Species

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What are the basic components of taxonomy?

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A group of organisms who can breed among themselves and produce fertile offspring is :

1. Class

2. Genus

3. Family

4. Species

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Why donkey and horse can not be considered as single

Species though they have an offspring?

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Are humans continuous breeders?

Q. A species is a group of populations which are capable of interbreeding. State True or False.

1. False
2. True

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All humans on earth today may differ widely in their facial features, colour, height, etc. Yet, they belong to a single species Homo sapiens. Give one reason why they are not considered belonging to different species.

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What is population in an ecosystem?

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Which one of the following is the correct statement about the respective animal(s)?

(a) Donkey and horse should be considered one single species because they can successfully mate and produce an offspring.

(b) Donkey and horse are two different genera.

(c) Mule is a separate species.

(d) Mule is neither a donkey nor a horse.

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Who is the father of classical taxonomy?

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The interaction in which one species adversely affects the population of other species but remains unaffected is ______

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Why artificial system of classification is called sexual system of classification?

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Are humans monotypic?

Q. Explain why mule is not considered as species?​

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Whta is species?

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Give reason why blue green algae are classified along with bacteria and placed in kingdom monera.

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Bacteria are no more classified as plants primarily because :

1. these are unicellular

2. these are microscopic

3. many of them are parasitic

4. they have no chlorophyll

Q. Which of the following mammals possess few characteristics of reptiles?​

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The scientific name is derived from the genus and species to which an organism belongs.

1. True

2. False

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A lion and a tiger are different ___ because they cannot reproduce with one another to produce fertile offspring.

1. species

2. kingdom

3. homeostasis

4. cells

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__ means an organism of a particular kind whose members can interbreed among themselves to produce fertile young ones.

Q. Question 45 (b)
Fill in the blanks
(b) Basic smallest unit of classification is___.

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What is basic unit of classification?

Q. Which of the following taxons has less general in characteristics as compared to genus?

1. Division
2. Class
3. Family
4. Species

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Basic unit of classification is ___________.

Q. Which one of the following shows heterothallism?

1. Rhizopus
2. Bacterium
3. Cycas
4. Ricinus

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As a practical definition of species, what is/are the criteria mandate to consider two organisms belonging to the same species?

1. The organisms have the same parents

2. The organisms can interbreed

3. The organisms can produce fertile offsprings

4. The organisms' offsprings can produce fertile offsprings.

Q. The animal shown here is a ___.

Q. Burst the bubbles with correct scientific names of organisms as per binomial nomenclature.

1. Homo sapiens
2. Canis Lupus
3. panthera
4. Felis catus
5. Mangifera indica
6. Bison bison
7. Citrus
8. Pavo cristatus
9. gorilla gorilla

Q. What are the kingdoms present in Whittaker's system of classification?

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Text Question:

Prokaryotes are grouped in kingdom …….