Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

Name the organisms which are outside the classification.

Answer:

Viruses and Prions.
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 2.

Give examples of bryophytes.

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 5.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Q 8.

How is locomotion brought in animals belonging to Mollusca phylum?

Q 9.

Leeches and Earthworms belong to which phylum?

Q 10.

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 11.

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

Q 12.

What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

What are the uses of bryophytes?

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Q 17.

Give two examples of Gymnosperms.

Q 18.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 19.

Write two important characteristics of sponges ?

Q 20.

How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?

Q 21.

Name the first animals (phylum) that have a true body cavity.

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

What is the main basis of differentiation between vertebrates and non-vertebrates?

Q 24.

What are the advantages of classification?

Q 25.

In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

What is Symbiotic? Give an example of organisms which exhibit this relationship.

Q 28.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 29.

How Angiosperms are divided further?

Q 30.

What is osculum?

Q 31.

Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.

Q 32.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 33.

Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.

Q 34.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 35.

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 36.

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 37.

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

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.

Q 40.

Based on evolution, primarily how organisms are categorised?

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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 45.

Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.

Q 46.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 47.

What is a thallus?

Q 48.

List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?