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AP EAMCET Zoology Unit 1: Diversity of Living World — practice questions

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Who is credited with introducing binomial nomenclature?Read the answer and worked solution →The starting point for valid zoological names is which year?Read the answer and worked solution →What is a binomial with identical genus and species words, such as Bison bison, called?Read the answer and worked solution →Who proposed the rank of domain in 1990?Read the answer and worked solution →Which rank lies directly above species in the hierarchy?Read the answer and worked solution →To which family does the red fox belong?Read the answer and worked solution →The red fox belongs to which order of mammals?Read the answer and worked solution →Class Mammalia is included in which phylum?Read the answer and worked solution →Which domain contains all organisms whose cells have a nucleus?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ending marks a family name in zoology?Read the answer and worked solution →A subspecies name like Canis lupus italicus has how many parts?Read the answer and worked solution →A taxon above the rank of species has a scientific name of how many parts?Read the answer and worked solution →A taxon that includes all descendants of an ancestral form is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Cladistics stemmed from the works of which German entomologist?Read the answer and worked solution →Who used the term clade in 1958?Read the answer and worked solution →Who formally named the dinosaur group in 1842?Read the answer and worked solution →Fossils of Archaeopteryx led Huxley to link dinosaurs with which living group?Read the answer and worked solution →Woese's three-domain system split which pair that was once one kingdom?Read the answer and worked solution →By what other name was the old kingdom of all prokaryotes sometimes known?Read the answer and worked solution →By the common definition, members of one species can produce what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which species type is proposed for asexual organisms?Read the answer and worked solution →A species concept based on ecological niches is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which species concept do palaeontologists use because fossils cannot be tested for reproduction?Read the answer and worked solution →Animals are best described as which kind of organisms?Read the answer and worked solution →Animal embryos develop from a hollow sphere of cells called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Of over 1.5 million described animal species, about how many are insects?Read the answer and worked solution →About when did the Cambrian explosion begin?Read the answer and worked solution →Aristotle divided animals into which two groups?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1874 Haeckel split animals into Metazoa and which single-celled group?Read the answer and worked solution →In the term metazoa, the prefix meta- stands for what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who is credited with introducing binomial nomenclature?

  1. Carl Linnaeus
  2. Ernst Haeckel
  3. Aristotle
  4. Charles Darwin
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Correct answer: A. Carl Linnaeus

The two-name system for species was formally introduced by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, beginning consistently with Species Plantarum.

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The starting point for valid zoological names is which year?

  1. 1758
  2. 1859
  3. 1753
  4. 1735
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Correct answer: A. 1758

Zoological nomenclature counts from 1 January 1758, the date of the tenth edition of Systema Naturae.

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What is a binomial with identical genus and species words, such as Bison bison, called?

  1. Tautonym
  2. Homonym
  3. Synonym
  4. Basionym
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Correct answer: A. Tautonym

A name whose two parts repeat the same word is a tautonym; the zoological code allows it but the plant code does not.

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