Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Answer:

Num.AnnelidsArthropods
1.True body cavity called coelem Blood filled body cavity called haemocoel.
2. Lateral appendages for locomotion. Jointed legs for locomotion
3. Closed circulatory system Open circulatory System.
4. Body is soft, there is no hard skeleton Hard Exoskeleton made up of chitin
5. The body is segmented both externally and internally (septa) e.g. Body is externally divided but not internally by septa.
6. e.g. Leech, earthworms etc. e.g. Insects, spiders, prawns etc.
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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.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

How Phanerogams are divided further chiefly?

Q 8.

Define Cryptograms.

Q 9.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 10.

What is osculum?

Q 11.

Algae belongs to which division of Plantae?

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

Ambibian heart is divided into how many chambers?

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 16.

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 17.

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

Q 18.

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 19.

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

Q 20.

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 21.

What is the most striking feature of phylum Arthropoda?

Q 22.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 23.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 26.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 30.

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 31.

What do you mean by biodiversity?

Q 32.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

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

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.

Give examples of Thallophyta plants.

Q 37.

Why are Thallophytes called non-embryonic plants?

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?

Q 40.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

Give three examples of Amphibians.

Q 47.

Give three examples of flightless birds.

Q 48.

Give examples of egg laying mammals

Q 49.

Give an example of mammal that can fly.

Q 50.

Define Taxonomy.