DIVERSITY OF LIFE
1. Which names are regarded legitimate
(a) Which were first proposed
(b) Which are very popular
(c) Which have their holotypes
(d) All the above
2. Hierarchical classification means
(a) To divide division into classes
(b) To divide classes into orders
(c) To divide orders into families
(d) To rank things one above the other
3. Hutchinson’s system of classification was revised in
(a) 1995 (b) 1959
(c) 1954 (d) 1946
4. In five kingdom classification land plants are classified under
(a) Bryophyta, pteridophyta and spermatophytes
(b) Bryophyta and trachaeophyta
(c) Embryophyta and spermatophyta
(d) Bryophyta and archaegoniatae
5. Group embryophyta includes
(a) Bryophyta (b) Pteridophyta
(c) Spermatophyta (d) All the above
6. A species is defined as ‘‘the group of actually or potentially inter-breeding natural population producing fertile offspring and reproductively isolated from such other groups’’. The above statement is given by
(a) Carolus Linnaeus (b) Mayr
(c) J.B. lamarck (d) Charles Darwin
7. Phylogeny tells about
(a) Life history of animals
(b) Group of phyla
(c) Evolutionary history of a species from its ancestors
(d) Castes of files
8. According to latest knowledge the most accepted species concept is
(a) Typological species concept
(b) Nominalistic species concept
(c) Genetic species concept
(d) Polytypic species concept
9. Karyotaxonomy is the modern branch of classification which is based on
(a) Number of chromosomes
(b) Bands found on chromosomes
(c) Organic evolution
(d) Trinomial nomenclature
10. The total number of species included in the animal kingdom are about
(a) 1 million (b) 2 million
(c) 10 million (d) 1 billion
11. Static concept of species was put forward by
(a) De Candolle (b) Linnaeus
(c) Theophrastus (d) Darwin
12. In a scientific name, the name of author is printed in
(a) Italics (b) Bold (antics)
(c) Roman (d) Capital letters
13. The scientist who created the group Protista for both unicellular plants and animals is
(a) Haeckel (b) Pasteur
(c) Lister (d) Koch
14. "Taxonomy without phylogeny is similar to bones without flesh" is the statement of
(a) Oswald Tippo (b) John Hutchinson
(c) Takhtajan (d) Bentham and Hooker
15. Specimen used for original publication by
the author is
(a) Holotype (b) Isotype
(c) Syntype (d) Lactotype
ANSWER KEY
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2 |
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4 |
5 |
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d |
d |
a |
b |
d |
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6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
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b |
c |
d |
b |
a |
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11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
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b |
c |
a |
c |
a |
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