Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

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

Answer:

Echinodermata
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

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 2.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

Give examples of bryophytes.

Q 5.

Give three examples of organisms that are arthopods.

Q 6.

Name the fish which is entirely made of cartilage.

Q 7.

Give an example of mammal that can fly.

Q 8.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 9.

Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?

Q 12.

What are the uses of bryophytes?

Q 13.

How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Q 14.

Give two examples of Gymnosperms.

Q 15.

How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?

Q 16.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 17.

Identify the phylum having following characteristics:

Q 18.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 19.

Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.

Q 20.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 21.

Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.

Q 22.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Q 23.

How is a body of Arthropods segmented?

Q 24.

Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Q 25.

How is locomotion brought in animals belonging to Mollusca phylum?

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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 34.

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 35.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 36.

Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

Identify the Animalia group having following features:

Q 39.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 40.

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 41.

Give three examples of flightless birds.

Q 42.

Four Chambered heart, mostly viviparous, skin covered with hairs, skin contains sweat and oil glands, four chambered heart. Which category of vertebrates are we talking about?

Q 43.

Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

Q 44.

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 45.

Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.

Q 46.

Define evolution.

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

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

Q 49.

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 50.

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