Select the mismatched pair.
(a) Historia Plantarum – Hippocrates
(b) Systema Naturae – linnaeus
(c) Historia Naturalis – Pliny the Elder
(d) Historia Generalis Plantarum – John Ray
A group of individuals, which are able to breed among
themselves and produce their own kind is known as
(a) Genus (b) Species
(c) Family (d) Order.
‘Taxa’ differs from ‘taxon’ due to
(a) this being a higher taxonomic category than taxon
(b) this being the lower taxonomic category than taxon
(c) this being the plural of taxon
(d) this being the singular of taxon.
Family is placed between
(a) Order and Genus
(b) Genus and Species
(c) Class and Order
(d) Phylum and Class.
‘Key’ is a taxonomical aid used for the identification of
organisms. Each statement in key is called ___.
(a) couplet (b) lead
(c) both (a) and (b) (d) none of these
Match Column-I with Column-II and select the correct
option from the codes given below.
Column-I Column-II
A. Botanical garden (i) Preserved plant specimens
B. Zoological park (ii) Preserved plant and animal
specimens
C. Museum (iii) living plants
D. Herbarium (iv) living wild animals
(a) A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iii), D-(iv)
(b) A-(iii), B-(iv), C-(ii), D-(i)
(c) A-(iii), B-(iv), C-(i), D-(ii)
(d) A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iv), D-(iii)
Which of the following is the largest herbarium?
(a) New york Botanical Garden
(b) Royal Botanical Garden, Kew
(c) Madras Herbarium, Coimbatore
(d) Herbarium of National Botanical Research Institute,
lucknow.
True or False
Metabolic reactions can be carried out outside the body of
an organism in cell free systems.
living organisms show internal growth due to addition
of materials and formation of cells inside the body, i.e.,
intussusception.
Hippocrates introduced and defined the word ‘species’.
Hornbill (a bird) is the symbol of the Bombay Natural History
Society.
Modern taxonomy studies primitiveness, advancement and
interrelationships of species.
Sir Julian Huxley is the father of new systematics.
Subspecies or variety is a distinct breeding subgroup of
species having certain distinguishing characteristics that
separate its members from other members of species.
Family is a taxonomic category which contains one or more
related genera.
Natural History Museum is located in Chicago.
Herbarium is a store house of collected plant specimens
that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.
Match The columns
Match Column I with Column II.
Column I Column II
A. Impressions and remains (i) linnaeus
of microorganisms
B. Binomial nomenclature (ii) Monotypic
C. Genera with single (iii) Taxon
Species
D. unit of classification (iv) Class
which may represent
any level
E. Taxonomic category (v) Microfossils
containing one or more
related orders
Match Column I with Column II. (There can be more than
one match for items in Column I)
Column I Column II
A. linnaeus (i) Systema Naturae
B. Defining property of (ii) Response to stimuli
living organisms
C. Pliny the Elder (iii) First system of
artificial classification
D. Taxonomic aids (iv) Botanical gardens
E. Family (v) Species Plantarum
(vi) Consciousness
(vii) Historia Naturalis
(viii) Museum
(ix) Taxonomic category
containing one or
more related genera
(x) Placed between order
and genera in
taxonomic hierarchy
