BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

Type: Custom Test Questions: 45 Total Marks: 180 Difficulty: Medium, Easy, Hard

Topics covered

Biology
Biological Classification - Botany, Kingdom Classification, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Monera, Kingdom Protista,
Viroids, Virus

1. At cellular level ascomycetes could be 4. Select the incorrect statement with respect to
(1) Acellular dinoflagellates:
(I) These are golden-brown photosynthetic
(2) Unicellular
protists.
(3) Multicellular
(II) They are mostly marine, and some are found
(4) Both 2 and 3 in fresh water.
(III) They appear yellow, green, brown, blue, or
2. Contagium vivum fluidum (infections living fluid)
red depending on the main pigments present in
name given to fluid extract from infected _______
their cells.
plant was given by Beijerinek
(IV) Most of them are filamentous and lack
(1) Cuscuta flagella except in the reproductive stage.
(2) Potato (1) I
(3) Venus fly trap (2) II
(4) Tobacco (3) III
3. In Rhizopus , asexual reproduction takes place by (4) IV
non-motile spores named as
5.
(1) Conidia
Chemosynthetic They play great
(2) Zoospores autotrophic role in recycling
(3) Aplanospores bacteria oxidise nutrients like
(4) Basidiospores various inorganic nitrogen,
substances such as potassium, iron
nitrates, nitrites and selenium.
and ammonia and
use the released
energy for their
ATP production.

(1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is

incorrect.
(2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is
correct.
(3) Both Statements are correct.
(4) Both Statements are incorrect.
6. Assertion: Viruses are not included in any 11. Assertion: Mycoplasma are pathogenic in plants
kingdom of classification and animals.

Reason: Viruses are not cells as they lack Reason: Mycoplasma lack cell wall and can
cytoplasm survive without oxygen .
(1) Both Assertion and Reason are true and (1) Both Assertion and Reason are true and
Reason is the correct explanation of Reason is the correct explanation of
Assertion. Assertion.
(2) Both Assertion and Reason are true but (2) Both Assertion and Reason are true but
Reason is not the correct explanation of Reason is not the correct explanation of
Assertion Assertion
(3) Assertion is true but Reason is false. (3) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(4) Both Assertion and Reason are false. (4) Both Assertion and Reason are false.

7. Identify 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the given diagram. 12.

The pigments of Euglenoids are
euglenoids are covered by protein
identical to those rich layer called
present in higher pellicle
plants.
(1) 1 - Cocci, 2 - Spirilla, 3 - Bacilli, 4 - Vibrio
(2) 1 - Bacilli, 2 - Spirilla, 3 - Vibrio, 4 - Cocci (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is
(3) 1 - Bacilli, 2 - Vibrio, 3 - Cocci, 3 - Spirilla incorrect.
(4) 1 - Cocci, 2 - Bacilli, 3 - Spirilla, 4 - Vibrio (2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is
correct.
8. Protozoans are
(3) Both Statements are correct.
(1) Heterotrophs
(4) Both Statements are incorrect.
(2) Parasites only
(3) Producers 13. Viroids have
(4) Saprophytes only (1) Double stranded RNA covered by protein coat
(2) Single stranded DNA not covered by protein
9. Identify the time period taken by diatomaceous coat.
earth for its formation?
(3) Double stranded DNA covered by protein coat
(1) Millions of years
(4) Single stranded RNA not covered by protein
(2) Billions of years coat
(3) Hundreds of years
14. Choose the incorrect statement about members
(4) Thousands of years
of kingdom-monera
10. Kingdom protista contains (1) All of them live in or on other organisms as
(1) Blue, green, algae parasites
(2) Fungi (2) Some synthesise their own food from
(3) Unicellular eukaryotes inorganic solutes

