Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

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

Answer:

Arthropods
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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.

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

Q 8.

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 9.

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

Q 10.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

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 three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata

Q 14.

Give examples of egg laying mammals

Q 15.

In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?

Q 16.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 17.

Which animal phylum is commonly called as flatworms?

Q 18.

Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.

Q 19.

Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.

Q 20.

Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 24.

Define evolution.

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.

Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.

Q 27.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 28.

Name the phylum to which Start fish and Sea urchin belong to?

Q 29.

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 30.

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

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

Give three examples of Molluscs

Q 33.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.

Q 34.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 35.

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 36.

Define Taxon.

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?

Q 39.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 40.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 41.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 42.

Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Q 43.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 44.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 45.

Name the two groups of Plantae that are commonly called phanerogams.

Q 46.

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 47.

Identify the Animalia group having following features:

Q 48.

Give an example of mammal that can fly.

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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