Diversity of Living Organisms : The Living World

1.One of the most important functions of botanical gardens is that

[A] One can observe tropical plants there

[B] They provide the natural habitat for wild life

[C] They allow ex-situ conservation of germplasm

[D] They provide a beautiful area for recreation

2.Which of the following is a merit in the Bentham and Hooker's system of

classification?
[A] The placement of family - Asteraceae in the beginning of Gamopetalae

[B] The placement of order - Ranals in the beginning

[C] Closely related families are placed apart

[D] The position of gymnosperms in between dicots and monocots

3.Classification of organisms based on evolutionary as well as genetic

relationships is called

[A] Numerical taxonomy

[B] Phenetics

[C] Biosystematics

[D] Cladistics

4.Phenetic classification of organisms is based on

[A] Sexual characteristics

[B] Dendrogram based on DNA characteristics

[C] The ancestral lineage of existing organisms

[D] Observable characteristics of existing organisms

5.In angiosperm, characters of flowers are used in classification because

[A] Flowers are attractive

[B] Flowers are large

[C] Characters of flowers are conservative

[D] None of the above

6.Biosystematics aims at

[A] Identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of cytological

characteristics

[B] The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters

[C] Delimiting various taxa of organism and establishing their relationships

[D] The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and
establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all
fields of studies

7.Practical purpose of taxonomy or classification

[A] To know the evolutionary history

[B] Explain the origin of organisms

[C] Facilitate the identification of unknown species

[D] Identification of medicinal plants

8.Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they

[A] Have more than 90 percent similar genes

[B] Can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds

[C] Have same number of chromosomes

[D] Look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites

9.In which kingdom would you classify the archaea and nitrogen-fixing
organism, if the five-kingdom system of classification is used

[A] Protista

[B] Fungi

[C] Plantae

[D] Monera

10.The Phylogenetic system of classification was put forth by

[A] Theophrastus

[B] George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker

[C] Carolus Linnaeus

[D] Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl

11.Which series ends with the cohort umbellales in Bentham and Hooker's
system of classification?

[A] Heteromerae

[B] Disciflorae

[C] Thalamiflorae

[D] Calyciflorae

12.Which one of the taxonomic aids can give comprehensive account of

complete compiled information of any one genus or family at a particular
time?
[A] Taxonomic key
[B] Flora

[C] Herbarium

[D] Monograph

13.A perennial shrub has compound leaves and solitary zygomorphic and
epigynous flowers. Each flower reveals dichlamydeous condition with many
stamens and multiple fruit with exalbuminous seeds. What is the ratio of
advanced and primitive charactrs in it?

[A] 1: 2

[B] 2: 3

[C] 1: 1

[D] 3: 2

14.Identify from the following, the only taxonomic category that has a real
existence.

[A] Phylum

[B] Species

[C] Genus

[D] Kingdom

15.In five kingdom system, the main basis of classification is

[A] Structure of cell wall

[B] Nutrition

[C] Structure of nucleus

[D] Asexual reproduction

16.Which one of the following sets of items in the options (1) - (4) are correctly categorized with one
exception in it?

Options Items Category Exception

(1) UAA, UAG, UGA Stop codons UAG

(2) Kangaroo, Koala, Wombat Australian marsupials Wombat

(3) Plasmodium, Cuscuta, Trypanosoma Protozoan parasites Cuscuta

(4) Typhoid, Pneumonia, Diphtheria Bacterial diseases Diphtheria

[A] Option (1)

[B] Option (2)

[C] Option (3)

[D] Option (4)

17.Which of the following combination of characters is true for slime molds?

[A] Parasitic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed by water

[B] Saprophytic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed by water

[C] Parasitic, plasmodium with true walls, spores dispersed by air currents

[D] Saprophytic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed by air currents

18.Taxonomic hierarchy refers to

[A] A list of botanists or zoologists who have worked on taxonomy of a species

or group

[B] A group of senior taxonomists who decide the nomenclature of plants and
animals

[C] Step-wise arrangement of all categories for classification of plants and

animals

[D] Classification of a species based on fossil record

19.Maximum nutritional diversity is found in the group

[A] Fungi

[B] Plantae

[C] Monera

[D] Animalia

20.Which one of the following is common to multicellular fungi, filamentous

algae and protonema of mosses?
[A] Diplontic life cycle

[B] Multiplication by fragmentation

[C] Mode of Nutrition

[D] Members of kingdom Plantae

21.Which statement is wrong for viruses?

[A] All are parasites.

[B] Antibiotics have no effect on them.

[C] They have ability to synthesize nucleic acids and proteins.

[D] All of them have helical symmetry.

 22.Which one single organism or the pair of organisms is correctly assigned
to its or their named taxonomic group?
[A] Paramecium and Plasmodium belong to the same kingdom as that of
Penicillium.

[B] Nostoc and Anabaena are examples of protista

[C] Yeast used in making bread and beer is a fungus

[D] Lichen is a composite organism formed from the symbiotic association of

an algae and a protozoan.

23.Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular
named taxonomic category?
[A] Cuttlefish - Mollusca, a class

[B] Tiger - Tigris, the species

[C] Housefly - Musca, an order

[D] Humans - primates, the family

24.Arrange the following in the ascending order of Linnaean hierarchy

[A] Kingdom – Phylum – Class – Order – Family – Genus – Species

[B] Kingdom – Family – Genus – Species – Class – Phylum – Order

[C] Kingdom – Order – Species – Genus – Class – Family – Phylum

[D] Species – Genus – Family – Order – Class – Phylum – Kingdom

25."New Systematics" introduced by Sir Julian Huxley in 1940 is also known

as
[A] Biosystematics

[B] Cladistics

[C] Phenetics

[D] Numerical Taxonomy

26.Which one of the following is wrongly matched?

[A] Puccinia – Smut

[B] Root pressure – Guttation

[C] Cassia – Imbricate aestivation

[D] Root – Exarch protoxylem

27.Nuclear membrane is absent in

[A] Penicillium

[B] Nostoc

[C] Volvox

[D] Agaricus
28.In the five-kingdom classification, Chlamydomonas and Chlorella have been
included in
[A] Plantae

[B] Algae

[C] Protista

[D] Monera

29.Single-celled eukaryotes are included in

[A] Fungi

[B] Protista

[C] Monera

[D] Archaea

30.The term species was coined by______.

[A] Aristotle

[B] Linnaeus

[C] John Ray

[D] Engler