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Karyotaxonomy is the modern branch of classification which is based on

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Important Questions on The Living World

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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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Which of the following is not a defining feature of all living organisms?

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Identify the wrong statement among the following.
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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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Select the correctly written scientific name of mango, which was first described by Carolus Linnaeus.
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Choose the correct statements.
A) There are few uncatalyzed metabolic conversions in living system like protein degradation.
B) Study of energy conversion in the living cells is called Bioenergetics.
C) In DNA, each step of nucleotide pair will turn 36°.
D) The first amino acid in a protein chain is called C terminal amino acid.
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One of the following scientists was the earliest to attempt more scientific basis for classification __________
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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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Choose the incorrect statement among the following.
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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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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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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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Bentham and Hooker's divided the following plants into 3 classes which include
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Engler and Prantl published a phylogenetic system in the monograph ______
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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:
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

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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

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