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1st Year
Chapter no 1
Introduction
Qno1: Defination of Biology.
Biology is the study of living things.It is the way of
understanding nature. The meaning of bio is life.It deals
with the matter related to how life works.
Qno2: What is the meaning of life?
Life is a set of characteristics that distinguish living
organisums from non living things.
Qno3: What are living organisums?
living organisums are highly organized, complex entites;
arecomposed of one or more cells; contains genetic porgrams
for their characteristics;can aquair and use energy ;can carry
out control numerious chemical reactions.
Qno4: what are the charateristics of livings?
1: They can grow in size.
2: Maintains a fairly constant environment.
3: Produce offsping similar to themselves.
4: They recponds to changes in their environment.
Qno5: What is the main reason to declare a thing as living?
If it pocesses all the characteristics [of Qno4] it is declared as
a living thing
Qno6: Name the branches of biology deals with the environmental relations?
Ecology,Physiology,Morphology,Palaeontology,Histrology,Evolution,
Genetics,Zoogeology etc.