Chapter 1: The Living World

Chapter-1: The Living World

1. Keystone species are

  • important for ecosystem
  • important for plants
  • endangered species
  • extinct species

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] important for ecosystem [/su_spoiler]

2. The study of fish culture is called

  • ophiology
  • herpetology
  • ichthyology
  • pisciculture

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] pisciculture [/su_spoiler]

3. Scientific name of plants are given by

  • International code for Botanical nomenclature
  • International code for biological plants
  • Indian code for Botanical nomenclature
  • International code for zoological nomenclature

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] International code for Botanical nomenclature [/su_spoiler]

4. A system which gets a continuous flow of energy is called

  • micropropagated system
  • closed system
  • open system
  • steady state

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] open system [/su_spoiler]

5. Solanum, Panthera, Homo are examples of

  • Family
  • Division
  • Genera
  • Species epithet

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Genera [/su_spoiler]

6. Musca domestica is common name of

  • Housefly
  • Mosquito
  • Snail
  • Ant

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Housefly [/su_spoiler]

7. National Botanical Research Institute is located in

  • Shimla
  • Dehradun
  • Howrah
  • Lucknow

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Lucknow [/su_spoiler]

8. Binomial Nomenclature was given by

  • Ernst Mayr
  • Alexander Agassiz
  • Carolus Linnaeus
  • Alexander Agassiz and Carlous Linnaeus

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Carolus Linnaeus [/su_spoiler]

9. Identify the incorrect match.

  • Physiology – Study of functions and processes of life
  • Pedology – Soil science
  • Limnology – Study of fresh water
  • Kinesiology – Fossil study

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Kinesiology – Fossil study [/su_spoiler]

10. Which of the following shows maximum diversity?

  • Plantas
  • Animalia
  • Monerans
  • Protistans

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Animalia [/su_spoiler]

11. Which of the following does not come under taxon?

  • Species
  • Kingdom
  • Division
  • Key

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Key [/su_spoiler]

12. In angiosperm, characters of flowers are used in classification because

  • Flowers are attractive
  • Flowers are large
  • Characters of flowers are conservative
  • None of the above

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Characters of flowers are conservative [/su_spoiler]

13. The ozone layer is found in the

  • hydrosphere
  • stratosphere
  • lithosphere
  • troposphere

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] stratosphere [/su_spoiler]

14. The Phylogenetic system of classification was put forth by

  • Theophrastus
  • George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker
  • Carolus Linnaeus
  • Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl [/su_spoiler]

15. Systematics deals with

  • Nomenclature of new organisms
  • Evolutionary relationship between organisms
  • Identification of newly discovered organisms
  • All of these

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] All of these [/su_spoiler]