Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Answer:

Nematoda or Aschelminthes
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?

Q 4.

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 5.

Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata

Q 6.

Give examples of egg laying mammals

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 9.

What kind of circulatory system is found in animals from Mollusca phylum?

Q 10.

Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?

Q 11.

Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?

Q 12.

Define Taxonomy.

Q 13.

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 14.

Give examples of bryophytes.

Q 15.

Spiny skin, marine, triploblastic coelomates having water-driven tube system for locomotion. What type of group are we talking of?

Q 16.

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 17.

Give an example of mammal that can fly.

Q 18.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 19.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 20.

Write the differences between monocots and dicots.

Q 21.

What is osculum?

Q 22.

Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.

Q 23.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 24.

How is a body of Arthropods segmented?

Q 25.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 26.

Do Protozoans have eyes?

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

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 29.

Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?

Q 30.

Snakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles belong to which category of vertebrates?

Q 31.

What changes are evolved in limbs of aves?

Q 32.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.

Q 35.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 36.

Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Q 37.

What are four main features of phylum coelenterates?

Q 38.

Animals belong to phylum Coelenterata are diploblastic. What do you mean by the term diploblastic?

Q 39.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 40.

Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.

Q 41.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 42.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?

Q 45.

How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.

Q 46.

Define Cryptograms.

Q 47.

Do sponges have a nervous system?

Q 48.

Identify the phylum having following characteristics:

Q 49.

Leeches and Earthworms belong to which phylum?

Q 50.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?