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                | 221. | Ecological pyramids were discovered by: |  
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				| A. | Elton | B. | Odum |  
				 				 | C. | Reiter | D. | None of these |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 222. | An ecosystem which can be easily damaged but can recover after sometime if damaging effect stops will be having: |  
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				| A. | High stability and low resilience | B. | Low stability and low resilience |  
				 				 | C. | Low stability and high resilience | D. | High stability and high resillience |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option D Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 223. | The correct sequence of food chain is: |  
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				| A. | Grass-insect-bird-snake | B. | Grass-bird-insect-snake |  
				 				 | C. | Snake-bird-insect-grass | D. | Grass-snake-bird-insect |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 224. | Bacteria and fungi in a forest ecosystem are generally: |  
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				| A. | Producers | B. | Decomposers |  
				 				 | C. | Primary consumers | D. | Secondary consumers |  
				    | E. | Tertiary consumers |  |  |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option B Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 225. | Which of the following is expected to have the highest value (gm/m2/yr) in a grassland ecosystem? |  
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				| A. | Tertiary Production | B. | Gross Production (GP) |  
				 				 | C. | Net Production (NP) | D. | Secondary Production |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option B Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 226. | In a food chain, the total amount of living material is depicted by: |  
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				| A. | Pyramid of biomass | B. | Pyramid of energy |  
				 				 | C. | Pyramid of number | D. | Trophic levels |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option A Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 227. | Environmental factors in ecosystem: |  
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				| A. | Abiotic factors | B. | Biotic factors |  
				 				 | C. | Both (a) & (b) | D. | None of these |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option C Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 228. | Abiotic factors are: |  
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				| A. | Climatic | B. | Edaphic factors |  
				 				 | C. | Topography | D. | All of the above |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option D Explanation:    |  
 
            
            
                | 229. | Branches of ecology are: |  
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				| A. | Autecology | B. | Synecology |  
				 				 | C. | Both (a) & (b) | D. | None of these |  
                        
                        
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                | 230. | Synecology can be subdivided into how many branches: |  
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				| A. | Population ecology | B. | Community ecology |  
				 				 | C. | Ecosystem ecology | D. | All of the above |  
                        
                        
                            Answer: Option D Explanation:    |  
 
 
			
			
 
 
 
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