Taxonomy MCQs Provide knowledge of taxonomy in animal sciences, Develop concepts about importance of the systematics. Study the history of systematics with basic rules Demonstrate about identifications and naming of the organisms according to international code of zoological nomenclature.
Contents of Taxonomy MCQs
1. Importance and applications of systematics: Taxonomy in Animal science, systematics as a profession and its future perspectives.
2. History of taxonomy: systematics, basic terminology of systematics, theories of biological classifications
3. Taxonomic characters: Kinds and weightage, micro taxonomy, taxonomic categories: specific category, intraspecific category, higher categories; Species concept.
4. Typological species concept: Nominalist species concept, biological species concept, Evolutionary species concept. Kinds of different species, Speciation.
5. Taxonomic procedures, taxonomic collection; their preservation and duration, Taxonomic keys, different kinds of keys and their merits and demerits.
6. Formation of specific names, brief concept of cladistics, phylogenetic, Theory and practice of cladistics and phylogenetic systematics.
7. Systematics publications: International code of zoological nomenclature; its objective, principles, interpretation, application of important rules, with reference to: Zoological nomenclature, law of priority and validity of names.
1. In fact the ________now occupies the central position in hierarchy of organisms ?
A. Population
B. Community
C. Species
D. Deme
2. The effective killing agents in insects is ?
A. Methyl alcohol
B. Ethyl acetate
C. Ethyl alcohol
D. None
3. Species has three separate functions. It forms a ?
A. Reproductive community
B. Ecological unit
C. Genetical unit
D. All a, b, c
4. Sibley (1954) called these species like entities as ________which are discernible on the basis of partial reproductive isolation externally contrasting with free gene exchange internally ?
A. Syngameon
B. Varities
C. Semispecies
D. all a, b, c
5. among the chiggers, a group of mites only 3 species were known in 1900 and _____in 1966 ?
A. 512
B. 2250
C. 33
D. None of them
6._____ is used in reference to two or more related species which occupy the same macrohabitat ?
A. Allopatric
B. Syntopic
C. Allotopic
D. both a, b
7. Species known to be Linnean times to be present and based on morphological geographical data called_____?
A. Cosmopolitan species
B. Tropicopolitan species
C. Morpho-geographical species
D. Continental species
8. These species indicate the number of phylogenic lines or lineages occurring at any particular time ?
A. Parapatric species
B. Contemporaneous species
C. Philapatric species
D. both b,c
9. Polytypic species consisting of two or more sub-species firstly defined by ____ ?
A. White (1975)
B. Sibley (1954)
C. Huxley (1940)
D. Blackwelder (1967)
10. Those living on isolated island which owe their fauna to dispersal methods other than overland migration ?
A. Insular species
B. philapatric species
C. Incipient species
D. Para species
11. _____the first to differentiate the species sub-species and Varities ?
A. Beckener
B. Kant
C. Darwin
D. Wilson and brown
12._______of subordinate status but in reality cannot be segregated cannot be classified ?
A. Sub-species
B. Pseudotaxa
C. orders
D. None of them
13. Morphologically homogenous group of an organism which is either from a single locality or from a single kind of habitat and is the starting point in all classifications ?
A. Species
B. Deme
C. kingdom
D. both a&c
14. A gradation in measurable characters called___ ?
A. Cline
B. Deme
C. Varities
D. all a, b, c
16. Harward biologist Edward Wilson estimated that nearly ____species become extinct every day ?
A. 156
B. 140
C. 200
D. 170
17. Different types of _____are also quite useful in picking up large number of small insects and other arthropods ?
A. Net
B. Aspirators
C. plants
D. None of them
18. Organdy is an excellent material because it is cheap or does not bunch up the wings of ____ ?
A. Lepidoptera
B. orthoptera
C. birds
D. blatteria
19. It was proposed by Linnaeus and was in common used for many years ?
A. Cline
B. Deme
C. variety
D. all a, b, c
20. Darwin (1859) could not clearly define the species and he was not able to solve the problem of ______ ?
A. Genetics
B. speciation
C. variety
D. systematic
21. Taxonomy is considered as the Science of ?
A. Morphological study
B. Species interactions
C. Naming and describing species
D. a + b
22. In term of Taxonomy which name is easy to understand worldwide ?
A. Common
B. Scientific
C. both a & b
D. none of them
23. Who was the first tried to classify organisms on their structural basis?
A. Aristotle
B. Theophrastus
C. Carolus Linnaeus
D. Edward Alexander
24. Linnaeus classified organisms in average ?
A. 7000
B. 8000
C. 9000
D. 10000
25. ——– designed life and ———– did the filing ?
