ZOOLOGY: BIOLOGICAL CASSIFICATION

1. The term New Systematics was 9. The term phylum was given by
introduced by (a) Cuvier
(a) Bentham and Hooker (b) Haeckel
(b) Linnaeus (c) Theophrastus
(c) Julian Huxley (d) Linnaeus.
(d) A.P. de Candolle. 10. Sequence of taxonomic categories is
2. Classification given by Bentham and (a) Class-phylum-tribe-order family- genus
Hooker is species
(a) Artificial (b) Division-class-family-tribe-order-genus-
(b) Natural system of classification species
(c) Phylogenetic (c) Division-class-order-family-tribe-genus-
(d) Numerical. species
3. System of classification used by Linnaeus (d) Phylum-order-class-tribe-family-genus-
was species
(a) Natural system 11. Linnaeus is credited with
(b) Artificial system (a) Binomial nomenclature
(c) Phylogenetic system (b) Theory of biogenesis
(d) Asexual system (c) Discovery of microscope
4. Linnaeus evolved a system of nomenclature (d) Discovery of blood circulation.
called 12. Phylogenetic classification is one which is
(a) Mononomial based on
(b) Vernacular (a) Overall similarities
(c) Binomial (b) Utilitarian system
(d) Polynomial (c) Habits of plants
5. Basic unit or smallest taxon of taxonomy/ (d) Common evolutionary descent.
classification is 13. Taxon is the unit of a group of
(a) Species (a) Order
(b) Kingdom (b) Taxonomy
(c) Family (c) Species
(d) Variety (d) Genes.
6. A taxon is 14. In the five kingdom system of classification,
(a) A group of related families which single kingdom out of the following can
(b) A group of related species include blue-green algae, nitrogen fixing
(c) A type of living organisms bacteria and methanogenic archaebacteria?
(d) A taxonomic group of any ranking. (a) Plantae
7. A group of plants or animals with similar (b) Protista
traits of any rank is (c) Monera
(a) Species (d) Fungi.
(b) Genera 15. The book Genera Plant arum was written
(c) Order by
(d) Taxon (a) Engler & Prantl
8. An important criterion for modern day (b) Bentham & Hooker
classification is (c) Bessey
(a) Resemblances in morphology (d) Hutchinson.
(b) Anatomical and physiological traits 16. A system of classification, in which a large
(c) Breeding habits number of traits are considered, is
(d) Presence or absence of notochord. (a) Natural system

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 (b) Phylogenetic system (c) Synthetic system.
(c) Artificial system
17. Which of the following is less general in totality of various parameters from all
characters as compared to genus? fields of studies
(a) Species (d) Identification and arrangement of
(b) Division organisms on the basis of their cytological
(c) Class characteristics
(d) Family. 20. In which kingdom would you classify the
18. In five kingdom system, the main basis of archaea and nitrogen-fixing organisms, if the
classification of five-kingdom system of classification is used?
(a) Structure of nucleus
(b) Mode of nutrition (a) Plantae
(c) Structure of cell wall (b) Fungi
(d) Asexual reproduction. (c) Protista
19. Biosystematics aims at (d) Monera
(a) The classification of organisms based 21. Phenetic classification is based on
on broad morphological characters (a) The ancestral lineage of existing
(b) Delimiting various taxa of organisms organisms
and establishing their relationships (b) Observable characteristics of existing
(c) The classification of organisms based organisms
on their evolutionary history and (c) dendrograms based on DNA
establishing their phylogeny on the characteristics
(d) Sexual characteristics
22. Species are considered as (c) dendogram based on DNA
(a) Real basic units of classification characteristics
(b) The lowest units of classification (d) Sexual characteristics
(c) Artificial concept of human mind 24. ICBN stands for
which cannot be defined in absolute (a) International Code of Botanical
terms Nomenclature
(d) Real units of classification devised (b) International Congress of Biological
by taxonomists Names
23. Phenetic classification of organisms is (c) Indian Code of Botanical
based on Nomenclature
(a) Observable characteristics of (d) Indian Congress of Biological
existing organisms Names
(b) The ancestral lineage of existing
organisms

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