Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

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

Answer:

Paramecium (Cilia) and Euglena (Flagellum)
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

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 4.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 5.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 8.

Define Cryptograms.

Q 9.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 10.

What is osculum?

Q 11.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 12.

Identify plant group which has parallel venation, scattered vascular bundles, flower petals/parts in multiple of three, fibrous roots.

Q 13.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 16.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 17.

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 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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 24.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Q 25.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 26.

In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?

Q 27.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 28.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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 33.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 34.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 35.

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

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 40.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 41.

What are the uses of bryophytes?

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 44.

How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?

Q 45.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

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

Q 49.

Give three examples of organisms that are arthopods.

Q 50.

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