Question:
Which region of the earth is called the region of megadiversity?
Answer:
The warm and humid tropical regions of the earth, between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, are rich in diversity of plant and animal life. This is called the region of megadiversity.
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.
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 4.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 5.
Why do we classify organisms?
Q 6.
On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?
Q 8.
What are the general characteristics found in all animals?
Q 10.
Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?
Q 11.
Identify plant group which has parallel venation, scattered vascular bundles, flower petals/parts in multiple of three, fibrous roots.
Q 12.
Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?
Q 13.
How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?
Q 14.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 15.
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 16.
Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?
Q 17.
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 18.
In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 19.
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 20.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
Q 21.
Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?
Q 22.
Give examples of the organisms that have cilia and flagellum for moving around.
Q 23.
Give two examples of Pteridophyes
Q 24.
Identify which of the following are monocots and dicots : garlic, onion, tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, wheat, beans
Q 25.
Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?
Q 26.
Which is the largest group of animals?
Q 27.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 28.
Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.
Q 29.
In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.
Q 30.
Give examples of Thallophyta plants.
Q 31.
How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?
Q 32.
In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 33.
Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?
Q 34.
Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?
Q 35.
What is the main basis of differentiation between vertebrates and non-vertebrates?
Q 36.
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 37.
Give three examples of flightless birds.
Q 38.
Give examples of egg laying mammals
Q 39.
Give an example of mammal that can fly.
Q 40.
What do you mean by biodiversity?
Q 42.
Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?
Q 43.
Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.
Q 44.
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
Q 45.
Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?
Q 46.
Which division among plants has the simplest organisms?
Q 48.
Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?
Q 49.
What are the uses of bryophytes?
Q 50.
Write the differences between monocots and dicots.