(4) All of these (3) Bacterial structure is very simple, they are
very complexin behaviour.
(4) Hundreds of bacteria are present in handful
of soil
15. 19. Phycomycetes are
Slime moulds are A Slime mould (1) Aquatic in nature
called protistan have spores that (2) Found on decaying wood in moist and damp
fungi. possess true walls. place
(3) Obligate parasite in plant
(1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is
(4) All of these
incorrect.
(2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is 20. Classification of organisms into plants and
correct. animals was easily done and was easy to
(3) Both Statements are correct. understand, but, a large number of organisms
did not fall into either category. The statement
(4) Both Statements are incorrect.
refers to which classification from the following
16. Find the correct statements from the following: (1) Aristotle classification
(I) According to the five-kingdom classification of (2) Whittakers classification
R.H. Whittaker, producers are placed in Monera,
(3) Linnaeus classification
Protista, and Plantae.
(4) None of the above
(II) In Whittaker's five-kingdom classification,
eukaryotes are assigned to all five kingdoms. 21.
(III) Saccharomyces is unicellular and useful in
In 1971, T.O. Diener Virus causes potato
fermentation.
discovered a new spindle tuber
(IV) According to the three-domain theory, two
infectious agent disease
domains include prokaryotic organisms.
that was smaller
(V) Euglenoids have two flagella, one lies
than viruses
longitudinally and the other transversely.
(VI) Slime mould spores are dispersed by air
currents. (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is
incorrect.
(1) I, III, IV
(2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is
(2) II, III, IV, VI
correct.
(3) I, IV, V, VI
(3) Both Statements are correct.
(4) I, III, IV, VI
(4) Both Statements are incorrect.
17. In which year Whittaker proposed the five
22. In 2-Kingdom classification, Euglena was placed
kingdom classification?
in
(1) 1960
(1) Plantae
(2) 1699
(2) Animalia
(3) 1969
(3) Protista
(4) 1996
(4) Monera
18. Which among the following are the smallest
23. What is true for archaebacteria?
living cells, known without a definite cell wall,
pathogenic to plants as well as animals and can (1) All halophiles
survise without oxygen? (2) All photosynthetics
(1) Pseudomonas (3) All fossils
(2) Mycoplasma (4) Oldest living beings
(3) Nostoc
(4) Bacillus
24. Study the following statements and identify the 29. Identify the correct word for flagellated
correct ones: protozoans.
(I) Protists are always unicellular eukaryotes. (1) Free-living only
(II) Protists reproduce both sexually and
(2) Parasites only
asexually.
(3) Either free-living or parasites
(III) All bacteria are saprotrophs.
(IV) All bacteria are autotrophs. (4) Saprophytes
(V) Prokaryotes and protists are the same.
30. Assertion: Members of Kingdom Protista are all
(1) I, II eukaryotes.
(2) I, III, IV
(3) I, III, IV, V Reason: Membrane bound organelles and an
(4) I, II, III organized nucleus is absent in Protista
(1) Both Assertion and Reason are true and
25. Which of the following is a parasitic fungi on Reason is the correct explanation of
mustard? Assertion.
(1) Rhizopus (2) Both Assertion and Reason are true but
(2) Albugo Reason is not the correct explanation of
(3) Agaricus Assertion
(4) Neurospora (3) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(4) Both Assertion and Reason are false.
26. The cyanobacteria are also referred to as
(1) protists 31. Dikaryotic stage is seen in
(2) golden algae (1) Phycomycetes, Ascomycetes
(3) slime moulds (2) Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes
(4) blue green algae. (3) Basidiomycetes, Deuteromycetes
(4) Phycomycetes, Deuteromycete
27. The asexual spores in ascomycetes are conidia
produced _______on the special mycelium 32. A free living nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium
called___________. which can also symbiotic association with the
(1) Exogenously, conidiopores water ferm Azolla is
(2) Endogenously, conidiophores (1) Tolypothrix
(3) Exogenously, conidiophores (2) Chlorella
(4) Endogenously, conidiopores (3) Nostoc
(4) Anabaena.
28. Genetic material of TMV is
(1) DNA
(2) Protein
(3) RNA
(4) 1 or 3
33. Study the following statements and identify the 37. How many statements features are correct for
correct ones: (I) The sexual life cycle of fungi bacteriophage?
involves three sequential steps: Plasmogamy, i. They have polygonal head and envelope
followed by Karyogamy, and then Meiosis in the ii. Contractile tail
zygote. (II) In bacteria, the mesosome helps in iii. Tail sheath present
photosynthesis. (III) Bacteria are the sole iv. Tail fibres are absent
members of the Kingdom Monera. (IV) A handful v. Nucleic acid as double stranded circular DNA
of soil contains hundreds of bacteria. usually
(1) I (1) ii and iii
(2) I, III, IV (2) i, ii, iii and iv
(3) II, IV (3) ii, iii, iv and v
(4) II, III (4) All correct except iv

