Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

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

Answer:

Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 2.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 3.

Cold blooded, two chamber heart, stream lined body, scales on skin, gills present, aquatic life. Which group of vertebrates are we referring to?

Q 4.

In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?

Q 5.

What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?

Q 6.

Give two examples of Gymnosperms.

Q 7.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 8.

What are the advantages of classification?

Q 9.

Define Taxon.

Q 10.

Give examples of bryophytes.

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

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 15.

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

Q 16.

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

Q 17.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 18.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 19.

How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Q 20.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 21.

Name the phylum to which the following are included. (i) Spider (ii) Cockroach (iii) Prawn (iv) Housefly

Q 22.

Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 25.

Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Q 26.

How is a body of Arthropods segmented?

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 29.

Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.

Q 30.

Give three examples of Molluscs

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in lifeforms around you.

Q 33.

What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 36.

Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

Name the organisms which are outside the classification.

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

How Angiosperms are divided further?

Q 44.

What is osculum?

Q 45.

Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Q 46.

Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.

Q 47.

Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.

Q 48.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Q 49.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 50.

What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?