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The two kingdom classification by Carolus Linnaeus is based on
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Important Questions on Biological Classification
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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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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
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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 | ||
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Which is the particular type of drug that is obtained from the plants whose one flowering branch is shown below?
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Engler and Prantl published a phylogenetic system in the monograph ______
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Which part of the poppy plant is used to obtain the drug "Smack"?
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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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Identify the incorrect matching:
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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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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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Which one of the following fungi contains hallucinogens?
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Which one of the following pairs was excluded from Whittaker's five kingdom classification
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Drug called 'Heroin' is synthesized by:
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Choose the incorrect statement among the following.
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Which of the following statements is not correct?
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One of the following substances interferes with the transport of dopamine
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Study the following statements and find the correct ones
I) Marijuana is extracted from the Indian hemp plant
II) Amphetamines cause sleeplessness
III) Morphine is involved in the transportation of a neurotransmitter, dopamine
IV) Heroin is commonly called smack
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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 | ||
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One of the following scientists was the earliest to attempt more scientific basis for classification __________
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Five kingdom system of classification suggested by R.H. Whittaker is not based on:
