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#	Question	Answer
1	What distinction could early man easily perceive?	Early man could perceive the difference between inanimate matter and living organisms.
2	What revelation led to movements for conservation of biodiversity?	That all present-day living organisms are related to each other and to all organisms that ever lived on Earth.
3	Why would a dense forest contain more kinds of organisms?	Because dense forests have a greater number and kinds of living organisms.
4	Why do local names of plants and animals create confusion?	Because local names vary from place to place, even within a country.
5	What does ICBN stand for?	International Code for Botanical Nomenclature.
6	Who introduced binomial nomenclature?	Carolus Linnaeus.
7	Which part of a biological name begins with a capital letter?	The genus name.
8	Why is classification necessary?	Because it is nearly impossible to study all living organisms individually.
9	What does the example of dogs and mammals show about taxa?	Taxa can exist at different hierarchical levels.
10	What is systematics?	The branch of study dealing with different kinds of organisms, their diversities, and relationships among them.
11	What is taxonomic hierarchy?	All taxonomic categories together constitute the taxonomic hierarchy.
12	What is the basic requirement for placing organisms into categories?	Knowledge of the characters of organisms.
13	What is the scientific name of human beings?	*Homo sapiens*.
14	Which genus includes cats?	*Felis*.
15	What is an order in taxonomy?	An order is an assemblage of families exhibiting a few similar characters.
16	What does a class include in taxonomy?	Related orders.
17	Which animals are included in the phylum Chordata?	Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
18	In the taxonomic hierarchy, what happens to common characteristics as we move from species to kingdom?	The number of common characteristics decreases.
19	What family does man belong to?	Hominidae.
20	What family does housefly belong to?	Muscidae.
21	What order does mango belong to?	Sapindales.
22	What class does wheat belong to?	Monocotyledonae.
23	Why have biologists evolved rules and principles for organisms?	To facilitate the study of kinds and diversity of organisms.
24	On what basis is an organism assigned a correct scientific name?	Resemblances and distinct differences.
25	Which scientific name of mango is correctly written?	*Mangifera indica*.