Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

In how many Phyla, the animal kingdom is divided into?

Answer:

Kindom Animalia is divided into nine phyla i.e.
  1. Porifera (sponges)
  2. Coelenterata (jellyfishes, corals...)
  3. Platyhelminthes (flat worms)
  4. Nematoda (round worms)
  5. Annelida (earthworms)
  6. Arthropoda (insects, spiders, crabs etc.)
  7. Mollusca (snails, oysters etc.)
  8. Echinodermata (starfishes, sea urchins etc.)
  9. Chordata (animals with backbone)
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?

Q 2.

Name the plants that are called "First vascular land plants".

Q 3.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 4.

Give three examples of organisms that are arthopods.

Q 5.

Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata

Q 6.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 7.

Leeches and Earthworms belong to which phylum?

Q 8.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 9.

Which worms cause elephantiasis. Name the group it belongs to?

Q 10.

Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?

Q 11.

How Angiosperms are divided further?

Q 12.

Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Q 13.

Give the scientific names of tiger, peacock, ant, neem, lotus and potato.

Q 14.

Which in your opinion is more basic characteristic for classifying organism. The place where they live in or the kind of cells they are made of?

Q 15.

What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?

Q 16.

What is the mode of nutrition in Mushroom?

Q 17.

Eichler classified the plant kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two sub kingdoms.

Q 18.

Which division of plants are often called amphibians of the plant kingdom?

Q 19.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.

Q 20.

Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.

Q 21.

What is a thallus?

Q 22.

How do thallophytes and pteridophytes differ from each other? Write two differences.

Q 23.

Write the differences between monocots and dicots.

Q 24.

Identify the phylum having following characteristics:

Q 25.

Name the phylum to which this organism belongs. Write any two characteristic feature of the phylum.

Q 26.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 27.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 28.

Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?

Q 29.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 30.

Why is there a need for classification and systematic naming of living organisms?

Q 31.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 32.

Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.

Q 33.

Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.

Q 34.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 35.

Give examples of the organisms that have cilia and flagellum for moving around.

Q 36.

In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?

Q 37.

Name the simplest of plants that do not have a well-differentiated body design.

Q 38.

Woese introduced by dividing the Monera kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two?

Q 39.

Name the two groups of Plantae that are commonly called phanerogams.

Q 40.

Identify which of the following are monocots and dicots : garlic, onion, tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, wheat, beans

Q 41.

Identify the Animalia group having following features:

Q 42.

Name the fish which is entirely made of cartilage.

Q 43.

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 44.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 45.

Define Taxon.

Q 46.

Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?

Q 47.

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 48.

Name the scientist who created the third kingdom for all microscopic unicellular organisms. What did he call it?

Q 49.

Name the organisms which are outside the classification.

Q 50.

According to the five-kingdom system, which kingdom contains organisms whose structure is composed of prokaryotic cells?