Question:
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
Answer:
Following bases are used to differentiate plants and animals:
- Cell Design: Plants have cell wall while animal cells do not.
- Nutrition: Plants make their own food (photosynthesis, autotrophic) while animals do not (heterotrophic).
- Body design: e.g.Plants can't move while animals can.
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.
What are the general characteristics found in all animals?
Q 6.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 7.
Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.
Q 8.
Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.
Q 9.
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 10.
Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.
Q 11.
Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.
Q 12.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms and a maximum number of similar characteristics?
Q 13.
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 14.
Give three examples of Molluscs
Q 15.
Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.
Q 16.
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 17.
In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.
Q 18.
Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.
Q 19.
What are the uses of bryophytes?
Q 20.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 21.
Define Cryptograms.
Q 22.
How Angiosperms are divided further?
Q 23.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 24.
What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?
Q 25.
Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?
Q 26.
Identify which of the following are monocots and dicots : garlic, onion, tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, wheat, beans
Q 27.
Which is the largest group of animals?
Q 28.
Cold blooded, two chamber heart, stream lined body, scales on skin, gills present, aquatic life. Which group of vertebrates are we referring to?
Q 29.
Give three examples of flightless birds.
Q 30.
Who is known as the father of taxonomy?
Q 31.
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 32.
Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?
Q 33.
Name the scientist who created the third kingdom for all microscopic unicellular organisms. What did he call it?
Q 34.
In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 35.
Name the organisms which are outside the classification.
Q 36.
How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.
Q 37.
Give examples of bryophytes.
Q 38.
Name the plants that are called "
First vascular land plants".
Q 39.
Give two examples of Gymnosperms.
Q 40.
How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?
Q 41.
Do sponges have a nervous system?
Q 42.
Identify the phylum having following characteristics:
Q 43.
Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?
Q 44.
Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.
Q 45.
How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?
Q 46.
Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.
Q 47.
What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?
Q 48.
How is a body of Arthropods segmented?
Q 49.
What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?
Q 50.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
