Which is first step in taxonomy?
Description of the organism
Identification of the organism
Nomenclature of the organism
Classification of the organism
Related Questions
Term ‘Taxonomy’ was coined by
De Candolle
Takhtajan
Linnaeus
Aristotle
Which one is correctly written scientific name?
Panthera Tigris
Mangifera indica
Panthera Leo
Columnba LIVEA
Certain members of the kingdom Protista exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals. Which of the following combinations correctly identifies a protist with plant-like and animal-like features, respectively?
Diatoms (plant-like: cell wall of silica); Paramecium (animal-like: cilia for movement)
Euglena (plant-like: photosynthetic); Amoeba (animal-like: heterotrophic by phagocytosis)
Slime molds (plant-like: saprophytic); Dinoflagellates (animal-like: bioluminescence)
Amoeba (plant-like: pseudopodia); Paramecium (animal-like: heterotrophic)
Binomial system of nomenclature was given by
Engler
Linaeus
Prantl
Both (a) and (c )
Who had written? Systema Naturae
Ernst Mayr
Carolus Linnaeus
RH Whittaker
WM Stanley
Third name in trinomial nomenclature indicate
Species
Sub-species
Sub-genus
Ecotype of organism
Choose the wrong statements regarding universal rules of nomenclature
The first word in a biological name represents the genus
The first word denoting the genus starts with a capital letter
Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten are separately underlined
Biological names are generally in English and written in italics
Tautonym is
Unscientific explanation of a phenomenon
Common name used as a scientific name
Nonlatinised name
Same name for genus and species
A ‘taxa’ differ from ‘taxon’ due to
Being a higher taxonomic category than taxon
Being a lower taxonomic category than taxon
Being a plural of taxon
Being singular of taxon
An example for the artificial system of classification is
Betham and Hooker
Linnaeus system
Engler and Prantl
Bessey
