Which of the following ‘suffix’ used for units of classification in plants indicates a taxonomic category of ‘order’?
1. – Ales
2. – Onae
3. – Aceae
4. – Ae

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The taxonomic category where you expect to find organisms least similar to one another would be:
1. Class 2. Genus
3. Family 4. Species
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus | Taxonomy 3: From Family to Classification of Some Organisms |
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Which of the following taxonomic categories would be the most exclusive category in the sense that the related members will have most characteristics that are commonly shared?
1. Kingdom
2. Phylum
3. Class
4. Species

Subtopic:  Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus |
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As we go from kingdom to species in a taxonomic hierarchy, the number of common characteristics shared by the organisms:
1. Will decrease
2. Will increase
3. Remain the same
4. May increase or decrease
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 1: Nomenclature | Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus | Taxonomy 3: From Family to Classification of Some Organisms |
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How many of the given statements are correct?
I: Biological names are generally in Latin and written in italics. 
II: The first word in a biological name represents the genus while the second component denotes the specific epithet.
III: Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined, or printed in italics to indicate their Latin origin.
IV: The first word denoting the genus starts with a capital letter while the specific epithet starts with a small letter.
 
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2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 1: Nomenclature |
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Which of the following statements correctly differentiates between systematics and taxonomy?
1. Taxonomy involves the classification and naming of organisms, while systematics is the study of their evolutionary relationships.
2. Systematics is concerned only with the classification of organisms, whereas taxonomy includes the evolutionary history.
3. Taxonomy and systematics are completely interchangeable terms with no difference.
4. Systematics deals with the naming of organisms, and taxonomy deals with their identification.
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Which of the following ranks in the taxonomic hierarchy is immediately above the genus?
1. Family 2. Order
3. Species 4. Class
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 3: From Family to Classification of Some Organisms |
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Which of the following is not one of the basic processes involved in taxonomy?
1. Identification
2. Nomenclature
3. Classification
4. Hybridization
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 1: Nomenclature |
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How many of the given statements are correct?
I: Both words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined.
II: Systematics takes into account evolutionary relationship between organisms.
III: In case of animals, classes with a few similar characters are assigned to a higher category called Division.
IV: Higher the taxonomic category, higher is the ease of determining the relationship to other taxa at the same level.

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2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
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As we go higher from species to kingdom in taxonomic hierarchy, the number of common characteristics shared by member organism:
1. goes on decreasing
2. goes on increasing
3. remains the same
4. no such correlation exists
Subtopic:  Taxonomy 1: Nomenclature | Taxonomy 2: Classification up to Genus | Taxonomy 3: From Family to Classification of Some Organisms |
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