Q. No.The following pie chart proportionates the number of species in various vertebrate taxa. What will be true regarding the animals shown in the pie chart?
Statement I:
‘A’ group will be of fishes.
Statement II:
‘B’ and ‘C’ are endotherms.
Statement III:
‘D’ are more successful on land than ‘E’.
1. Only Statement I and Statement II.
2. Only Statement I and Statement III.
3. Only Statement II and Statement III.
4. Statement I, Statement II and Statement III.
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| Statement I: | All members of A are heterotrophs. |
| Statement II: | The primary reason for the success of B on land is the presence of the reproductive organ, flower. |
1. Only Statement I.
2. Only Statement II.
3. Both Statement I and Statement II.
4. Neither Statement I nor Statement II.
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| I. | Within a region, species richness decreases with increasing explored area. |
| II. | The rectangular hyperbola represents the relation between species richness and area for angiosperm plants, birds, bats and freshwater fishes, for example. |
| III. | Z represents the regression coefficient or the slope of the line. |
| IV. | The value of Z lies in the range of 0.1 to 0.2 regardless of the taxonomic group or the region. |
| V. | For frugivorous birds and mammals in the tropical forests of different continents, the slope is found to be 1.15. |
| VI. | If the species area relationship is analysed for very large areas, the slope of the line is much steeper and Z value lies in the range of 0.6 to 1.2. |
| 1. | 3 | 2. | 4 |
| 3. | 5 | 4. | 6 |
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| I: | A is the emergence of discontinuities in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population discontinuities and ecosystem decay. |
| II: | B is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. |
1. Only I is correct
2. Only II is correct
3. Both I and II are correct
4. Both I and II are incorrect.
| Table I | |||
| A |  |
B |  |
| C |  |
D |  |
| Table II | |||
| P | Thylacine | Q | Dodo |
| R | Quagga | S | Steller’s sea cow |
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1. | Q | R | S | P |
| 2. | Q | R | P | S |
| 3. | P | Q | R | S |
| 4. | P | S | Q | R |
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| Statement I: | It was always a native of India. |
| Statement II: | It reproduces very slowly with the help of offset. |
1. Only I is correct
2. Only II is correct
3. Both I and II are correct
4. Both I and II are incorrect.
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| Statement I: | A is Clarias gariepinus and its introduction in Indian rivers is posing a threat to the indigenous catfishes. |
| Statement II: | B is Nile perch and its introduction into Lake Victoria in East Africa led to the extinction of an ecologically unique assemblage of more than 200 species of Cichlid fish in the lake. |
1. Only Statement I is correct.
2. Only Statement II is correct.
3. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
4. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
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| I: | It is the Amazon rainforest area. |
| II: | It is called as the ‘lung’ of planet Earth. |
| III: | This area is very poor in biodiversity. |
| 1. | Only I and II | 2. | Only I and III |
| 3. | Only II and III | 4. | I, II and III |
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| Statement I: | These hills are located in the state of Manipur. |
| Statement II: | They are in-situ method of biodiversity conservation. |
| Statement III: | Such sacred groves are also found in Aravalli Hills of Rajasthan, Western Ghats of Karnataka and Maharashtra, and the Surguja, Chanda and Bastar areas of Madhya Pradesh. |
1. Only Statement II is correct.
2. Only Statement III is correct.
3. Only Statement I and Statement III are correct.
4. Only Statement II and Statement III are correct.
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| 1. | Biodiversity is the term popularised by the sociobiologist Edward Wilson to describe the combined diversity at all levels of biological organisation. |
| 2. | IUCN stands for International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources. |
| 3. | Robert May places the global species diversity in the range of 20 to 50 million. |
| 4. | More than 25 percent of the drugs currently sold in the market are derived from the plants. |
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