Q1. Increase in mass and increase in number of individuals are twin characteristics of which character of living organisms?
Answer: Growth
Q2. Growth, reproduction, ability to sense environment are the features of living organisms. (True/False)}
Answer: True
Q3. Who is the Darwin of \(20^{\text {th }}\) century?
Answer: E. Mayr
Q4. The biggest spin off of taxonomic studies was the recognition of sharing of similarities among living organisms both A and B.
Answer: A-Horizontally, B-Vertically
Q5. Early man could easily perceive the difference between inanimate matter and living organisms. (True/False) }
Answer: True
Q6. In majority of higher animals and plants, growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events. (True/False) }
Answer: True
Q7. What is the common method for multiplication among the fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of mosses?
Answer: Fragementation
Q8. Reproduction can not be taken as defining characteristics of living organisms. Why?
Answer: There are many organisms those cannot reproduce.
Q9. For unicellular organisms like bacteria, unicellular algae and Amoeba, ‘A’ is synonymous with ‘B’ .
Answer: A-Reproduction, B-Growth
Q10. Growth can not be taken as defining characteristic of living organisms. Why?
Answer: Because non-living objects also grow by accumulation of material on surface.
Q11. Properties of tissues are not present in the constituent cells but arise as a result of interactions among the constituent cells. (True/False)
Answer: True.
Q12. The sum total of all chemical reactions occurring in a living body is called?
Answer: Metabolism
Q13. What is the most obvious and technically complicated feature of all living organisms?
Answer: Consciousness
Q14. The patient is brain-dead and has no self-consciousness. Such patients are never come back to normal life. They are considered living or non-living.
Answer: Living
Q15. A affects reproduction in seasonal breeders, both plants and animals.
Answer: A-Photoperiod
Q16. In Binomial nomenclature, each name has two components the A and the B.
Answer: A-Generic name, B-Specific epithet
Q17. What is the full form of ICBN?
Answer: International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Q18. How many species are known and described till now?
Answer: 1.7-1.8 million
Q19. The number and types of organisms present on earth, this refers to as?
Answer: Biodiversity
Q20. For plants, scientific names are based on agreed principles and criteria, which are provided by
Answer: ICBN
Q21. Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate ____.
Answer: Their Latin origin
Q22. Biological names are generally in A language and written in B.
Answer: A-Latin, B-Italics
Q23. All living organisms can be classified into different taxa on the basis of characteristics, this process is called?
Answer: Classification
Q24. Find out the odd one with respect to rank or taxonomic categories : Sapindales, Anacardiaceae, Poales
Answer: Anacardiaceae
Q25. Identify A & B : Triticum aestivum \(\rightarrow\) Triticum \(\rightarrow A \rightarrow\) Poales \(\rightarrow B \rightarrow\) Angiospermae
Answer: A – Poaceae, B-Monocotyledonae
Q26. _____ is a store house of collected plant specimens that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.
Answer: Herbarium
Q27. Herbarium serves as quick referral system in taxonomic studies. (True/False)
Answer: True
Q28. Indian Botanical Garden (IBG) and National Botanical Garden (NBG) are situated at ?
Answer: IBG-Howrah, NBG-Lucknow
Q29. What is the main purpose of botanical garden?
Answer: Identification of plants
Q30. Which taxanomical aid uses living plant forms for studies?
Answer: Botanical Garden
Q31. Name the taxonomical aid which is used for study and reference of both plant and animal specimens.
Answer: Biological Museum
Q32. Name the taxonomical aid where wild animals are kept in protected environments under human care.
Answer: Zoological parks
Q33. What is the main aim of zoological parks?
Answer: Learn about food habits & behaviour of wild animals
Q34. In keys, a pair of contrasting characters is called?
Answer: Couplet
Q35. Couplet represents the choice made between two opposite options. This results in acceptance of only one and rejection of the other. (True/False)
Answer: True
Q36. Each statement of couplet in the key is called _______.
Answer: Lead
Q37. What does monograph contain?
Answer: Informations on any one taxon
Q38. Which taxonomic aid contains the actual account of habitat and distribution of plants of a given area?
Answer: Flora
Q39. Taxonomical aid which is useful in providing information for identification of names of species found in an area.
Answer: Manuals
Q40. Taxonomists prepare and disseminate information through A and B.
Answer: A-Manuals, B-Monographs
Q41. The taxonomic studies of various species of plants and animals are useful in agriculture, forestry, industry and in general for knowing our bio-resources and their diversity. (True/False)
Answer: True
Q42. According to binomial system, how the first letter of first word and first letter of second word in name of an organism are written respectively?
Answer: Capital and Small
Q43. What is Alsatians?
Answer: A variety or breed of Dog species
Q44. The word systematics is derived from the Latin word ‘Systema’ which means?
Answer: Systematic arrangement of organisms
Q45. Taxonomic categories / taxonomic groups are distinct biological entities and not merely morphological aggregates. (True/False)
Answer: True
Q46. What are basics of taxonomy?
Answer: Identification, Nomenclature, Classification
Q47. The earliest classifications were based on the ______ of various organisms.
Answer: Uses or economic importance
Q48. Genus comprises a group of related species which has more characters in common in comparison to species of other genera. (True/False)
Answer: True
Q49. Felidae and Felis represent which taxonomic categories respectively?
Answer: Family, Genus
Q50. Write the scientific names of : (A) Human (B) Potato (C) Leopard
Answer: A-Homo sapiens, B-Solanum tuberosum, C-Panthera pardus
Q51. Solanum, Petunia and Datura are the genera, belong to which family?
Answer: Solanaceae
Q52. A group of individual organisms with fundamental morphological similarities is called?
Answer: Species
Q53. Order and other higher taxonomic categories are identified based on the aggregation of characters. (True/False)
Answer: True
Q54. Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds along with mammals constitute the next higher category called?
Answer: Phylum(Chordata)
Q55. As we go higher from species to kingdom then what will happen to the number of common characteristics?
Answer: They will decrease
Q56. The following sequence shows taxonomic categories in ascending order : Kingdom \(\leftarrow\) Phylum \(\leftarrow B \leftarrow\) Order \(\leftarrow A \leftarrow\) Genus \(\leftarrow\) Species What are A and B in this sequence.
Answer: A-Family, B-Class
Q57. Find the odd one from followings : Chordata, Carnivora, Solanum, Mammalia
Answer: Solanum
Q58. Higher the category, greater is the difficulty of determining the relationship to other taxa at the same level. Why?
Answer: Because common characters are less
Q59. Match the Column-I with Column-II
\(
\begin{array}{|l|c|c|c|}
\hline & \text { Column I } & & \text { Column II } \\
\hline \text { (A) } & \text { Man } & \text { (i) } & \text { Mangifera indica } \\
\hline \text { (B) } & \text { Housefly } & \text { (ii) } & \text { Triticum aestivum } \\
\hline \text { (C) } & \text { Mango } & \text { (iii) } & \text { Homo sapiens } \\
\hline \text { (D) } & \text { Wheat } & \text { (iv) } & \text { Musca domestica } \\
\hline
\end{array}
\)
Answer: (A) – iii, (B) – iv, (C) – i, (D) – ii
Q60. The number of obligate categories which are always used in a taxonomic hierarchy are
Answer: 7
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