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  1. Select the mismatched pair.
    (a) Historia Plantarum – Hippocrates
    (b) Systema Naturae – linnaeus
    (c) Historia Naturalis – Pliny the Elder
    (d) Historia Generalis Plantarum – John Ray

  2. 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.

  3. ‘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.

  4. Family is placed between
    (a) Order and Genus
    (b) Genus and Species
    (c) Class and Order
    (d) Phylum and Class.

  5. ‘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

  6. 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)

  7. 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

  8. Metabolic reactions can be carried out outside the body of
    an organism in cell free systems.

  9. living organisms show internal growth due to addition
    of materials and formation of cells inside the body, i.e.,
    intussusception.

  10. Hippocrates introduced and defined the word ‘species’.

  11. Hornbill (a bird) is the symbol of the Bombay Natural History
    Society.

  12. Modern taxonomy studies primitiveness, advancement and
    interrelationships of species.

  13. Sir Julian Huxley is the father of new systematics.

  14. Subspecies or variety is a distinct breeding subgroup of
    species having certain distinguishing characteristics that
    separate its members from other members of species.

  15. Family is a taxonomic category which contains one or more
    related genera.

  16. Natural History Museum is located in Chicago.

  17. Herbarium is a store house of collected plant specimens
    that are dried, pressed and preserved on sheets.


Match The columns


  1. 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

  2. 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

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