Question:
What is the main basis of differentiation between vertebrates and non-vertebrates?
Answer:
notochord and dorsal nerve cord.
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.
Why do we classify organisms?
Q 5.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 6.
What are the general characteristics found in all animals?
Q 7.
Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.
Q 8.
Give three examples of Molluscs
Q 9.
Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.
Q 10.
Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.
Q 11.
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 12.
Define Cryptograms.
Q 13.
How Angiosperms are divided further?
Q 14.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 15.
Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.
Q 16.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms and a maximum number of similar characteristics?
Q 17.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 18.
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 19.
Cold blooded, two chamber heart, stream lined body, scales on skin, gills present, aquatic life. Which group of vertebrates are we referring to?
Q 20.
Give three examples of flightless birds.
Q 21.
Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?
Q 22.
Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.
Q 23.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 24.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
Q 25.
What is a notochord? What does it do?
Q 26.
In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 27.
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 28.
Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?
Q 29.
Identify which of the following are monocots and dicots : garlic, onion, tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, wheat, beans
Q 30.
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 31.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
Q 32.
Identify the Animalia group having following features:
Q 33.
Give three examples of organisms that are arthopods.
Q 34.
What type of circulatory system do Molluscs have?
Q 35.
Give three examples of Protochordata animals.
Q 36.
Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?
Q 37.
What changes are evolved in limbs of aves?
Q 38.
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 39.
Give an example of marsupial mammal
Q 40.
Give an example of mammal that can fly.
Q 41.
What do you mean by biodiversity?
Q 42.
Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in lifeforms around you.
Q 43.
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 44.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 46.
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Q 47.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 48.
Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?
Q 50.
Based on evolution, primarily how organisms are categorised?
