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Questions Related to hierarchy of classification

Heterotrichous thallus is shown by which organism

  1. Chlamydomonas

  2. Ectocarpus

  3. Spirogyra

  4. Volvax


Correct Option: B

Wuchereria hancrofti is carried by?

  1. Tse-tse fly

  2. Male Anopheles

  3. Culex mosquito

  4. Female Anopheles


Correct Option: A

Phenetic classification of organisms is based on?

  1. Observable characteristics of exiting organisms

  2. The ancestral lineage of existing organism

  3. Dendrogram based on DNA characteristics

  4. Sexual characteristics


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • Phenetics is an attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity, usually by morphology or other observable traits, regardless of their phylogeny or evolutionary relation.
  • It includes various forms of clustering and ordination. Phenetic classification of organisms is based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent. 
Thus, the correct answer is option A.

In jaundice, which organ is mainly affected ?

  1. liver

  2. kidney

  3. lungs

  4. brain.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Jaundice is a yellow discolouration of the skin, of whites of the eyes, indicating excess bilirubin (a bile pigment) in the blood. It is due to disease of the liver cells, such as hepatitis, when the liver is unable to utilize the bilirubin, which accumulates in the blood.

Organisms are classified into different kingdoms on the basis of 

  1. Reproduction

  2. Metabolism

  3. Cell structure

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Living organism are classified on the basis of : Type of cell whether uni or  multi cellular, the way they reproduce, their genetic code, their growth and development, how do they metabolise, how do they respond to a stimulus, maintaining homeostasis and how do they evolve.

Moist vapour theory was given by

  1. Aristotle

  2. Pythagoras

  3. Delepatius

  4. Darwin


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Moist vapour theory was proposed by a Greek philosopher Pythagoras.
  • According to this theory a certain moist vapour is transmitted from the male towards the female during the fertilization and it develops into an embryo.
  • From where the later new organism is developed.
  • Hence the correct option is B.

Soil humus theory of plant nourishment was given by

  1. Aristotle

  2. Liebig

  3. Von Helmont

  4. Ingen-Housz.


Correct Option: A

Organic compound first evolved on earth and required for origin of life were :

  1. Urea and amino acids

  2. Proteins and nucleic acids

  3. Proteins and amino acids

  4. Urea and nucleic acid


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Proteins and nucleic acids are the two most basic compounds for the sustenance of life. 
  • Proteins provided a limiting membrane and boundary to primitive entities and nucleic acids were important information molecules, which were required to build self-replicating entities. Option B is correct