Question:
Who is known as the father of taxonomy?
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 10.
Give examples of bryophytes.
Q 11.
In how many Phyla, the animal kingdom is divided into?
Q 12.
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 13.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
Q 14.
How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?
Q 15.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 16.
Name the phylum to which the following are included. (i) Spider (ii) Cockroach (iii) Prawn (iv) Housefly
Q 17.
Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.
Q 18.
How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Q 19.
What kind of circulatory system is found in animals from Mollusca phylum?
Q 20.
Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?
Q 21.
Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?
Q 22.
Which division of plants are often called amphibians of the plant kingdom?
Q 23.
Give three examples of Molluscs
Q 24.
What do you mean by biodiversity?
Q 25.
Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in lifeforms around you.
Q 26.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 27.
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Q 28.
Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.
Q 29.
What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?
Q 30.
What is Symbiotic? Give an example of organisms which exhibit this relationship.
Q 31.
Animals belong to phylum Coelenterata are diploblastic. What do you mean by the term diploblastic?
Q 32.
Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?
Q 33.
Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.
Q 34.
What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?
Q 35.
Do Protozoans have eyes?
Q 36.
Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.
Q 37.
Name the two groups of Plantae that are commonly called phanerogams.
Q 38.
Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?
Q 39.
Spiny skin, marine, triploblastic coelomates having water-driven tube system for locomotion. What type of group are we talking of?
Q 40.
Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?
Q 41.
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 42.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 43.
In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.
Q 44.
(a) What are saprophytes?
(b) Name the kingdom to which they belong.
(c) What is the cell wall of fungi made up of?
Q 45.
Give examples of Thallophyta plants.
Q 46.
How do thallophytes and pteridophytes differ from each other? Write two differences.
Q 47.
On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?
Q 49.
Do sponges have a nervous system?
Q 50.
Identify the phylum having following characteristics:
