Class 11 Biology- Biological Classification

Class 11 Biology- Biological Classification

Very Short Answer Type Questions (1 mark each)

Q.1. What advantages does the five-kingdom classification have over the two-kingdom
classification?
Q.2. Why are cyanobacteria used in agricultural fields for crop improvement?

Q.3.Give an example of insectivorous plants.

Q.4. What similarities do a virus and non-living objects share?

Q.5. Why do polluted water bodies have an abundance of Nostoc and Oscillatoria?

Q.6. Name the eukaryotic kingdoms in the five-kingdom classification proposed by Whittaker.

Q.7. What is the nature of the cell wall in diatoms?

Q.8. Who proposed the five-kingdom classification?

Q.9. What is the difference between a virus and a viroid?

Q.10. State the uses of heterotrophic bacteria and archaebacteria which are economically
important.

Q.11. The chemosynthetic bacteria are autotrophic or heterotrophic?

Q.12.Give an example of parasitic plants.

Short Answer Type Questions (3 marks each)

Q.1 What is diatomaceous earth? Why are diatoms referred to as ‘pearls of the ocean’?

Q.2. Explain the myth of ‘fairy rings’ created by the mushrooms after heavy rains in the
forest.

Q.3. Why is Neurospora an important genetic tool?

Q.4. What is the role of fungi our daily lives?

Q.5. What features of Trypanosoma make it fall under the kingdom Protista?
Q.6. The ascomycetes produce fruiting bodies like apothecium, perithecium, or
cleistothecium. What are the differences between these three fruiting bodies?

Q.7. Cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria are very different from each other but fall
under eubacteria of kingdom Monera. Is this type of grouping justified?

Q.8. What are Parasitic plants?

Q.9. What do you understand by ‘phycobiont’ and ‘mycobiont’?

Q.10. Are viruses living or non-living?

Q.11.What are the Insectivorous plants?

Q.12.Name a few plants that are partially heterotrophic.

Long Answer Type Questions (5 marks each)

Q.1. Give an account of the asexual reproduction by spores in algae.

Q.2. What are the characteristic features of euglenoids?

Q.3. How is ‘peat’ naturally formed?

Q.4. Enlist the various algae and fungi that have commercial values in medicines, food, and
chemicals.

Q.5. What is Taxonomy?

Q.6. What are the advantages of five kingdom classification?

Q.7.How many types of bacteria are there?