NCERT Solutions for Chapter: Biological Classification, Exercise 3: SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
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Diatoms are also called as 'pearls of ocean', why? What is diatomaceous earth ?

There is a myth that immediately after heavy rains in forest, mushrooms appear in large number and make a very large ring or circle, which may be several metres in diameter. These are called as 'Fairy rings'. Can you explain this myth of fairy rings in biological terms?

Neurospora - an ascomycetes fungus has been used as a biological tool to understand the mechanism of plant genetics much in the same way as Drosophila has been used to study animal genetics. What makes Neurospora so important as a genetic tool?

Cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria have been clubbed together in Eubacteria of kingdom Monera as per the "Five Kingdom Classification" even though the two are vastly different from each other. Is this grouping of the two types of taxa in the same kingdom justified? If so, why?

At a stage of their cycle, ascomycetes fungi produce the fruiting bodies like apothecium, perithecium or cleistothecium. How are these three types of fruiting bodies different from each other?

What observable features in Trypanosoma would make you classify it under kingdom Protista?

Fungi are cosmopolitan. Write the role of fungi in your daily life.
