The Living world🟢 Flashcards

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Which of the following are defining feature and not defining features of living organisms

Growth
Reproduction
Metabolism
Cellular Organisation
Consciousness

A

Not Defining Characteristics -
Growth, Reproduction

Defining Feature -
Metabolism, Cellular Organisation, Consciousness

Internal Growth is also Defining Feature

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Twin Characteristics of Growth are -

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Increase in Mass and Increase in number

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How do the following Reproduce?
Fungi
Lower organisms like Yeast and Hydra
Planaria (Flat worms)
Fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of mosses

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Fungi multiple by asexual spore
Yeast & hydra by budding
Planaria by true regeneration
Fungi, filam. algae and POM by fragmentation

Yeast is the only unicellular fungi

In unicellular organisms like Bacteria, Uni. Algae or amoeba, reproduction is synonym to growth.

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Organisms that Do not reproduce

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Mules, Sterile worker bees and Infertle Human Couple

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In Biology, with respect to Energy exchange
Catabolism is ____ and Anabolism is ______

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Catabolism is Exogenic
Anabolism is Endogenic

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The scientific naming is based on agreed principles and criteria provided in _________ for plants and ________ for animals

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Plants - International Code for Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN)
Animals - Internation Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)

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Potato and brinjal’s Scientific Name

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Potato - Solanum tuberosum
Brinjal - Solanum melongena

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Tell Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Scientific name of
Man
Housefly
Mango
Wheat

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Man - Chordata Mammalia Primata Hominidae Homo || Homo sapiens

Housefly - Arthropoda Insecta Diptera Muscidae Musca || Musca domestica

Mango - Angiospermae Dicotyledonae Sapindales Anacardiaceae Mangifera || Mangifera indica

Wheat - Angiospermae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Triticum || Triticum aestivum

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What form the basis of modern taxonomic studies.

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External and internal structure, structure of cell, development process and ecological information of organisms are essential and form the basis of modern taxonomic studies.

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