Chapter: 6

KINGDDM PRDKARYDTAE
Which of the following is anaerobic bacterium?
(a) Pseudomonas
(b)
(c) Spirocheta (d)
Rapid phase of growth of bacteria is:
(a) Lag phase (b)
(c) Stationary phase
(d)
Escherichia coli Campylobacter
Log phase Decline phase

2.
3.
5.
7.

8.
9.
Bacilli
Pseudomonas E. coli

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'(b)
(d)
Blooms in ponds giving unpleasant odour are due to:
(a) Archaeobacteria
(b) Eubacteria
(c) Cocci
(d) Cyanobacteria
Bacteria w hich are able to grow in presence of oxygen are called:
(a) Aerobic bacteria
(b) Anaerobic bacteria
(c) Facultative bacteria (d) Microaerophilic bacteria
Bacteria increase in number by an asexual means of reproduction called:
(a) Binary fission
(b) Regeneration
(c) Budding
(d) All of these
Many bacteria contain flagella for their locomotion. When flagella surround the whole
bacterial cell, this condition is called as:
(a) Atrichous (b) Lophotrichous
(c) Amphitrichous
(d) Peritrichous
Cyanobacteria exist in the form of:
(.) Unicellular (b) Filamentous
(c) Colony
(d) All of these
Conjugation in bacteria is promoted by:
(a) Flagella
(b) Pili
(c) Cilia
(d) Gametes
Which of the following bacteria are stained purple?
(a) Gram positive
(b) Cocci
(c) Gram negative
(d)
These bacteria are smallest:
(a) Mycoplasma (c) Spirochete

Virus-mediated transfer of cellular genetic material from one bacterial cell to another is
called:
(a) Induction (b) Transformation
(c) Transduction
(d) Conjugation

12.
Who proved that microorganisms could cause disease?
(a) Louis Pasteur
(b) A. V. Leeuwenhoek
(c) Robert Koch(d) Robert Hooke
13.
discovered bacteria that caused tuberculoses and cholera
(a) Louis Pasteur
(b) A. V. Leeuwenhoek
(c) Robert Koch(d) Robert Hooke
14.
Procedures to eliminate or reduce the possibility of infection:
, (a) Immunization
(b) Antisepsis
(c) Vaccination ' fd) Disinfestation

15.
work with natural defense and stop the growth of bacteria and other
microbes:
(a) Chemotherapeutic agents
(b) Antibiotics
(c) Both a & b
(d) None of these
16.
The chemotherapeutic chemical
substances
which are used in treatment of
infectious diseases are called:
(a) Antibiotics (b)
Vaccines
(c) Pesticides (d)
All the above
17.
Chemical substances use living tissues that inhibit the growth of microorganism are
called:
(a) Antibiotics (b) Antiseptics
(c) Chemotherapeutic (d) Disinfectants
1H.
causes oxidation of chemical constituents of microbes and kills them:
(a) Moist heat (b) Radiations
(c) Filtration (d) Dry heat
19.
Sterilization is destruction of:
(a) Bacteria
(b) Fungi
(c) Plasmodium (d) All life forms
20.
The term animalcules was introduced by:
(a) Antonc Van Leeuwenhoek (b) Louis Pasteur
(c) Robert Koch(d) Robert Brown
21.
Which of the following is not a bacillus?
(a) Escherichia coli
(b) Bacillus subtilis
(c) Pseudnmonas
(d) Hyphomicrobium
22.
Bacteria that exhibit growth in 3 dimensions are:
(a) Staphylococcus
(b) Streptococcus
(c) Sarcina
(d) Tetrad
23.
Reproduction in most of the bacteria is by a process known as:
(a) Binary fission
(b) Budding
(c) Sexual
(d) Sporulation
24.
Specialized cells called heterocysts are present in:

(a) Dinoflagellates
(c) Cyanobacteria

(b) Euglenoids
(d) Archaebacteria

Cell wall of Gram positive bacteria is made up of:

(a) Murein
(b) Cellulose
(c) Lipid & Protein
(d) Cellulose & Lipid
Certain bacteria living in the soil poor in oxygen, convert nitrates into nitrites and then to
free nitrogen and such bacteria are termed as:
18.
Nitrogen fixing bacteria (b) Denitrifying bacteria
25.
Ammonifying bacteria (d) Saprophytic bacteria
25.
26.
Bacteria with flagella all over the body is:
(a) Peritrichous (b)
(c) Monotrichous
(d)
Pasteur made many discoveries in the field of:
(a) Medicine (b)
(c) Pathology (d)
27.
Amphitrichous None of these
28.
Microbiology Both a & b
bacterium:
Spirocheta is a/an
(a) Aerobic
(c) Microaerophilic
29.
(b)
(d)
Anaerobic
Facultative
Bacterial growth refers commonly to:
(a)
Increase in number of bacterial cells
(b)
Increase in bacterial cell size
(c)
Increase in bacterial population
(d)
Both a & c
30.
phase, the bacterial death rate is equal to bacterial rate of
31. During
reproduction and multiplication:
(a) Log (c) Stationary
(b)
(d)
Lag
Decline'
causes oxidation of chemical constituents of microbes and kills them:

