Match the correct local names of temperate grasslands with their geographical range.

Geographical range	Local name of the grassland
(i) Asia	A. Pampas
(ii) North America	B. Prairies
(iii) South America	C. Steppes
(iv) South Africa	D. Veldt

• (i) - C; (ii) - B; (iii) - D; (iv) - A

• (i) - C; (ii) - B; (iii) - A; (iv) - D

• (i) - D; (ii) - B; (iii) - A; (iv) - C

• (i) - B; (ii) - C; (iii) - A; (iv) - D

If you want to divide a human body into dorsal and ventral sections, what plane will you use?

• Coronal

• Abdominopelvic

• Transverse

• Sagittal

Which one of the following bryophyte has multicellular rhizoids and its cells mostly contain numerous chloroplasts?

• Anthoceros

• Sphagnum

• Riccia

• Marchantia

What fo mayflies, Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and annual grain crops have in common? They are all

• semelparous

• iteroparous

• oviparous

• viviparous

this table given below lists species and conservation status

Species	Conservation status
A. White-bellied Heron	i. Critically endangered
B. Ganges river dolphin	ii. Endangered
C. Gaur	iii. Vulnerable
D. Clouded leopard

Which one of the following is the correct pairing between Indian animal species and their conservation status?

• A - i; B - i; C - ii; D - iii

• A - ii; B - ii; C - iii; D - ii

• A - i; B - ii; C - iii; D - iii

• A - iii; B - iii; C - ii; D - ii

The table given below provides a list of diseases and casual organisms.

Disease	Casual organism
A. Sleeping sickness in humans.	i. Trypanosoma cruzi
B. Chagas disease in humans.	ii. Trypanosoma brucei
C. Blast disease of rice	iii. Magnaporthe graminis
D. Powdery mildew of grasses	iv. Magnaporthe oryzae v. Blumeria oryzae vi. Blumeria graminis

Which of the following represents the correct match between disease and the casual organism?

• A - i; B - ii; C - v; D - vi

• A - ii; B - i; C - iii; D - v

• A - i; B - ii; C - vi; D - iv

• A - ii; B - i; C - iv; D - vi

A comparison of Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya with respect to a few characteristics is given below:

Characteristic	Bacteria	Archaea	Eukarya
A. Initiator amino acid for protein synthesis	Formyl Met	Met	Met
B. Histones associated with DNA	Absent	Present in some species	Present
C. Response to streptomycin and chloramphenicol	Growth not inhibited	Growth not inhibited	Growth usually inhibited
D. RNA polymerase	Three	Three	Three or more
E. Introns in genes	Very rare	Present in some genes	Present in many genes

Which of the following combinations present a correct comparison of characteristics in the table above?

• A, B, C, and E

• A, C, and D

• B, D, and E

• A, B, and E

108.

Given below are some statements on vertebrates. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

• Muscular post-anal tail and pharyngeal slits are derived characters in vertebrates like notochord and dorsal hollow nerve cord.

• Like echinoderms, vertebrates are deuterosomes.

• Presence of two or more sets of HOX genes in living vertebrates distinguish them from cepahlochordates and urochordates which have only one set.

• Since adult hagfishes and lampreys lack a vertebral column, they are categorized outside class Vertebrata, but are retained under "Chordata" along with Cephalochordates and urochordates.

The table given below lists organisms (column A) and characteristic features (column B).

A	B
a. Caulobacter	(i) Multicellular fruiting body.
b. Myxobacteria	(ii) Endospore
c. Methylotroph	(iii) Non-free living, Penicillin resistant
d. Bacillus subtilis	(iv) Immortal stalk cells
e. Mycoplasma	(v) Can use formate, cyanide and carbon monoxide as a source of carbon

Choose the option that correctly matches organisms with their characteristic features.

• a - i; b - v; c - iv; d - ii; e - iii

• a - iv; b - i; c - v; d - ii; e - iii

• a - iv; b - v; c - i; d - iii; e - ii

• a - ii; b - i; c - v; d - iv; e - iii

In the following columns, certain terms and their descriptions are given in random order.

Column I	Column II
A. Protostome	i. A fluid filled cavity lying inside the external body wall bathing the internal organs.
B. Deuterostome	ii. Mouth forming from the blastopore
C. Pseudocoely	iii. Coelom formed by splitting the mesodermal tissue
D. Schizocoely	iv. Mouth forming from a second opening other than blastopore
E. Enterocoely	v. Coelom formed from pouches pinched off from he digestive tract.

Which of the following combination gives correct match for the terms in column I from column II.

• A - i; B - ii; C - iii; D - iv; E - v

• A - ii; B - iv; C - i; D - v; E - iii

• A - iv; B - ii; C - iv; D - i; E - iii

• A - ii; B - iv; C - i; D - iii; E - v