Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Answer:

Gymnosperms.
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.

Q 4.

Woese introduced by dividing the Monera kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two?

Q 5.

Amar, Ujala and Anara wrote the scientic name of mango as follows. Who wrote it correctly.
Amar - Mangifera Indica
Ujala - Mangifera indica
Anara - mangifera indica

Q 6.

Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?

Q 7.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 8.

Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.

Q 9.

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 10.

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

Q 11.

What are the advantages of classification?

Q 12.

What is the criterion for classification of organisms as belonging to kingdom Monera or Protista?

Q 13.

What is a thallus?

Q 14.

List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.

Q 15.

What are the uses of bryophytes?

Q 16.

Define Cryptograms.

Q 17.

Write two important characteristics of sponges ?

Q 18.

What are four main features of phylum coelenterates?

Q 19.

Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Q 20.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 21.

What kind of circulatory system is found in animals from Mollusca phylum?

Q 22.

How is locomotion brought in animals belonging to Mollusca phylum?

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 26.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.

Q 27.

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 28.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 29.

Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in lifeforms around you.

Q 30.

Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.

Q 31.

Name the scientist who created the third kingdom for all microscopic unicellular organisms. What did he call it?

Q 32.

Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.

Q 35.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 36.

Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?

Q 37.

Give examples of bryophytes.

Q 38.

How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Q 39.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 40.

How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?

Q 41.

Write the differences between monocots and dicots.

Q 42.

In how many Phyla, the animal kingdom is divided into?

Q 43.

Identify the phylum having following characteristics:

Q 44.

How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?

Q 45.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 46.

Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Q 47.

List three important characteristics of Phylum Protochordata.

Q 48.

Name a symbiotic life form that grows on the bark of a tree as large, coloured patches.

Q 49.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 50.

What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?