The Living World · Question 15

Which one of the following organisms is scientifically correctly named, correctly printed according to the international Rules of Nomenclature and correctly described?

1. Musca domestica – the common house lizard, a reptile
2. Plasmodium falciparum – a protozoan pathogen causing the most serious type of malaria.
3. Felis tigris – the Indian tiger, well protected in Gir forests.
4. E. coli – full name Entamoeba coli, a commonly occurring bacterium in human intestine.

Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?

1. Isolated metabolic reactions occur in vitro
2. Increase in mass from inside only
3. Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory.
4. Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally.

Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular taxonomic category?

1. Tiger – tigris, species
2. Cuttlefish – Mollusca, class
3. Humans – Primata, family
4. Housefly – Musca, order

ICBN stands for

1. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
2. International Congress of Biological Names
3. Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature
4. Indian Congress of Biological Names

The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non-living things on the basis of their ability for

1. interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
2. reproduction
3. growth and movement
4. responsiveness to touch

Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they

1. have more than 90 percent similar genes
2. look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites
3. have same number of chromosomes
4. can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds

Biological organization starts with:

1. Cellular level
2. Atomic level
3. Organismic level
4. Submicroscopic molecular level

Species are considered as

1. real basic units of classification
2. the lowest units of classification
3. artificial concept of human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms
4. real units of classification devised by taxonomists.

Biosystematics aims at

1. the classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
2. delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
3. the classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
4. identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics.

Nicotiana sylvestris flowers only during long days and N. tabacum flowers only during short days. If raised in the laboratory under different photoperiods, they can be induced to flower at the same time and can be cross-fertilized to produce self-fertile offspring. What is the best reason for considering N. sylvestris and N. tabacum to be separate species?

1. They cannot interbreed in nature
2. They are reproductively distinct
3. They are physiologically distinct
4. They are morphologically distinct