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✓✗Number of obligatory categories in taxonomy are
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 5
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✓✗Organisms which can freely interbreed and produce fertile offspring and have similar coded information or blue print for making these organisms are called
- Species
- Tribe
- Genus
- Sub-genus
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✓✗Over 6,000,000 specimens are preserved in which botanical garden or herbaria?
- Museum of National History, Paris
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
- US National Herbarium, Washington, DC
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✓✗Which one of the following belongs to the family Muscidae?
- Housefly
- Firefly
- Grasshopper
- Cockroach
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✓✗Assertion: Members of a species are reproductively isolated from others belonging to other species.
Reason: Species is the basic taxonomic category.
Reason: Species is the basic taxonomic category.
- If both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
- If both Assertion and Reason are true, but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
- If Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
- If both Assertion and Reason are false.
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✓✗A group of plants or animals with similar traits of any rank is
- species
- genus
- order
- taxon
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✓✗Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular taxonomic category?
- Tiger - tigris, species
- Cuttlefish - mollusca, class
- Humans - primata, family
- Housefly - Musca, order
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✓✗Which of the following is less general in characters as compared to genus?
- Species
- Division
- Class
- Family
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✓✗Assertion: Dried specimens are poisoned by HgCl2.
Reason: It prevents the specimen from moisture.
Reason: It prevents the specimen from moisture.
- If both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
- If both Assertion and Reason are true, but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
- If Assertion is true, but Reason is false.
- If both Assertion and Reason are false.
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✓✗Division “Tracheophyta” includes -
- Bryophytes
- All vascular plants
- All non-vascular plants
- All non-vascular and vascular plants
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✓✗Who among the following is called the father of taxonomy?
- Mendel
- Linnaeus
- Khorana
- Engler
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✓✗First plant classification was given by
- Linneaus
- John-Ray
- Theophrastus
- Darwin
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✓✗Species are considered as
- real basic units of classification
- the lowest units of classification
- artificial concept of human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms
- real units of classification devised by taxonomists.
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✓✗Select the correct statement from the following:
- Mutations are random and directional
- Darwinian variations are small and directionless
- Fitness is the end result of the ability to adapt and gets selected by nature
- All mammals except whales and camels have seven cervical vertebrae
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✓✗Select the correctly written scientific name of Mango which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus.
- Mangifera Indica
- Mangifera indica Car. Linn.
- Mangifera indica Linn.
- Mangifera indica