Biodiversity and its Conservation MCQs for NEET — Botany Questions with Answers

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Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, with nearly a million described species and many more yet to be discovered. This makes them the group with the highest number of species in nature.

(b) Read page 233, XII NCERT

(d) Every year in the season of winter the famous Indian National Park, Keolado  National Park situated in Bharatput, Rajasthan, host thousands of migratory birds coming from Siberia (Atlantic ocean) Central America and other extremely cold Northern region.

October to February is the best time to observe these migratory birds. Most of them stay till March including the Siberian Crane.

There are an estimated 2,00,000 varieties of rice in India alone. The diversity of rice in India is one of the richest in the world. Basmati rice has 27 documented varieties growth in India.

(a) A single species might show high diversity at the genetic level over its distributional range. India has more than 50,000 genetically different strains of rice, and 1,000 varieties of mango.

In a pond ecosystem, fishes occupy the more than one tropic levels.

Dachigam National Park is situated near Dal Lake in Jammu and Kashmir. It is know for conservation of the most endangered Hangul or Kashmir stag in paramount.

Podophyllum is an Indian endengered flora. Its dried roots and rhizomes are used in chronic constipation and fumorous growth.

(b) Botanical gardens (i.e., institutions that maintain living plant collections representing a large number of species, genera and families) are the means of ex situ conservation (i.e., conservation outside the habitats).

Insitu conservation involves the conservation of genetic resources through their maintenance within natural or even human-made ecosystems in which they occur. It includes National parks, Sanctuaries, Biosphere reserves, Nature Reserves, Natural Monuments, Cultural Landscapes etc.