The Living World Biology | Chemistry | Physics | NTA The Living World Please enter your email: 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. Taxon is a (1) group of same species (2) group of similar genera (3) subdivision of kingdom (4) apy rank in taxonomic hierarchy The three phases of taxonomy (a, b, w) were recognised by (1) Turril (2) Heywood (3) Julian Huxley (4) A.P. de Candolle Two similar holotypes are called (a) Isotypes (b) Neotypes (c) Syntypes (d) Mesotypes Which one of the following has least similar characters? (a) Family (b) Class (c) Genus (d) Species A population of similar organisms which are capable of interbreeding to form fertile off spring is (1) Species (2) genus (3) tribe (4) family 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 First national park developed in India is (1) Jim Corbett (2) Gir (3) Kaziranga (4) None of these Mark the odd one in the following: (a) Family (b) Class (c) Taxon (d) Phylum Botanical Gardens provide (1) Beautiful area for recreation (2) reservoir for tropical plants (3) Exsitu conservation of Germplasm (4) natural habitat for wild life The first modern Botanical garden was (1) Padua Botanical Garden (2) Royal Botanical Garden (3) Indian Botanical Garden (4) FRI Rattus rattus scientific name is an example of (a) Autonyms (b) Tautonyms (c) Synonyms (d) Homonyms Category is (1) a rank in hierarchy (2) any group of living objects (3) a term used interchangeable with taxon (4) a taxonomic group Study of number of chromosomes for resolving difficulties in classification is used in (a) Chemotaxonomy (b) Morphotaxonomy (c) Cytotaxonomy (d) Biochemical taxonomy A convenient way for easy identification of an organism by applying diagnostic contrasting characters is called (1) Systematics (2) key (3) classification (4) none of these In a scientific name, every name has 2 words – Genus and species. (1) First word of Genus is written in capital letter (2) First word of species is written in small form (3) Every name is followed by author citation (4) All of the above Which is not a taxon in Linnaeus hierarchy? (1) Class & order (2) Kingdom & Class (3) Genus & species (4) Phylum & family Identification of plants and animals based on the (1) Similarities (2) dissimilarities (3) (1) and (2) both (4) None of these Mark the odd one in the following (1) Family (2) Cohort (3) Taxon (4) Species The usage of binomial names, for plant species was accepted by all after the publication of the work by : (a) Hooker (b) Linnaeus (c) Bentham (d) Darwin The ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is called as (a) classification (b) taxonomy (c) hierarchy (d) key The study of the kind of life in outer space is known as: (a) ecology (b) evolution (c) anthropology (d) exobiology Organisms grouped under kingdom Protista can be described as: (1) Chemosynthetic prokaryotes (2) unicellular eukaryotes (3) Multicellular heterotrophs (4) unicellular autotrophs A genus with a single species is called (1) Typical (2) Monotype (3) Polytype (4) Syntype Natural system of classfication was given by (1) George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker (2) Hutchinson (3) Carolus Linnaeus (4) Ernst Haeckel The recent branch of taxonomy is (1) karyotaxonomy (based on structure/number and banding of chromosomes) (2) Cytotaxonomy (based on cytoplasmic structures) (3) Evolution of species (4) Phylogeny In how many parts ICBN is divided (1) 3 (2) 5 (3) 2 (4) 4 What is a botanical garden? (1) It is essentially a collection of living plants maintained for both pure and applied studies (2) It is essentially a collection of plants only (3) It is essentially the collection of rare and fossil plants (4) It is for research work on Identify from the following the only taxonomic category that has a real existence (1) genus (2) species (3) phylum (4) kingdom The category which includes related families is (a) Class (b) Phylum (c) Order (d) Kingdom The keys are based on the contrasting characters generally in a pair called (1) Couplet (2) lead (3) specimens (4) data Intermediate category is (1) Category in addition to obligate categories (2) sub phylum (3) Sub species (4) all of the above The common characteristics between brinjal and wheat can be observed maximum at the level of their. (a) Division (b) Phylum (c) Kingdom (d) Both (b) and (c) Which of the following is not a taxon? (a) Carnivora (b) Insectivora (c) Herbivora (d) Mastigophora FRI is situated at (1) Lucknow (UP) (2) Bhopal (MP) (3) Hyderabad (AP) (4) Dehradun (Utranchal) Which of the following is not a category? (1) Aves (2) Class (3) Phylum (4) Genus The book systema naturae was written by (a) Carolus Von Linnaeus (b) Hutchinson (c) Engler and Prantl (d) Bentham & Hooker Largest herbaria of the Asia is at (1) Kew (2) Sibpur (3) Chennai (4) Trombay In case of plants classes with a few similar characters are assinged to a higher category called (1) Kingdom plantae (2) Division (3) Phylum (4) None of these The U.S. National Herbarium is situated in (1) Los Angeles (2) Hollywood (3) Washington (4) California 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 Phylogenetic classification is one which is based on (1) habits of plants (2) utilitarian system (3) overall similarities (4) common evolutionary descent NBRI is situated at (a) Calcutta (b) Bombay (c) Madras (d) Lucknow Which of the following is a category? (1) Order (2) Class (3) Genus (4) All of these Binomial epithet in binomial nomenclature is (1) Genus + Species (2) Genus (3) Genus + Species + Author name (4) Genus + species + Family Loading … Question 1 of 45