The Living World Biology | Chemistry | Physics | NTA The Living World Please enter your email: The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for (a) interaction with the environment and progressive evolution (b) reproduction (c) growth and movement (d) responsiveness to touch The head quarter of BSI (Botanical survey of India) is at (1) Howrah, (Calcutta) (2) New Delhi (3) NBRI Lucknow (U.P) (4) FRI Dehradun (Utranchal) A population of similar organisms which are capable of interbreeding to form fertile off spring is (1) Species (2) genus (3) tribe (4) family 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 “Ordines Anomali” of Bentham and Hooker includes: (a) Seed plants showing abnormal forms of growth and development (b) Plants represented only in fossil state (c) Plants described in the literature but which Bentham and Hooker did not see in original (d) A few orders which could not be placed satisfactory in the classification Binomial nomenclature includes (1) Genus, species (2) Genus, family (3) Genus, subfamily (4) Species, subspecies Species is : (a) population of individuals having same genotypes and phenotypes (b) a group of individuals inhabiting a geographical area (c) a group of interbreeding populations (d) population of one type Binomial epithet in binomial nomenclature is (1) Genus + Species (2) Genus (3) Genus + Species + Author name (4) Genus + species + Family Maximum diversity is seen amongst (1) Monera (2) Animalia (3) Plantae (4) Protista Category is (1) a rank in hierarchy (2) any group of living objects (3) a term used interchangeable with taxon (4) a taxonomic group All members of different species of plants and animals present in particular area make up (a) Population (b) Community (c) Ecosystem (d) Biosphere Which of the following is required as equivalent to subspecies of classical taxonomy? (1) Ecotype (2) Ecospecies (3) Cenospecies (4) Comparium The practical purpose of classification of living organisms is to (1) Facilitate identification of unknown organisms (2) Explain the origin of living organisms (3) Trace the evolution of Jiving organisms (4) Name the living organisms No non-living object is capable of reproduction or replication by itself. Although reproduction can not be an all-inclusive defining characteristics of living organisms because (a) Organisms like mules do not reproduce (b) It brings about variation in offsprings (c) Clones are blueprints of their parents (d) Drones (male honey bees) are produced parthenogenetically 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 Five kingdom classified was given by (1) Copeland (2) Haeckal (3) Whittaker (4) Takhtajan Systema Naturae was written by (1) Linnaeus (2) Aristotle (3) Darwin (4) de Candolle The category which includes related families is (a) Class (b) Phylum (c) Order (d) Kingdom 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 Species occurring in different geographical areas are called as (a) Sibling (b) Sympatric (c) Allopatric (d) Neopatric 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 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 A new nomenclatural type submitted when the original material is missing is known as (a) Holotype (b) Isotype (c) Paratype (d) Neotype Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular named taxonomic category? (a) Tiger – tigris, the species (b) Cuttle fish – mollusca, a class (c) Humans – primata, the family (d) Housefly – musca, an order Who developed the key first for the identification of animals? (1) John Ray (2) Goethe (3) Cuvier (4) Theophrastus The relationship between comparable structures is called (1) Analogy (2) Ontogeny (3) Phylogeny (4) Homology The institute which encourage publication of local flora in India is (1) NBRI (2) FRI (3) BSI (4) IARI Which of the following categories is the most inclusive? (1) Order (2) Family (3) Phylum (4) Species Which of the following is a name for a taxon that is identical to other such name? (a) Autonym (b) Synonym (c) Homonym (d) Tautonym Natural system of classfication was given by (1) George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker (2) Hutchinson (3) Carolus Linnaeus (4) Ernst Haeckel Holotype is a (1) Typical specimen designated by author for nomenclature and publication (2) Incomplete specimen (3) Unpreserved specimen (4) Specimen fro mother locality Animal taxonomists have named the animals according to: (a) International class for Zoology Nomenclature (b) Indian code for Zoology Nomenclature (c) International classification for Zoological Nomenclature (d) International code for Zoological Nomenclature The five kingdom classification of living organisms was proposed by (1) Altmann (2) Hutchinson (3) Whittaker (4) AdolfEngler In the classification of plants, the term cladistics refers to the (1) sexual classification (2) natural classification (3) artificial classification (4) phylogenetic classification Arrange the following in order of increasing group size, beginning with the smallest (i) family (ii) kingdom (iii) phylum/division (iv) genus (v) order (vi) class (vii) species. (1) (vii), (iv), (i), (v), (vi), (iii), (ii) (2) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) (3) (v), (iv), (i), (vi), (ii), (iii), (vii) (4) (vii), (vi), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) 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 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 Two similar holotypes are called (a) Isotypes (b) Neotypes (c) Syntypes (d) Mesotypes Select the false statement (a) Carolus Linnaeus described plants and classified them on the basis of their sexual parts (b) Some facts established by accurate and repeated observations do not require further verification (c) Study of the vestigeal organs is called teleology (d) ‘White Revolution’ resulted in enhanced production of milk Identify from the following the only taxonomic category that has a real existence (1) genus (2) species (3) phylum (4) kingdom Linneaus system of classification is : (a) Natural (b) Artificial (c) Phylogenetic (d) Progressive FRI is situated at (1) Lucknow (UP) (2) Bhopal (MP) (3) Hyderabad (AP) (4) Dehradun (Utranchal) Two different animals are classified into the same family. This means they would be classified in: (1) The same phylum, but different class (2) The same class, but different species (3) A different kingdom and a different phylum (4) A different class and a different order 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 Loading … Question 1 of 45