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.

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

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.

Give an example of marsupial mammal

Q 4.

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 5.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 6.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 7.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 8.

Which worms cause elephantiasis. Name the group it belongs to?

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

Name the plants that are called "First vascular land plants".

Q 13.

What is osculum?

Q 14.

Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Q 15.

How is a body of Arthropods segmented?

Q 16.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 17.

Give an example of mammal that can fly.

Q 18.

Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

Q 19.

Write two important characteristics of sponges ?

Q 20.

Give examples of animals belong to Nematoda.

Q 21.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

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 24.

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

Q 25.

Identify the Animalia group having following features:

Q 26.

Give three examples of Molluscs

Q 27.

Spiny skin, marine, triploblastic coelomates having water-driven tube system for locomotion. What type of group are we talking of?

Q 28.

What changes are evolved in limbs of aves?

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

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

Q 31.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 32.

Based on evolution, primarily how organisms are categorised?

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

According to the five-kingdom system, which kingdom contains organisms whose structure is composed of prokaryotic cells?

Q 35.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Q 40.

Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Q 41.

Name a parasitic disease caused by members of Nematoda.

Q 42.

Leeches and Earthworms belong to which phylum?

Q 43.

Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.

Q 44.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 45.

Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

Give examples of organisms which belong to Phylum Protochordata.

Q 48.

Name the substance which makes the cell wall of fungi.

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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