• 1. 
    Which of these is the most advanced phylogenetically among the dicotyledonous families?

  • Scrophulariaceae
  • Acanthaceae
  • Umbelliferae
  • Compositae
  • 2. 
    The substitute for the newly collected specimen when the original type material is missing in a herbarium is entitled as

  • Holotype
  • Neotype
  • Lectotype
  • Isotype
  • 3. 
    If all the puddles and ponds are destroyed, the entities likely to be destroyed are

  • Plasmodium
  • Ascaris
  • Leishmania
  • Trypanosoma
  • 4. 
    In the five-kingdom system of classification, into which kingdom would you classify nitrogen-fixing organisms and archaea?

  • Fungi
  • Plantae
  • Protista
  • Monera
  • 5. 
    This is considered as a demerit of the ‘Engler and Prantl’ in the system of classification

  • Gymnosperms are placed between monocotyledons and dicotyledons
  • Dicotyledons are placed after monocotyledons
  • Dicotyledons are placed before monocotyledons
  • Gymnosperms are placed among Dicotyledons
  • 6. 
    Phenetic classification is based on

  • Observable characteristics of existing entities
  • The ancestral lineage of existing organisms
  • Dendrograms based on DNA characteristics
  • Sexual characteristics
  • 7. 
    Difference between the natural system of plant classification and artificial system of classification is

  • Considers only one vegetative character
  • Considers all the similarities between plants
  • Considers only one floral character
  • All of the above
  • 8. 
    This system of classification was used by Linnaeus

  • Phylogenetic system
  • Natural system
  • Artificial system
  • Asexual system
  • 9. 
    Pick the right sequence of taxonomic categories

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  • division-class-order-family-tribe-genus-species
  • division-order-class-family-genus-tribe-species
  • 10. 
    ‘New Systematics’ term was coined by

  • Linnaeus
  • Bentham and Hooker
  • A.P. de Candolle
  • Juliane Huxley
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