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:
|
COLUMN I Taxonomical Aid |
|
COLUMN II Feature |
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| I. | Flora | 1. | Useful in providing information for identification of names of species found in an area |
| II. | Manuals | 2. | Contains the actual account of habitat and distribution of plants of a given area. |
| III. | Monographs | 3. | contain information on any one taxon |
Codes:
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I |
II |
III | |
| (1) |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| (2) | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| (3) | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| (4) | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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
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:
| Column I | Column II | ||
| A. | Family | 1. | Diptera |
| B. | Order | 2. | Arthropoda |
| C. | Class | 3. | Muscidae |
| D. | Phylum | 4. | Insecta |
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
Biological organisation starts with
(1) Submicroscopic molecular level
(2) Cellular level
(3) Organismic level
(4) Atomic level
ICBN stands for:
(1) Indian Congress of Biological Names
(2) International Code for Botanical Nomenclature
(3) International Congress of Biological Names
(4) Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature
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