Match the following:

p. Yeast	a. regeneration
q. Hydra	b. budding
r.  Protonema of mosses	c. fragmentation
s. Filamentous Algae
t.  Planaria
u. Flat worms

 

	p	q	r	s	t	u
(1)	b	a	b	b	a	c
(2)	c	c	b	a	a	c
(3)	c	a	c	b	b	a
(4)	b	b	c	c	a	a

Reproduction cannot be:
a. Asexual
b. Characteristics of living organisms
c. Synonymous of growth in multicellular organism
d. A form of fragmentation

Increase in number can be-
a. Growth
b. Reproduction
c. Both a and b
d. Accumulation

Reproduction cannot be an all-inclusive defining characteristic of living organism because of
a. Asexual reproduction
b. Non living organisms also replicate
c. Examples of worker bees
d. May occur in all type of living systems instead of living organisms.

How many of the following cannot reproduce?
Infertile Humans, Worker bees, Mules, Boulders, Fungi, Protonema of mosses.
a. 4
b. 3
c. 1
d. 5

In --------- organisms, --------is synonymous with -------.
a. Unicellular, increase in mass and increase in number
b. Multicellular, increase in mass and increase in number
c. Unicellular, Reproduction and growth
d. Multicellular, Reproduction and growth

What is wrong with respect to metabolism?
a. Chemical conversions or metabolic conversions are constantly going on.
b. Metabolic reactions occur simultaneously.
c. The sum total of all the chemical reaction occurring on the surface of our body is metabolism.
d. No non-living objects exhibit metabolism.

Isolated metabolic conversions in vitro are
a. Living things
b. Living reactions
c. Non- living conversions
d. Non-living things

What is wrong with respect to Living reactions?
a. Neither living nor non-living.
b. Outside the body
c. Test tube reactions
d. Occurring in cells in the test tubes.

--------------- is the defining feature of living beings-------exception.
a. Metabolic reactions, with
b. Metabolism, without
c. Isolated metabolic reactions, without
d. Metabolism, with