Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Biology-GK

Order being a higher category, is the assemblage of families which exhibit a few similar characters.

Vertebrate, also called Craniata, any animal of the subphylum Vertebrata, the predominant subphylum of the phylum Chordata.

Vertebrae are the 33 individual bones that interlock with each other to form the spinal column. The vertebrae are numbered and divided into regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx.

Biological classification of plants and animals was first proposed by Aristotle on the basis of simple morphological characters.

In the five kingdom classification, bacteria are included in Kingdom Monera. Bacteria are cosmopolitan in distribution. These organisms show the most extensive metabolic diversity. Bacteria may be autotrophic or heterotrophic in their mode of nutrition.

Bryophytes include the various mosses and liverworts that are found commonly growing in moist shaded areas in the hills. Bryophytes are also called amphibians of the plant kingdom because these plants can live in soil but are dependent on water for sexual reproduction.

The 'branch of botany' which deals with the classification 'nomenclature and identification' is taxonomy.

Carolus Linnaeus is known as the father of Taxonomy.

Bats can fly in dark because they produce ultrasonic waves. The bats possess very poor vision. It cannot see in dark. It produces ultrasonic waves which strike with the obstacles present on its way. The bat receives its echo and changes its path to protect itself from collision.

The term taxon was first used in 1926 by Adolf Meyer-Abich for animal groups, as a backformation from the word Taxonomy.