1. Read the following statements.
A) Plants is a taxon
B) Non-living objects also grow
C) Growth, can not be taken as a defining property of living organisms
D) Mule do not reproduces
Find out the correct statements
A: All statements are correct
2. Darwin of 20th Century
A: Ernst Meyer
3. The twin characters of growth
A: Increase in mass and number of individuals
4. Match the following.
| List - A | List - B |
| I. Fungi | A. Budding |
| II. Yeast | B. Mule |
| III. Protonema | C. Fragmentation |
| IV. No reproduction | D. Spore |
| E. Non livings |
The correct matching is
A: I II III IV
D A C E
5. Reproduction is synonymous with growth-
1) Yeast/ Amoeba 2) Bacteria 3) Chlamydomonas 4) All
A: 4(All)
6. Characteristic feature of living organism is
1) Growth 2) Reproduction 3) Metabolism 4) All
A: 4(All)
7. Technically complicated feature of all living organisms is
A: Irritability
8. The defining property of living organisms
A: Metabolism
9. Read the following statements and find out incorrect one.
1) Couplet is a pair of contrasting characters used in the identification and
nomenclature of plants and animals.
2) Biological museums are generally set up in educational institutions.
3) The largest herbarium is at RBG.
4) The order of Mango is Sapindales.
A: 1(Couplet is a pair of contrasting characters used in the identification and
nomenclature of plants and animals.)
10. The word systematics is derived from
A: Latin
11. Both the words in a biological name, when hand written, are separately underlined
to indicate that
1) They are important.
2) The former is a genus and the later is species.
3) To catch the attention of the reader.
4) None
A: 4(None)
12. Expand ICBN
A: International Code for Botanical Nomenclature
13. Match the following.
| I. Dry plant specimens | A. Botanical Gardens |
| II. Preserved Animal specimens | B. Museum |
| III. Living specimens of plants | C. Flora |
| IV. Index of plant species | D. Herbarium |
The correct matching is
A: I II III IV
D B A C
14. Match the following.
| I. Habitat and distribution | A. RBG |
| II. Information on 1 taxon | B. Herbarium |
| III. Repository for future use in Identification | C. Monograph |
| IV. International Centre for Identification | D. Flora |
The correct matching is
A: I II III IV
D C B A
15. Match the following.
| I. IBG | A. International for plants nomenclature |
| II. RBG | B. Lucknow |
| III. NBRI | C. Howrah |
| IV. ICBN | D. London (International for plant Identification) |
A: I II III IV
C B A D
16. Images of specimens are seen in
A: Digital Herbarium
17. Man belongs to the order
A: Primata
18. Arrange the following in sequence
A. Nomenclature B. Characterisation C. Identification
A: BCA(Characterisation, Identification, Nomenclature)
19. The defining properties of all organisms
A. Growth B. Metabolism C. Reproduction D. Irritability E. Self Consciousness
A: BD only(Metabolism, Irritability only)
20. Mango belongs to the family
A: Anacardiaceae
