Free The Living World (Daily Quiz: 3) NEET Biology Questions & Answers with Detailed Explanation & Full Review

Question-1

Who developed the 'key' for identification of animals?

(a) Goethe

(b) John Ray

(c) Theophrastus

(d) George Cuvier

Question-2

Static concept of species was put forward by

(a) Theophrastus

(b) de Candolle

(c) Linnaeus

(d) Darwin.

Question-3

Biosystematics aims at

(a) The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters

(b) Identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics

(c) Delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships

(d) The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies

Question-4

Which of the following 'suffixes' used for units of classification in plants indicates a taxonomic category of 'family'?

(a) – Onae

(b) – Ales

(c) –Aceae

(d) – Ae

Question-5

Which of the following taxonomic category of housefly is incorrectly matched?

(a) Family – Muscidae

(b) Genus – Musca

(c) Order – Primata

(d) Class – Insecta