Class 11 Biology- The Living World

Very Short Answer Type Questions (1 marks each)

Q.1. Name three botanists who contributed to the field of plant taxonomy.
Q.2. Expand ICZN? (Clue: The organization that dictates the correct use of the scientific
names of animals)

Q.3. What is a couplet in the taxonomic key?

Q.4. Define a monograph.

Q.5. Define metabolism.

Q.6. The mitotic cell division in amoeba represents growth or reproduction?

Q.7. Name a few botanical gardens in India. Also, name the largest botanical garden in the
world.

Q.8. If a habitat contains 20 animal species and 20 plant species, is it “diversity” or

“biodiversity”?

Q.9. Identify the correctly written scientific name for mango species- Mangifera
indica/Mangifera Indica.

Q.10. Match the correct pairs.

Column I Column II

Family Tuberosum

Kingdom Polymoniales

Order Solanum

Species Plantae

Genus Solanaceae

Q.11. What is the lowest category of classification?

Q.12.What are the Taxonomic keys?

Q.13.Who is known as the Father of Taxonomy?

Q.14. What are the 8 levels of taxonomy?

Q.15.What is Taxonomy?

Q.16.What is Reproduction?

Q.17.List out the building blocks of life?

Q.18.What is Biology?

Q.19.What is Biodiversity?

Q.20.What is DNA?

Q.21.What are Carbohydrates?

Q.22.What is Cellular organization?

Short Answer Type Questions (3 marks each)

Q.1. What are the units of classification followed by Botanists while classifying plants?
Q.2. Define the following:

1. Phylum
2. Class
3. Order
4. Genus

Q.3. State the differences between flora, fauna, and vegetation.

Q.4. What do you mean by endemic and exotic species? Give examples for each.

Q.5. The number and kind of organisms are not constant. Explain.

Q.6. Brinjal and potato belong to the same genus but different species. What separates the
two species?

Q.7. What is taxon? Give a few examples.

Q.8. A person living in a coma is considered living or dead?

Q.9. What are the different defining properties of a living organism?

Q.10. What is biodiversity?

Q.11. What is ICBN?

Q.12. What are the Building blocks of the living system?

Q.13.Write the full form for the following code – ICVN, ICBN, ICZN, ICNB.

Q.14.Define the following terms- Metabolism, Growth and Development.

Q.15.What is binomial nomenclature?

Long Answer Questions ( 5 marks each )

Q.1. What do you mean by living? Explain the defining characteristics of living organisms.
Q.2. With reference to Brassica compestris linn.
1. Give the common name of the plant
2. What do the first two words of the name indicate?
3. Why is the scientific name written in italics?
4. What does “linn.” mean?
Q.3. Differentiate between “whole moong daal” and “broken moong daal” in terms of
respiration and growth?
Q.4. How will a scientist go about the identification, nomenclature and classification of a
plant which he feels is a new species?

Q.5. What is Reproduction?