17.

Who has been called as "The Darwin of 20th (a) John Ray (b) Julian Huxley
century and Alexander Agassiz professor of Zoology (c) Theophrastus (d) Carolus Linnaeus
Emeritus". He was awarded the triple crown of
biology also 24. Taxonomic hierarchy refers to:
(a) Linnaens (b) Mayer (a) Step-wise arrangement of all categories for
(c) Mayers (d) Aristotle classification of plants and animals
(b) A group of senior taxonomists who decide
18. Which one has real existence? the nomenclature of plants and animals
(a) Phylum (b) Class (c) A list of botanists or zoologists who have
(c) Genus (d) None worked on taxonomy of a species or group
(d) Classification of species based on fossil
19. Who gave the nomenclature according to which record
humans are called Homo sapiens? 25. In taxonomy "series" is a group of :
(a) Darwin (b) Mendel (a) Species (b) classes
(c) Aristotle (d) Linnaeus (c) Closely related families
(d) Closely related super orders
20. Most obvious and technically complicated feature
of all living organism. 26. Creation of new taxa is focused in :
(a) Metabolism (b) Growth (a) macro evolution
(c) Replication (b) sympatric speciation
(d) Ability to sense their environment (c) theory of pangenesis
(d) theory of special creation
21. The first phylogenetic system of plant
classification was proposed by: 27. Classification of organism based on evolutionary
(a) Engler (b) Engler and Prantl as well as genetic relationships is called :
(c) Eichler (d) Wettstein (a) Phenetics (b) Cladistics
(c) Biosystematics
22. Which of the following is not true for a species? (d) Numerical taxonomy
(a) Members of a species can interbreed
(b) Variations occur among members of a 28. Organisms called Methanogens are most
species abundant in a :
(c) Gene flow does not occur between the (a) Hotspring
populations of a species (b) Sulphur rock
(d) Each species is reproductively isolated from (c) Cattle field
every other Species (d) Polluted stream
23. The term "neo-systematics" was given by

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