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**Step-by-Step Text Solution:** 1. **Understanding Classification**: Classification in biology is the process of organizing living organisms into categories based on shared characteristics. 2. **Taxonomic Hierarchy**: The classification system is structured in a hierarchical manner, consisting of different levels or categories. 3. **Categories of Classification**: There are eight major taxonomic categories in the hierarchy: - Domain (highest category) ...
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ICSE-THE LIVING WORLD -Test Your Progress (Very Short Answer Type Questions)
  1. Some of the taxonomic categories in the taxonomic hierarchy are given ...

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  2. Name the branch of biology that deals with naming of organisms and pla...

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  3. Tell the basic unit of classification.

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  4. Write the scientific name of common pea.

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  5. What do you understand by the term 'dendrogram'?

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  6. Who proposed the three-Domain System of classification of organisms an...

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  7. Name the three Domains of organisms proposed by Woese.

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  8. Name the three kingdoms of Archaea.

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  9. How would you distinguish Archaea from Eubacteria ?

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  10. Write the zoological name of cockroach.

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  11. What is a phenetic classification ?

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  12. Define 'chemotaxonomy' in a sentence.

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  13. What are infraspecific taxa ?

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  14. Name a plant virus where genetic material is RNA.

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  15. Name the group of virus, responsible for eating the bacteria.

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  16. Enumerate the criteria used by Whittaker (1969) for classification of ...

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  17. What type of organisms were included in Kingdom Animalia by Whittaker ...

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  18. Write the scientific name of human being.

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  19. Differentiate artificial, natural and phylogenetic systems of classifi...

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  20. Who proposed the four-kingdom system of classification of organisms?

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