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Questions Related to plant taxonomy

Aristotle classify plants into

  1. Trees

  2. Shrubs

  3. Trees, shrubs and herbs

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Classification is the arrangement of living organisms into groups on the basis of similarities and dissimilarities between them and placing within taxonomic hierarchy such as kingdom, genus, species etc. Aristotle was the first to give a scientific basis for classification. He classified living organisms into two groups; plants and animals.
He divided plants into trees, shrubs and herbs on the basis of simple morphological characters.
So, the correct answer is 'Trees, shrubs and herbs'.

In which year 'Mayer' was awarded by the international prize of biology:-

  1. $1983$

  2. $1997$

  3. $1994$

  4. $1999$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Ernest Mayr was awarded the international prize of biology in the field of Systematic Biology and Taxonomy in the year 1994.

So, the correct option is '1994'.

Which is essential and is the prime sources of taxonomic studies of plants and animals?

  1. Identification

  2. Nomenclature

  3. Classification

  4. Collection of actual specimen


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world using morphological, behavioural, genetic and biochemical observations, taxonomists identify, describe and arrange species into classifications including those that are new to science.

So, the correct option is 'Identification'.

In flowering plants, male gametes are formed by:-

  1. meiosis

  2. mitosis

  3. Amitosis

  4. Endomitosis


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is not a variation in rose plant?

  1. Spines

  2. Tendrils

  3. Leaf Margin

  4. Coloured plants


Correct Option: A

What type of fruit will be produced by fixing the stock of sour juice producing branch on scion of plant having sweet branch?

  1. Sweet and fibrous

  2. Sweet and juicy

  3. Sour and juicy

  4. Sour and fibrous


Correct Option: A

Prolongation of thalamus beyond carpel is present in?

  1. Foeniculum

  2. Silene

  3. Passiflora

  4. Both $(2)$ and $(3)$


Correct Option: A

The rootlets are repeatedly swollen thus giving a beaded appearance in?

  1. Dahlia

  2. Momordica

  3. Curcuma

  4. Ipecac


Correct Option: A

How many of the following features are exclusively associated with flowering plants ?
Presence of seeds, occurrence of fruit, Reduced male gametophyte, Double fertilisation, Diplontic life cycle, Triploid endosperm

  1. 6

  2. 5

  3. 4

  4. 3


Correct Option: A

A multicarpellary, syncarpous gynoecium is found in

  1. Papaver

  2. Michelia

  3. Hibiscus

  4. More than one option is correct


Correct Option: A