Question:
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Answer:
Following bases are used to differentiate plants and animals:
- Cell Design: Plants have cell wall while animal cells do not.
- Nutrition: Plants make their own food (photosynthesis, autotrophic) while animals do not (heterotrophic).
- Body design: e.g.Plants can't move while animals can.
Diversity in Living Organisms
Q 1.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 2.
Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.
Q 3.
Give two examples of Gymnosperms.
Q 4.
Cold blooded, two chamber heart, stream lined body, scales on skin, gills present, aquatic life. Which group of vertebrates are we referring to?
Q 5.
What are the advantages of classification?
Q 6.
In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?
Q 7.
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
Q 8.
Give examples of bryophytes.
Q 9.
Name the phylum to which the following are included. (i) Spider (ii) Cockroach (iii) Prawn (iv) Housefly
Q 10.
Give three examples of Molluscs
Q 11.
Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in lifeforms around you.
Q 13.
What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?
Q 14.
Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?
Q 15.
On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?
Q 16.
Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.
Q 17.
Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?
Q 18.
What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?
Q 19.
How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Q 20.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 21.
Which worms cause elephantiasis. Name the group it belongs to?
Q 22.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 23.
According to the five-kingdom system, which kingdom contains organisms whose structure is composed of prokaryotic cells?
Q 24.
Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.
Q 25.
Give the scientific names of tiger, peacock, ant, neem, lotus and potato.
Q 26.
Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.
Q 27.
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 28.
Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata
Q 30.
In the hierarchy of classification, which grouping will have the smallest number of organisms with a maximum of characteristics in common and which will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 32.
List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.
Q 33.
Name the plants that are called "
First vascular land plants".
Q 34.
What are the general characteristics found in all animals?
Q 35.
In how many Phyla, the animal kingdom is divided into?
Q 36.
What are four main features of phylum coelenterates?
Q 37.
Animals belong to phylum Coelenterata are diploblastic. What do you mean by the term diploblastic?
Q 38.
Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.
Q 39.
What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?
Q 40.
Give examples of the organisms that have cilia and flagellum for moving around.
Q 41.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms and a maximum number of similar characteristics?
Q 42.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 43.
Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?
Q 44.
Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.
Q 45.
Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?
Q 46.
Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?
Q 47.
Name the two groups of Plantae that are commonly called phanerogams.
Q 48.
Give two examples of Pteridophyes
Q 49.
Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?
Q 50.
Identify the Animalia group having following features:
