BIOLOGY MCQS PRACTICE (OSSTET & RHT)
1. First Life On Earth Was ?
a) Chemoautotroph
b) Autotroph
c) Photoautotroph
d) None of the Above
2. Taxa Differs From Taxon ?
a) Taxa is a higher taxonomic catagory than Taxon
b) Taxa is the Plural of Taxon
c) Taxa is Lower Taxonomic Catagory than Taxon
d) Taxa is the Singular of Taxon
3. Which of the following is an example of Taxon ?
a) Genera
b) Family
c) Class
d) All the Above
4. In Taxonomic Hierarchy, Family Comes Between ?
a) Class and Order
b) Order and Genus
c) Genus and Species
d) Division and Class
5. Class is Present Between ?
a) Kingdom and Phylum
b) Phylum and Order
c) Order and Family
d) Family and Genus
6. What Means Diversity of Life Forms ?
a) Biological Classification
b) Taxonomy
c) Biodiversity
d) Hierarchy
7. The System of Giving One Name to Individual is Called As
?
a) Semi Binomial System
b) Quasi Binomial System
c) Uninominal System
d) Mono Nominal System
8. Binomial Nomenclature Means Writing The Name of
Individual in Two Words i.e
a) Genus and Species
b) Genus and Order
c) Order and Family
d) Class and Genus
9. The Science of Naming Organism is Called As ?
a) Classification
b) Identification
c) Nomenclature
d) Taxonomy
10. Binomial Nomenclature Means ?
a) Giving Individual Two Name . One Scientific and
Other Local
b) One Name Given By Two Scientist
c) One Scientific Name Consisting of Species and
Generic Name
d) None of the Above
11. ICVN Stands For ?
a) International Code of Veterinary Nomenclature
b) International Code Of Viral Nomenclature
c) International Code For Vernacular Nomenclature
d) International Code For Vertebrate Nomenclature
12. Organisms Are Classified to ?
a) Make the Study of Organism Easy
b) Understand the Inter Relationship Between Species
c) To Study Evolutionary Biology Easy
d) All the Above
13. Several Genera Resembling One Another in Different
Characters forming ?
a) Order
b) Family
c) Phylum
d) Species
14. Species is ?
a) Group of Individual Occurring in a Geographical
Area
b) Population of One Type
c) Population of Individuals with Similar Genotypic and
Phenotypic Trait
d) Population of Inter Breeding Individual
15. The Term Species Was Given By ?
a) John Ray
b) Carolous Linnaeus
c) Aristotle
d) Darwin
16. Which of the following Rank Contains Group of
Similar Individuals ?
a) Genus
b) Species
c) Class
d) Family
17. Which of the following is not in Hierarchical Order ?
a) Class, Order , Family
b) Family, Order, Class
c) Phylum, Order, Family
d) Class , Family, Genus
18. Which Nomenclature System is Implemented For
Naming of Organism?
a) Vernacular
b) Binomial
c) Monomial
d) Polynomial
19. ICBN Stands For ?
a) International Code For Biological Naming
b) International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
c) International Class of Botanical Nomenclature
d) International Code For Bacterial Naming
20. Each Unit of a Catagory of Classification Can Be
Called As ?
a) Order
b) Cohort
c) Taxon
d) Trophic Level
21. In India, Largest Herbarium is Located in ?
a) Lucknow
b) Delhi
c) Dehradun
d) Kolkata
22. Which Covers Largest Number of Individuals ?
a) Order
b) Genus
c) Phylum
d) Class
23. Binomial Nomenclature By Linnaeus Was Described
in Which of the following Book ?
a) Historia Plantarum
b) Fungi and Plant Disease
c) Philospohia Botanica
d) Species Plantarum
24. The Branch of Botany, which deals with the study of
Classification, Identification and Nomenclature of Plant Is
Called As ?
a) Ecology
b) Morphology
c) Systematics
d) Anatomy
25. National Botanical Research Centre is Located in ?
a) Kolkata
b) Lucknow
c) Delhi
d) Mumbai
26. Systema Naturae Book Was Written by ?
a) Lamarck
b) Meridian
c) Darwin
d) Linnaeus
27. Basic Smallest Unit of Classification is ?
a) Genus
b) Class
c) Order
d) Species
28. The Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus
include Staring Point of ?
a) Moss
b) All Organism
c) Fungi
d) Spermatophyte
29. The Famous Book Methodus Plantarum Nova was
Written By ?
a) Linnaeus
b) Lamarck
c) John Ray
d) Aristotle
30. Law of Priority is Applicable after ?
a) 1720
b) 1986
c) 1753
d) 1853
31. Who is Regarded as the Father of Systematic Botany
?
a) A.P de Candolle
b) John Ray
c) Carolous Linnaeus
d) Hutchinson
32. Father of Botany is ?
a) Tippo
b) Aristotle
c) Treviranus
d) Theophrastus
33. The Taxon Family Ending With ?
a) Ales
b) Ceae
c) Phyta
d) Adae
34. What do you think is the need of nomenclature?
A) Scientists can use this term in their seminars
B) To have a standard name for an organism instead of
having many names in different languages
C) Nomenclature is something which is same for all
organisms and people need not mention each organism
with different names
D) Nomenclature looks fancier and more technical than
regional names
35. Which of the following books is not written by
Carolous Linnaeus?
A) Systema Naturae
B) Historia Naturalis
C) Species Plantarum
D) Philospohia Botanica
36. Who is the Father of New Systematics?
A) Aristotle
B) Linnaeus
C) Theophrastus
D) Julian Huxley
37. Which among the following is not a rule for writing
binomial nomenclature?
A) The generic epithet should start with capital letter and
specific epithet should start with small letter with a
hyphen separating them
B) All the words in the binomial nomenclature should
either be Latinized or should be derived from Latin
C) Binomial nomenclature may contain description about
the organism
D) The first part of the binomial nomenclature contains
the generic name and the second part contains the
specific epithet
38. Aristotle’s classification contained ________
a) 5 Kingdoms
b) 3 Kingdoms
c) 2 Kingdoms
d) 4 Kingdoms
[Link] classified organisms into ________
a) Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
b) Monera and Protista
c) Bacteria and Non-bacteria
d) Plantae and Animalia
40. Linnaeus classified amoeba under _________
a) Protista
b) Animalia
c) Monera
d) Plantae
