2. Biological Classification Flashcards
___________ was the earliest to attempt a scientific basis of classification
Aristotle
Aristotle classified plants into - (3)
Trees, shrubs and herbs
He divided animals into _______ no of groups, one with ______ and one that did not.
Had red blood and those that did not
In Linnaeus time, _______ kingdom system of classification was used
2
The 2 kingdom system of classification didn’t distinguished between - (3)
Prokaryotes & Eukaryotes, Unicellular & multicellular, Photosynthetic & non-photosynthetic
The 2 kingdom system classification was totally based on -
Mode of nutrition, presence or absence of cell wall
In 2 kingdom classification, the bacteria was included under ‘Animals’. T/F
F, it was included under Plants
Monera cell wall is made up of _______ and ________
Polysaccharide + amino acid
Monera show autotrophic nutrition by acting as a - (2)
Chemosynthetic & Photosynthetic bacteria
Monera show heterotrophic nutrition by acting as a - (2)
Saprophytic & parasitic bacteria
Cellulose is present in cell wall of fungi. T/F
F. chitin is present
Mode of nutrition in fungi is - (2)
Saprophytic and parasitic
All protists don’t contain a cell wall. T/F
Fungi
T
F. they can be saprophytic
Animal
1969
F
Algae
cell structure, body organisation, mode of nutrition, reproduction and phylogenetic relationships
Protista, Chlamydomonas and Chlorella, Paramoecium and Amoeba
DigaQ. 1-A-Cocci, B - Bacilli, C - Spirilla, D-Vibrio: X-Spore, Y - Flagellum
Based on evolutionary relationship
Bacteria
T
T
Cocci, bacillus, vibrium, spirillum
F
Bacteria
F. mostly bacteria are heterotroph but not all
Archaebacteria
halophiles (extreme salty areas), thermoacidophiles (hot springs) & methanogens (marshy areas)
Different cell wall structure, branched chain lipids (phytanyl side chains)
Same as 33 and also absence of peptidoglycan
Methanogens
Chemoautotrophs
DigaQ. 2- Nostoc: A -Heterocyst, B-Mucilaginous sheath
T
F. it contains flagella
Blue green algae, chl a
Green plants
F. photosynthetic autotroph
T
F, it is filamentous
T
Gelatinous sheath
Blooms
Heterocysts
Anabaena, Nostoc
Chemosynthetic autotrophs, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia
Chemosynthetic autotrophs, N. P. Fe, S
Decomposers
Heterotrophic
DigaQ. 3-A-Cell wall, B - Cell membrane, C-DNA
F. they do fixation in legume roots
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae), typhoid (Salmonella typhi), tetanus (Clostridium tetani), citrus canker (Xanthomonas citri)
Filamentous
making curd from milk, production of antibiotics
F. in unfavourable conditions it produce spores
T
T
Mycoplasma
Fission, spore formation, sexual reproduction
Transformation, Conjugation, Transduction
T
F. fresh water also
F, can survive
Aquatic
Chrysophytes, Dinoflagellates, Euglenoids, Slime moulds and Protozoans
F. pathogenic in both plants and animals
Mycoplasma
Single celled eukaryotes
F. both sexually and asexually
F. both cilia and flagella
DigaQ. 4-A-Dinoflagellates, B - Euglena, C-Slime mould, D -Paramoecium
Diatoms and Golden algae (desmids)
thin, Soap box
Those who float passively in water currents
F. most are photosynthetic
Silica, indestructible
Cell wall deposits of diatoms
Polishing, filtration of oils and syrups
Yellow, green, brown, blue, red
Diatoms
Marine, photosynthetic
Rapid multiplication of red dinoflagellates
Stiff cellulosic plates
F. two flagella
T
Fresh
Gonyaulax
T
F. they kill them
Pellicle, protein
Pellicle
T
F. two flagella, one short one long
Higher plants
F. they are photosynthetic in presence of sunlight, in absence of sunlight they behave as heterotroph
Euglena
Saprophytic
F. engulfing organic material
Suitable, plasmodium
T
Air currents
F. it have unicellular org. like yeast
F, unfavorable
True
Heterotrophs
Amoeboid, Flagellated, Cilliated and Sporozoans
Predators or parasites
Fresh water, sea water or moist soil
Protozonas
Putting out pseudopodia
Silica
Amoeba, Entamoeba
Entamoeba
Trypanosoma - Sleeping sickness
Free-living or parasitic
F. outside cell surface
Gullet
Paramoecium
T
Plasmodium - Malaria
T
Mustard
Yeast
Penicillium
Chitin and polysaccharide
Puccinia
T
Lichen, mycorrhiza
Slender thread, hyphae
Mycorrhiza
Hyphae are continuous tubes filled with multinucleated cytoplasm
Mycelium
Lichens
Fragmentation, fission and budding
Oospore, ascospore and basidiospore
Conidia or sporangiospore or zoospore
Fruiting bodies
F. haploid spores
Plasmogamy Karyogamy and meiosis
Plasmogamy
Karyogamy
F. absorb soluble organic matter
T
Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes
F. (n+n) condition is seen ie, nuclei is not fused
Morphology of mycelium, mode of spore formation and fruiting bodies
T
Aseptate
DigaQ. 5-A-Mucor, B -Aspergillus, C-Agaricus
Mucor, Albugo, Rhizopus
Isogamous, anisogamous and oogamous
Endo. sporangium
F. it is Rhizopus
Saprophytic, decomposers, parasitic or coprophilous
AlbugoAlbugoAlbugo
branched, septate
Growing on dung
F. they can be
Mycelium
Saccharomyces
Aspergillus, Claviceps and Neurospora
Morels and truffles
Conidia
Asci, sac
Mushrooms, bracket fungi and puffballs
Ascospore, endo
Zoospore (motile) or aploanospore (non-motile)
Zygospore
Sac-fungi
Ascocarps
Neurospora
Exogenously, conidiophores
Rusts and smuts
F, asexual spore absent
F. absent
Branched and septate
Dikaryotic, basidium
Fragmentation
Imperfect fungi
Basidium
Somatic fusion
T
Exo, basidium
Agaricus (mushroom). Ustilago (smut) and Puccinia (rust fungus)
[Trick - Aaj(agaricus) Me(mushroom) Us(Ustilago) Se(Smut) Pareshan(Puccinia) Raha(rust)]
Basidiocarps
Sexual phase not present
Conidia
T
Saprophhytes, parasitic, decomposers of litter
Septate, branched
T
Alternaria, Colletotrichum and Trichoderma
Cuscuta
Glycogen and fat
Bladderwort, Venus fly trap
Holozoic
DigaQ. 6-X-Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV),
Y - Bacteriophage:
A-RNA. B-Capsid, C - Head, D - Collar,
E-Sheath, F- Tail fibres
F. parasitic plant like cuscuta lose their
chlorophyll
Inert crystalline
Acellular
Proteins
D. J. Ivanowsky (1892)
D. J. Ivanowsky (However this line is now removed from NCERT)
Venom, poisonous fluid
M. W. Beijerinek, tabacco, contagium vivum
fluidum, 1898
W. M. Stanley (1935)
Helical or polyhedral
F, they are obligate parasite
F, not both only one of them
Protect the nucleic acid
Nucleoprotein
ssRNA
ssRNA or dsRNA or dsDNA
Virus that infect bacteria
dsDNA
Capsomeres
mumps, small pox, herpes and influenza. AIDS
mosaic formation, leaf rolling and curling. yellowing and vein clearing, dwarfing and stunted growth.
T. O. Diener, 1971
F. smaller
T
RNA
Potato spindle tuber disease
F. low molecular weight
Prions
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly called mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD)
Uses of organisms
Pollution, polluted areas
Algae prepare food for fungi and fungi provide shelter and absorb mineral nutrients and water
Phycobiont, mycobiont
F. only one cell organelle i.e. Ribosomes
3, Archea, bacteria, eukarya
Two kingdom classification
T
T
T
Mucilagenous sheath