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

Important Questions on The Living World

Which of the following is not a defining feature of all living organisms?



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 .
D) The first amino acid in a protein chain is called terminal amino acid.

Study the following statements of plant growth. Choose the correct option ?
(i) One single maize root apical meristem can give rise to mor than nerr cells per hour
(ii) A cell in watermelon can increase in its size up to 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

Read the following statements and select the correct option:
. Thousands of metabolic reactions occur simultaneously inside all living organisms, whether they are unicellular or multicellular.
. Isolated metabolic reactions in vitro are living things but surely non-living reactions.







Growth and reproduction both are synonyms.
Binary fission.
Cellular organization.
Ability to sense their environment.

The most important of all living systems is to





Read the following statements carefully w.r.t. features of living organisms and state them true Or False :
. Growth is seen only up to a certain age in animals.
. Reproduction is not shown by all living organisms on earth.
. Metabolism can be regarded as defining feature of all living organisms.
. All living beings have self-consciousness.

