Subject Experts Solutions for Chapter: Basis of Classification, Exercise 2: PRACTICE QUESTIONS (COMPETITION WING)

The name of some organisms is given below. Classify them into different kingdoms in table format.

Dog, Cat, Rose, Yeast, Staphylococcus bacteria, Catla fish, Mushroom, Coconut tree, Amoeba, E.coli bacteria, Paramoecium

Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent slide without a label. In your effort to identify it, you place the slide under a microscope and observe the following features:

(a) Unicellular

(b) Well-defined nucleus

(c) Bi-flagellate-one flagellum lying longitudinally and the other transversely.

What would you identify it as? Can you name the kingdom it belongs to?

Are humans closer to mice or chickens? Explain.

If you are given the following set of animals, how would you find a common taxon to classify them? Dog, Wolf, Fox, Jackal.

 While writing the scientific name of humans, he wrote Homo Sapiens. Do you think that this representation of writing scientific names is correct?

Banyan trees and algae both are grouped under Kingdom Plantae, yet there are remarkable differences in their appearance. What makes them grouped together?

Viruses come under neither prokaryotes nor eukaryotes, Justify this statement.

In the two-kingdom classification, fungi were kept in Kingdom Plantae along with algae. On what basis, this placement was justified? In the five-kingdom classification, why were fungi grouped as a separate kingdom?