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1. The document discusses taxonomy and the hierarchical classification of organisms, mentioning several important figures in the field like Linnaeus, Cuvier, De Candolle, and Engler and Prantl. 2. It notes that Linnaeus originally used a 5-level taxonomic hierarchy of Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus, and Species in his biological classification system. 3. The modern 7-level hierarchy used in taxonomy includes Kingdom, Phylum/Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.

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1. The document discusses taxonomy and the hierarchical classification of organisms, mentioning several important figures in the field like Linnaeus, Cuvier, De Candolle, and Engler and Prantl. 2. It notes that Linnaeus originally used a 5-level taxonomic hierarchy of Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus, and Species in his biological classification system. 3. The modern 7-level hierarchy used in taxonomy includes Kingdom, Phylum/Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.

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iErriunity -foi, the Notel prize. s2. (4) Lower the taxon (category) the,.rnore
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spore-forming bacterium Bac illus anthracis, s3. (3) This code of nomenblature has'bcen '

27. (1) Cuvier, known as the father of paleontolory, also English and French, and uses Latin and Greek
suggested theory of Catastrophism to explain the for binomial nomenclature.
origin of life. s4. (3) Indented key provides sequence of choices
28. (4) According to this concept the members of a species two or more characters.
can interbreed among themselves, but rernain ss. (1) The 5- kingdoms included Monera, Protista,
reproductively isolated from other such groups. Plantae andAnimalia
2e" (4) Linnaeus in the hierarchy used only S-taxa. He did s6. (2) He used only 5- taxa in the hierarchy, i.e.
notuse phylum and family. Order, Genus, Species and Variety.
30. (3) The term taxonomy lvas given by A.P. De Condole. s7. (3) s8. (1) se. (1)
31. (1) The related families are classified in Order. 60. (2) The species which do not have sub-species are
32. (3) Phenetic classification is also known as numerical monotypic species.
truronomy. 61. (4)
33. (3) 34. (1) 3s. (3) 62. (4) Such type of classification was used by Linnaeus.
36. (3) The species distributed in different geographical area 63. (3)
are called allopatric. The species of different time 64. (3) The 7- basic categories are Kingdom, Phylum,
period are knorrn as allochronic species. Order, Family, Genus and Species.
37. (2) 38. (1) 3e. (l) 6s. (1) 66. (3)
40. (2) Cladistics is the system of classification showing 61. (r) Lamarck and Treviranus suggested the
branching due to geographical isolation at different 'Biology'.
levels.
68. (4) The two domains, Archaea and Bacteria cover
41. (2) 42. (3) 43. (1) kingdoms, i.e. Archaebacteria and Bacteria.
44. (4) In place ofphylum and sub- species, the botanists use
6e. (3) John Ray also intoduced the terms species
division and variety respectively. genus.
4s. (3)
70. (2) 71. (3)
46. (1) There are three domains, namely Archaea, bacteria
72. (3) Assigring the scientific names to the organisms
and Eukarya.
called Nomenclature.
47. (4) Scientific name of horse is Equus cabqllus while that 73. (2)
of ass is Equus hemionus.
74. (2) Engler and Prantl used Phylogenetic system
48. (3) Taxon can be used for any taxonomic rank.
classification for angiosperms.

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