Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.

Answer:

  1. Mostly parasitic
  2. First simplest triploblastic animals i.e. having three layers of body cells.
  3. Bilaterally symmetrical
  4. No true internal body cavity or coelom
  5. Body is dorsoventrally flattened
  6. Examples: Planaria, Liverfluke, Tapeworm
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 2.

In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 5.

Give two examples of Gymnosperms.

Q 6.

How is a body of Arthropods segmented?

Q 7.

Cold blooded, two chamber heart, stream lined body, scales on skin, gills present, aquatic life. Which group of vertebrates are we referring to?

Q 8.

Give examples of bryophytes.

Q 9.

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 10.

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

Q 11.

What are the advantages of classification?

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

Name the largest group (phylum) of animals.

Q 17.

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 18.

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

Q 19.

Name the kingdom which includes the simplest form of eukaryotes.

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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 22.

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

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

What is Symbiotic? Give an example of organisms which exhibit this relationship.

Q 25.

How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?

Q 26.

Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

Name the phylum to which this organism belongs. Write any two characteristic feature of the phylum.

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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 33.

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

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

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

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?

Q 38.

How are pteridophytes different from the phanerogams?

Q 39.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 40.

Write two important characteristics of sponges ?

Q 41.

Write important features about Phylum Platyhelminthes.

Q 42.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 43.

Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.

Q 44.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Q 45.

Give examples of organisms which belong to Phylum Protochordata.

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 48.

Do Protozoans have eyes?

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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