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Diversity in Living Organisms - 2

Diversity in Living Organisms – 2

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following organisms possesses pseudocoelom?

  1. Liverfluke
  2. Tapeworm
  3. Nereis
  4. Ascaris
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the following:

 
a. Genus 1. An assemblage of families resembling one another in a few characters
b. Order 2. A principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family
c. Phylum 3. A principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to division in botany
  1. a - 2, b - 3, c - 1
  2. a - 1, b - 2, c - 3
  3. a - 2, b - 1, c - 3
  4. a - 3, b - 1, c - 2
  5. a - 1, b - 3, c - 2
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following introduced binomial nomenclature?

  1. John Ray
  2. Aristotle
  3. A. P. de Candolle
  4. Carolus Linnaeus
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following organisms respires through gills?

  1. Seahorse
  2. Lizard
  3. Turtle
  4. Pigeon
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a flowering plant?

  1. Ipomoea
  2. Marsilea
  3. Cycas
  4. Pinus
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of platyhelminthes?

  1. Bilateral symmetry
  2. True coelom
  3. Triploblastic
  4. Dorsoventrally flattened body
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following plants bears naked seeds?

  1. Spirogyra
  2. Cladophora
  3. Pinus
  4. Funaria
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following correctly distinguishes monocots from dicots?

  1. Flowers of monocots are pentamerous, whereas flowers of dicots are trimerous.
  2. Leaves of monocots show parallel venation, whereas leaves of dicots show reticulate venation.
  3. Roots of monocots are adventitious, whereas roots of dicots are fibrous.
  4. Vascular bundles in the stem of monocots are arranged in a ring, whereas in the stem of dicots, they are scattered.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following organisms is classified as coelenterate?

  1. Euplectella
  2. Spongilla
  3. Jelly fish
  4. Planaria
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

To which of the following kingdoms does Amoeba belong?

  1. Animalia
  2. Protista
  3. Plantae
  4. Monera
  5. Fungi
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the term given to the science of naming an organism?

  1. Taxonomy
  2. Classification
  3. Nomenclature
  4. Identification
  5. None of these
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a fungus?

  1. Vibrio
  2. Rhizopus
  3. Saccharomyces
  4. Neurospora
  5. Morchella
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an example of Ciliata, which is a class phylum Protozoa?

  1. Paramecium
  2. Ephelota
  3. Opalina
  4. Nyctotherus
  5. Vorticella
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the following:
a. Kingdom Monera 1. Unicellular eukaryotic organisms
b. Kingdom Protista 2. Eukaryotic multicellular organisms
c. Kingdom Fungi 3. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae
  1. a - 3, b - 1, c - 2
  2. a - 3, b - 2, c - 1
  3. a - 1, b - 2, c - 3
  4. a - 1, b - 3, c - 2
  5. a - 2, b - 1, c - 3
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of reptiles?

  1. Cold-blooded
  2. Scaly skin
  3. Laying eggs in water
  4. Breathing through lungs
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