Identify the incorrect statement:
1. | Biological names are generally in Latin and written in italics. They are Latinised or derived from Latin irrespective of their origin. |
2. | The first word in a biological name represents the genus while the second component denotes the specific epithet. |
3. | Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate their vernacular origin. |
4. | The first word denoting the genus starts with a capital letter while the specific epithet starts with a small letter. |
The scientific term for biological classification categories is the:
(1) Species
(2) Taxon
(3) Phylum
(4) Domain
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:
Column I | Column II |
I. Family | 1. Primata |
II. Order | 2. Hominidae |
III. Class | 3. Chordata |
IV. Phylum | 4. Mammalia |
Codes:
I | II | III | IV | |
1. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
2. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
3. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
4. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
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
Evolutionary history of an organism is known as :
(1) Phylogeny
(2) Ancestry
(3) Paleontology
(4) Ontogeny