CBSE Questions for Class 11 Medical Biology The Living World Quiz 4 - MCQExams.com

• Biodiversity is the term used to describe the variety of life found on Earth and all of the natural processes. This can refer to genetic variation, ecosystem variation, or species variation within an area, biome, or planet. The biodiversity is more concentrated within tropical ecosystems than temperate ecosystems. 
• Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
• Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing, and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals, and microorganisms of the world.
• The ordering of organisms into groups based on similarities and differences is called classification.

• Theophrastus a Greek philosopher, considered as The Father of botany. He is famous for his book, "Historia Plantarum".
• Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist who is famously known as The Father of Taxonomy. He is known for his books "Systema Naturae", "Species Plantarum". 
• Brunfels was a German theologian and Linnaeus considered him as Father of botany in his listings (unofficially).
  
• Oswald Tippo was an American botanist proposed the biggest Phylogenetic classification of the plant kingdom. He divided the entire plant kingdom into two major groups,  Thallophyta and Embryophyta. 
  

An arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study. An arboretum specializing in growing conifers is known as a pinetum. Other specialist arboreta include salicetums (willows), populetums and quercetums (oaks). The term 'arboretum' was first used in an English publication by John Claudius Loudon in 1833.

So, the correct answer is 'Big trees are cultivated in the form of forests'

• Kingdom: The topmost taxonomic category. Example: All animals are included in Kingdom Animalia 
• Phylum: It is a term used for animals while its synonym division is used for plants. It is a collection of similar classes. Phylum Chordata of animals has class Mammalia along with birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
• Subphylum: A taxonomic rank below the rank of the phylum. 
• Class: One or more than one order makes a class. Class Mammalia includes all mammals which are bats, rodents, kangaroos, whales, great apes, and man. 
• Order: One or more than one similar families constitute an order.  
• Family: It is defined as a collection of similar genera. It can be separated from genera by reproductive and vegetative features. For example, cats and leopard are included in the same family. 
• Genus: It is defined as a group of similar species. 
• Species: Group of a population which is similar in form, shape and reproductive features so that fertile sibling can be produced. 
• Thus, the correct answer is 'Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.'

• Carolus Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who created the binomial nomenclature. In this system, every kind of animal and plant is given a name consisting of two Latin words, for its genus and species.
• Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He gave the concept of systematics.
• Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist who coined the term taxonomy.
• John Ray was a highly influential English naturalist and botanist whose contributions to taxonomy are considered groundbreaking and historic. He is also well-known in the world of botany for the establishment of species as the ultimate unit of taxonomy. He first described species as a unit of classification.
• So, the correct answer is '1 - B, 2 - D, 3 - C, 4 - A'