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1.Whichofthefollowingcan’tbeanallinclusivedefining
characteristic of living organisms?
1) Metabolism
2) Conciousness
3) Cellular
organisation
4) Reproduction
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2. All living organisms show….
1) Spore formation
2) Budding
3) Asexual
reproduction
4) Conciousness
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3.Theonlylivingorganismstohaveselfconsiousness
are….
1) Plants
2) Animals
3) Bacteria
4) Human beings
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4.Thetotalnumberofspeciesthatareknownand
describedanddegreeofvariationinlifeformsiscalled….
1) flora
2) biodiversity
3) systematics
4) biology
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5. Systema Naturae was written by…
1) Linnaeus
2) Theophrastus
3) Aristotle
4) Bentham and
Hooker
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6.Thestudyofdifferentkindsoforganisms,their
diversitiesandrelationshipsamongthemselvesis
called…
1) Biodiversity
2) Systematics
3) Flora
4) Ecology
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7. As we go higher in taxonomic hierarchy…
1) The number of common characters
increases
2) The number of common characters
decreases
3) The number of common
characters is uneffected
4) Diversity in the characters
decreases
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8.Thefamilythatsharesthesameorderalongwith
solanaceae is…
1) Malvaceae
2) Fabaceae
3) Convolvulaceae
4) Liliaceae
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9. Mangifera belongs to the order…
1) Malvales
2) Poales
3) Sapindales
4) Polemoniales
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10. The exhibits of skeletons of animals are maintained in…
1) Botanical gardens
2) Zoological parks
3) Sancturies
4) Museums
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11. The taxonomical aid of analytical nature is…
1) Herbarium
2) Museums
3) Key
4) Monograph
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12.Theindexoftheplantsspeciesfoundinaparticulararea
is provided by…
1) Systematics
2) Floras
3) Manuals
4) Monographs
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13.Findthecorrectpairofplantsbelongtosamegenusbut
different species…
1) Brinjal, Tomato
2) Tomato, potato
3) Potato, Brinjal
4) Potato, Sweet potato
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14. Find the genus which does not come under Solanaceae…
1) Solanum
2) Nicotiana
3) Mangifera
4) Datura
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15.Findtheorderthatdoesnotcomeunder
dicotyledonae…
1) Malvales
2) Rosales
3) Polemonials
4) Mucorales
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16. Quick referral system in taxonomical studies is…
1) Herbarium
2) Museum
3) Keys of floras
4) Computer punch card keys
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17.Digitalherbariumprovidesananalogousonlinefacility
that helps in…
1) Nomenclature
2) Identification
3) Classification
4) All the above
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18.Thekeysarebasedonapairsofcontrastingcharacters
called…
1) Doublet
2) Couplet
3) Punch cards
4) Floras
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19. Each statement in the key is called…
1) Taxon
2) Lead
3) Monograph
4) Catalogue
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20. Any unit or category in a taxonomic system is called a…
1) Taxon
2) Lead
3) Key
4) Catalogue
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21Iftwoorganismsaremembersofthesamegenusthey
need not also be members of the same…
1) Species
2) Kingdom
3) Order
4) Class
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22.Inahierarchicalschemeoftaxonomicclassification,
the grouping just below the order is…
1) Family
2) Genus
3) Phylum
4) Class
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23.Therecordeddescriptionwhichcontaininformationon
any one taxon is…
1) Flora
2) Manual
3) Catalogues
4) Monograph
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24. Indian Botanical Garden is located at…
1) Lucknow
2) Howrah
3) Kew
4) Bangalore
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25.Thestatement‘nothinglivesforever,yetlife
continuous’ illustrates the role of….…
1) Embryogensis
2) Morphogenesis
3) Response
4) Reproduction
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26. The “Darwin of the 20
th
century” is….…
1) Ernst Mayr
2) P. Maheswari
3) Hutchinson
4) Hook
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27.ErnstMayr’sworkisrelatedtothisbranchofbiology….
…
1) Physiology
2) Ecology
3) Evolutionary biology
4) Phycology
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28. In a taxonmic hierarchy, family is placed between.….…
1) Kingdom and class
2) Class and series
3) Order and genus
4) Class and genus
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29.Whichofthefollowingstatementsregardingthe
universal rules of biological nomenclature is incorrect?
1)BiologicalnamesareeitherderivedfromLatinlanguage
or are Latinised.
2)Thefirstwordinabiologicalnamerepresentsthegenus
while the second component denotes the species.
3)Boththewordsinabiologicalname,whenhandwritten,
areseparatelyunderlined,orprintedinitalicsto
indicate their Latin origin.
4)Thespecificepithetstartswithacapitalletterwhilethe
genericepithetstartswithasmallletter.Itcanbe
illustrated with example of magnifera indica
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30. The Emergent properties of tissues are due to the.….…
1) Interaction of constituent tissue
2) Properties of constituent cells
3) Properties of constituent organs
4) Interaction of constituent cells
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31. Choose the correct expression.….…
1) A group of related genera-Family
2) A group of related species- Division
3) A group of related families-class
4) A group of related order-genus
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32.Lowestandhighesttaxonomiccategoriesare
respectively.….…
1) Division, species
2) Species, division
3) Species, kingdom
4) Order genus
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33. ICBN stands for.….…
1) Indian congress of biological names
2) International congress of biological names
3) Indian code of botanical
nomenclature
4) International code of botanical nomenclature
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34. National botanical research institute is located at.….…
1) Delhi
2) Kolkata
3) Lucknow
4) Dehradun
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35.AbookAcontainactualaccountofhabitat,distribution
andsystematiclistingofplantsandbookBprovide
informationforidentificationofnameofspeciesinan
area. A & B respectively.….…
1) Flora & Manual
2) Manual & Flora
3) Herbarium & Manual
4) Manual & Herbarium
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36.MangoandwheatbelongtodivisionAandsubdivision
B. A & B respectively.….…
1) Spermatophyta & Angiosperms
2) Angiosperms & Spermatophyta
3) Angiosperms & order
4) Angiosperms & Sapindales
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37.Identifyincorrectstatementregardinglivingorganisms.
.….…
1)Reproduction – some living organism are not
capable of reproduction
2) Metabolism-all living organisms exhibit
metabolism
3) Consciousness-Only humans exhibit the property of
consciousness.
4) Growth-Growth is internal in living organism and
external in non living.
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38.Choosethecorrectsequenceoftaxonsfromthe
following in animal classification…
1) Class-division-family-order-genus
2) Phylum-kingdom-order-class-family
3) Phylum-order-family-genus-species
4) Kingdom-class-division-order-family
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39. The central question of evolutionary biology today is…
1) Origin of species diversity
2) Phylogenetic classification
3) Understanding taxonomic hierarchy
4) Identification
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40.Readthefollowingstatementsandpicktheincorrect
match…
1) Herbarium – Preserve only plant specimens
2) Museum – preserve both plant and animal
specimens in preservative solutions or in
dry conditions
3) Botanical gardens – Live plant specimens grown for the
purpose of identification
4) Manual – Information about any one taxon