below are exhibited by bacteria A and higher plants (B) respectively?
(i) Growth and reproduction both are synonyms.
(ii) Binary fission.
(iii) Cellular organization.
(iv) Ability to sense their environment.
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Which of the following is a defining characteristic of a living organism?
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The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for
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What are the traditionally regarded basic characteristics that unify all living organisms?
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Read the following statements carefully w.r.t. features of living organisms and state them true (T) Or False (F):

A. Growth is seen only up to a certain age in animals.

B. Reproduction is not shown by all living organisms on earth.

C. Metabolism can be regarded as defining feature of all living organisms.

D. All living beings have self-consciousness.