Dry heat
Antiseptics
32.
(a)
(c)

(b) Moist heat

(d) Sterilization

Chapter: 7

THE KINGDOM PROTISTA

Which are the major producers in aquatic ecosystem?
(a) Green Algae
(b)
(c) Euglenoids
(d)
2.

The feeding stage of a slime mold is a:

(a) Blastostyle
(c) Plasmodium

3.

(b)
(d)

Gastrozooid
Sporozoites

(b)
(d)

Trypanosoma
Pelomyxa

(a) Animals
(c) Brown algae

(b)
(d)

Slime molds
Vascular plants

Amoeba move and obtain food by means of:

(a) Plasmodium
(c) Cilia

(b)
(d)

Flagella
Pseudopodia

(a) Silica
(c) Oxalate
The cause of malaria is:
(a) Trypanosoma
(c) Amoeba
Pelomyxa palustris is:

(b)
(d)

Calcium
Magnesium

(b)
(d)

Plasmodium
Paramecium

(a) Bacterium
(c) Ciliates

(b)
(d)

Amoeba
Zoo flagellates

African sleeping sickness is caused by:

(a) Entamoeba
(c) Vorticella

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Diatoms
Red Algae

The closest relatives of fungi are probably:

Tests of foraminifera are made of:

The cell wall consists of two shells that overlap like petri dish in:
(a) Foraminifera
(b)
Actinopods
(c) Slime molds
(d)
Diatoms
Foraminiferans and actinopods are the marine protozoa. They produce porous
shells through which cytoplasmic projections extend out to form a sticky

network. The function of this network is:

(a) Locomotion
(c) Defense
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(b)
(d)

To trap prey
Secretion

Multicellular giants of protist kingdom are included in:

(a) Brown Algae
(c) Apicomplexans

(b)
(d)

Diatoms
Zooflagellates

A
1

Parasitic protozoans that form spores at some stage in their life cycle belong to:
(a) Ciliates
(b) Zooflagellates
(c) Apicomplexans
(d) Actinopods

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Chlorella is:
19.
Multicellular
26.
Unicellular, Motile
20.
Acellular
(e)
Unicellular, Non-motile
13.
Which of the following are
marine protozoans that produce shells of calcium carbonate?
(a) Diatoms
(b) Foraminiferans
(c) Dinoflagellates
(d) Euglcnoids
14.
The scientific name of giant amoeba is:
(a) Entamoeba histolytica
(b)
21.
Pelomyxa palustris
(d)
15.
Amoeba proteus Vorticella
The sexual process exhibited by most ciliates is called:

(a)
Binary fission ( (b) Conjugation
(c)
Oogamy
(d) Fertilization
16.
The largest brown algae are called:
(a)
Diatoms
(b)
(c)
Dinoflagellates (d)
17.
Kelps
None of these
Plasmodium is a malarial parasite. It is an animal-like protist. It belongs to:
(a) Apicomplexans
(b) Zooflagellates
(c) Choanoflagellates (d) Ciliates
The intestinal parasite causes amoebic dysentery in humans is:
(a) Tryconymphas
(b) Pelomyxa palustris
(c) Entamoeba histolytica
(d) Apicomplexans
Which of the following are protozoans?
(a) Diatoms, Flagellates, Amocbas and Ciliates (1>) Apicomplexans, Flagellates, Amoebas and
Ciliates
(c)
Amoebas, Actinomycetes, Ciliates and Flagellates
22.
Flagellates, Ciliates, Cyanobacteria and Apicomplexans
In general, how do algae and protozoans differ?
(a)
Protozoans can move, and algae cannot
(b)
Algae are free-living, and protozoans are parasitic
(c)
Protozoans are autotrophic, and algae are hetcrotrophic
(d)
Algae are photosynthctic & almost all protozoans are heterotrophic
Protozoans called choanoflagellates live in small clusters. They look very much like
choanocytes, special feeding cells found in sponges, which are simple animals. Why might
biologists And choanoflagellates of great evolutionary interest?
(a)
They show how the very first organisms might have lived
(b)
They might show how the first heterotrophs lived
(c)
Offer hint about origin of multicellular organism
(d)
They suggest what the first eukaryotes might have been like
18.
19.

20.
21.

