Which of the following is a defining characteristic of living organisms?

Growth and reproduction are:
1. characteristics of cells and living things
2. defining properties of cells and living things
3. characteristics of cells but not of living things
4. defining properties of cells but not of living things

Which of the following are synonymous?
1. Living state and Metabolism
2. Growth and Reproduction
3. Coma and Brain death
4. Homeostasis and Thermoregulation

Given below is an article from a Newspaper using the word ‘growth’ for the trash at a dump site in New Delhi:

Consider the two statements below:
I: The term ‘grow’ is incorrect for the trash at the dump site.
II: The growth seen in the trash is by accumulation of material on the surface.
1. Both I and II are correct but II does not explain I.
2. Both I and II are correct and II explains I.
3. Both I and II are incorrect.
4. I is incorrect but II is correct.

Consider the following statements:
I. Unicellular organisms grow by cell division.
II. Growth in all multicellular organisms by cell division occurs only up to a certain age.
III. Non-living objects do not exhibit growth
The incorrect statement/s is/are:

Which of the following are the defining properties of life?
1. Growth and Reproduction
2. Cellular organization and Consciousness
3. Growth and Consciousnes
4. Cellular organization and Reproduction

Isolated metabolic reaction in a cell-free system:
1. Can be demonstrated
2. Is not a living reaction
3. Is a living thing
4. Is faster than in the living cell

Perhaps the most obvious and technically complicated feature of all living organisms is:
1. Capability to reproduce to produce similar offspring
2. Ability to grow from inside
3. Ability to sense and respond to environmental stimuli
4. Metabolism inside a defined boundary of a cell

An unconscious patient cannot be aroused by stimuli to normal consciousness but the doctors hope that recovery is possible. This patient is said to be:
1. In deep sleep
2. Comatosed
3. Brain dead
4. Malingering

The term ‘systematics’ refers to:
1. Identification and classification of plants and animals
2. Nomenclature and identification of plants and animals
3. Diversity of kinds of organisms and their relationship
4. Different kinds of organisms and their classification