Question:
Classify the following organisms into their respective kingdoms as per Whittaker's five-kingdom system. humans, mushroom, herbs, amoeba, E.coli, euglena, mold, birds, insects, bushes, paramecium, trees, dogs, streptococcus.
Answer:
Kingdom Monera: E.coli, streptococcus (bacteria) Kingdom Protista: amoeba, euglena, paramecium Kingdom Fungi: mushroom, mold, Kingdom Plantae: herbs, bushes, trees Kingdom Animalia: humans, birds, insects, dogs
Diversity in Living Organisms
Q 1.
Snakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles belong to which category of vertebrates?
Q 2.
Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?
Q 3.
Give an example of marsupial mammal
Q 4.
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 5.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 6.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 7.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
Q 8.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 9.
Which worms cause elephantiasis. Name the group it belongs to?
Q 11.
Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.
Q 12.
What is the main basis of differentiation between vertebrates and non-vertebrates?
Q 13.
How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.
Q 14.
How do thallophytes and pteridophytes differ from each other? Write two differences.
Q 15.
Name the plants that are called "
First vascular land plants".
Q 16.
How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Q 17.
Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?
Q 18.
Give an example of mammal that can fly.
Q 19.
Who is known as the father of taxonomy?
Q 20.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 21.
In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.
Q 22.
Write two important characteristics of sponges ?
Q 23.
Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.
Q 24.
Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.
Q 25.
Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.
Q 26.
Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?
Q 27.
Name the substance which makes the cell wall of fungi.
Q 28.
In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 29.
Eichler classified the plant kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two sub kingdoms.
Q 30.
Do Protozoans have eyes?
Q 31.
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 32.
Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?
Q 33.
Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?
Q 34.
Give two examples of Pteridophyes
Q 35.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
Q 36.
Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?
Q 37.
Identify the Animalia group having following features:
Q 38.
Give three examples of Molluscs
Q 39.
Spiny skin, marine, triploblastic coelomates having water-driven tube system for locomotion. What type of group are we talking of?
Q 40.
What changes are evolved in limbs of aves?
Q 41.
Why do we classify organisms?
Q 42.
Why is there a need for classification and systematic naming of living organisms?
Q 43.
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Q 44.
Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?
Q 45.
Based on evolution, primarily how organisms are categorised?
Q 46.
What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?
Q 47.
According to the five-kingdom system, which kingdom contains organisms whose structure is composed of prokaryotic cells?
Q 48.
Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?
Q 49.
Which division among plants has the simplest organisms?
Q 50.
List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.
