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AP EAMCET Botany Unit 4: Plant Systematics — practice questions

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Which activity is NOT one of the three main goals of plant taxonomy?Read the answer and worked solution →Determining the identity of an unknown plant by comparing it with known specimens is calledRead the answer and worked solution →Placing known plants into groups to show some relationship is termedRead the answer and worked solution →A formal account of a species newly discovered by science is a plantRead the answer and worked solution →In practice, plant systematics mainly deals withRead the answer and worked solution →The basic unit of classification is theRead the answer and worked solution →Several genera together make up aRead the answer and worked solution →The term Angiospermae was coined in 1690 byRead the answer and worked solution →Who in 1827 established the existence of truly naked ovules in cycads and conifers?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose 1851 discovery in the embryo-sac fixed gymnosperms as a class distinct from dicotyledons?Read the answer and worked solution →Another descriptive name for flowering plants, meaning flower-plants, isRead the answer and worked solution →The two traditional groups of flowering plants are Dicotyledoneae andRead the answer and worked solution →In the Cronquist system, the class Liliopsida takes its name from the familyRead the answer and worked solution →The class Magnoliopsida of the Cronquist system is named after the familyRead the answer and worked solution →In which year was the APG III system published?Read the answer and worked solution →Recent APG studies show that monocots form a clade, but dicots areRead the answer and worked solution →Most dicot species fall into the clade calledRead the answer and worked solution →The ICNafp replaced which earlier code?Read the answer and worked solution →Names of cultivated plants altered or selected by humans fall under theRead the answer and worked solution →The genus name Iris exists in both plants and animals becauseRead the answer and worked solution →Who coined the Latin name Digitalis in 1542?Read the answer and worked solution →Linnaeus adopted binomial names for plant species inRead the answer and worked solution →The Vienna Rules of botanical nomenclature date fromRead the answer and worked solution →The most recent botanical code mentioned, adopted in 2018, is theRead the answer and worked solution →The limits of a taxon are known as itsRead the answer and worked solution →When two genera are merged, which genus name must be used?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the ICN, family names must end withRead the answer and worked solution →Subfamily names under the ICN must end withRead the answer and worked solution →In APG 2009, the family Hyacinthaceae was merged into the enlarged familyRead the answer and worked solution →A collection of preserved plant specimens used for scientific study is aRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which activity is NOT one of the three main goals of plant taxonomy?

  1. Identification of plants
  2. Classification of plants
  3. Description of plants
  4. Hybridisation of plants
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Correct answer: D. Hybridisation of plants

The three goals are identification, classification and description; hybridisation is a breeding method, not a taxonomic goal.

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Determining the identity of an unknown plant by comparing it with known specimens is called

  1. plant nomenclature
  2. plant description
  3. plant classification
  4. plant identification
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Correct answer: D. plant identification

Identification links an unknown specimen to a published name by comparison with collected specimens or manuals.

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Placing known plants into groups to show some relationship is termed

  1. plant description
  2. plant identification
  3. plant preservation
  4. plant classification
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Correct answer: D. plant classification

Classification arranges known plants into a hierarchy of categories that shows relationships.

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