Subject Experts Solutions for Exercise 2: HOTS HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS
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Questions from Subject Experts Solutions for Exercise 2: HOTS HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS with Hints & Solutions
Read the following statements.
The taxonomic hierarchy for Brassica campestris can be written as
Plantae Phanerogamae Angiospermae Dicotyledonae Parietales Brassicaceae Brassica campestris.
Tautonym is the taxonomic designation used for certain plants having trinomial nomenclature.
A character present in an ancestral species and shared exclusively by its evolutionary descendants is referred to as synapomorphy.
Family Fabaceae is divided into three subfamilies i.e., Leguminosae, Mimosaceae, and Caesalpiniaceae.
Which of the following combinations of the above statements is correct?
A 'type' is one particular specimen (or a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. Match column I(type) with column II (description) and select the correct option from the codes given below.
| column I | column II | ||
| A. | Holotype | (i) | A specimen cited with an original description other than the holotype or isotype |
| B. | Isotype | (ii) | A duplicate of the holotype |
| C. | Paratype | (iii) | A specimen designated in the original description |
| D. | Lectotype | (iv) | A specimen selected from original material to serve as nomenclatural type when the holotype was not designated |
Read the following statements with one or two blanks in each one of them.
(i) A genus containing more than one species is called ___________genus, e.g._________________
(ii) _______________ is a collection of dried, pressed and preserved plants mounted on _______________sheets, properly labelled, systematically arranged and available for reference study.
(iii) Living fossils are ancient organisms persisting in modern times _____________gradual morphological changes.
(iv) A____________________ is comprehensive treatise of a taxonomic group, generally a genus or a family, providing all taxonomic data related to that group.
Which of the following correctly fills any two of the above statements?
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
Tanvi bought ten food items from the supermarket, which are wheat, bananas, mushrooms, onions, Porphyra (Laver), Kelps, pine seeds, Sphagnum moss, lady's fingers and potatoes. Based on hierarchical classification, how many phyla/divisions do these items belong to?