A. Allah Almighty/Aristotle
B. Linnaeus/GOD
C. Alexander/Linnaeus
D. GOD/Linnaeus
26. Unique name is a ?
A. Bilingual
B. Binomial
C. Code-switching
D. Multi-lingual
27. Basic unit of classification ?
A. Kingdom
B. Phylum
C. Class
D. Species
28. Species most important characteristic ?
A. Interbreed
B. reproduce offspring
C. Reproduction
D. All of them
29. Homologous describes ?
A. Same structure/different function
B. same function/different structure
C. Similar to analogous
D. same structure/same function
30. Analogous describes ?
A. Same structure/different function
B. same function/different structure
C. Similar to analogous
D. same structure/same function
31. Convergent evolution has link with ?
A. Homologous
B. Analogous
C. both
D. none
32. Cladistic as method to remove more subjectivity has exposure with ?
A. Homologous structures
B. Analogous structures
C. both
D. none
33. More objective way to determine relationship ?
A. Numerical taxonomy
B. Cladistic taxonomy
C. Molecular taxonomy
D. a & b
35. Monophyletic means ?
A. Uncertain original ancestor
B. Lost original ancestor
C. Same (Single) original ancestor
D. Complicated evolutionary link
36. Phylogeny means ?
A. Structural similarities
B. Evolutionary relationship
C. Histological relationship
D. Functional similarities
37. Morphology means ?
A. Functional trait
B. Structural form
C. Molecular phylogeny
D. None
38. Recent taxonomy is following ?
A. Two kingdom system
B. Organism based system
C. Five kingdom system
D. a & b
39. Fossils of species ?
A. Dead traces and no reproduction
B. Fertile
C. can reproduce still
D. living
40. Clade describes ?
A. Set of organisms living same place
B. Set of organisms with common traits
C. Set of organisms with different traits
D. Set of organisms with common ancestor
41. 80 % alcohol is preserved by which type of animal group ?
A. Tbysanura
B. orthoptora
C. plecoptera
D. both a & c
42. Which animal groups picking the things with forceps ?
A. odoanta
B. Isoptera
C. Embiopetera
D. both b & c
43. Annelids have habitats like ?
A. Debris
B. water bodies / Aquatic
C. herbs
D. none of them
44. The apparatus used for collecting small insects and arachnids is ?
A. Aspirator
B. Barrier funnels
C. both
D. none
45. The smallest insects preferred for the pointing mounting except ?
A. Dipetera
B. Mesquites
C. Grasshoppers
D. none
46. The method for hard bodies and small insects is ?
A. Cording
B. spreading
C. Mounting
D. None
47. The specimen which in subject to destruction is ?
A. Spreading
B. Mounting
C. storage
D. both a & b
48. A good key is strictly ?
A. non-dicholmous
B. Dichotomous
C. both
D. none
49. Dwellings soil and leaf litters are habitats of ?
A. Plecoptera
B. Tbysanura
C. Orthopotera
D. Odoanta
50. Mecoptera has habitat in ?
A. Leaf litters
B. Damp wooded places
C. both
D. none of them
51. 70% alcohol is used to preserved in ?