34. What is true regarding plasmids? 38. BGA can fix atmospheric nitrogen in structure
(I) Plasmids are used to monitor genetic called
transformation. (1) Heterocytes
(II) Plasmids are present in bacterial cells.
(2) Heterocyst
(III) Plasmids are organisms with antibiotic
(3) Homocyst
resistance.
(IV) Plasmids are DNA molecules with Ori (origin (4) Conidiophores
of replication).
39. After karyogamy followed by meiosis, spores are
(1) I, II, III produced exogenously in
(2) III, IV (1) Agaricus
(3) I, II, IV (2) Alternaria
(4) II, III (3) Neurospora
35. Which statement is wrong for viruses? (4) Saccharomyces
(1) All are parasites. 40. Read the following statements and choose the
(2) All of them have helical symmetry correct option.
(3) They have ability to synthesize nucleic acids
and proteins. Virus is obligate Dmitri Ivanowsky
(4) Antibiotics have no effect on them. parasite. (1892) recognised
certain microbes as
36. Yeast, Aspergillus and Penicillium are the causal organism of
examples of class the mosaic disease
(1) Phycomycetes of tobacco plant.
(2) Ascomycetes
(3) Deuteromycetes (1) Statement A is correct but Statement B is
incorrect.
(4) Basidiomycetes
(2) Statement A is incorrect but Statement B is
correct.
(3) Both Statements are correct.
(4) Both Statements are incorrect.
41. In cyanobacteria, which of the following is 44. Viruses have
present? (1) DNA enclosed in a protein coat
(1) Chlorophyll-a (2) prokaryotic nucleus
(2) Chlorophyll-b (3) single chromosome
(3) Chlorophyll-c (4) both DNA and RNA.
(4) Chlorophyll-d
45. Assertion: Two kingdom classification was
42. Naked cytoplasm, multinucleated and insufficient
saprophytic are the characteristics of
(1) Monera Reason: Majority of organisms did not fall into
either of the two categories of 2 kingdom
(2) Protista
classification
(3) Fungi
(1) Both Assertion and Reason are true and
(4) Slime molds
Reason is the correct explanation of
43. When devoid of sunlight, euglenoids behave as Assertion.

(1) Autotrophic (2) Both Assertion and Reason are true but
Reason is not the correct explanation of
(2) Heterotrophic
Assertion
(3) Chemosynthetic
(3) Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(4) Use stored ATP
(4) Both Assertion and Reason are false.
 Answer Key

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11) 2 12) 3 13) 4 14) 1 15) 3 16) 4 17) 3 18) 2 19) 4 20) 3
21) 1 22) 2 23) 4 24) 1 25) 2 26) 4 27) 3 28) 3 29) 3 30) 3
31) 2 32) 4 33) 2 34) 3 35) 2 36) 2 37) 4 38) 2 39) 1 40) 3
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EXPLANATIONS

Q1. => Correct Option: 4

The ascomycetes are mostly multicellular, e.g., Penicillium, or rarely unicellular, e.g., yeast (Saccharomyces).

