NPTEL Wild Life Ecology Week 2 Assignment Answers 2025
1. Hierarchy emerges almost inevitably through a wide variety of evolutionary processes, for thesimple reason that hierarchical structures are……….
- perfect
- imperfect
- stable
- unstable
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2. The hierarchical system was given by
- Simon
- Watson
- Hutchinson
- Humboldt
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3. The emergent principle can be stated as
- Whole = sum of parts
- Whole < sum of parts
- Whole > sum of parts
- None of these
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4. “the diversity that exists within an ecosystem” is
- alpha (α) biodiversity
- beta (β) biodiversity
- gamma (γ) biodiversity
- delta (δ) biodiversity
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5. The mitochondrion is a / an
- Sub-cellular organelle
- Cell
- Tissue
- Organ
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6. For more biodiversity, the level of disturbance should be
- less
- intermediate
- more
- none of these
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7. There is more biodiversity in areas with
- less competition, less predation
- less competition, more predation
- more competition, more predation
- more competition, less predation
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8. “the diversity that exists among different geographies” is
- alpha (α) biodiversity
- beta (β) biodiversity
- gamma (γ) biodiversity
- delta (δ) biodiversity
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9. The laboratory approach to Ecology uses
- equations
- models
- observations
- experiments
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10. “groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups” is a definition of
- cells
- species
- ecosystems
- biomes
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