
The Linnaeus sexual system of classification of plants on the basis of arrangement and number of stamens and carpels/morphology of floral parts is

Important Questions on Biological Classification

Match the following Columns:
Columns - I | Columns - II | ||
Father of Taxonomy | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | ||
Father of Zoology | Carolus Linnaeus | ||
Father of Medicine | Aristotle | ||
Father of Biology | Julian Huxley | ||
Concept of Genus | Hippocrates | ||
Father of Neotaxonomy | Ernst Mayr | ||
Darwin of century | Hooker |

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:


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

A) Hominidae
B) Triticum
C) Spermatophyta
D) sapiens
E) Primata
F) Insecta



Match the following lists:
(A) | Identification of Auxins | (I) | Frankel Conrat |
(B) | 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 |

Match the following lists:
List | List | ||
A) | Theophrastus | By hybridization and genetic engineering | |
B) | C.G.K. Ramanujam | Electron Microscope | |
C) | Progress in floriculture and forestry | Described the internal and external characters of plants | |
D) | Knoll and Ruska | Developed the science of pollen |
The correct match is


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



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:

Column – I | Column – II |
a. Family | (i) Diptera |
b. Order | (ii) Arthropoda |
c. Class | (iii) Muscidae |
d. Phylum | (iv) Insecta |

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


Numerical taxonomy is related to all, except


