NEET Biology Practice Test - The Living World

Practice test on ‘Living world’.  Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking ' Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Select the correctly written scientic name of Mango which was first described by Carolus Linneus
Mangifera indica
Mangifera Indica
Mangifera indica Linn.
Mangifera indica Car. Linn.

2. The book 'Genera Plantarum' was written by
Engler and Prantl
Bentham and Hooker
Blessey
Hutchinson

3. The common characteristics between tomato and potato will be maximum at the level of their
family
order
genus
division

4.Which one of the following belongs to the famil Muscidae
Fire fly
House fly
Grasshopper
Cockroach

5. In the taxonomic categories which hierarchial arrangement in ascending order is correct in case of animals?
Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order- Family- Genus- Species
Kingdom- Class- Phylum- Family- Order- Genus- Species
Kingdom- Order- Class- Phylum- Family- Genus- Species
Kingdom- Order- Phylum- Class- Family- Genus- Species

6. ICBN stands for
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature
Indian Congress of Biological Names
International Congress of Biological Names

7. New Systematics introduced by Sir Julian Huxley is also called
Phenetics
Biosystematics
Chemotaxonomy
Numerical Taxonomy

8. A group of plants or animals with similar traits of any rank is
Species
Genus
Taxon
Order

9. The living organisms can be unexceptionally distinguished from the non living things on the basis of their ability for
interaction with the environment and progressive evolution
reproduction
growth and movement
responsive to touch

10. Who is known as Darwin of the 20th century?
Whittakar
Ernst Mayr
Linnaeus
Engler
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