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✓✗The evolutionary history of an organism is known as
- Ontogeny
- Phylogeny
- Ancestry
- Paleontology
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✓✗In the scientific name of rice, Oryza sativa, the word sativa is the
- Generic name
- Specific epithet
- Family name
- Common name
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✓✗In a taxonomic key, a pair of contrasting characters is called a ________ and each statement of the pair is called a ________.
- couplet; lead
- lead; couplet
- couplet; tribe
- dichotomy; lead
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✓✗Which one of the following pairs is incorrectly matched (organism - family)?
- Mango - Anacardiaceae
- Wheat - Poaceae
- Housefly - Muscidae
- Man - Primata
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✓✗Species Plantarum and Systema Naturae were written by
- Engler
- Linnaeus
- Hooker
- Wallace
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✓✗Classes Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia and Amphibia are placed in phylum Chordata because of the common presence of
- Notochord and dorsal hollow neural system
- Hair and mammary glands
- Jointed appendages
- Ventral solid nerve cord
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✓✗Match Column I with Column II and choose the correct option.
| Column I (Organism) | Column II (Order) |
| A. Man | (i) Diptera |
| B. Housefly | (ii) Poales |
| C. Mango | (iii) Primata |
| D. Wheat | (iv) Sapindales |
- A-(iii), B-(i), C-(ii), D-(iv)
- A-(i), B-(iii), C-(iv), D-(ii)
- A-(iii), B-(i), C-(iv), D-(ii)
- A-(iv), B-(i), C-(iii), D-(ii)
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✓✗
Static concept of species was put forward by
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de Candolle
-
Linnaeus
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Theophrastus
-
Darwin
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✓✗Potato and brinjal share the maximum number of common characteristics at the level of their
- family
- order
- division
- genus
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✓✗Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly related?
- Mendel - Pisum sativum
- Morgan - Drosophila
- Bentham and Hooker - binomial nomenclature
- Hugo de Vries - Oenothera lamarckiana
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✓✗Which one of the following is not a correct statement?
- A museum has collection of photographs of plants and animals.
- Key is a taxonomic aid for identification of specimens.
- Herbarium houses dried, pressed and preserved plant specimens.
- Botanical gardens have collection of living plants for reference.
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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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✓✗Which one of the following is correctly matched (taxon - category)?
- Chordata - Class
- Poaceae - Order
- Primata - Family
- Dicotyledonae - Class
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✓✗Classification is the process by which anything is grouped into convenient categories based on
- habitat only
- chemical composition only
- size only
- some easily observable characters
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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