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How is the five–kingdom classification advantageous over the two kingdom classification?

• The two kingdom classification didn’t distinguish between eukaryotes and prokaryotes.


• There were few organisms like Chlamydomonas, Euglena and the slime mould which have been claimed by both zoologists and botanist.


• When the five kingdom classification was proposed it was able to settle all these issues of anomalies by introducing three more kingdoms.


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What is the principle underlying the use of cyanobacteria in agricultural fields for crop improvement?

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Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent slide without a label. In your effort to identify it, you place the slide under microscope and observe the following features :-

a. Unicellular


b. Well defined nucleus


c. Biflagellate–one flagellum lying longitudinally and the other transversely.


What would you identify it as? Can you name the kingdom it belongs to?


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Polluted water bodies have usually very high abundance of plants like Nostoc and Oscillitoria. Give reasons.

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Are chemosynthetic bacteria-autotrophic or heterotrophic?