Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

How is locomotion brought in animals belonging to Mollusca phylum?

Answer:

Animals of Mollusca are soft bodied and locomotion is brought about by muscular foot.
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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.

Why do we classify organisms?

Q 4.

What is osculum?

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

What are the general characteristics found in all animals?

Q 7.

Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Q 8.

Give three examples of Molluscs

Q 9.

Name the book written by Carolus Linnaeus on the classification of organisms.

Q 10.

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

Q 11.

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 12.

Define Cryptograms.

Q 13.

How Angiosperms are divided further?

Q 14.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 15.

Give examples of animals that belong to Phylum Mollusca.

Q 16.

In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have the smallest number of organisms and a maximum number of similar characteristics?

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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 19.

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

Q 20.

Give three examples of flightless birds.

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.

Q 23.

What are the uses of bryophytes?

Q 24.

What are naked-seeded plants are called?

Q 25.

How is a body of Arthropods segmented?

Q 26.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 27.

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

Q 28.

What is a notochord? What does it do?

Q 29.

Give examples of organisms which belong to Phylum Protochordata.

Q 30.

Why are Bats and whales classified as mammals?

Q 31.

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

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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 34.

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

Q 35.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 36.

What is the mode of nutrition in Mushroom?

Q 37.

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 38.

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

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

Give two examples of Bryophyta plants?

Q 41.

Give two examples of Pteridophyes

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

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 44.

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

Q 45.

Identify the Animalia group having following features:

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

Give three examples of organisms that are arthopods.

Q 48.

What type of circulatory system do Molluscs have?

Q 49.

Give three examples of animals belong to Echinodermata

Q 50.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.