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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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✓✗Who among the following is called the father of taxonomy?
- Mendel
- Linnaeus
- Khorana
- Engler
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✓✗Assertion: Lion, tiger and leopard are placed in the same genus Panthera.
Reason: Lion, tiger and leopard interbreed freely in nature and produce fertile offspring.
Reason: Lion, tiger and leopard interbreed freely in nature and produce fertile offspring.
- Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
- Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
- Assertion is true but Reason is false
- Both Assertion and Reason are false
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✓✗First plant classification was given by
- Linnaeus
- John Ray
- Theophrastus
- Darwin
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✓✗A genus having single species is known as
- Polytypic
- Monotypic
- Polygamic
- Monocarpic
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✓✗"Taxa" differs from "taxon" due to this being
- A higher taxonomic category than taxon
- A lower taxonomic category than taxon
- The singular of taxon
- The plural of taxon
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In the taxonomic categories which hierarchical arrangement in descending order is correct in case of animals?
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Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Class, Family, Genus, Species
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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Kingdom, Class, Phylum, Family, Order, Genus, Species
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Kingdom, Order, Class, Phylum, Family, Genus, Species
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✓✗The number of obligatory categories in the taxonomic hierarchy is
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 5
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✓✗'X' and 'Y' are the components of Binomial nomenclature. This naming system was proposed by 'Z'.
- X-Generic name, Y-Specific epithet, Z-Carolus Linnaeus
- X-Specific epithet, Y-Generic name, Z-R.H. Whittaker
- X-Specific epithet, Y-Generic name, Z-Carolus Linnaeus
- X-Generic name, Y-Specific epithet, Z-R.H. Whittaker
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✓✗How many of the following reproduce by budding?
Yeast, Hydra, Planaria, protonema of mosses, filamentous algae
Yeast, Hydra, Planaria, protonema of mosses, filamentous algae
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
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✓✗Which one of the following is incorrectly matched with its mode of reproduction?
- Yeast - Budding
- Hydra - Budding
- Planaria - True regeneration
- Protonema of mosses - Binary fission
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✓✗The label of a herbarium sheet does not carry information on
- date of collection
- name of collector
- local names
- height of the plant.
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✓✗In Mangifera indica Linn., the abbreviation Linn. indicates
- the place where it was discovered
- the person who first described the species
- the year of naming
- the family of the plant
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✓✗The garden famous for the great Banyan tree is under control of
- ZSI
- Calcutta University
- WWF
- BSI
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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.