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✓✗Carolus Linnaeus is the father of taxonomy because of one of his contributions.
- Genera Plantarum
- Binomial nomenclature
- Described nearly 10,000 plants and animal species
- Die Naturlichen Pflanzen Familien.
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✓✗Concept of phylogeny was proposed by
- John Ray
- Lamarck
- Ernest Haeckel
- Darwin
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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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✓✗External fertilization occurs in the majority of
- Algae
- Fungi
- Liverworts
- Mosses
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✓✗The scientific naming of plants begain with publication of Linnaeus book
- Genera plantarum
- Systema naturae
- Species plantarum
- Charaka sanhita
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✓✗Number of obligatory categories in taxonomy are
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 5
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✓✗At present, scientific names have been given to
- 10 million species
- 1.7 million species
- 3.9 million species
- 1 million species
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✓✗Darwin is the auther of
- Genera plantarum
- Origin of species
- Natural selection
- Theory of evolution
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✓✗According to binomial nomenclature, two words used for naming a plant or animal are
- Species and genus
- Genus and species
- Species and family
- Genus and family
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✓✗The study of principles and procedures of classification of organisms is called
- Systematics
- Classification
- Taxonomy
- Nomenclature
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A taxon is
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a group of related families
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a group of related species
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a type of living organisms
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a taxonomic group of any ranking
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✓✗Hinny is a hybrid produced under captive conditions by crossing
- Male tiger and female lion
- Female horse and male donkey
- Male horse and female donkey
- Female tiger and male lion
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✓✗Which of the following is not true for a species ?
- Members of a species can interbreed
- Variations occur among members of a species
- Gene flow does not occur between the populations of a species
- Each species is reproductively isolated from every other species.
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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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✓✗'Taxon' is the unit of a group of
- order
- taxonomy
- species
- genes