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Five Kingdom system of classification suggested by RH Whittaker is not based on

  • presence or absence of a well-defined nucleus

  • mode of reproduction

  • Mode of nutrition

  • Mode of nutrition


A.

presence or absence of a well-defined nucleus

RH Whittaker's classification is nor based on presence or absence of a well - defined nucleus. He gave five kingdom classification and used five criteria for delimiting kingdoms.

These are

both come under body organisation

(i) Complexity of cell structure

(ii) Complexity of body structure

(iii) Mode of nutrition

(iv) Ecological life cycle including mode of reproduction

(v)Phylogenetic relationship.

He divided organisms into five kingdoms as follows:

Kingdom  - Monera

Kingdom - Protista

Kingdom - Fungi

Kingdom - Plantae

Kingdom - Animalia

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A senentary sea anemone gets attached to the shell lining of hermit crab. The association is 

  • ectoparasitism

  • symbiosis

  • commensalism

  • commensalism


The chitinous exoskeleton of arthropods is formed by the polymerisation of

  • Keratin sulphate and chondraitin sulphate

  • D-glucosamine

  • N-acetyl glucosamine

  • N-acetyl glucosamine


A jawless fish, which lays eggs in fresh water and whose ammocoetes larvae after metamorphosis return to the ocean is:

  • Eptatretus

  • Myxine

  • Neomyxine

  • Neomyxine


Metagenesis refers to

  • Presence of different morphic forms

  • Alternation of generation between asexual and sexual phases of an organism

  • Occurrence of a drastic change in form during post-embyonic development

  • Occurrence of a drastic change in form during post-embyonic development


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