Q2. => Correct Option: 4

M.W. Beijerinek (1898) demonstrated that the extract of the infected plants of tobacco could cause infection in
healthy plants and named the new pathogen “virus” and called the fluid as Contagium vivum fluidum (infectious
living fluid).

Q3. => Correct Option: 3

Rhizopus is a phycomycetes which produces aplanospores (non-motile).

Q4. => Correct Option: 4

IV is incorrect. Most of dinoflagellates have two flagella; one lies longitudinally and the other transversely in a
furrow between the wall plates.

Q5. => Correct Option: 1

A is correct. They play great role in recycling nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, iron and sulphur.

Q6. => Correct Option: 1

Viruses are considered as acellular organisms. Hence they are not included in any of the kingdoms.

Q7. => Correct Option: 4

1 - Cocci, 2 - Spirilla, 3 - Bacilli, 4 - Vibrio

Q8. => Correct Option: 1

All protozoans are heterotrophs.

Q9. => Correct Option: 2

Diatomaceous earth is the deposition of cell wall in their habitat by diatoms and it takes over billions of year.
Q10. => Correct Option: 3
Kingdom protista contains Unicellular eukaryotes

Q11. => Correct Option: 2

Mycoplasma are the simplest and freeliving prokaryotes, they can survive without oxygen. Mycoplasma live as
saphrophytes but majority are parasites in plants and animals. They are parasitic due to the inability to produce
required growth factors.

Q12. => Correct Option: 3

Both are correct.

Q13. => Correct Option: 4

Viroids was found to be a free RNA; it lacked the protein coat

Q14. => Correct Option: 1

Some of them are parasites and some are decomposers.

Q15. => Correct Option: 3

Both are correct.

Q16. => Correct Option: 4

I, III, IV, VI are correct statements. The incorrect statement can be corrected as In Whittaker's five-kingdom
classification eukaryotes are assigned to only four kingdoms. Dinoflagellates have two flagella one lies
longitudinally and the other transversely.

Q17. => Correct Option: 3

R.H. Whittaker (1969) proposed a Five Kingdom Classification.

Q18. => Correct Option: 2

Mycoplasmas are smallest, prokaryotes lacking cell wall and are pleomorphic in nature. These are pathogenic to
both plants and animals.

Q19. => Correct Option: 4

Members of phycomycetes are found in aquatic habitats and on decaying wood in moist and damp places or as
obligate parasites on plants.

Q20. => Correct Option: 3

The main criteria for classification used in 5 kingdom classification include cell structure, body organisation,
mode of nutrition, reproduction and phylogenetic relationships.

Q21. => Correct Option: 1

A is correct. Viroids causes potato spindle tuber disease.
Q22. => Correct Option: 2
In 2-kingdom classification, Euglena was placed in Animalia, as it does not have cell wall.

Q23. => Correct Option: 4

Archaebacteria are the most ancient and halogenous group of bacteria and are called living fossils.

Q24. => Correct Option: 1

I, II are correct statements. The incorrect statement can be corrected as prokaryotes belong to monera and
protista has eukaryotic cell. Bacteria can be autotrophic, heterotrophic, parasitic and saprotrophic.

Q25. => Correct Option: 2

Albugo (the parasitic fungi on mustard).

Q26. => Correct Option: 4

Cyanobacteria are also referred as blue green algae, they perform oxygenic photosynthesis.

They are most successful autotrophic organisms on earth which are found in all types of environment - fresh
water, sea water, salt marshes, moist rocks, tree trunks, moist soils, hot springs, frozen waters.

Q27. => Correct Option: 3

The asexual spores in ascomycetes are conidia produced exogenously on the special mycelium called
conidiophores.

Q28. => Correct Option: 3

TMV is RNA virus.

Q29. => Correct Option: 3

Flagellated protozoans: The members of this group are either free-living or parasitic.

