The Living World Biology | Chemistry | Physics | NTA The Living World Please enter your email: Which one of the following has least similar characters? (a) Family (b) Class (c) Genus (d) Species NBRI is situated at (a) Calcutta (b) Bombay (c) Madras (d) Lucknow Taxonomic keys are constructed to identify a species. Which key is most popular? (1) Bracketed keys (2) Indented keys (3) Taxonomic keys (4) none of these The book systema naturae was written by (a) Carolus Von Linnaeus (b) Hutchinson (c) Engler and Prantl (d) Bentham & Hooker Indian Board for wild life was established in (1) 1953 (2) 1952 (3) 1853 (4) 1852 The places where collection of dried, pressed plant specimens mounted on paper or placed in liquid representative are kept systematically (1) Herbaria (2) Museum (3) Botanical garden (4) Zoo Mark the odd one in the following (1) Family (2) Cohort (3) Taxon (4) Species Of the following taxonomic categories which is the most inclusive (i.e., is the highest in the hierarchy)? (1) Order (2) Sub-species (3) Class (4) Genus Choose the incorrect statement regarding herbarium (a) Dried specimens are poisoned by using DDT (b) The collections are kept inside metallic vasculum (c) Herbarium sheet is 41 × 29 cm (d) It is used for alpha taxonomic research Largest herbaria of the Asia is at (1) Kew (2) Sibpur (3) Chennai (4) Trombay The first modern Botanical garden was (1) Padua Botanical Garden (2) Royal Botanical Garden (3) Indian Botanical Garden (4) FRI The U.S. National Herbarium is situated in (1) Los Angeles (2) Hollywood (3) Washington (4) California In how many parts ICBN is divided (1) 3 (2) 5 (3) 2 (4) 4 The institute which encourage publication of local flora in India is (1) NBRI (2) FRI (3) BSI (4) IARI Taxon is (1) Short term for taxonomy (2) A group of species (3) A classificatory(taxonomic) unit of any rank (4) A compendium of international rules of nomenclature The term ‘neo-systematics’ was given by (1) John Ray (2) Julian Huxley (3) Theophrastus (4) Carolus Linnaeus Herbarium means (1) Store house/place where preserved identified dry liquid/speciments are kept systematically. (2) A heavy card sheet carrying the dried and pressed specimen of plant. (3) A garden with all plants arranged systematically. (4) A system of arranging plants into different categories. Species belonging to different time period are called (a) Syntype (b) Paratype (c) Lectotype (d) Isotype A group of interconnected genera is called (1) Family (2) Order (3) Phylum (4) Class Category is (1) a rank in hierarchy (2) any group of living objects (3) a term used interchangeable with taxon (4) a taxonomic group The ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is called as (a) classification (b) taxonomy (c) hierarchy (d) key The category which includes related families is (a) Class (b) Phylum (c) Order (d) Kingdom Biosystematics aims at (a) Identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics (b) The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters (c) Delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships (d) The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies Classification based on sequencing of DNA and chemical nature of protein is (a) Chemotaxonomy (b) Cytotaxonomy (c) Adansonian taxonomy (d) Karyotaxonomy The five kingdom classification of living organisms was proposed by (1) Altmann (2) Hutchinson (3) Whittaker (4) AdolfEngler Systema Naturae was written by (1) Linnaeus (2) Aristotle (3) Darwin (4) de Candolle FRI is situated at (1) Lucknow (UP) (2) Bhopal (MP) (3) Hyderabad (AP) (4) Dehradun (Utranchal) Five kingdom classified was given by (1) Copeland (2) Haeckal (3) Whittaker (4) Takhtajan An animal with same generic, specific and subspecific names is (a) man (b) gorilla (c) rabbit (d) elephant Five kingdom classification includes (1) Monera, Protista, Animalia, Plantae, Algae (2) Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia (3) Virus, Prokaryota, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia (4) Algae, Fungi, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Gymnosperms A binomial nomenclature has (1) 2 taxons (2) one name (3) 2 terms (4) None of these The three phases of taxonomy (a, b, w) were recognised by (1) Turril (2) Heywood (3) Julian Huxley (4) A.P. de Candolle Linneaus system of classification is : (a) Natural (b) Artificial (c) Phylogenetic (d) Progressive Arrange the following taxonomic categories in increasing number of common characteristics w.r.t. plant mango A. Dicotyledonae B. Polymoniales C. Mangifera D. Angiospermae E. Anacardiaceae (a) A → D → B → E → C (b) A → D → C → B → E (c) D → A → B → E → C (d) D → A →C → E → B The immense biological diversity (1.7 million species of living organisms -1.2 million animals and 0.5 million plants) that we see is the result of (1) Organic evolution (2) Adaptations (3) Inorganic evolution (4) Variations The sorting out of identified and accessioned herbaria sheets family. Genus and species wise and their arrangement according to a standard system of classification are a step in making herbarium. This step is known as (1) Index registers (2) Filing of specimens (3) Mounting (4) Labeling of specimen sheets. Which one of the following is not a correct statement? (1) Botanical gardens have collection of living plants for reference. (2) A museum has collection of photographs of plants and animals (3) Key is taxonomic aid for identification of specimens. (4) herbarium houses dried. pressed and preserved plant specimens. What are Mule, Tigon, Liger, and Hinny? (1) Species (2) Sub species (3) Hybrids (4) Categories ICBN stands for (1) International classification of biological nomenclature (2) International code of biological nomenclature (3) International code of botanical nomenclature (4) International classification of biological naming Identification of plants and animals based on the (1) Similarities (2) dissimilarities (3) (1) and (2) both (4) None of these The study of the kind of life in outer space is known as: (a) ecology (b) evolution (c) anthropology (d) exobiology Binomial nomenclature includes (1) Genus, species (2) Genus, family (3) Genus, subfamily (4) Species, subspecies Static concept of species (nullae species novae i.e., no species new, it is immutable) was given by (1) Lamarck (2) Linnaeus (3) De Candolle (4) Mayr Reason of diversity in living being is (1) Mutation (2) long term evolutionary changes (3) Short term evolutionary changes (4) gradual changes Study of number of chromosomes for resolving difficulties in classification is used in (a) Chemotaxonomy (b) Morphotaxonomy (c) Cytotaxonomy (d) Biochemical taxonomy Loading … Question 1 of 45