Which of the following combinations of characters is unique to the phylum Chordata?
Bilateral symmetry, triploblastic, coelomate
Notochord, dorsal hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits, post-anal tail
Closed circulatory system, segmented body, jointed appendages
Radial symmetry, diploblastic, acoelomate
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Diatoms belong to which kingdom and are characterized by their unique cell walls made of what?
Plantae, cellulose
Protista, silica
Fungi, chitin
Monera, peptidoglycan
Phenetic classification of organism is based on
Observable characteristics of existing organisms
The ancestral lineage of existing organism
Dendrogram based on DNA characteristics
Sexual characteristics
The term used to describe a plant species found only in a specific valley in the Himalayas is:
Indigenous
Exotic
Ubiquitous
Endemic
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic used in the five-kingdom classification system?
Mode of nutrition
Cell structure
Phylogenetic relationships
Presence or absence of a coelom
A living organism can be easily distinguished from non-living on the basis of
Movement
Respiration
Excretion
Responsiveness to stimuli
In the hierarchical classification system, which category comes directly below 'Phylum'?
Order
Class
Family
Genus
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
Endemism is most likely to occur in which of the following environments?
Vast Continents
Widely Connected Rivers
Migratory Bird Flyways
Isolated Islands
A place used for storing, preservation and exhibition of both plants and animals is known as
Museum
Zoos
Botanical gardens
Herbarium
Which of the following features distinguishes fungi from plants?
Presence of cell wall
Eukaryotic cell structure
Heterotrophic mode of nutrition
Reproduction by spores
