Consider the following statements:

I. Higher the taxa, more are the characteristics that members whithin the taxon share.

II. Lower the category, greater is the difficulty of determining the relationship to other taxa at the same level.

Of the two statements:

(1) I is true but II is false

(2) I is false but II is true

(3) Both I and II are true

(4) Both I and II are false

 

The Indian Botanical Garden and the National Botanical Research Institute are located respectively at:

(1) Pune and Howrah

(2) Howrah and Lucknow

(3) Darjeeling and Lucknow

(4) Shimla and Dehradun

Match each item in Column I with one in Column II and choose your answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

As we go lower from kingdom to species, the number of common characters at each taxon:

1. Goes on decreasing

2. Goes on increasing

3. Remains same

4. There is no pattern to this

Which of the following taxonomic categories contains organisms least similar to one another?

1. Class

2. Genus

3. Family

4. Species

Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II regarding taxonomic categories of humans and chose your answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

The label of a herbarium sheet does not carry information on

(1) date of collection

(2) name of collector

(3) local names

(4) height of the plant

Match column I with column II for housefly classification and select the correct option using the codes given below:

Codes:

         A     B     C     D

(1)     3     1      4     2

(2)     3     2      4     1

(3)     4     3      2     1

(4)     4     2      1     3

Study the four statements (I-IV) given below and select the two correct ones out of them:

I. Definition of biological species was given by Ernst Mayr.

II. Photoperiod does not affect reproduction in plants.

III. Binomial nomenclature system was given by RH Whittaker.

IV. In unicellular organisms, reproduction is synonymous with growth.

The two correct statements are

(1) II and III

(2) III and IV

(3) I and IV

(4) I and II

The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for:

(1) responsiveness to touch

(2) interaction with the environment and progressive evolution

(3) reproduction

(4) growth and movement