Taxonomic Categories of Organisms

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Taxonomic Categories of Organisms: Overview

This topic consists of various concepts like Species According to Systematic Hierarchy,Taxon,Taxonomic Category, etc.

Important Questions on Taxonomic Categories of Organisms

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Give a complete classification of housefly and wheat.

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Select the incorrect match with respect to wheat: 

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Which of the following suffixes used for units of classification in plants indicating a taxonomic category?

A. -alesB. -inaeC. -aceaeD. -eae

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Species are considered as:

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Ascending or descending arrangement of taxonomic categories is known as 

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A group of animals which are related by descent and share many similarities are referred to as

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Family of housefly and mango are respectively:

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Identify the family and order of wheat.

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Class is a taxonomic category which includes:

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In which of the following, all examples are from same taxon (taxonomic rank)?

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Who proposed the seven kingdom system of classification?

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''All living organisms belonging to one species have same characters''. Write any three reasons for this similarity.

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Identify the missing taxonomic category in the plant kingdom classification system represented as "X" in the given picture

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Two animals belong to the same Kingdom but different classes. They may belong to the same ____.

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Instead of 'Division', the category used in animal classification is ________.

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The biological definition of a species depends on

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From the following, which taxonomic ranks contain organisms most similar to one another?

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Name the taxonomic term suggested for any rank in the classification.

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A population of similar organisms capable of interbreeding to form fertile offspring is

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Assertion (A): Species is an evolutionary unit.

Reason (R): Individuals of a species have a similar structure and functional characteristics.