Biological Classification Questions and Answers Part-10

1. Kingdom plantae include
a) Algae and bryophytes
b) Pteridophytes and gymnosperms
c) Angiosperms
d) All of these

Answer: d
Explanation: All of these

2. Plant cells have all except
a) Chloroplast
b) Cellulosic cell wall
c) Large vacuole
d) Centriole

Answer: d
Explanation: Plant cells have all except centriole.

3. Alternation of generation is seen in all except
a) Fucus
b) Sphagnum
c) Equisetum
d) Alternaria

Answer: d
Explanation: Alternation of generation is seen in all except Alternaria.

4. Life cycle in plant has generally two distinct phase the ______ sporophytic and the ______ gametophytic that alternate with each other. This phenomenon is called as alternation of generation.
a) diploid, diploid
b) diploid, haploid
c) haploid, diploid
d) haploid, haploid

Answer: b
Explanation: Life cycle in plant has generally two distinct phase the diploid sporophytic and the haploid gametophytic that alternate with each other. This phenomenon is called as alternation of generation.

5. Select from the following the total number of features belonging to animal kingdom.
1. Multicellular, heterotrophic.
2. Most of them capable of locomotion.
3. Have definite shape and size.
4. Digestion of food in internal cavity.
5. Holozoic mode of nutrition.
6. Stored food reserve as glycogen or fat.
7. Higher forms shows sensory and neuromotor mechanism.
8. Some members are autotrophic.
9. Presence of cellulose cell wall.
10. Sexual reproduction generally by copulation of male and female.
a) 6
b) 7
c) 8
d) 10

Answer: c
Explanation: 8

6. In five kingdom classification of Whittaker, some acellular organisms are not included, they are
a) Virus
b) Viroids
c) Lichens
d) Both (a) and (b)

Answer: d
Explanation: Both (a) and (b)

7. Virus is
a) Completely non-living
b) Inert crystalline structure outside the living cell
c) Cellular organism
d) One of Whittaker’s classification

Answer: b
Explanation: Virus is inert crystalline structure outside the living cell.

8. ‘Virus’, the name means
a) Venom or poisonous fluid
b) Acellular form
c) Non-cellular form
d) The connecting link between living and non-living

Answer: a
Explanation: Venom or poisonous fluid

9. ‘Virus’ , the name was given by
a) Ivanowsky
b) Pasteur
c) Whittaker
d) Beijerinck

Answer: b
Explanation: ‘Virus’ , the name was given by Pasteur

10. Contagium vivum fluidum (infections living fluid) name given to fluid extract from infected tobacco plant was given by
a) Ivanowsky
b) Pasteur
c) Whittaker
d) Beijerinek

Answer: d
Explanation: Contagium vivum fluidum (infections living fluid) name given to fluid extract from infected tobacco plant was given by Beijerinek.