The Living World Biology | Chemistry | Physics | NTA The Living World Please enter your email: 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 Holotype is a (1) Typical specimen designated by author for nomenclature and publication (2) Incomplete specimen (3) Unpreserved specimen (4) Specimen fro mother locality 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) The study of the kind of life in outer space is known as: (a) ecology (b) evolution (c) anthropology (d) exobiology 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 Which taxonomic category contains organisms belonging to same class but not to same family? (1) Species (2) Genus (3) Order (4) Population Most recent branch of Taxonomy is (1) Karyotaxonomy (based on nucleus and number, structure and arrangement of chromosomes) (2) Biochemical taxonomy (based on biochemicals) (3) Numerical taxonomy (based on number of shared characters using statistical methods (4) Classical systematics (based on morphological features) 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 CNH (Central National Herbarium) is located at (1) Mumbai (2) Chennai (3) Kolkata (4) Bangalore Ordines Anomali of Bentham and Hooker includes (1) plants described only in fossil state (2) seed plants showing abnormal forms of growth and development (3) plants described in the literature but which Bentham and Hooker did not see in original (4) a few orders which could not be placed satisfactorily in the classification The first modern Botanical garden was (1) Padua Botanical Garden (2) Royal Botanical Garden (3) Indian Botanical Garden (4) FRI 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 Which of the following is an automatically created name? (a) Autonym (b) Synonym (c) Homonym (d) Tautonym Species belonging to different time period are called (a) Syntype (b) Paratype (c) Lectotype (d) Isotype What is true for individuals of same species? (a) Live in same niche (b) Live in same habitat (c) Interbreeding (d) Live in different habitat Which of the following is not a taxon? (a) Carnivora (b) Insectivora (c) Herbivora (d) Mastigophora Which one of the following has least similar characters? (a) Family (b) Class (c) Genus (d) Species The main objective of plant taxonomy is (a) to study the world’s flora (b) to provide a method for identification and nomenclature (c) to provide Latin ‘scientific’ names for every group of plants in the world (d) all of these Genus is a group of related (1) Species (2) Varieties (3) Orders (4) Families 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 The U.S. National Herbarium is situated in (1) Los Angeles (2) Hollywood (3) Washington (4) California Binomial nomenclature includes (1) Genus, species (2) Genus, family (3) Genus, subfamily (4) Species, subspecies 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 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 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 Which of the following is a category? (1) Order (2) Class (3) Genus (4) All of these Two similar holotypes are called (a) Isotypes (b) Neotypes (c) Syntypes (d) Mesotypes Who proposed phylogenetic classification of plants? (1) Mehta (2) Linnaeus (3) Hutchinson (4) Bentham and Hooker 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 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 Choose the correct sequence of taxonomic categories in Linnaeus Hierarchy (1) Phylum – class – Family – Tribe – Order – Genus – Species (2) Division – Class – Order – Family – Tribe – Genus – Species (3) Order – Class – Tribe – Division – Family – Genus – Species (4) Phylum – Class – Tribe – Order – Family. – Genus – Species Which of the following is less general in characters as compared to genus? (a) Species (b) Division (c) Class (d) Family 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. 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) Identify from the following the only taxonomic category that has a real existence (1) genus (2) species (3) phylum (4) kingdom In a taxonomic hierarchy, categories/taxa are arranged in (1) Descending order (2) ascending order (3) vertical order (4) in any order 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 is not includes in taxonomical aids (1) Herbarium (2) Museum (3) Botanical gardens (4) None of these Scala naturae (ladder of nature) was first theory in Biology in which all things were placed in a hierarchy. It was given by (1) Haeckel (2) Aristotle (3) Leeuwenhoek (4) Cuvier Binomial epithet in binomial nomenclature is (1) Genus + Species (2) Genus (3) Genus + Species + Author name (4) Genus + species + Family 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 The category which includes related families is (1) Phylum (2) Order (3) Class (4) Genus The ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is called as (a) classification (b) taxonomy (c) hierarchy (d) key Loading … Question 1 of 45
