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.

Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?

Q 2.

Snakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles belong to which category of vertebrates?

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.

Define Cryptograms.

Q 6.

Identify plant group which has parallel venation, scattered vascular bundles, flower petals/parts in multiple of three, fibrous roots.

Q 7.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 8.

On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?

Q 9.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 10.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 11.

What is osculum?

Q 12.

Give examples of the organisms that have cilia and flagellum for moving around.

Q 13.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 14.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 15.

Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?

Q 16.

Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.

Q 17.

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 18.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 19.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 20.

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 21.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 22.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 23.

Identify which of the following are monocots and dicots : garlic, onion, tomatoes, corn, peppers, potatoes, wheat, beans

Q 24.

Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?

Q 25.

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 26.

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

Q 27.

What are the uses of bryophytes?

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 32.

Give the scientific names of tiger, peacock, ant, neem, lotus and potato.

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?

Q 35.

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

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

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 40.

Give three examples of flightless birds.

Q 41.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 42.

Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

Q 43.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.

Q 46.

How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.

Q 47.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 48.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 49.

How do thallophytes and pteridophytes differ from each other? Write two differences.

Q 50.

Identify the phylum having following characteristics: