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Important Questions on The Living World

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Choose the incorrect statement among the following.

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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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Assertion: Phylogeny is the developmental history of a species.
Reason: Species is the basic unit of taxonomy.

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Represent the union of two sets by Venn diagram for each of the following.

$X = {x | x$ is a prime number between $80$ and $100}$

$Y = {y | y$ is an odd number between $90$ and $100}$

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Each plant or group of plants has some phylogenetic significance in relation to evolution: Cycas, one of the few living members of gymnosperms is called as the 'relic of past'. Can you establish a phylogenetic relationship of Cycas with any other group of plants that justifies the above statement?

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Phylogenetic systems are proposed by

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The evolutionary history of a taxon is called its phylogeny.

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Write about the Bentham and Hooker's system of classification with the help of a chart.

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Hutchinson's system of classification was revised in

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Which is/are the wrong pairs?

(A) Phylogenetic classification system	Based on the evolutionary relationship between the various organisms.
(B) Numerical Taxonomy	Use of the computer.
(C) Cytotaxonomy	Based on cytological information like chromosome number, structure.
(D) Chemotaxonomy	Based on a study of experimental determination of the genetic interrelationship.

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Phylogenetics system of classification includes:

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Explain the advantages of the phylogenetic system of classification.

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Can we use recent molecular tools to identify and classify organisms?

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A perennial shrub has compound leaves and solitary zygomorphic and epigynous flowers. Each flower reveals dichlamydeous condition with many stamens and multiple fruit with exalbuminous seeds. What is the ratio of advanced and primitive characters in it?

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Which is sequenced during study of phylogeny?

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Which of the following taxonomist describes classification of plant kingdom in "Families of flowering plants".

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Why phylogenetic system is difficult to achieve?

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Phylogenetic classification is one which is based on