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Aiims 21 Year Biology IIT JEE NEET eBooks: www.crackjee.xyz 1 The Living World TYPE A : MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 7. The system of classification based on evolutionary and genetic relationships among 1. Linnaeus system of classification is [1999] organisms, ignoring the morphological (a) Natural (b) Artificial similarities or differences, is called [2009] (c) Phylogenetic (d) Progressive (a) cladistics 2. The basic unit of classification is [2000] (b) phenetics (a) genus (b) species (c) classical systematics (c) variety (d) subspecies (d) new systematics 3. Binomial nomenclature was introduced by 8. Scientific name of Mango plant is Mangifera (a) Linnaeus [2000] indica (Linn.) Santapau. In the above name (b) Darwin Santapau refers to [2012] (c) Bentham and Hooker (a) Variety of Mango (d) Aristotle (b) A taxonomist who proposed the present 4. The usage of binomial names, for plant species nomenclature in honour of Linnaeus was accepted by all after the publication of the (c) A scientist who for the first time described work by [2001] Mango plant (a) Hooker (b) Linnaeus (d) A scientist who changed the name (c) Bentham (d) Darwin proposed by Linnaeus and proposed 5. Which one of the following is correctly matched present name regarding an Institute and its location? [2004] 9. The classification of Linnaeus was mainly based (a) National Institute of Virology - Pune on [2012] (b) National Institute of Communicable disease (a) Sepals (b) Carpels - Lucknow (c) Petals (d) Stamens (c) Central Drug Research Institute - Kasauli Institute 10. Which of the following is less general in (d) National Institute of Nutrition - Mumbai characters as compared to genus? [2013] 6. “Ordines Anomali” of Bentham and Hooker (a) Species (b) Division includes [2006] (c) Class (d) Family (a) seed plants showing abnormal forms of 11. Read the following statements growth and development. (i)Lower the taxon, more are the characteristics that the members within the (b) plants represented only in fossil state. taxon share. (c) plants described in the literature but which (ii) Order is the assemblage of genera which Bentham and Hooker did not see in original. exhibit a few similar characters. (d) a few orders which could not be placed (iii) Cat and dog are included in the same family satisfactory in the classification. Felidae. IIT JEE NEET eBooks: www.crackjee.xyz EBD_7100 B-2 Topicwise AIIMS Solved Papers – BIOLOGY (iv) Binomial Nomenclature was introduced by (a) If both Assertion and Reason are correct and Carolus Linnaeus. [2014] the Reason is a correct explanation of the Which of the following statements are NOT Assertion. correct? (b) If both Assertion and Reason are correct but (a) (i), (ii) and (iii) (b) (ii), (iii) and (iv) Reason is not a correct explanation of the (c) (i) and (iv) (d) (ii) and (iii) Assertion. 12. Choose the correct one [2015] (c) If the Assertion is correct but Reason is (i) Growth cannot be taken as a defining incorrect. (d) If both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect. property of living organism. (e) If the Assertion is incorrect but the Reason is (ii) Dead organism does not grow. correct. (iii) Reproduction cannot be an all inclusive 14. Assertion: Living organisms are regarded as defining characteristic of living organisms. closed systems. (iv) No non-living object is capable of Reason: Energy of living organisms can not be replicating itself. lost or gained from external environment. [2002] (v) Metabolism in a test tube is non-living. 15. Assertion: Systematics is the branch of biology (vi) Metabolism is a defining feature of all living that deals with classification of living organisms. organisms. Reason: The aim of classification is to group (a) (i) and (iii) (b) All except (v) the organisms. [2002] (c) All except (iii) (d) All of these Directions for (Q. 16) : Each of these questions 13. Match column I with column II and choose the contains an Assertion followed by Reason. Read them correct option. [2017] carefully and answer the question on the basis of Column-I Column-II following options. You have to select the one that A. Family I. tuberosum best describes the two statements. B. Kingdom II. Polymoniales C. Order III. Solanum (a) If both Assertion and Reason are correct and D. Species IV. Plantae Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion. E. Genus V. Solanaceae (b) If both Assertion and Reason are correct, but (a) A –IV; B –III; C –V; D –II; E –I Reason is not the correct explanation of (b) A –V; B –IV; C –II; D –I; E –III Assertion. (c) A –IV; B –V; C –II; D –I; E –III (c) If Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect. (d) A –V; B –III; C –II; D –I; E –IV (d) If both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect. 16. Assertion : Taxon and category are different TYPE B : ASSERTION REASON QUESTIONS things. Directions for (Qs. 14-15) : These questions consist Reason : Category shows hierarchical of two statements, each printed as Assertion and classification. [2013, 14] Reason. While answering these questions, you are required to choose any one of the following five responses. IIT JEE NEET eBooks: www.crackjee.xyz The Living World B-3 Type A : Multiple Choice Questions “cladogram” suggests that the lengths of the branches in the diagram are arbitrary, 1. (b) Carolus Linnaeus system of classification while in a “phylogeny,” the branch lengths is artificial. indicate the amount of character change. 