Why are living organisms classified?
Concept: What is ‘Living’?
What do we learn from identification of individuals and populations?
Concept: What is ‘Living’?
How is a key helpful in the identification and classification of an organism?
Concept: What is ‘Living’?
Plants are autotrophic. Can you think of some plants that are partially heterotrophic?
Concept: Kingdom Plantae
Match the following (column I with column II)
| Column I | Column II | ||
| a | Chlamydomonas | 1 | Moss |
| b | Cycas | 2 | Pteridophyte |
| c | Selaginella | 3 | Algae |
| d | Sphagnum | 4 | Gymnosperm |
Concept: Kingdom Plantae
What are the difficulties that you would face in classification of animals, if common fundamental features are not taken into account?
Concept: Kingdom Animalia
Match the following:
| a | Operculum | (i) | Ctenophora |
| b | Parapodia | (ii) | Mollusca |
| c | Scales | (iii) | Porifera |
| d | Comb plates | (iv) | Reptilia |
| e | Radula | (v) | Annelida |
| f | Hairs | (vi) | Cyclostomata and Chondrichthyes |
| g | Choanocytes | (vii) | Mammalia |
| h | Gill slits | (viii) | Osteichthyes |
Concept: Kingdom Animalia
Prepare a list of some animals that are found parasitic on human beings.
Concept: Kingdom Animalia
What are respiratory substrates?
Concept: Respiration in Plant
Name the most common respiratory substrate.
Concept: Respiration in Plant
Differentiate between Respiration and Combustion
Concept: Respiration in Plant
Why are the classification systems changing every now and then?
Concept: Diversity in the Living World
What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often?
Concept: Diversity in the Living World
Given below is the scientific name of Mango. Identify the correctly written name.
Mangifera Indica
Mangifera indica
Concept: Diversity in the Living World
Discuss how classification systems have undergone several changes over a period of time?
Concept: History of Classification
If you are given a specimen, what are the steps that you would follow to classify it (living organisms)?
Concept: New Criteria for Basis of Classification
How useful is the study of the nature of body cavity and coelom in the classification of animals?
Concept: New Criteria for Basis of Classification
Distinguish between intracellular and extracellular digestion?
Concept: New Criteria for Basis of Classification
What is the difference between direct and indirect development?
Concept: New Criteria for Basis of Classification
What are the reasons that you can think of for the arthropods to constitute the largest group of the animal kingdom?
Concept: New Criteria for Basis of Classification