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23.
Protists are a diverse group of organisms that include:
(a) Plants
(b) Algae
(c) Protozoans (d) Both b & c
24.
The pellicle of protozoa is most directly involved in:

(a) Feeding
(b) Structure
(c) Locomotion (d) Water removal
25.
A contractile vacuole is important to euglenoids for:
, (a) Photosynthesis
(b) Food storage
(c) Excess water removal
(d) Movement
26.
Red tide can affect:
(a) Birds
(b) Dolphins
(c) Fish (d) All of these
27.
Which of the following specialized
structures
is not correctly paired with a
function?
(a) Gullet: Ingestion
(b)
Cilia: Food gathering
(c) Contractile vacuole: Digestion
(d)
Cilia: Locomotion
28.
Sexual reproduction of the malaria parasite occurs in the:
(a) Fish (b) Human
(c) Mosquito (d) Snail
29.
The failure of the potato crop and the subsequent Irish famine was due mainly to a
fungus belonging to which group?
(a) Slime molds (b) Imperfect fungi .
(c) Club fungi (d) Oomycotes
30.
Diatoms are characterized by all but which of the following?
(a) Two-part shells
(b) Perforations in the shell
(c) Silica shells (d) Flagella
31.
Most freshwater algae belong to which group?
(a) Red algae (b) Green algae
(c) Dinoflagellates
(d) Brown algae
32.
Red algae:
27.
Are primarily marine organisms
28.
Are thought to have developed from green algae
29.
Contain xanthophylls as their main accessory pigments
30.
Contain no chlorophyll a
33.
Agar is produced by:
(a) Brown algae (b) Red algae
(c) Green algae (d) Brown algae and green algae
34.
Amoebas use pseudopodia for:
(a) Movement (b) Prey capture
(c) Sexual reproduction (d) Both movement & prey capture
35.
Cell wall in Oomycetes is chemically composed of:
(a) Cellulose (b) Chitin
(c) Proteins & some carbohydrates (d) Lignin

36.
The Phaeophyta are the:
(a) Red algae (b) Brown algae
(c) Golden algae
(d) Golden brown algae
37.
Filamentous extensions of the Oomycota
(a) Cilia
(b) Podia

are called:

31.
Hyphae ,(d) Flagella
38.
The green alga,
, has recently been investigated as a food source in
several nations:
(a) Spirogyra (b) Volvox
(f)
Chlorella
(d) Chlamydomonas
39.
In conjugation of ciliate, Paramecium, are exchanged:
(a) Macronuclei (b) Micronuclei
(b)
Chromosomes '(d) Stigmas
40.
At the end of their migration, resulting from lack of food or moisture, plasmodial
slime mold forms a:
(ci)
Sporangium
(b) Capsule
(b)
Cyst (d) Spores

Chapter: 8

,/fUNGI
1.

2.

3.

4.

What is the basis of division of fungi?

(a) Nutrition
(c) Reproductive structures

(b)
(d)

Growth
Pigments

(a) Moniliasis
(c) Ringworm

(b)
(d)

Aspergillosis
Malaria

What is Khodotrula?
(a) Mushroom
(c) Mold

(b)
(d)

-Yeast
Fruiting body

(b)
(d)

Deuteromycota
Zygomycota

Which one is not a disease produced by fungi?

What is the group of rusts and smuts?

(a) Ascomycota
(c) Basidiomycota

5.

Where fungal hyphae penetrate in endoniycorrhizae?

(a) Outer cells of root
(c) Outer cells of stem

6.

(b)
(d)

Inner cells of stem

Inner cells of root
Deuteromycota
Zygomycota

What is the smallest group of fungi?

(b)
(d)
\/

(a) Zygomycota
(c) Basidiomycota

(b)
(d)

Ascomycota
Deuteromycota

What is the group of mushrooms?

(a) Ascomycota (c) Basidiomycota

7.

41.
Sequence of fungal group with respect to their contribution in lichen formation from
higher to lower is:
32.
Zygomycota>Basidiomycota>Deuteromycota>Ascomycota
33.
Ascomycota>Dcuteromycota>Basidiomycota>Zygomycota
34.
Dcuteromycota>Zygomycota>Ascomycota>Basidiomycota
35.
Basidiomycota>Ascomycota>Zygomycota>Deuteromycota
(g)
The example of facultative parasite in Kingdom Fungi is:
(a) Candida albicans
(b)
Rust species
(c) Mildews ,
(d)
Rhodotrula
Coenocytic hyphae are;
(a) With septation
(c) Both with or without septation

(b)
(d)

Without septation
All the above

(b)
(d)

Multicellular
All the above

Yeast are non-hvphal fungi:

(a) Unicellular
(c) Filamentous

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