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Plant Taxonomy MCQs

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to plant taxonomy. The questions cover topics like taxonomic codes, hierarchical levels, scientific names, types of specimens, and principles of biological classification. Correct answers are provided for each question. Additionally, there are notes at the end about levels of comprehensiveness in botanical literature, with monographs being the most comprehensive and synopses being the least comprehensive.

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Plant Taxonomy MCQs

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to plant taxonomy. The questions cover topics like taxonomic codes, hierarchical levels, scientific names, types of specimens, and principles of biological classification. Correct answers are provided for each question. Additionally, there are notes at the end about levels of comprehensiveness in botanical literature, with monographs being the most comprehensive and synopses being the least comprehensive.

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Plant Taxonomy

Designed by :- Shuja mehdi


Q1) The code followed for naming cultivated plants is ?
ICNCP

Q2) Index Kewenesis covers names of ?

Genera and species of spermatophytes

Q3) Correct sequence in a taxonomic hierarchy in decending order ?

Family , Tribe , Genus , Section , Species

Q4) If the species Pyrus pumila under the Genus pyrus is shifted to another Genus Malus as Malus pumila, we
have changed the ?

Position of the taxa

Q6) Variable number tandem repeates refer to ?

High copy number non coding sequences

Q7) Northern circle of BSI is located at ?

Dehradun

Q8) Author citation is provided upto the rank of ?

Family

Q9) Convergence is the development of ?

Similar characters independently in two or more texa of different ancestry

Q10) A type is associated with a ?

Scentific name
Q11) Which is not a name bearing type ?

Paratype

Q12) CBD stands for?

Convention on Biological Diversity

Q13) Fruit type is the main criterion for sub familial delimitation in?

Rosaceae

Q14) Which denotes texon?

Rosaceae

Section

Species

All

Q15) Monocolpate pollens are characteristic of ?

Cycads , Monocots , Magnolids

Q16) An ideal Biological Classification Preferably should be?

Stable , Easy to use , Heuristic

Q17) Term ist coined was?

Systematic Botany

Taxonomy

Systematics

Biodiversity

Q18) Fumigation refers to exposure of herbarium specimens to?

Volatile subustances in a chamber

Q19) In the delimitation of taxa , one feature is helpful ?

Autoapomorphy
Q20) In the phonetics , the degree of similarity is effectively measured between ?

Contrasting pairs of OTUs only

Note :-

Monograph is more comprehensive than synopsis

Revision less comprehensive than monograph

Synopsis less comprehensive than Revision

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