Question:
Define Taxonomy.
Answer:
The branch of science that classify living organisms among different categories or groups is called taxonomy. Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species and organising them into systems of classification.
Diversity in Living Organisms
Q 1.
Name the plants that are called "
First vascular land plants".
Q 2.
Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata
Q 3.
Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.
Q 4.
What is a notochord? What does it do?
Q 5.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
Q 6.
Give three examples of flightless birds.
Q 7.
Give examples of egg laying mammals
Q 8.
Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?
Q 9.
Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?
Q 10.
Which worms cause elephantiasis. Name the group it belongs to?
Q 11.
Four Chambered heart, mostly viviparous, skin covered with hairs, skin contains sweat and oil glands, four chambered heart. Which category of vertebrates are we talking about?
Q 12.
Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organisms?(a) the place where they live.(b) the kind of cells they are made of. Why?
Q 13.
What kind of circulatory system is found in animals from Mollusca phylum?
Q 14.
Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?
Q 15.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 16.
Identify the division of Plantae having following characteristics:
i. Seeds not enclosed within fruit.
ii. Flowers represented as cones (unisexual)
iii. Ovules not located in ovary.
Q 17.
Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?
Q 18.
Give three examples of organisms that are arthopods.
Q 19.
Give an example of mammal that can fly.
Q 20.
Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.
Q 21.
How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.
Q 22.
Write the differences between monocots and dicots.
Q 23.
Identify the phylum having following characteristics:
Q 24.
How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Q 25.
Which division of plants are often called amphibians of the plant kingdom?
Q 26.
Woese introduced by dividing the Monera kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two?
Q 27.
Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?
Q 28.
Identify the plant groups which has net like veins in leaves, flower parts in group of fours or fives, vascular bundles are in a ring and two seed leaves.
Q 29.
Minimal body design, have holes which lead to canal system that helps in circulating water, marine habitat. Which division of Animalia it refers to?
Q 30.
Spiny skin, marine, triploblastic coelomates having water-driven tube system for locomotion. What type of group are we talking of?
Q 31.
No scales on skin, mucus glands on skin, three chambered heart, respiration through gills, lungs and skin, oviparous, live on land and in water. Name the group of these vertebrates.
Q 32.
Snakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles belong to which category of vertebrates?
Q 33.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 34.
Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?
Q 35.
Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?
Q 36.
Give examples of Thallophyta plants.
Q 37.
Give examples of bryophytes.
Q 38.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 39.
How Angiosperms are divided further?
Q 41.
What are four main features of phylum coelenterates?
Q 42.
Animals belong to phylum Coelenterata are diploblastic. What do you mean by the term diploblastic?
Q 43.
Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.
Q 44.
Give the scientific names of tiger, peacock, ant, neem, lotus and potato.
Q 45.
Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.
Q 46.
Name the fish having skeleton made of both bone and cartilage.
Q 47.
Give three examples of Amphibians.
Q 48.
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Q 49.
Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.
Q 50.
Name the scientist who created the third kingdom for all microscopic unicellular organisms. What did he call it?