2. (b) The basic unit of classification is species 8. (d) Collection of rules regarding scientific which consists of a natural population of nomenclature of plants is known as ICBN individuals having similar, morphological, or International Code of Botanical anatomical, biochemical, cytological and Nomenclature. It was first accepted in 1961. reproductive characters so that they can According to ICBN, if any scientist has interbreed freely and produce fertile proposed wrong name then his name offsprings. should be written in bracket and the 3. (a) Carolus Linnaeus gave the binomial system scientist who corrected the name should of nomenclature. be written after the bracket. 4. (b) Carolus Von Linnaeus in his book Genera 9. (d) Classification proposed by Linnaeus is Plantarum made use of the artificial system artificial. Linnaeus classified plant kingdom of classification. He distinguished between on the basis of only two characters the natural and artificial systems. He used (1) stamens (2) style the binomial nomenclature system and classified organisms into genus and 10. (a) Species is the lowest taxonomic category. species. Class is a category made of one or more 5. (a) National Institute of Virology is located in related orders possessing similar correlated Pune. characters. Family is composed of one to The National Institute of Virology (NIV) is many related genera. Division comprises a premier virus research laboratory in India. of several related classes. It is one of the major Institutes of the Indian 11. (d) Order being higher category is the Council of Medical Research (ICMR). It was assemblage of families which exhibit a few established at Pune, similar characteristics. 6. (d) Bentham and Hooker system was Dog (Canis familaris) and Cat (Felis published well before there were domesticus) belong to two different internationally accepted rules for botanical families—Cancideae and Felidae nomenclature. In this system, termination respectively. for families was not so as it is now. 12. (b) Metabolism takes place only inside the 7. (a) “Cladogram” emphasizes that the diagram body of a living organism. represents a hypothesis about the actual 13. (b) A - V; B - IV; C - II; D - I; E - III evolutionary relationships of a group. This history is deduced on the basis of certain Type B : Assertion Reason Questions shares like homologous characters. that are thought to indicate common ancestry. 14. (d) Living organisms are regarded as open While “phylogenies” represent true system as energy flow is the key function evolutionary history. To other biologists, of an ecosystem. IIT JEE NEET eBooks: www.crackjee.xyz EBD_7100 B-4 Topicwise AIIMS Solved Papers – BIOLOGY 15. (b) Systematics is the science of identification, represent any level of grouping of naming and classification of the organisms organisms based on certain common into groups. characteristics. There is some confusion 16. (a) A category is a rank or level in the in the use of taxon and category, for example hierarchial classification of organisms. Bryophyta is a taxon while division is a Taxon is a unit in classification which may category. IIT JEE NEET eBooks: www.crackjee.xyz 2 Biological Classification TYPE A : MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 11. Powdery mildews of crops are caused by [2001] (a) bacteria (b) ascomycetes 1. The symbiotic relationship of algae and fungus is found in [1997] (c) basidiomycetes (d) phycomycetes (a) lichen (b) mycorrhiza 12. Pullorum disease of poultry is caused by [2001] (c) pneumatophore (d) bacteriophage (a) Mycobacterium (b) Salmonella 2. The virus that infects bacteria is called [1997] (c) Clostridium (d) Haemophilus (a) cyanophage (b) mycophage 13. Viroids have [2003] (c) bacteriophage (d) none of these (a) single stranded RNA not enclosed by 3. Citrus canker is caused by [1997] protein coat. (b) single stranded DNA not enclosed by (a) bacterium (b) fungus protein coat. (c) alga (d) virus (c) double stranded DNA enclosed by protein 4. Which of the following is a cyanobacterium ? coat. (a) Nostoc (b) Chara [1997] (d) double stranded RNA enclosed by protein coat. (c) E. coli (d) Polysiphonia 14. Myxomycetes are [2006] 5. Virus has [1998] (a) saprobes or parasites, having mycelia, (a) DNA asexual reproduction by fragmentation. (b) RNA (b) slimy mass of multinucleate protoplasm, (c) both (a) and (b) having pseudopodia like structures for (d) either DNA or RNA engulfing food, reproduction through 6. Hormogonia are vegetative reproductive fragmentation or zoospores. structure of [1998] (c) prokaryotic organisms, cellular or acellular, saprobes or autotrophic, reproduce by (a) Spirogyra (b) Ulothrix binary fission.
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