Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

Define Cryptograms.

Answer:

  1. Cryptograms are plants with hidden (inconspicuous) reproductive organs.
  2. The thallophytes, the bryophytes and the pteridophytes collectively called cryptograms.
  3. External flowers or seeds are absent and they have naked embryos called spores.
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.

Q 7.

Name the three divisions of Plantae that have inconspicuous reproductive organs. What are their seeds called?

Q 8.

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 9.

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

Q 10.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

Name the simplest of plants that do not have a well-differentiated body design.

Q 15.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 16.

Name five countries that lie in the region of megadiversity.

Q 17.

What are four main features of phylum coelenterates?

Q 18.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 19.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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 22.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 23.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 24.

Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?

Q 25.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 26.

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 27.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 28.

Why is there a need for classification and systematic naming of living organisms?

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

(a) What are saprophytes?
(b) Name the kingdom to which they belong.
(c) What is the cell wall of fungi made up of?

Q 32.

What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?

Q 33.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 34.

How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Q 35.

How Angiosperms are divided further?

Q 36.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

What type of circulatory system do Molluscs have?

Q 39.

Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata

Q 40.

Give three examples of flightless birds.

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

Define Taxon.

Q 43.

Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.

Q 44.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 45.

Give two examples of Gymnosperms.

Q 46.

Name the phylum to which the following are included. (i) Spider (ii) Cockroach (iii) Prawn (iv) Housefly

Q 47.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 48.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 49.

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 50.

Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?