Which one of the following is not a correct statement?

1. Botanical Gardens have a collection of living plants for reference.
2. A museum has a collection of photographs of plants and animals
3. The key is taxonomic aid for the identification of specimens.
4. herbarium houses dried, pressed and preserved plant specimens

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AIPMT - 2013
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The common characteristics between tomato and potato will be maximum at the level of their:
1. Family
2. Order
3. Division
4. Genus
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 3: From Family to Classification of Some Organisms |
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Which one of the following is common to multicellular fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of mosses?
1. Diplontic life cycle
2. Members of kingdom-Plantae
3. Mode of nutrition
4. Multiplication by fragmentation

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AIPMT - 2012
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Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular named taxonomic category?

1.  Cuttlefish – Mollusca, a class

2.  Humans – Primate, the family

3.  Housefly – Musca, an order

4.  Tiger – Tigris, the species

Subtopic:  Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus |
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AIPMT - 2011
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Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things?

1. Increase in mass by the accumulation of material both on the surface as well as internally
2. Isolated metabolic reactions occurring in vitro
3. Increase in mass from outside only
4. Perception of events happening in the environment and their memory
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AIPMT - 2011
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Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they:

1. can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds
2. have more than 90 percent similar genes
3. look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites
4. have the same number of chromosomes

Subtopic:  Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus |
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AIPMT - 2007
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Living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from non-living things on the basis of their ability for:

1. responsiveness to touch
2. interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
3. reproduction
4. growth and movement

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ICBN stands for:

1. Indian Congress of Biological Names

2. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

3. Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature

4. International Congress of Biological Names

Subtopic:  Taxonomy 1: Nomenclature |
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AIPMT - 2007
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Biosystematics aims at:
 

1. The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
2. Delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
3. The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
4. Identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of cytological characteristics
Subtopic:  Systematics & Type study |
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AIPMT - 2003
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Species are considered:
 

1. Real basic units of classification
2. The lowest units of classification
3. The artificial concept of the human mind which cannot be defined in absolute terms
4. Real units of classification devised by taxonomists
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus |
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