TS EAMCET Living World — practice questions
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Practice TS EAMCET Living World in the app →About how many species are known and described so far?Standardising names so an organism has the same name worldwide is calledDescribing an organism correctly so we know which organism a name belongs to isWhich international code lays down rules for naming animals?Which body governs the naming of viruses?How is a biological name marked when it is handwritten?In a correctly written binomial, which part begins with a capital letter?In Mangifera indica Linn., what does Linn. tell us?Where does the author's name appear in a biological name?Grouping organisms into convenient categories by easily observable characters isGroups such as dogs, mammals, wheat and plants are scientifically termedWhich is NOT one of the processes basic to taxonomy?The Latin word systema, the root of systematics, meansWhich title by Linnaeus shares its Latin root with systematics?Besides naming and classifying, systematics also takes into accountAll taxonomic categories arranged together in ranked steps form theInsects form a recognisable group because they all shareThe lowest category in the classification of all organisms isIn plants, classes with a few similar characters form a higher category calledPotato and brinjal are different species of which genus?Domestic cats are placed in which genus?Plant families are characterised on the basis ofDogs are placed in which family?Families are grouped into the order Polymoniales mainly on the basis ofMonkey, gorilla and gibbon are grouped in which order?Compared with a family, members of an order share similar characters that areWhich features unite animals in phylum Chordata?All animal phyla are grouped together in which category?Moving up from species to kingdom, the number of shared characteristicsWhy does classification grow more complex at higher categories?The housefly, Musca domestica, belongs to which order?Wheat, Triticum aestivum, belongs to which family?Mango, Mangifera indica, is placed in which order?Humans, Homo sapiens, belong to which family?Mango is placed in which class of flowering plants?Genera are best described as aggregates of closely relatedSolanum melongena is the scientific name of which plant?One species is told apart from closely related species mainly byWhich is NOT a basis of modern taxonomic studies?Linnaeus began consistent binomial naming of plants in which work of 1753?Before Linnaeus, which botanist often pruned Latin plant descriptions to two words?Carl Linnaeus, father of binomial naming, was a botanist fromA name like Bison bison, with both parts identical, is called aWhen the same name is used for more than one species, it is called aA species has several names in use; all but the correct one are calledWhen a species moves to another genus, which part is usually kept?In the form Canis spp., the abbreviation spp. indicatesA dagger symbol placed beside a binomial name shows the species isIn Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758), the brackets show the species wasZoological nomenclature treats which year as its starting point?The Latin epithet sapiens in Homo sapiens meansWhy is sacred bamboo Nandina domestica, not Nandina domesticus?A genitive epithet honouring a woman named Hodgson would beWhy may Huia name both a plant genus and a frog genus?In the shortened name E. coli, the letter E stands forIn the mnemonic Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup, Came stands forThe red fox, Vulpes vulpes, belongs to which family?Why is the family of genus Homo named Hominidae, not Homidae?A group from which some descendant groups have been removed isHow many main ranks run from kingdom down to species?What is the standardised naming of living organisms called?Knowing exactly which organism a name is attached to is called what?The ICBN lays down the principles for naming which group?How many components does a scientific name have in binomial nomenclature?Who gave the two-word system of naming organisms used worldwide today?In Mangifera indica, which word is the specific epithet?In a biological name, which part begins with a small letter?Which term is used for categories such as dogs, mammals, wheat and plants?Systematics takes into account which kind of relationships among organisms?All taxonomic categories together constitute the taxonomic what?Which is the lowest taxonomic category in both plants and animals?Which category takes the place of phylum in plant classification?Which is the highest of the common taxonomic categories?A group of individuals with fundamental similarities is called what?Which specific epithet denotes the tiger in the genus Panthera?Bacterial nomenclature restarted with which starting point?Bison bison has two identical parts. Which code permits such names?Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) has the authority in brackets. Why?Which German entomologist's work gave rise to cladistics?A group that includes an ancestor and all its descendants is called what?