Question:
What are the general characteristics found in all animals?
Answer:
General characteristics found in all animals are:
- All animals are multicellular, eukaryotic and heterotrophic.
- All animals exhibit locomotion.
- Most of the animals have sense organs and nervous system.
- Nutrition is generally ingestive.
- Reproduction is generally sexual.
Diversity in Living Organisms
Q 1.
Commonly called flatworm, bilateral symmetrical, acoelomates are the features of which animal division?
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.
How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?
Q 5.
Give examples of organisms which belong to Phylum Protochordata.
Q 6.
Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?
Q 7.
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 8.
Snakes, turtles, lizards and crocodiles belong to which category of vertebrates?
Q 9.
Who wrote the book
The Origin of Species?
Q 10.
Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?
Q 11.
Write the differences between monocots and dicots.
Q 12.
Identify the division of Plantae having following characteristics:
i. Seeds not enclosed within fruit.
ii. Flowers represented as cones (unisexual)
iii. Ovules not located in ovary.
Q 13.
Give examples of egg laying mammals
Q 14.
In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?
Q 15.
What are naked-seeded plants are called?
Q 16.
Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?
Q 17.
Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.
Q 18.
Which is the largest group of animals?
Q 19.
Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata
Q 21.
Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.
Q 22.
Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.
Q 23.
Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?
Q 24.
In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the largest number of organisms?
Q 25.
Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.
Q 26.
Woese introduced by dividing the Monera kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two?
Q 27.
Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.
Q 28.
Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?
Q 29.
Give three examples of Molluscs
Q 30.
Give three examples of Protochordata animals.
Q 32.
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 33.
How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?
Q 34.
Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.
Q 35.
Give examples of Arthropod animals.
Q 36.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
Q 37.
Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.
Q 38.
What is a notochord? What does it do?
Q 39.
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 40.
Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?
Q 41.
Name the two groups of Plantae that are commonly called phanerogams.
Q 42.
Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.
Q 43.
Give an example of mammal that can fly.
Q 44.
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 45.
In which kingdom will you place an organism which is single-celled, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Q 46.
In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.
Q 47.
Give examples of bryophytes.
Q 48.
On what basis plants are divided into two sub-kingdoms?
Q 49.
How Angiosperms are divided further?
