[EBD what is Living? 1 Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things? (a) Isolated metabolic reactions occur in vitro | (b) Increase in mass from inside only (©) Perception of events happening in environment and their memory. (4) Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally. (Mains 2011) the ‘The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for (a) interaction with progressive evolution (b) reproduction (©) growth and movement (4) responsiveness to touch. the environment and (2007) | Biological organisation starts with | (a) cellular level (b) organismic level | (©) atomic level | (d) submicroscopic molecular level. (2007) | Diversity in the Living World 4. Select the correctly written scientific name of Mango which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus. | (a) Mangifera Indica | (b) Mangifera indica Car. Linn. | (©) Mangifera indica Linn. | (4) Mangifera indica (NEET 2019) Which of the following is against the rules of ICBN? (a) Hand written scientific names should be | underlined. (b) Every species should have a generic name and a __ ific epithet. (©) Scientific names are in Latin and should be | 6. The Living World (d) Generic and specific names should be written starting with small letters. (Odisha NEET 2019) Nomenclature is governed by certain universal rules. Which one of the following is contrary to the rules of nomenclature? (a) The names are written in Latin and are italicised. (b) When written by hand the names are to be underlined. (c) Biological names can be written in any language. (d) The first word in a biological name represents the genus name and the second is a specific epithet. (NEET-I 2016) ICBN stands for (a) International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (b) International Congress of Biological Names (©) Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature (d) Indian Congress of Biological Names. (2007) Biosystematics aims at (a) the classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters (b) delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships (©) the classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies (d) identification and arrangement of orgai on the basis of their cytological characteristics. (2003) ‘The book ‘Genera Plantarum’ was written by (a) Engler and Prantl (b) Bentham and Hooker (©) Bessey (d) Hutchinson, isms (1999)" enclatirre ial nomen very oF mic PASCO , tera blood circulation (1993) ve ved! a system of nomenclature called 1 ex aye foe ie) mononomial (b) vernacular © (a) polyno (©) binomial (1990) introduced by jematics” wat 12, The term 1x (a) Bentham and Hooker (b) Linnacus (c) Julian Hux (d) AP. de Candolle. (1988) i | 19. [EBD Taxonomic Categories 13, Match column I with column Il for housefly | clasifcation and select the correct option using the | codes given below. Column I Column IT A. Family (i) Diptera B. Order (ii) Arthropoda C. Class (iii) Muscidae D. Phylum (iv) Insecta (a) A-ii), B-(), C-tiv), D-Gi) | (b) A-Cii), B-(i), C-(iv), D-@) (c) A-(iv), B-Giii), C-(ii), D-() | (4) A-Gv), B-Gi), C-(), D-( 14, The common characteristics between tomato and potato will be maximum at the level of their | (a) family (b) order | 22, (c) division (@) genus. (Karnataka NEET 2013) 15, Mhich one ofthefollowingorganismsissciemtficaly (orzectly named, correctly printed according to the International Rules of Nomenclature and correctly described? ,> (3) Musca domestica - the common house lizard, a reptile ‘ (©) Plasmodium falciparum - protozoan pathogen Gausing the most serous ype of melare (©) Felis tiris - the indian tiger, wet Protected i Gir forests, Se 24, (4) Ecoli- fall name Enta fl : mont occurring bacterium in human Intesting, (Mains 2012) (2) Tiger - tigris, species (NEET-11 2016) | 21, ns - prim (a) Houselly - Musca, order (2011) Species are considered as (b) the lowest units of classifica (6) artificial concept of human mind which cong be defined in absolute terms (@) real_ units of classification devised, (2003) taxonomists. Which of the following is less general in characte, as compared to genus? (b) Division (a) Species 8 (©) Cla (d) Family (2001) “Taxon’ is the unit ofa group of (a) order (b) taxonomy (c) species (d) genes. (1996) Sequence of taxonomic categories is, (a) class~phylum-tribe-order-family-genus- species (b) division-class-family-tribe-order-genus- species (©) division-class-order-family-tribe-genus- species. (2) phylum-order-class—tribe-family-genus- species. (1992) The term phylum was given by (a) Cuvier (b) Haeckel (©) Theophrastus (4) Linnaeus. (1992) - A group of plants or animals with similar traits of any rank is (a) species (b) genus (©) order (d) taxon, (1992, 1991) A taxon is N (a) a group of related families (b) a group of related species &, (C) atype of living organisms (4) a taxonomic group of any ranking, (1992, 1990) Basic unit or smallest taxon of taxonomy! classification is (a) species b) ki () family (6) Kingdom (d) variety, Static concept of speci »Pecies was put forward by (a) de Candolle *(b) Linnaeus © Theophrastus (d) Darwin, (1990) (1988)