(1) Order (2) Class
(3) Genus (4) Family
Q2 Which of the following properties or processes do we associate with living things?
(1) energy processing
(2) responding to the environment
(3) growth and reproduction
(4) all of the above
Q3 Which of the following sequences represents the hierarchy of biological organization from the least to the most complex level?
(1) organelle, tissue, biosphere, ecosystem, population, organism
(2) cell, community, population, organ system, molecule, organelle
(3) organism, community, biosphere, molecule, tissue, organ
(4) molecule, cell, organ system, population, ecosystem, biosphere
Q4 A localized group of organisms that belong to the same species is called a –
(1) biosystem (2) community
(3) population (4) family
Q5 Which branch of biology is concerned with the naming and classifying of organisms?
(1) informatics (2) schematic biology
(3) taxonomy (4) genomics
Q6 Species that are in the same _____ are more closely related than species that are only in the same _____
(1) phylum; class (2) family; order
(3) class; order (4) family; genus
Q7 Two species that belong to the same genus must also belong to the same
(1) kingdom (2) phylum
(3) class (4) all of the above
Q8 Which of these is reflective of the hierarchical organization of life from most to least inclusive?
(1) kingdom, order, family, phylum, class, genus, species
(2) phylum, class, order, kingdom, family, genus, species
(3) kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
(4) genus, species, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family
Q9 What was the species concept most used by Linnaeus?
(1) biological (2) morphological
(3) ecological (4) phylogenetic
Q10 The various taxonomic levels (viz, genera, classes, etc) of the hierarchical classification system differ from each other on the basis of
(1) how widely the organisms assigned to each are distributed through out the environment
(2) the body sizes of the organisms assigned to each
(3) their inclusiveness
(4) the relative genome sizes of the organisms assigned to each
Q11 The common housefly belongs to all of the following taxa Assuming you had access to textbooks or other scientific literature, knowing which of the following should provide you with the most specific information about the common housefly?
(1) order Diptera (2) family Muscidae
(3) genus Musca (4) class Insecta
Q12 Generally, within a lineage, the largest number of shared derived characters should be found among two organisms that are members of the same
(1) kingdom (2) class
(3) domain (4) family
Q13 Which ‘suffixes’ used for units of classification in plants indicates a taxonomic category of ‘family’
(1) – Ales (2) – Onae
(3) – Aceae (4) – Ae
Q14 ICBN is
(1) International Code of Biological Naming
(2) International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(3) International Class of Biological Nomenclature
(4) International Classification of Biological Nomenclature
Q15 Match Column-I with Column-II and select the correct option from the codes given below
Column-I Column-II
A Botanical garden (i) Preserved plant specimens
B Zoological park (ii) Preserved plant & animal specimens
C Museum (iii) Living plants
D Herbarium (iv) Living wild animals
(1) A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iii), D-(iv)
(2) A-(iii), B-(iv), C-(ii), D-(i)
(3) A-(iii), B-(iv), C-(i), D-(ii)
(4) A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iv), D-(iii)
Q16 The term ‘systematics’ refers to:
(1) Identification and classification of plants and animals
(2) Nomenclature and identification of plants and animals
(3) Study of Diversity of kinds of organisms and their relationship
(4) Study of Different kinds of organisms and their classification
Q17 Two organisms are present in the same class but not in the same family They may belong to same
(1) genus (2) species
(3) variety (4) order
Q18 The taxonomic category below the level of family, is
(1) class (2) species
(3) phylum (4) genus
Q19 As we go from species to kingdom in a taxonomic hierarchy, the number of common characteristics
(1) Will decrease (2) Will increase
(3) Remain same (4) May increase or decrease
Q20 Genus represents
(1) An individual plant or animal
(2) A collection of plants or animals
(3) Group of closely related species of plants or animals
(4) None of these
Q21 Which of the following statements regarding the universal rules of biological nomenclature is incorrect?
(1) Biological names are either derived from Latin language or are latinised
(2) The first word in a biological name represents the genus while the second component denotes the species
(3) Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate their Latin origin
(4) The specific epithet starts with a capital letter while the generic epithet starts with a small letter It can be illustrated with the example of mangifera Indica
Q22 Which of the following taxonomic categories includes all the others?
(1) Family (2) Order
(3) Genus (4) Species
Q23 The taxonomic unit ‘Phylum’ in the classification of animals is equivalent to which hierarchial level in classification of plants
(1) Class (2) Order
(3) Division (4) Family
Q24 Select the correct option for biological names
(1) They are binomial (2) They are descriptive
(3) They are universal (4) All of these
Q25 Botanical gardens and zoological parks have
(1) Collection of endemic living species only
(2) Collection of exotic living species only
(3) Collection of endemic and exotic living species
(4) Collection of only local plants and animals
Q26 Who proposed binomial system of nomenclature?
(1) Candolle (2) Linnaeus
(3) Bentham (4) Hutchinson
Q27 Which one of the following books was contributed by Linnaeus?
(1) Systema Naturae (2) Historia Plantarum
(3) Historia Naturalis (4) All of these
Q28 The genus Felis includes
(1) tiger (2) fish
(3) cat (4) frog
Q29 In a taxonomic hierarchy, genus is interpolated between
(1) kingdom and class (2) phylum and order
(3) order and species (4) family and species
Q30 A taxon is a
(1) group of related species
(2) group of related families
(3) type of living organism
(4) taxonomic group of any ranking
Q31 All living organisms are linked to one another because –
(1) They have common genetic material of the same type
(2) They share common genetic material but to varying degrees
(3) All have common cellular organization
(4) All of above
Q32 Which one is species?
(1) Cannis (2) Pisum
(3) Leo (4) Carnivora
Q33 Basic unit or smallest taxon of classification is
(1) species (2) kingdom
(3) family (4) variety
Q34 Which one is correctly written scientific name?
(1) Panthera Tigris (2) Mangifera indica
(3) Pucnthera Leo (4) Columba LIVEA
Q35 In Solanum tuberosum; first and second word stand for, respectively
(1) genus, generic name
(2) specific epithet species
(3) specific name and generic name
(4) generic name and specific name
Q36 Choose the correct statement for Wheat
(i) Biological Name : Triticum Aestivum
(ii) Genus : Triticum
(iii) Family : Poaceae
(iv) Order : Poales
(v) Class : Dicotyledonae
(1) i, ii, iii, iv
(2) ii, iii, iv
(3) i, ii, iii, iv, v
(4) i, iii, v
Q37 Match the following columns
Column I Column II
A Planaria 1 Binary fission
B Fungi 2 Asexual spores
C Yeast 3 Budding
D Hydra 4 True regeneration
E Amoeba 5 Fragmentation
Codes
(1) A-1, B-2, C-4, D-5, E-1
(2) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-3, E-1
(3) A-3, B-2, C-3, D-1, E-4
(4) A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3, E-2
Q38 In Mangifera indica, the word Mangifera is a
(1) genus (2) species
(3) variety (4) order
Q39 According to binomial nomenclature, scientific name of an organism consists of
(1) generic name (2) specific epithet
(3) Both (1) and (2) (4) None of these
Q40 Choose the correct statement for Homo sapiens
(1) Family : Hominidae
(2) Order : Primata
(3) Class : Mammalia
(4) All of these
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