5 Kingdom Classification

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1. Discuss how classification systems have undergone several changes over a period of time?

Q. Which of the following organisms lack a cell wall?
Mycoplasmas, Protozoans, Animals, Euglenoids, Fungi, Cyanobacteria

1. All have cell walls except animals
2. Mycoplasmas, Protozoans and Animals only
3. Mycoplasmas, Protozoans, Euglenoids, Animals, Fungi
4. Mycoplasmas, Protozoans, Animals, Euglenoids

Q. How many of the organisms given below are not included in Whittaker’s system of classification?
Cyanobacteria, Lichens, Mycoplasma, Slime moulds, Viroids, Prions

1. Five
2. Three
3. Four
4. Two

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Characteristics of 5 kingdom classification

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Who gave the phylogenetic classification system?

Q. Linnaeus placed bacteria, fungi along with plants in Kingdom Plantae. The character that unified these diverse groups is the

1. presence of cell membrane
2. presence of cell wall
3. similar mode of nutrition
4. similar mode of reproduction by spores

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Which kingdom do humans belong to?

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What are Phycomycetes in biology?

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What are the disadvantages of phylogenetic classification?

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Which among the following is not included in Whittaker’s Five Kingdom Classification?

1. Bacteria
2. Viruses
3. Algae
4. Fungi

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Question 15

How is the five kingdom classification advantageous over the two kingdom classification?

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What is the basic unit of taxonomy?

Q. Which one of the following is not the basis of five kingdom classification?

1. Cell structure
2. Body organisation
3. Reserve food material
4. Mode of nutrition

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Why did the two kingdom classification fail?

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Do prokaryotes have plastids?

Q. What is the word used for multinucleated cell

Q. Largest gametophyte is found in:

1. Cycas
2. Funaria
3. Selaginella
4. Pinus

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What are the advantages of phylogenetic classification?

Q. Taxonomy includes all, except

1. identification
2. nomenclature
3. classification
4. phylogeny

Q. The kingdom that includes the blue-green algae, the nitrogen fixing bacteria and the methanogenic archaea is

1. Animalia
2. Fungi
3. Protista
4. Monera

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What is two kingdom classification? Write its demerits.

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5 kingdom classification was given by

1. Morgan

2. R. H. Whittaker

3. Linnaeus

4. Haeckel

Q. Earliest scientific classification was given by Aristotle. Aristotle classified animals into

1. Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
2. Protozoa and Metazoa
3. Autotrophic and Heterotrophic
4. Those which had red blood and those which did not

Q. Give the general characters and examples of:
(i) Kingdom Monera
(ii) Kingdom Portista
(iii) Kingdom Fungi
(iv) Kingdom plantae
(v) Kingdom Animalia

Q. Where were the slime molds placed by Whittaker in his five Kingdom classification?

1. Fungi
2. Protista
3. Monera
4. Animalia

Q. Who among the following proposed the most latest classification system of the biological kingdoms?

1. Linnaeus
2. Haeckel
3. Whittaker
4. John Ray

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Algae belongs to Protista or plant

Q. Naked cytoplasm, multinucleated and saprophytic are the characteristics of-

1. Monera
2. Fungi
3. Slime molds
4. Protista

Q. Lichen is usually cited as an example of ‘symbiosis’ in plants where an algal and a fungal species live together for their mutual benefit. Which of the following will happen if algal and fungal partners are separated from each other?
a. Both will survive and grow normally and independent from each other
b. Both will die
c. Algal component will survive while the fungal component will die
d. Fungal component will survive while the algal partner will die
Based on your answer how do you justify this association as symbiosis.

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Question 2

The five kingdom classification was proposed by

(a) RH Whittaker (b) C Linnaeus (c) A Roxberg (d) Virchow