Study the following table which shows different organisms with their taxonomic categories.
Common Name
Family
Order
Class
Phylum/Division
Man
Hominidae
Primata
Mammalia
A
Housefly
Muscidae
Diptera
B
Arthropoda
Mango
C
Sapindales
Dicotyledonae
Angiospermae
Wheat
Poaceae
Poales
D
Angiospermae
Select the correct option for A, B, C and D
Important Questions on The Living World
| (i) | Panthera leo | Belongs to Class Mammalia. |
|---|---|---|
| (ii) | Musca domestica | The common house lizard, a reptile. |
| (iii) | Entamoeba coli | Commonly occurring protozoan in human intestine |
| (iv) | Solanum tuberosum | A dicotyledonous plant |
| I | II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (a) | John Ray | (i) | Gave the concept of new systematics |
| (b) | C. Linnaeus | (ii) | First described species as a unit of classification |
| (c) | Aristotle | (iii) | Father of Zoology |
| (d) | Julian Huxley | (iv) | Introduced binomial nomenclature |
Read the following statements.
The taxonomic hierarchy for Brassica campestris can be written as
Plantae Phanerogamae Angiospermae Dicotyledonae Parietales Brassicaceae Brassica campestris.
Tautonym is the taxonomic designation used for certain plants having trinomial nomenclature.
A character present in an ancestral species and shared exclusively by its evolutionary descendants is referred to as synapomorphy.
Family Fabaceae is divided into three subfamilies i.e., Leguminosae, Mimosaceae, and Caesalpiniaceae.
Which of the following combinations of the above statements is correct?
A 'type' is one particular specimen (or a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. Match column I(type) with column II (description) and select the correct option from the codes given below.
| column I | column II | ||
| A. | Holotype | (i) | A specimen cited with an original description other than the holotype or isotype |
| B. | Isotype | (ii) | A duplicate of the holotype |
| C. | Paratype | (iii) | A specimen designated in the original description |
| D. | Lectotype | (iv) | A specimen selected from original material to serve as nomenclatural type when the holotype was not designated |
Read the following statements with one or two blanks in each one of them.
(i) A genus containing more than one species is called ___________genus, e.g._________________
(ii) _______________ is a collection of dried, pressed and preserved plants mounted on _______________sheets, properly labelled, systematically arranged and available for reference study.
(iii) Living fossils are ancient organisms persisting in modern times _____________gradual morphological changes.
(iv) A____________________ is comprehensive treatise of a taxonomic group, generally a genus or a family, providing all taxonomic data related to that group.
Which of the following correctly fills any two of the above statements?
