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Plant Kingdom · Question 94

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1

Phenetic classification of organisms is based on

  1. observable characteristics of existing organisms
  2. the ancestral lineage of existing organisms
  3. dendrogram based on DNA characteristics
  4. sexual characteristics.

Answer

(1) observable characteristics of existing organisms

Solution

Phenetic (numerical) classification groups organisms by overall similarity of their observable characters.

As per NCERT, numerical taxonomy is based on all observable characteristics; each character is given a number and code, and the data are processed by computers with equal weightage to all characters.

∵ Ancestral lineage is the basis of phylogenetic (cladistic) classification, not phenetic.

∴ Phenetic classification is based on observable characteristics of existing organisms.

Answer: (1)

AIPMT 2003

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2

Which one of the following pairs of plants are not seed producers?

  1. Fern and Funaria
  2. Funaria and Ficus
  3. Ficus and Chlamydomonas
  4. Funaria and Pinus
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3

Sexual reproduction in Spirogyra is an advanced feature because it shows

  1. different sizes of motile sex organs
  2. same size of motile sex organs
  3. morphologically different sex organs
  4. physiologically differentiated sex organs.
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4

Plants reproducing by spores such as mosses and ferns are grouped under the general term

  1. cryptogams
  2. bryophytes
  3. sporophytes
  4. thallophytes.
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5

Which one pair of examples will correctly represent the grouping spermatophyta according to one of the schemes of classifying plants?

  1. Acacia, sugarcane
  2. Pinus, Cycas
  3. Rhizopus, Triticum
  4. Ginkgo, Pisum
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6

Which one of the following is categorised under living fossils ?

  1. Cycas
  2. Metasequoia
  3. Pinus
  4. Selaginella
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7

Chlorenchyma is known to develop in the :

  1. Mycelium of a green mould such as Aspergillus
  2. Pollen tube of Pinus
  3. Cytoplasm of Chlorella
  4. Spore capsule of a moss
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8

Which of the following is without exception in angiosperms?

  1. Presence of vessels
  2. Double fertilisation
  3. Secondary growth
  4. Autotrophic nutrition
AIPMT 2002
9

Which of the following plants produces seeds but not flowers?

  1. Maize
  2. Mint
  3. Peepal
  4. Pinus
AIPMT 2002
10

Cycas has two cotyledons but not included in angiosperms because of

  1. naked ovules
  2. seems like monocot
  3. circinate ptyxis
  4. compound leaves
AIPMT 2001
11

A student observed an alga with chlorophyll a, d and phycoerythrin, it should belong to

  1. Phaeophyta
  2. Rhodophyta
  3. Chlorophyta
  4. Bacillariophyta
AIPMT 2000

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