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Biosystematics aims at ______.

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Important Questions on Plant Kingdom

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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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Assertion (A): Numerical taxonomy requires mathematical methods and computers.
Reason (R): All characters are given codes, numbers and with equal importance, and hundreds of characters are to be evaluated.
The correct option among the following is:
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Engler and Prantl published a phylogenetic system in the monograph ______
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Match Column-I with Column-II for housefly classification and select the correct option using the codes given below:
 
Column – I Column – II
a. Family (i) Diptera
b. Order (ii) Arthropoda
c. Class (iii) Muscidae
d. Phylum (iv) Insecta
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One of the following scientists was the earliest to attempt more scientific basis for classification __________
MEDIUM

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
MEDIUM
Lions in India are currently restricted to Gir, Gujarat. Efforts are being made to move them to other parts of the country. This is because they are MOST susceptible to extinction due to infectious diseases under the following conditions when present as:
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Match the following
   List - I     List - II
(a) Charles Darwin (i) Systema Naturae
(b) John Ray (ii) Natural History
(c) Buffon (iii) Historia Generalis plantarum
(d) Linnaeus (iv) The origin of species

The correct answer is

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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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Bentham and Hooker's divided the following plants into 3 classes which include
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In which of the following books, characters of evolutionary importance were not considered while classifying plants?
A) Species plantarum
B) Families of flowering plants
C) Genera plantarum
D) Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien

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Study the four statements (A-D) given below and select the two correct ones out of them:
A. Definition of biological species was given by Ernst Mayr.
B. Photoperiod does not affect reproduction in plants.
C. Binomial nomenclature system was given by R.H. Whittaker.
D. In unicellular organisms, reproduction is synonymous with growth.
The two correct statements are:
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Identify and arrange the following taxonomic categories in ascending order.
A) Hominidae
B) Triticum
C) Spermatophyta
D) sapiens
E) Primata
F) Insecta
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The label of a herbarium sheet does not carry information on:
MEDIUM

Match the following

   List - I    List - II
(a) Order (i) nigrum
(b) Species (ii) Polemoniales
(c) Family (iii) Solanum
(d) Class (iv) Solanaceae
    (v) Dicotyledonae

The correct answer is

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Which of the following represents the order of 'Horse'?
HARD

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

HARD

Read the following combinations and arrange the below chronologically in the light of evolution.

i) Vascular Cryptogams - Ramenta

ii) Embryophytic non-archegoniate phanerogams - the presence of companion cells in the phloem

iii) Plant amphibians - elaters

iv) Tracheophytic archegoniate phanerogams - no vessels in the xylem

The correct sequence is 

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Choose the incorrect statement among the following.