Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

What are the advantages of classification?

Answer:

Following are the advantages of classification:
  1. Classification helps us identify the living organisms easily.
  2. It makes a study of such a wide variety of bio-life in a systematic manner.
  3. It helps us learning different plants and animals, similarities and dissimilarities among them.
  4. Enables us understand how complex organisms evolve over the time.
  5. Classification helps us understand the inter-relationships among different groups.
  6. It forms the basis of other branches of bio-sciences like bio-geography, environmental biology, ecology etc.
  7. It also provides a systematic way to identify known and unknown organisms.
  8. Classification systems are adapted internationally. This aids communication between scientists.
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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 4.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

What is osculum?

Q 7.

Give three examples of flightless birds.

Q 8.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 9.

Do Protozoans have eyes?

Q 10.

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 11.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 12.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 13.

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 14.

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 15.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 16.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 17.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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 20.

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

Q 21.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

Define evolution.

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 34.

Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Q 35.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 36.

Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Q 37.

Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Q 38.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 39.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 40.

In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms and a maximum number of similar characteristics?

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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 43.

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

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

What changes are evolved in limbs of aves?

Q 47.

What are the advantages of classification?

Q 48.

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 49.

Define Taxon.

Q 50.

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