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Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification animal classification and its benefits criteria for new system of classification five kingdoms of living organisms

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
Which one of the following is not a characteristic of organisms in the kingdom Animalia ?

  1. Eukaryotic cells without walls

  2. Multicellularity

  3. Obtaining nutrients by ingestion

  4. Storage of carbohydrates as starch
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Plants store complex carbohydrates as starch and animals store them as glycogen in the muscles and liver. Glycogen is the storage form of glucose in animals and humans which is analogous to the starch in plants. Glycogen is synthesized and stored mainly in the liver and the muscles. Animals do not have a cell wall but instead, have the outermost plasma membrane or cell membrane on the exterior and with well-developed organelles enclosed in membranes (eukaryotes) and are also multicellular (being made of more than one cell) and are heterotrophic as animals cannot make their own food. 

So, the correct option is, 'Storage of carbohydrates as starch'.

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

Golgi apparatus does not occur in

  1. Yeast

  2. Liver cells

  3. Higher plants

  4. Bacteria and blue green algae
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms. They lack membrane-bound organelles like mitochondria, golgi apparatus. They also lack true nucleus. Instead, they have nucleoid or incipient nucleus. Nucleoid is an undifferetiated, unorganised, fibrillar nucleus without any limiting membrane. They have ribosomes in the cytoplasm. Examples include bacteria like E. coli, blue green algae. 

Thus, the correct answer is 'Bacteria and blue green algae.'

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

Which of the following is not a moneran?

  1. Spirulina

  2. Nostoc

  3. Oscillatoria

  4. Euglena
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Moneran are prokaryotic unicellular organisms. They lack membrane-bound organelles. They lack true nucleus. They have genetic material without nuclear envelope. The examples of Moneran include bacteria, blue green algae like Nostoc, Spirulina, Oscillatoria. Euglena is an eukaryotic organism

So, the correct answer is 'Euglena'

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

Prokaryotes are placed in a group known as 

  1. Monera

  2. Pteridophytes

  3. Bryophyta

  4. Angiosperms
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Prokaryotes are placed in a group Monera. These includes bacteria, Cyanobacteria, Eubacteria, etc. They are unicellular organisms. They have cell wall. They lack membrane-bound organelles like mitochondria. They also lack true nucleus. Instead, they have nucleoid, a genetic material without nuclear envelope.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Monera.'

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

In Whittaker's classification, non-nucleated unicellular organisms$/$ prokaryotes are included under

  1. Plantae

  2. Monera

  3. Protista

  4. Animalia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Whittaker's classification includes five kingdom classification system. The five kingdoms include Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. Monera includes Eubacteria and Archeobacteria. They include non-nucleated unicellular organisms. They are prokaryotes. They have a cell wall. They have no membrane-bound organelles and true nucleus.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Monera.'

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

These are the organisms which are called prokaryotes.

  1. Green algae, brown algae and red algae

  2. Yeasts and other fungi

  3. Mycoplasmas, bacteria, cyanobacteria

  4. None of the above groups
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Prokaryotes are all single-celled organisms eg, Mycoplasmas, bacteria, cyanobacteria. So, the correct option is C.(Mycoplasmas, bacteria, cyanobacteria)

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

Death factor is secreted by 

  1. BGA

  2. Archaebacteria

  3. Fungi

  4. Mycoplasm
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cyanobacteria (Blue-green algae or BGA) sometimes reproduce exponentially to form blooms. Blooming cyanobacteria can secrete death factors in such concentrations that they poison and even kill animals and humans. It can also accumulate in other animals such as fish and shellfish and cause poisonings such as shellfish poisoning.

So, the correct answer is 'BGA'.

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

Which one of the following statements is correct?

  1. Mostly bacteria are heterotrophic, but some are autotrophic

  2. All bacteria are heterotrophic

  3. All bacteria are autotrophic

  4. All bacteria are photosynthetic
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Most bacteria are heterotrophic, however, a special class of bacteria called cyanobacteria or BGA are autotrophic, that is they can produce there own food. So, the correct option is A. ( Mostly bacteria are heterotrophic, but some are autotrophic )

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification monera five kingdoms of living organisms biodiversity and need of classification

Organisms which are considered to be the most primitive group in the world are grouped under

  1. Kingdom Monera

  2. Kingdom Protista

  3. Kingdom Fungi

  4. Kingdom Plantae
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

According to the "Five kingdom system of classification" proposed by R. H. Whittaker in 1969, all living organisms are classified under 5 kingdoms. The names and characteristics are explained below.

  1. Kingdom Monera:  Contains unicellular, prokaryotic, organisms like bacterial species. These are the most primitive organisms with no defined or true nucleus and no membrane-bound organelles. 
  2. Kingdom Protista: Contains eukaryotic unicellular organisms like Amoeba. They have true membrane-bound organelles and nucleus.
  3. Kingdom Fungi: Eukaryotic multicellular (exception: yeast is unicellular) non-photosynthetic organisms
  4. Kingdom Plantae:  Eukaryotic multicellular photosynthetic autotrophic organisms
  5. Kingdom Animalia: Eukaryotic multicellular heterotrophic organisms.
Here, only Kingdom Monera is consists of prokaryotic organisms and thus it is considered the most primitive group.