Need for Classification and Taxonomy

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Question 01
Why are living organisms classified?

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4. What do we learn from identification of individuals and populations?

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Why are the classification systems changing every now and then?

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What is Systematics?

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What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often?

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What does taxon mean?

Q. Which is the first step in taxonomy:

1. Classification
2. Characterisation
3. Identification
4. Nomenclature

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Difference between taxonomic category and taxonomic hierarchy?

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What Is the Purpose of Taxonomy?

Q. Taxonomy refers to:

1. identification, nomenclature and classification of organisms
2. only collection of plants and animals
3. only classification of organisms
4. only preservation of diversity

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3. What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often?

Q. Linnaean system of classification was based on

1. morphology
2. ecology
3. embryology
4. cytology

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Classification based on chromosome number, structure and behaviour is called

1. numerical taxonomy

2. chemotaxonomy

3. chromotaxonomy

4. cytotaxonomy

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Importance of latin and greek in biology . ( 40 marks

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Who Is Called Father of Modern Botany?

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Who is regarded as the father of taxonomy?

Q. The study of identification, classification and naming a living organism is called _____.

1. Phylogenetics
2. Taxonomy
3. Nomenclature
4. Classification

Q. The practical purpose of taxonomy or classification is to

1. Facilitate the identification of unknown species
2. Identify medicinal plants
3. Know the evolutionary history of an organism
4. Explain the origin of organisms

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What is the difference between chemotaxonomy and cytotaxonomy?

Q. Evolutionary history of an organism is known as

1. Phylogeny
2. Ancestry
3. Paleontology
4. Ontogeny

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Taxonomy includes:

1. Identification

2. Characterization

3. Nomenclature

4. Biopsy

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How are the criteria for deciding divisions in plants different from the criteria for deciding the subgroups among animals?

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What are the difficulties that you would face in the classification of animals if common fundamental features are not taken into account?

Q. The term taxonomy was coined by

1. De Candolle
2. Theophrastus
3. Pliny
4. Linnaeus

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What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often?

Q. Binomial nomenclature was developed by Linnaeus it provides names to organisms pertaining to

1. One scientific and one popular
2. The two given by taxonomist
3. One generic and one specific
4. International identifying catalogue

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Taxonomic categories/ taxonomic groups are distinct biological entities and not merely morphological aggregates.

1. True
2. False

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Binomial nomenclature is the most acceptable mode of naming organisms. Why?

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Which taxonomic category is less general in characters as compared to family

Q. Asserion : A morphology based approach to taxonomy is called alpha taxonomy and it is old fashioned.

Reason : A multidisciplinary approach to taxonomy called omega taxonomy is favoured in recent years. As, it excludes morphological features.

1. If both assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
2. If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
3. If assertion is true but reason is false.
4. If both assertion and reason and false.