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 a reptile which has four chambered heart.
Q 2.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 3.
In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?
Q 4.
How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Q 5.
Give three examples of Protochordata animals.
Q 6.
Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.
Q 7.
In which kingdom you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, non-green heterotroph or saprophytic, lacks chlorophyll and has an absorptive mode of nutrition?
Q 8.
List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.
Q 9.
Give examples of bryophytes.
Q 10.
Name the plants that are called "
First vascular land plants".
Q 11.
Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.
Q 12.
Give examples of the organisms that have cilia and flagellum for moving around.
Q 13.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 14.
Name the two groups of Plantae that are commonly called phanerogams.
Q 15.
Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?
Q 16.
Cold blooded, two chamber heart, stream lined body, scales on skin, gills present, aquatic life. Which group of vertebrates are we referring to?
Q 17.
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 18.
Give examples of egg laying mammals
Q 19.
What do you mean by biodiversity?
Q 20.
What are the advantages of classification?
Q 21.
What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?
Q 22.
In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 23.
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
Q 24.
Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?
Q 25.
How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?
Q 26.
How Angiosperms are divided further?
Q 27.
Name the phylum to which the following are included. (i) Spider (ii) Cockroach (iii) Prawn (iv) Housefly
Q 28.
Write two important characteristics of sponges ?
Q 29.
Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?
Q 30.
Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.
Q 31.
Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?
Q 32.
Give examples of organisms which belong to Phylum Protochordata.
Q 33.
Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?
Q 34.
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 35.
Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?
Q 36.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
Q 37.
Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?
Q 38.
Identify the Animalia group having following features:
Q 39.
What type of circulatory system do Molluscs have?
Q 40.
Name the fish having skeleton made of both bone and cartilage.
Q 41.
Snakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles belong to which category of vertebrates?
Q 42.
Give three examples of flightless birds.
Q 43.
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 44.
Give an example of mammal that can fly.
Q 45.
Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?
Q 46.
Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?
Q 47.
Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.
Q 48.
Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.
Q 49.
In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.
Q 50.
Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.