A. Diptera
B. Mites
C. ticks
D. all
52. Aranceae is a ?
A. Insect
B. spiders
C. none
D. both
53. Berlrse funnel is useful in ?
A. Animals
B. birds
C. extracting insects
D. none
54. The most commonly and widely used killing agent ?
A. Potassium cyanide
B. calcium cyanide
C. Nitrogen cynade
D. None
55. The journal “Curator” is published by ?
A. American museum of natural history
B. University of Pennsylvania
C. Both
D. None
56. For relaxing insect a cotton swab soaked in about phenol ?
A. 10-12ml
B. 10-15ml
C. 10-13ml
D. None
57. The English pins have length of ?
A. 18-30mm
B. 17-20mm
C. 18-20mm
D. 16-30mm
58. The methods of identification animals are ?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 4
D. 6
59. Described species of animals ?
A. 0.5 million
B. million
C. 1.5 million
D. million
60. Awaiting discovery of animals ?
A. 2-10 million
B. 3-10 million
C. 4-10 million
D. 30 million
61. Provides the only key for information ?
A. Name
B. Structure
C. existence
D. none
62. Who points out all steps for environmental research ?
A. Aristotle
B. Linnaeus
C. Mandle
D. Sailor
63. Thinking population has their concern with ?
A. Parasitology
B. molecular biology
C. Theoretical biology
D. all of them
64. Which one is more effective?
A. Radiation control
B. Biological control
C. Chemical control
D. a + b
65. Taxonomist who took samples of mosquitoes ?
A. Hackett
B. bates
C. Hackett & bates
D. none of them
66. Who play important role in the identification of flora and fauna?
A. Paleontologist
B. microbiologist
C. histologist
D. mammologist
67. Agents cause environment problems ?
A. Flora
B. Fauna
C. mimic
D. pollutants
68. Soil fertility means ?
A. Ability to grow slow
B. Ability to grow healthy
C. Inability to grow fast
D. Inability to grow healthy
69. Which of the following organisms can be found in extreme saline conditions?
A. Eubacteria
B. Archaebacteria
C. Cyanobacteria
D. Mycobacteria
70. Linnaeus used which kingdom of classification?
A. Artificial system
B. Natural system
C. Phylogenetic system
D. Asexual system
71. Smallest Taxon of classification is ?
A. Kingdom
B. Family
C. Variety
D. Species
72. In which kingdom are Archaea and Nitrogen-fixing organisms classified?
A. Animalia
B. Plantae
C. Monera
D. Fungi
73. Bentham and Hooker gave which system of classification?
A. Numerical
B. Phylogenetic
C. Artificial
D. Natural
74. What is the main basis of classification in the five kingdom system?
A. Structure of nucleus
B. Structure of cell wall
C. Asexual Reproduction
D. Mode of Nutrition
75. Which one of the following is not applied for fungi?
A. They are eukaryotic
B. they are heterotrophic
C. they are both unicellular and multicellular
D. They possess a purely cellulosic cell wall
76. Linnaeus evolved a system of nomenclature called ?
A. Vernacular
B. Monomial
C. Polynomial
D. Binomial
77. What is a Taxon ?
A. A group of related families
B. A type of living organisms
C. A group of related species
D. A group of any ranking
78. Phylogenetic classification is based on ?
A. Overall similarities
B. Habit of plants
C. Common evolutionary descendants
D. All of these
79. Organizing taxonomic information in logical classification is called_________?
A. Systematic
B. Phenetic
C. Phylogenetic
D. Dendogram
80. Who is considered as the father of taxonomy?
A. Aristotle
B. Linnaeus
C. Earnest Haeckel
D. Whittaker
81. What is tautonym?
A. These are the repeated sequences
B. It is a name of fish
C. Identical name of genus and species
D. It is a name of the genus
82. What is the term given to a duplicate specimen of original type?
A. Lectotype
B. Holotype
C. Isotype
D. Neotype
83. Systematic is ?
A. Identification
B. nomenclature
C. relationships and classification
D. all the above
84. Classification deals with ?
A. Identification of organisms
B. arranging organisms into groups
C. Arranging organisms in herbaria and museums
D. naming, identification and grouping of organism
85. New systematic differs from classical systematic in employing ?
A. Experimental taxonomy
B. biochemical and cytotaxonomy
C. All biological parameters
D. numerical taxonomy
86. Taxonomy is important in agriculture because it helps in ?
A. Identification of plant pests
B. identification of weeds
C. identification of pathogens
D. All
87. Study of only one or a few organisms for obtaining knowledge about species/higher group is ?
A. Nominalistic concept
B. classical systematic
C. typological concept
D. new systematic
88. Phylogenetic system differs from a natural system in its stress on ?
A. Anatomical details
B. physiological traits
C. morphological details
D. origin and evolutionary trends
89. Two organisms with different correlated morphological characters belong to ?
A. One biological species
B. one taxonomic species
C. two biological species
D. two taxonomic species
90. In an artificial system of classification ?
A. A large number of characters are taken into consideration
B. correlated characters are relied upon
C. Physiological characters are relied upon
D. one or a few morphological characters are considered
91. Lectotype is ?
A. Duplicate of holotype
B. specimen described along with holotype
C. Specimen cited by author without making one holotype
D. Specimen selected from original material for nomenclature type when there is no holotype
92. Isotype is a specimen ?
A. Duplicate of holotype
B. Described along with holotype
C. Nomenclature type when the original is missing
D. Cited by author when there is no holotype
93. Neotype is ?
A. Nomenclature type from original material
B. Nomenclature type when the original material is missing
C. One of the two or more specimens cited by author
D. New species discovered by a scientist
94. Who developed the concept of phylogeny?
A. Linnaeus
B. Lamarck
C. Hippocrates
D. Ernst Haeckel
95. The scientist who first gave the dynamic concept of species ?
A. Julian Huxley
B. Linnaeus
C. Lamarck
D. john ray
96. Classification reflecting the evolutionary inter relationships of organisms is called ?
A. Phylogenetic classification
B. artificial classification
C. natural classification
D. None
97. Cytotaxonomy is a form of ?
A. Classical systematic
B. new systematic
C. morpho-systematics
D. all the above
98. Classification based on chromosome study or organisms is ?
A. Biochemical taxonomy
B. karyotaxonomy
C. numerical taxonomy
D. experimental taxonomy