Q30. => Correct Option: 3

Protista includes unicellular eukaryotes. Eukaryotes have a definite nucleus (true nucleus) and membrane
bound organelles.

Q31. => Correct Option: 2

Binucleate condition is seen in ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes which is formed due to fusion of gametes or
gametangia in ascomycetes and somatogamy in basidiomycetes.

Q32. => Correct Option: 4

The freshwater fern Azolla harbours Anabaena (a blue green alga) in its leaf cavities. Chlorella is simply a green
alga. Nostoc is a free living cyanobacteria involved in N2 fixation and so is Tolypothrix.
Q33. => Correct Option: 2
Statement (I) is correct. The sexual life cycle of fungi involves plasmogamy, karyogamy, and meiosis. Statement
(II) is incorrect. In bacteria, the mesosome helps in respiration, not photosynthesis. Statement (III) is correct. As
per NCERT Class 11, Chapter 2, page 18, 'Bacteria are the sole members of the Kingdom Monera.' Statement (IV)
is correct. As per NCERT Class 11, Chapter 2, page 18, 'Hundreds of bacteria are present in a handful of soil.'
Therefore, statements I, III, and IV are correct.

Q34. => Correct Option: 3

I, II, IV are correct. The incorrect statement can be corrected as Plasmids are not organisms but are DNA
molecules present in bacterial cell.

Q35. => Correct Option: 2

In viruses, three architectural forms are found – helical (elongated body, e.g., TMV), cuboidal (short broad body
with rhombic, rounded, polyhedral shape, e.g,. poliovirus) and binal (with both cuboidal and helical parts, e.g.,
T2 phage).

Q36. => Correct Option: 2

Yeast, Aspergillus and Penicillium are the examples of class Ascomycetes.

Q37. => Correct Option: 4

Bacteriophage contains 6 tail fibres which are helpful in attachment of the bacteriophage with the host.

Q38. => Correct Option: 2

BGA / cyanobacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen in specialised cells known as heterocyst.

Q39. => Correct Option: 1

Agaricus belongs to the class Basidiomycetes. Members of the class Basidiomycetes produce haploid
basidiospores exogenously in structure called Basidium and basidia are arranged in fruiting bodies called
basidiocarps. Neurospora and Saccharomyces belongs to the class Ascomycetes which produces Ascospores
endogenously inside the ascus. Alternaria belongs to the class Deuteromycetes in which formation of sexual
spores doesnot takes place.

Q40. => Correct Option: 3

Statement A: Viruses are indeed obligate parasites, meaning they can only replicate inside the living cells of
other organisms. This statement is correct. Statement B: Dmitri Ivanowsky (1892) recognised certain microbes as
the causal organism of the mosaic disease of tobacco plant. He discovered that the extract of infected plants
could cause infection in healthy plants even after passing through bacteria-proof filters, suggesting the presence
of an organism smaller than bacteria. This statement is also correct. Therefore, both statements are correct.

Q41. => Correct Option: 1

Chlorophyll-a is a present in Cyanobacteria/ BGA

Q42. => Correct Option: 4

Slime molds exist as multinucleated saprophytic entity on leaves & decaying twig.
Q43. => Correct Option: 2
When devoid of sunlight, euglenoids behave as Heterotrophic

Q44. => Correct Option: 1

All viruses are nucleoproteins (Nucleic acid + Protein) in the structure. The nucleic acid (DNA and RNA) is the
genetic material. In a particular virus either DNA or RNA is the genetic material. Both are never present in a
virus.

Single stranded RNA or ss RNA - Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)

Virus envelope is known as capsid. The capsid is composed of protein subunits called capsomere.

Q45. => Correct Option: 1

Two kingdom classification was given by Linnaeus, the system did not distinguish between eukaryotes and
prokaryotes, unicellular and multicellular, autotrophs and heterotrophs.

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