LIVING WORLD

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Section-A

1.Which taxonomical aid provide all information about a particular taxon like order or family


Herbarium
Catalogue
Taxonomic key
Monograph

2.Which is the only kingdom occupied by BGA, nitrogen fixing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in five kingdom classification?

Plantae
Protista
Monera
Fungi

3.Which of the following is correct according to Binomial system of nomenclature?

$Brassica$ $indica$
Magnifera Indica
SOLANUM MELONGINA
$Mimosa$ $Pudica$

4.Family placed between

Genus and species
Order and class
Class and genus
Order and genus

5.A germplasm collection is a

Collection of specimens of all the species of an area in a herbarium or botanical garden
Collection of modern varieties of a crop
Collection of plants or seeds having diverse alleles of all genes in a crop
Collection of seeds or pollen of rare and threatened species of a group or area

6.Choose the wrong statements regarding universal rules of nomenclature

The first word in a biological name represents the genus
The first word denoting the genus starts with a capital letter
Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten are separately underlined
Biological names are generally in English and written in italics

7.Classification based on chromosome number is

Cytotaxonomy
Numerical taxonomy
Karyotaxonomy
Biochemistry

8.Scientific name are printed (with english) and derived from

Bold and English
Italics and Latin
Italics and German
Italics and French

9.Ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is known as

Classification
Key
Taxonomy
Hierarchy

10.One of the most important functions of botanical garden is

One can observe tropical plants there
They allow ex situ conservation of germplasm
They provide the natural habitat for wildlife
They provide a beautiful area for recreation

11.A group of interconnected genera is called a

Family
Class
Phylum
Order

12.Which one of the following branch is applicable to both plants and animals?

Herpetology
Saurology
Taxonomy
Ichthyology

13.Which one of the following has a real existence?

Genus
Species
Family
Order

14.Linnaean system of plant classification is based on

Morphological and anatomical characters
Evolutionary trends
Floral characters
None of the above

15.True regeneration is found in

Amoeba
Hydra
Planaria
Bacteria

16.Which one of the category contain the least similar characteristic to one another?

Class
Order
Family
Division

17.The basic unit of classification is

Species
Genus
Family
Phylum

18.In angiosperms floral features are commonly used for identification, why?

Flower can be preserved easily
Flower are attractive to work with
Flower have aroma and different colour
Reproductive parts are more conservative

19.Tautonym is

Unscientific explanation of a phenomenon
Common name used as a scientific name
Nonlatinised name
Same name for genus and species

20.Largest herbarium in the world is

Conservatory and Botanical Garden, Geneva
New York Botanical Garden
Royal Botanical Garden, Kew (London)
British, Museum of Natural History

21.Among the following which is a common phenomenon exhibited by living and non-living organisms to show the feature of growth?

Increase in mass
By cell division
Increase in replication rate
By cell differentiation

22.The phylogenetic system of classification was put forth by

Carolus Linnaeus
George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker
Aristotle
Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl

23.The number of species classified in “Species Plantarum” is

5000
6000
4000
3800

24.In which of the following, metabolic reactions take place?

In living organism only
Both in living and non-living organism
In isolated cell free systems
Both In living organism and In isolated cell free systems

25.Select true statement from the following and choose the right answer from the option given below
I. Human’s scientific name is Homo sapiens
II. Genera Plantarum is written by John Ray
III. Highest taxonomic categories is division
IV. Taxonomic group of any rank is taxon
V. A group of closely related species of organism represent genus
VI. The term ‘systematic’ was coined by de Candolle

II, III, IV and VI
I, III, V and VI
I, IV and V
II, III and VI

26.Match the following columns

Column-I Column- II
(A) Family (1) Tuberosum
(B) Kingdom (2) Polymoniales
(C) Order (3) Solanum
(D) Genus (4) Plantae
(E) Species (5) Solanaceae

A-5,B-4,C-2,D-3,E-1
A-5,B-4,C-1,D-3,E-2
A-1,B-2,C-3,D-5,E-4
A-2,B-1,C-3,D-4,E-5

27.Why hierarchiral taxonomic system is used?

As each higher taxonomic category contains its below groups groups/categories
It is helpful to established classifications
All taxonomic categories reflect common habitats
Taxonomic group shows similar characters and have no evolutionary relationship

28.Which one is the first biosphere reserve?

Norkrek Biosphere Reserve
Simlipal Biosphere Reserve
Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

29.Process of metabolism leads to

Growth
Development
Functions of living body
All of these

30.Which one of the following taxonomic categories can categorize all others

Family
Genus
Class
order

31.A taxon is a

Group of related species
Group of related families
Type of living organism
Taxonomic group of any ranking

32.The biological concept of species was formulated by

Mayr
Stebbins
Heywood
Love

33.Growth in unicellular organisms can be observed by

Counting the mass of cultured cells
Analysing the amount of nutrient absorb by living organism
Growth can not be observed
In vitro culture by simply counting the number of cells under microscope

34.Who proposed binomial system of nomenclature?

Candolle
Linnaeus
Bentham
Hutchinson

35.The concept that monocots are more primitive than dicots was proposed by

Bentham and Hooker
Theophrastus
Aristole
Engler and Prantl

Section-B

36.Select the wrong statements.
(I) Lower the taxon, more are the characteristics that the member within the taxon share.
(II) Order is the assemblage of genera which exhibit a few similar characters.
(III) Cat and dog are included in the same family-Felidae.
(Iv) Binomial nomenclature was introduced by Carolus Linnaeus.

I, II and III
II, III and IV
I and IV
II and III

37.Two different genera are classified in the same taxonomic category family. Which statement is correct about their classification?

The same class, but different species
A different class and different order
The same phylum, but different class
A different kingdom and different phylum

38.Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they

Can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds
Have more than 90 percent similar genes
Look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites
Have same number of chromosomes.

39.A living organism can be distinguished from non-living on the basis of

Responsiveness to touch stimuli
Growth
Reproduction
Increase in mass

40.Where labelling is done/pasted on herbarium sheet?

Lower RHS
Lower LHS
Upper RHS
Upper LHS

41.A defining property or characteristic of living organisms is


conciousness
self-replication ability
Response to external stimuli
All the above

42.Which is first step in taxonomy?

Description of the organism
Identification of the organism
Nomenclature of the organism
Classification of the organism

43.Term ‘Taxonomy’ was coined by

De Candolle
Takhtajan
Linnaeus
Aristotle

44.Why hierarchical taxonomic system is used?

As each higher taxonomic category contains its below groups groups/categories
It is helpful to established classifications
All taxonomic categories reflect common habitats
Taxonomic group shows similar characters and have no evolutionary relationship

45.Who had written Systema Naturae?

Ernst Mayr
Carolus Linnaeus
RH Whittaker
WM Stanley

46.Binomial nomenclature means

A scientific name, which consist of two words giving a generic name and a specific name
One name is given by two scientists
Two name, one vernacular and one scientific
Two name, one in Latin and other is a named of person

47.The biological definition of a species depends on

The geographical distribution of two groups of organism
Reproductive isolation of two groups of organism
Anatomical and development differences between the two groups of organism
Difference in the adaptation of two groups of organism

48.Distinction of prokaryote and eukaryote is based on

Cell organelles only
Chromosome only
Nucleus only
All of these

49.Father of botany is

Aristotle
Aristotle
Darwin
Theophrastus

50.Among the following which is a common phenomenon exhibited by living and non-living organisms to show the feature of growth?

Increase in mass
By cell division
Increase in replication rate
By cell differentiation