Homeostasis is 

1. tendency to change with change in environment

2. tendency to resist change

3 disturbance in regulatory control

4. plants and animals extracts used in homeopathy

Many freshwater animals cannot live for long in sea water and vice versa because of:

1. Buoyancy related problems

2. Lack of impermeable skins

3. Thermolabile enzymes

4. Osmotic considerations

While heat gain or heat loss is the function of ______, heat production is the function of ________ of the body of an animal.

1. Volume; Surface area

2. Surface area; Volume

3. Volume; Volume

4. Surface area; Surface area

Which one of the following are important biotic factors that can affect the structure and organization of biological communities?

1. Temperature and rainfall

2. Nutrient availability and soil pH

3. Predation and competition

4. Light intensity and seasonality

Very small animals are rarely found in polar region mainly because:

1. Smaller animals have a relatively slower heart rate

2. Smaller animals have a more surface area relative to their volume

3. Smaller animals are invariably herbivores

4. Smaller animals rely on diffusion for exchange of gases with the environment

Just as a person moving from Delhi to Shimla to escape the heat for the duration of hot

summer, thousands of migratory birds from Siberia and other extremely cold Northern

regions move to

1. Western Ghat               

2. Meghalaya

3. Corbett National Park     

4. Keoladeo National Park

Bacteria, fungi, lower plants survive in adverse conditions by:

(1) diapause                           

(2) suspended growth

(3) migration                         

(4) formation of thick-walled spores

Animals with a constant body temperature such as mammals and birds require more food than do animals with a changing body temperature such as reptiles and fish. Why?

(1) Much of the food is utilised to produce heat to keep warm

(2) Warm-blooded animals waste more food than cold-blooded animals

(3) Cold-blooded animals digest their food more efficiently than warm-blooded animals

(4) None of the above

Which of the following term implies the maintenance of relatively constant physical and chemical conditions with organisms?

(1) Homeostasis   

(2) Adaptation      

(3) Isometry         

(4) Acclimation

Which of the following statement is false?
(1) Osmoconformors are able to maintain homeostasis by physiological means or sometimes behavioural means also which ensure constant body temperature, constant osmotic concentration etc

(2) All birds and mammals, and a very few lower vertebrates and invertebrates are capable of osmoregulation and thermoregulation

(3) Thermoregulation is the major reason of the success mammals

(4) Sweating and shivering are the means of thermoregulation by humans