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Two kingdom classification was proposed by

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Important Questions on Five Kingdom Classification

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Match the following lists:

  List I   List II
A) Theophrastus I) By hybridization and genetic engineering
B) C.G.K. Ramanujam II) Electron Microscope
C) Progress in floriculture and forestry III) Described the internal and external characters of plants
D) Knoll and Ruska IV) Developed the science of pollen

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Match the following Columns:

Columns - I Columns - II
a Father of Taxonomy i Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
b Father of Zoology ii Carolus Linnaeus
c Father of Medicine iii Aristotle
d Father of Biology iv Julian Huxley
e Concept of Genus v Hippocrates
f Father of Neotaxonomy vi Ernst Mayr
g Darwin of 20thcentury vii Hooker
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Bentham and Hooker's divided the following plants into 3 classes which include
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Engler and Prantl published a phylogenetic system in the monograph ______
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Assertion (A): Numerical taxonomy requires mathematical methods and computers.
Reason (R): All characters are given codes, numbers and with equal importance, and hundreds of characters are to be evaluated.
The correct option among the following is:
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Assertion (A): Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were responsible for the development of Botany into a science.
Reason (R) : They are regarded as Father of Botany. 

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Identify and arrange the following taxonomic categories in ascending order.
A) Hominidae
B) Triticum
C) Spermatophyta
D) sapiens
E) Primata
F) Insecta
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Match Column-I with Column-II for housefly classification and select the correct option using the codes given below:
 
Column – I Column – II
a. Family (i) Diptera
b. Order (ii) Arthropoda
c. Class (iii) Muscidae
d. Phylum (iv) Insecta
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Match the following
   List - I     List - II
(a) Charles Darwin (i) Systema Naturae
(b) John Ray (ii) Natural History
(c) Buffon (iii) Historia Generalis plantarum
(d) Linnaeus (iv) The origin of species

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Match the following lists:

  List -I   List -II
(A) Identification of Auxins (I) Frankel Conrat
(B) C4 pathway (ii) Charles Darwin
(C) Discovery of genetic nature of RNA (iii) J.B.Sumner
(D) Theory of evolution (iv)  F.W. Went
  (v) Hatch & Slack
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Which one of the following pairs was excluded from Whittaker's five kingdom classification?
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One of the following scientists was the earliest to attempt more scientific basis for classification __________
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Five kingdom system of classification suggested by R.H. Whittaker is not based on:
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The replacement of two kingdoms grouping by five kingdom classification was proposed in the year
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Discuss how classification systems have undergone several changes over a period of time?
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Both Chlamydomonas and Chlorella are autotrophic and both have a cell wall, whereas both Paramoecium and Amoeba are heterotrophic and both lack cell wall, then why did R.H. Whittaker place all of them under the same kingdom?
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In the five-kingdom classification, which kingdom occupies an intermediate position from a phylogenetic point of view?