Tag: classification of organisms
Questions Related to classification of organisms
Which of the following are not the trends observed in the evolution of the central nervous system in invertebrates?
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Increased size of cerebral ganglia and formation of a 'brain'
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Reduction in the number of nerve cords
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Replacement of nerve cords by nerve nets
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Dominance of the ventral pair of nerve cords
The nervous system of animals has evolved a lot from metazoans to mammals. Cnidarians happen to have the simplest nervous system comprising mainly nerve nets. It is assumed that this is the group of animals that the modern nervous system has evolved from. Hence, it can be said that nerve nets have been replaced by nerve nets and not the other way around.
Valveless single chambered heart is found in
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Herdmania
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Scoliodon
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Catla
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Amphioxus
.......... are called as moss animals.
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Loricifera
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Ectoprocta
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Acanthocephala
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Gastrotricha
The Bryozoa, also known as Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals, are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. They are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia. Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches, and others are found in polar waters.
Larva occurs in
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Invertebrates
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Vertebrates
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Both A and B
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None of the above
Who laid the foundation of palaeontology?
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Linnaeus
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Aristotle
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Cuvier
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Lamarck
Systema Naturae was written by __________.
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Lamarck
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Cuvier
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Aristotle
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Linnaeus
In the year 1735, when Linnaeus lived in the Netherlands, he published a book named Systema Naturae. In this book he presented a new classification for the three kingdoms in nature: the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom and the kingdom of stones.
The botanist who introduced binomial system of classification is
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Gaspard Bauhin
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Adolf Engler
- Binomial nomenclature is the system of nomenclature in which each species of animal or plant receives a name of two terms of which the first identifies the genus to which it belongs and the second the species itself.
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The genus is capitalized and species is in lowercase, both written in italics. The formal system of nomenclature was introduced by Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus in his book Species Plantarum in 1753.
Thus the correct answer is option A.
The famous book 'Systema Naturae' was written by
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Aristotle
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Whittaker
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Carolus Linnaeus
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All of the above
Carolus Linnaeus was interested in the study of plants, he studied the diversity of plants and published 14 papers and also brought out the famous book, Systema Naturae.
Linnaeus is known as
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Father of cytology
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Father of taxonomy
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Father of binomial nomenclature
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Both B and C
- Taxonomy is the part of science that focuses on naming and classifying or grouping organisms. Carolus Linnaeus is considered the 'Father of Taxonomy' because, in the 1700s, he developed a way to name(binomial nomenclature) and organize species that we still use today.
- Binomial nomenclature is a system of naming each type of organism, consisting of the two-part scientific name that is unique for each species; the first word identifies the genus of the organism and the second word signifies the species. Linnaeus introduced the binomial system of nomenclature hence considered as the father of binomial nomenclature.
- So, Linnaeus is known as 'Both B and C'.
Tenth edition of Systema Naturae was published in
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1758
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1764
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1765
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1858
- Systema Naturae is one of the major works of Carl Linnaeus and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
- The tenth edition of Systema Naturae was published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759 respectively. The tenth edition of this book (1758) is considered the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
- The first volume came in 1735.
- So, the correct option is '1758'.