Biology - Nature and Scope of Biology

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Question - 1

The Father of Gerontology

  • A Paul Ehrlich
  • B Harrison
  • C Korenchevsky
  • D Erdtman

Question - 2

Who is the Birdman of India?

  • A MS Swaminathan
  • B SR Kashyap
  • C K Mishra
  • D Salim Ali

Question - 3

Who wrote a book on histology for the first time ?

  • A Albrecht von Kolliker
  • B von Mohl
  • C Felix Dujardin
  • D Both (a) and (c)

Question - 4

W Fleming described the

  • A splitting of chromosomes 
  • B mitosis
  • C Both (a) and (b)
  • D nuclear spindle

Question - 5

Term 'Biology' was coined by

  • A Lamarck and Treviranus (1802)
  • B Lamarck and Darwin (1802)
  • C Lamarck and Hugo de Vries (1808)
  • D Darwin and Hugo de Vries (1808)

Question - 6

Who is the Father of Biology and Zoology?

  • A Theophrastus
  • B Aristotle
  • C Darwin
  • D Bateson

Question - 7

Ethnology is the science of

  • A birds
  • B animals behaviour
  • C human races
  • D insects

Question - 8

The Study of tissue is called

  • A Cytology
  • B Genetics
  • C Histology
  • D Physiology

Question - 9

Teratology deals with the

  • A ageing
  • B hair
  • C improvement of human race
  • D development of abnormalities in foetus

Question - 10

Trichology is the study of

  • A hair
  • B tetrapods
  • C ageing
  • D developmental abnormalities