Consider the hierarchical categories: Family, Order, Genus, and Species. Which represents the most inclusive category followed by the most exclusive in the correct order?
Genus, Family
Family, Species
Order, Species
Species, Order
Related Questions
In five kingdom classification the unicellular prokaryotic organisms were classified under kingdom
Protista
Monera
Animalia
Plantae
Phylogenetic system of classification was proposed by
Linnaeus
Bentham
Hutchinson
Theophrastus
Select the incorrect match w.r.t taxonomic categories of mango.
Family – Anacardiaceae
Order - Dicotyledonae
Division – Angiospermae
Genus – Mangifera
Taxonomic hierarchy refers to
Stepwise arrangement of all categories for classification of plants and animals
A group of senior taxonomists, who decide the nomenclature of plants and animals
A list of botanists or zoologists, who have worked on taxonomy of a species or group
Classification of a species based on fossil record
This of the following taxonomist described classification of plant in ‘Families of flowering plants’?
John Hutchinson
George Bentham
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Armen Takhtajan
Which of the following is a category?
Division
Phylum
Viruses
Both (a) and (b)
The basic unit of classification is:
Genus
Species
Family
Order
Which of the following is a merit in the Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification?
The position of gymnosperms in between dicots and monocots
Closely related families are placed apart
The placement of family-Asteraceae in the beginning of Gamopetalae
The placement of order-Ranals in the beginning
Select the wrong statements.
(I) Lower the taxon, more are the characteristics that the member within the taxon share.
(II) Order is the assemblage of genera which exhibit a few similar characters.
(III) Cat and dog are included in the same family-Felidae.
(Iv) Binomial nomenclature was introduced by Carolus Linnaeus.
I and II
II and III
III
II and IV
The first phylogenetic system of plant classification was proposed by
Engler
Engler and Prantl
Eichler
Bentham and Hooker
