Diversity In Living World Questions

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[Medium]Which adaptation enables many archaea to survive extreme high-temperature environments?...
[Medium]In a survey of a forest patch, 240 individual plants were recorded belonging to 60 distinct species. What is the average number of individuals per spe...
[Medium]What is absent in viroids that is present in typical viruses?...
[Easy]Lichens represent a mutualistic association between which two types of organisms?...
[Hard]The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature primarily governs naming of which group?...
[Hard]A bacterial culture in log phase doubles every 30 minutes. Starting with 5 x 10^3 cells, how many cells will be present after 2 hours assuming ideal c...
[Easy]Which group within Protista is primarily responsible for 'red tides' due to population blooms?...
[Medium]Which characteristic is typical of cyanobacteria but absent in most true bacteria?...
[Medium]A biodiversity hotspot has 1,800 plant species, of which 1,260 are endemic. What is the endemism percentage?...
[Hard]If a region shows a species-area relationship of S = 5A^0.25 (where S = number of species, A = area in km²), how many species are predicted in a 256 k...
[Easy]Which taxonomic aid is most suitable for identifying an unknown plant specimen using a sequence of contrasting characters?...
[Hard]Which molecular feature is most commonly compared to infer deep evolutionary divergence among major eukaryotic lineages?...
[Medium]Systematics differs from simple classification primarily because it integrates which additional component?...
[Easy]In the binomial name Panthera leo, what does the term 'leo' represent?...
[Easy]Which taxonomic rank directly lies below 'Class' in the hierarchical classification system?...
[Medium]Which feature most strongly differentiates Fungi from Plantae in Whittaker's five kingdom classification?...