Natality refers to:
1. Death rate
2. Birth rate
3. Number of individuals leaving the habitat
4. Number of individuals entering the habitat

Subtopic:  Population Characters: Natality & Mortality |
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NEET - 2018
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In a growing population of a country:
1. pre-reproductive individuals are more than reproductive individuals.
2. reproductive individuals are less than post-reproductive individuals.
3. reproductive and pre-reproductive individuals are equal in number.
4. pre-reproductive individuals are less than reproductive individuals.
Subtopic:  Population Attributes |
 86%
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NEET - 2018
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Which one of the following population interactions is widely used in medical science for the production of antibiotics ?

1. Commensalism
2. Mutualism
3. Parasitism
4. Amensalism

Subtopic:  Population Interactions: Amensalism |
 61%
NEET - 2018
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Presence of plants arranged into well-defined vertical layers depending on their height can be seen best in:

1. Tropical Rain Forest

2. Grassland

3. Temperate Forest

4. Tropical Savannah

Subtopic:  Components & Types of Ecosystems |
 81%
NEET - 2017
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The principle of competitive exclusion was stated by?

1. C. Darwin

2. G. F. Gause

3. MacArthur

4. Verhulst and Pearl

Subtopic:  Population Interactions: Competition |
 82%
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NEET - 2016
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An association of individuals of different species living in the same habitat and having functional interactions is known as:

1. Ecological niche 2. Biotic community
3. Ecosystem 4. Population
Subtopic:  Introduction to Ecology |
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NEET - 2015
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A biologist studied the population of rats in a barn. He found that the average natality was 250, average mortality 240, immigration 20 and emigration 30. The net increase in population is:

1. 15

2. 05

3. zero

4. 10

Subtopic:  Population Characters: Density |
 92%
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AIPMT - 2013
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According to Darwin, organic evolution is due to:

1.  Interspecific competition.
2.  Competition within closely related species.
3.  Reduced feeding efficiency in one species due to the presence of interfering species.
4.  Intraspecific competition.

Subtopic:  Population Interactions: Competition |
 68%
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AIPMT - 2013
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What type of human population is represented by the following age pyramid? 

  
1.  Stable population
2.  Declining population
3.  Expanding population
4.  Vanishing population
Subtopic:  Population Characters: Age Structure & Migration |
 84%
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AIPMT - 2011
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The table below gives the populations(in thousands) of ten species(A--J) in four areas (a-d) consisting of the number of habitats given within brackets against each. Study the table and answer the question as follows: 
which area out of a to d shows maximum species diversity? 

1. b

2. c

3. a

4. d

Subtopic:  Population Dynamic |
AIPMT - 2008
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