Name: 2) Protista

3) Monera
Biology: Objective
4) Archaea
(Attempt all Qs. M.M. 240) 11. Maximum nutritional diversity is found in the group
1) Fungi
Time: 1 Hour
2) Plantae
1. Identify from the following, the only taxonomic 3) Monera
category that has a real existence. 4) Animalia
1) Phylum 12. Which one of the following is common to
2) Species multicellular fungi, filamentous algae and protonema
3) Genus of mosses?
4) Kingdom 1) Diplontic life cycle
2. In five kingdom system of classification, main basis of 2) Multiplication by fragmentation
classification is 3) Mode of Nutrition
1) Structure of cell wall 4) Members of kingdom Plantae
2) Nutrition 13. Which statement is wrong for viruses?
3) Structure of nucleus 1) All are parasites.
4) Asexual reproduction. 2) Antibiotics have no effect on them.
3. Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the 3) They have ability to synthesize nucleic acids and
same species if they proteins.
1) if they have more than 90%similar genes 4) All of them have helical symmetry.
2) can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds 14. Which one single organism or the pair of organisms is
3) Have same number of chromosomes correctly assigned to its or their named taxonomic
4) look similar and possess identical secondary group?
metabolites 1) Paramecium and Plasmodium belong to the same
4. Practical purpose of taxonomy or classification is kingdom as that of Penicillium.
1) To know the evolutionary history 2) Nostoc and Anabaena are examples of Protista
2) Explain the origin of organisms 3) Yeast used in making bread and beer is a fungus
3) Facilitate the identification of unknown species 4) Lichen is a composite organism formed from the
4) Identification of medicinal plants symbiotic association of an algae and a protozoan.
5. Phenetic classification of organisms is based on 15. Which of the following combination of characters is
1) Sexual characteristics true for slime molds?
2) Dendrogram based on DNA characteristics 1) Parasitic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed
3) The ancestral lineage of existing organisms by water
4) Observable characteristics of existing organisms 2) Saprophytic, plasmodium without walls, spores
6. "New Systematics" introduced by Sir Julian Huxley in dispersed by water
1940 is also known as 3) Parasitic, plasmodium with true walls, spores
1) Biosystematics dispersed by air currents
2) Cladistics 4) Saprophytic, plasmodium without walls, spores
3) Phenetics dispersed by air currents
4) Numerical Taxonomy 16. Some bacteria thrive extreme environment conditions
7. Which one of the following is wrongly matched? such as absence of oxygen, high salt concentration,
1) Puccinia Smut high temperature and acidic pH. Name them.
2) Root pressure Guttation 1) Cyanobacteria
3) Cassia Imbricate aestivation 2) Eubacteria
4) Root Exarch protoxylem 3) Archaebacteria
8. Nuclear membrane is absent in 4) Bacteria
1) Penicillium 17. A common character found in cyanobacteria and
2) Nostoc eubacteria is
3) Volvox 1) Cell wall being composed of Peptidoglycan
4) Agaricus 2) Occurrence of oxygenic photosynthesis
9. In the five-kingdom classification, Chlamydomonas 3) Presence of photosynthetic lamellae
and Chlorella have been included in 4) Presence of gas vacuoles
1) Plantae
2) Algae
3) Protista
4) Monera
10. Single-celled eukaryotes are included in
1) Fungi