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A fragmented organism regenerates the lost part of its body and becomes a new organism . |
True Regeneration |
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The sum total of all reactions occurring in your body |
Metabolism |
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Most obvious and technically complicated feature of all living organism |
Consciousness |
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Plant responds to external factors like water, temp and even pollutant . True or False. |
True |
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Ability of human being aware of himself |
Self - Consciousness |
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Man who pioneered the currently accepted definition of species |
Ernst Mayr |
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Biology is the story of ___________ of living organisms on earth. |
Evolution |
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All living organisms - past, present , future are linked to one another by the sharing of common ______________ material but to varying degrees |
Genetic |
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Practice of naming organisms such that it is known by same name in all over the intergalactic universe |
Nomenclature |
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Full form of ICBN |
International Code for Botanical Nomenclature |
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International Code for Zoological Nomenclature |
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Processes that are basics to taxonomy |
Characterisation, Identification, Classification , Nomenclature |
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Author of Systemae Naturae |
C. Linnaeus |
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Families in plant are characterised on basis of both ____________ and __________ features |
Vegetative , Reproductive |
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Plant families like Convolvulaceae and Solanacceae are included in Polyminales based on their which charcter ? |
Floral Character |
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A taxonomical aur which serves as the quick referral system |
Herbarium |
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A taxonomical aid which is analytical in nature |
Key |
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A taxonomical aid which contains the actual account of habitat and distribution of plants of a given area |
Flora |
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A taxonomical aid which is useful in providing information for Identification of names of species found in an area |
Manual |
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A taxonomical aid which contains information about any one taxon |
Monograph |
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Kaziranga National Park ,Assam is famous for |
One-horned rhinoceros |
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Dachigam National Park, Jammu Kashmir is famous for |
Hangul Stag |
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World water day is celebrated on |
22nd March |
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World Environment Day is celebrated on |
5th June |
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World Animal Day is Celebrated on |
3rd October |
In the month of gandhi jayanti |
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The cultivation of trees and management of forests is called |
Silviculture |
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Which among the following is exclusive feature of living beings A. Increase of mass from inside B. Increase in mass both from inside and Outside C. Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory. D. Isolated metabolic reactions in vitro |
C |
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Binomial Nomenclature of Plants were introduced by Linnaeus in which book |
Species Plantarum ( 1753 ) |
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Father of Indian taxonomy |
Santapau |
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Which three categories did Linnaeus did not use |
Kingdom, Phylum, Family |
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Real basic unit of Classification or taxonomy |
Species |
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Mayr's biological concept of species is based on |
Reproductive Isolation |
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Growth on non living object that occurs by accumulation of material on surface |
Acceretion |
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The fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of masses all easily multiply by |
Fragmentation |
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An isolated chemical reaction inside a test tube is A. Living B. Non living C. both |
Both |
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Naming is possible only when the organism is described correctly. This is |
Identification |
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Expand ICVN |
International Code of Viral Nomenclature |
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Naming of cultivars is determined by |
International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants |
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The book and the year in which Linnaeus introduced nomenclature of palnts |
Species Planatarum , 1753 |
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Why biological names are written in latin |
Latin is a dead language |
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In case two names are given to the same organisms , the first name is considered valid and other name is treated as synonyms. |
Law of priority |
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The term taxonomy was given by |
A. P . de Condolle |
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Father of taxonomy |
C. Linnaeus |
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Type of taxonomy in which number and codes are assigned to chapters and then processed |
Numerical taxonomy |
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Taxonomy in which each Character is given equal importance hundreds of character can be considered at the same time |
Numerical taxonomy |
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Phenetic or adnosian taxonomy is a type of |
Numerical taxonomy |
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Phenetic Classification is based on observable characteristics . True or False |
True |
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Taxonomy that is based on cytological information like chromosome number, structure and behaviour |
Cytotaxonomy |
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A branch of cytotaxonomy that is based on on chromosome number and banding pattern |
Karyotaxonomy |
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Taxonomy that is based on phenetic relationships |
Experimental taxonomy |
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Taxonomy is uses chemical constituents of plants or phytochemical data in botany |
Chemotaxonomy |
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A taxonomic group of plants or animals with similar traits of any rankings |
Taxon |
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No of obligate categories in hierarchy |
7 ( Kingdom, Phylum/Division, Class , order , family, genus , species ) |
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A taxonomic category tribe lies in between |
Family and Genus |
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The smallest taxon |
Species |
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An exception of Ernst myer species concept of cross between male tiger and female lion |
Tigon (fertile) |
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Species belonging to different geographical areas |
Allopatric |
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Two or more species inhabitating same area |
Sympatric species |
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Morphologically similar but reproductively isolated species |
Sibling species |
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Genus in which potato and brinjal belong |
Solanum |
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Genus in which cats belong |
Felis |
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Scientific name of tobacco |
Nicotiana tobacum |
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Scientific name of dog |
Canis familaris |
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A species with same genus and specific name i.e. Rattus rattus |
Tautonyms |
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Tautonyms are illegitimate in palnts. True or False |
True |
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Brassica oleracea capitata (cabbage ) is an example of |
Trinomial nomenclature |
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Identical name of different taxa or organisms |
Homonyms |
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Family to which Solanum, Petunia, and Datura belongs to which family |
Solanaceae |
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Order to which family Convulaceae and Solanaceae belongs |
Polyminales |
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The order to which man, monkey, chimpanzee, gorilla and gibbon belongs to is |
Primata |
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The term Phylum was given by |
Cuvier |
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The suffix of animal family is _______ and that of plant order is ________ |
dae , ales ( Felidae, Poales) |
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External ear and body hair is feature of which class |
Mammals |
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Artificial System was published in ____________ whereas nomenclature was published in ______________ |
Genera Plantarum (1737) and Species Plantarum(1738)(for plants and Systemae Naturae 1758 for animals) |
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No of classes in which plants were divided into by Liinnaeus |
24 ( 23 - flowering , 1 - non flowering) |
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Earliest attempt to classify plants on scientific basis was made by ____________ who divided it into herbs , shrubs and trees. |
Aristotle |
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A Scientist to animals to Anaima (red blood) and enaima ( without red blood) |
Aristotle |
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Artificial and vegetative characters gave equal weightage on vegetative and sexual characteristics . This not acceptable because _______________ characters get easily affected by environment. |
Vegetative |
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