Q1.
Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?
(a) Isolated metabolic reactions occur in vitro
(b) Increase in mass from inside only
(c) Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory.
(d) Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally.
Q2.
The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for
(a) interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
(b) reproduction
(c) growth and movement
(d) responsiveness to touch.
Q3.
Biological organisation starts with
(a) cellular level
(b) organismic level
(c) atomic level
(d) submicroscopic molecular level.
Q4.
Select the correctly written scientific name of Mango which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus.
(a) Mangifera Indica
(b) Mangifera indica Car. Linn.
(c) Mangifera indica Linn.
(d) Mangifera indica
Q5.
Which of the following is against the rules of ICBN?
(a) Hand written scientific names should be underlined.
(b) Every species should have a generic name and a specific epithet.
(c) Scientific names are in Latin and should be italicized.
(d) Generic and specific names should be written starting with small letters.
Q6.
Nomenclature is governed by certain universal rules. Which one of the following is contrary to the rules of nomenclature?
(a) The names are written in Latin and are italicised.
(b) When written by hand the names are to be underlined.
(c) Biological names can be written in any language.
(d) The first word in a biological name represents the genus name and the second is a specific epithet.
Q7.
ICBN stands for
(a) International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(b) International Congress of Biological Names
(c) Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature
(d) Indian Congress of Biological Names.
Q8.
Biosystematics aims at
(a) the classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
(b) delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
(c) the classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
(d) identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics.
Q9.
The book 'Genera Plantarum' was written by
(a) Engler and Prantl
(b) Bentham and Hooker
(c) Bessey
(d) Hutchinson.
Q10.
Linnaeus is credited with
(a) binomial nomenclature
(b) theory of biogenesis
(c) discovery of microscope
(d) discovery of blood circulation.
Q11.
Linnaeus evolved a system of nomenclature called
(a) mononomial (b) vernacular
(c) binomial (d) polynomial.
Q12.
The term "New Systematics" was introduced by
(a) Bentham and Hooker
(b) Linnaeus
(c) Julian Huxley
(d) A.P. de Candolle.
Q13.
Match column I with column II for housefly classification and select the correct option using the codes given below.
Column I Column II
A. Family (i) Diptera
B. Order (ii) Arthropoda
C. Class (iii) Muscidae
D. Phylum (iv) Insecta
(a) A-(iii), B-(i), C-(iv), D-(ii)
(b) A-(iii), B-(ii), C-(iv), D-(i)
(c) A-(iv), B-(iii), C-(ii), D-(i)
(d) A-(iv), B-(ii), C-(i), D-(iii)
Q14.
The common characteristics between tomato and potato will be maximum at the level of their
(a) family (b) order
(c) division (d) genus.
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Q15.
Which one of the following organisms is scientifically correctly named, correctly printed according to the International Rules of Nomenclature and correctly described?
(a) Musca domestica - the common house lizard, a reptile
(b) Plasmodium falciparum - a protozoan pathogen causing the most serious type of malaria.
(c) Felis tigris - the Indian tiger, well protected in Gir forests.
(d) E.coli - full name Entamoeba coli, a commonly occurring bacterium in human intestine.
Q16.
Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular taxonomic category?
(a) Tiger - tigris, species
(b) Cuttlefish - mollusca, class
(c) Humans - primata, family
(d) Housefly - Musca, order
Q17.
Species are considered as
(a) real basic units of classification
(b) the lowest units of classification
(c) artificial concept of human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms
(d) real units of classification devised by taxonomists.
Q18.
Which of the following is less general in characters as compared to genus?
(a) Species (b) Division
(c) Class (d) Family
Q19.
'Taxon' is the unit of a group of
(a) order (b) taxonomy
(c) species (d) genes.
Q20.
Sequence of taxonomic categories is
(a) class–phylum–tribe–order–family–genus–species
(b) division–class–family–tribe–order–genus–species
(c) division–class–order–family–tribe–genus–species.
(d) phylum–order–class–tribe–family–genus–species.
Q21.
The term phylum was given by
(a) Cuvier (b) Haeckel
(c) Theophrastus (d) Linnaeus.
Q22.
A group of plants or animals with similar traits of any rank is
(a) species (b) genus
(c) order (d) taxon.
Q23.
A taxon is
(a) a group of related families
(b) a group of related species
(c) a type of living organisms
(d) a taxonomic group of any ranking.
Q24.
Basic unit or smallest taxon of taxonomy/classification is
(a) species (b) kingdom
(c) family (d) variety.
Q25.
Static concept of species was put forward by
(a) de Candolle (b) Linnaeus
(c) Theophrastus (d) Darwin.