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A species is defined as "the group of actually or potentially inter-breeding natural population producing fertile offspring and reproductively isolated from such other groups". The above statement is given by

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Important Questions on The Living World

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Select the correctly written scientific name of mango, which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus.
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Assertion (A): Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were responsible for the development of Botany into a science.
Reason (R) : They are regarded as Father of Botany. 

The correct option among the following is:

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Nomenclature is governed by certain universal rules. Which one of the following is contrary to the rules of nomenclature?
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Match the following lists:

  List I   List II
A) Theophrastus I) By hybridization and genetic engineering
B) C.G.K. Ramanujam II) Electron Microscope
C) Progress in floriculture and forestry III) Described the internal and external characters of plants
D) Knoll and Ruska IV) Developed the science of pollen

The correct match is

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Match the following Columns:

Columns - I Columns - II
a Father of Taxonomy i Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
b Father of Zoology ii Carolus Linnaeus
c Father of Medicine iii Aristotle
d Father of Biology iv Julian Huxley
e Concept of Genus v Hippocrates
f Father of Neotaxonomy vi Ernst Mayr
g Darwin of 20thcentury vii Hooker
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Match the following lists:

  List -I   List -II
(A) Identification of Auxins (I) Frankel Conrat
(B) C4 pathway (ii) Charles Darwin
(C) Discovery of genetic nature of RNA (iii) J.B.Sumner
(D) Theory of evolution (iv)  F.W. Went
  (v) Hatch & Slack
The correct match is:
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What are the advantages of classifying organisms?
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What is meant by classification of an object?
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What are the advantages of classification of objects?
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Carolus Linnaeus proposed scientific name of animals in his book system nature (in 10th edition), which was published on1 Aug. 1758. Which taxonomical aid provides knowledge about these information's?
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Explain what is binomial system of nomenclature ? Who gave this sytem?
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The following characteristics are essential for classification.
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Rearrange the following categories of animal grouping in a sequence starting from the highest downward to the lowest.

  • Class
  • Phylum
  • Species
  • Genus
  • Kingdom 
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Explain the merits and demerits of Whittaker’s classification.
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Under each of the given headings, write the names of some things made by humans.

Metal Glass Wood
     
Plastic Leather Stone
     
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Classification helps to know the origin and evolution of an organism.
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Use Whittaker method to classify bacteria, protozoa, fungi, algae, prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes.
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Write any two merits of Five Kingdom classification.