A place used for storing, preservation and exhibition of both plants and animals is known as
Museum
Zoos
Botanical gardens
Herbarium
Related Questions
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
Which is first step in taxonomy?
Description of the organism
Identification of the organism
Nomenclature of the organism
Classification of the organism
In the hierarchical system of classification, which category comes immediately after 'Kingdom'?
Class
Order
Phylum/Division
Family
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
The number of species classified in “Species Plantarum” is
5000
6000
4000
3800
ICVCN stands for
International Code of Virus Nomenclature
International Code of Valuation in Nomenclature
International Code of viral Classification and Nomenclature
International Code of Virulence Nomenclature
A living organism can be easily distinguished from non-living on the basis of
Movement
Respiration
Excretion
Responsiveness to stimuli
The number of species classified in “Species Plantarum” is
Around 6,000
Around 2,000
Around 10,000
Around 20,000
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)
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
