Question:
Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.
Answer:
R. H. Whittaker proposed five kingdoms and identified Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom. The five kingdoms are:
- Monera: prokaryotic bacteria, blue-green algae or cyanobacteria
- Protista: unicellular protozoans like fungi, diatoms and algae
- Fungi: includes multi-nucleate fungi (yeast, mushroom)
- Plantae: multicellular eukaryotes includes green plants and advanced algae
- Animalia: multicellular animals
Diversity in Living Organisms
Q 1.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 2.
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Q 3.
Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.
Q 4.
Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.
Q 5.
Woese introduced by dividing the Monera kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two?
Q 6.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
Q 7.
What is the main basis of differentiation between vertebrates and non-vertebrates?
Q 8.
Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.
Q 9.
Amar, Ujala and Anara wrote the scientic name of mango as follows. Who wrote it correctly.
Amar - Mangifera Indica
Ujala - Mangifera indica
Anara - mangifera indica
Q 10.
Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?
Q 11.
Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.
Q 12.
What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?
Q 13.
List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.
Q 14.
How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?
Q 15.
How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?
Q 16.
Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?
Q 17.
Name a symbiotic life form that grows on the bark of a tree as large, coloured patches.
Q 18.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms and a maximum number of similar characteristics?
Q 19.
Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?
Q 20.
Name the simplest of plants that do not have a well-differentiated body design.
Q 21.
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 22.
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 23.
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 24.
Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?
Q 25.
Give three examples of Protochordata animals.
Q 26.
Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?
Q 27.
Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.
Q 28.
What do you mean by biodiversity?
Q 29.
Why is there a need for classification and systematic naming of living organisms?
Q 30.
What is the primary reason for such a huge diversity we find in animals and plants?
Q 31.
Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.
Q 32.
Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?
Q 33.
In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 34.
Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.
Q 35.
(a) What are saprophytes?
(b) Name the kingdom to which they belong.
(c) What is the cell wall of fungi made up of?
Q 36.
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
Q 37.
Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?
Q 38.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 39.
Define Cryptograms.
Q 40.
How Angiosperms are divided further?
Q 41.
Name the phylum to which the following are included. (i) Spider (ii) Cockroach (iii) Prawn (iv) Housefly
Q 42.
What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?
Q 43.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
Q 44.
What is a notochord? What does it do?
Q 45.
In which Kingdom, an organism does not have a well defined nucleus and organelles?
Q 46.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 47.
What is the mode of nutrition in Mushroom?
Q 48.
Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?
Q 49.
Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?
Q 50.
Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?