Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Linnaeus is considered as Father of Taxonomy. Name two other botanists known for their contribution to the field of plant taxonomy?
Advertisements
Solution
Natural system of classification for flowering plants was given by George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker, in three volume of Genera Plantarum.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Give some examples of taxa at different hierarchical levels.
Try to collect all the currently accepted meanings for the word ‘species’. Discuss with your teacher the meaning of species in the case of higher plants and animals on one hand and bacteria on the other:
Define and understand the following term:
Phylum
Name one example of the animal which shows the following characteristics:
Fixed animals with a pore-bearing body:
Name one example of the animal which shows the following characteristics:
Star-shaped body:
Find the odd one out. Give reason.
jellyfish, hydra, sea anemone, butterfly
______ is a cold blooded animal.
Which is not an aquatic animal?
Corals are
Write names of few thallophytes. Draw a labelled diagram of Spirogyra.
Paired and jointed legs are seen in phylum ______.
Which is not an insect?
Order is a number of related families having common characters placed in an order.
Name the three germ layers.
In the taxonomical hierarchy, the category below the level of order is ______.
As we go from species to kingdom in a taxonomic hierarchy, the number of common characteristics ______.
Define a taxon.
Which one of the following statements refers to Reductionist Biology?
