Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Biology-GK

Medical parasitology traditionally has included the study of three major groups of animals: parasitic protozoa, parasitic helminths (worms), and those arthropods that directly cause disease or act as vectors of various pathogens.

Ecology term was coined by Ernst Heckel. It studies the interaction of living beings with their environment.

Amarbel is an example of the parasite. Cuscuta reflexa is the botanical name for the amarbel. It is also known as giant dodder. It grows in a creative manner over host plants and this species has the capability of producing numerous branches within a short period of time.

Goats, sheep and other herbivores are the primary consumers or heterotrophs. Any animal that eats primary consumers are the secondary consumers or heterotrophs.

Ecology is the branch of biology that explains the relationship between organisms and their environments.

Every ecosystem must have Autotrophs.

Silviculture is the branch of botany in which we study about the development of forest.

An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Algae is an autotroph.

The vast majority of energy in food webs originates from the sun. Energy is not recycled in ecosystems and each ecosystem requires a continuous input of energy to sustain it. There is some energy transformed at each level of the food chain or food web in an ecosystem.

Ethology is a field of basic biology, like ecology or genetics. It focuses on the behaviors of diverse organisms in their natural environment. Comparative psychology is an extension of work done in human psychology.