CEE MCQ’S & SURE SHOTS

a. Bacteria
Virus – 40 Qns with
b. Fungi
Explanations
c. Virus

d. Algae
1. All are caulimo virus except
Answer: c
a. Cauliflower mosaic virus
Bacteriophage is a virus that infects
b. Dahlia mosaic virus bacteria.

c. Bacteriophage virus

d. Rhabdo virus 4. TMV was isolated in crystal form

by
Answer: d
a. Watson and Crick
Rhabdovirus is not a caulimovirus; it is a
different group of viruses. b. Morgan

c. W.M Stanley

2. Obligate parasites d. None

a. Cannot multiply outside living cell Answer: c

b. Can multiply outside living cell W.M. Stanley crystallized TMV,

proving viruses can exist in a non-living
c. Can multiply in soil state.

d. Can multiply on dead organic matter

Answer: a 5. The disease influenza is

Viruses are obligate parasites, meaning a. Bacterial

they require living cells for multiplication.
b. Fungal

c. Algal
3. Bacteriophage is
d. Viral

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Answer: d 8. Virus cannot survive outside host

because
Influenza is caused by influenza virus
(RNA virus). a. Lack of metabolic activity

b. Separation in two parts

6. Viruses which multiply without blood c. Having thick shield of proteinaceous

host coat

a. Virion d. Due to oxidation

b. Lytic Answer: a

c. Retrovirus Viruses lack metabolic machinery;

hence they cannot survive
d. Temperate independently.

Answer: d

Temperate viruses can integrate into host 9. A clear zone formed in bacterial
DNA and multiply without immediate lysis. colony due to viral action

a. Plaque

7. Retrovirus and reverse transcript were b. Phage

discovered by
c. Streak
a. Sinsheimer
d. Krantz
b. Stanley
Answer: a
c. Temin and Baltimore
Viral lysis of bacteria produces clear
d. Chase areas called plaques.

Answer: c

Temin and Baltimore discovered reverse 10. The organism causing SARS has
transcriptase in retroviruses. undergone changes from its original
form. The actual virus name and the
process likely to have caused this
change include

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a. Corona-translocation Bacteriophages specifically infect

bacteria.
b. Corona-crossing over

c. Adeno-translocation
13. Virus is composed of
d. Adeno-crossing over
a. Protein and Nucleic acid
Answer: a
b. Protein and Starch
SARS is caused by coronavirus; genetic
changes occur due to translocation. c. Protein, RNA, and DNA

d. Protein, starch, and carbohydrate

11. TMV [Tobacco Mosaic Virus] genes Answer: a

are
Viruses consist of nucleic acid
a. ssRNA (DNA or RNA) and a protein coat.

b. dsRNA

c. ssDNA 14. Influenza virus is

d. dsDNA a. 2RNA

Answer: a b. 2DNA

TMV contains single-stranded RNA as c. 1RNA

its genetic material.
d. 1 DNA

Answer: c
12. Bacteriophages are
Influenza virus has a single-stranded
a. Bacteria attacking algae RNA genome.

b. Virus attacking fungi

c. Bacteria attacking virus 15. Plant virus generally contains

d. Virus attacking bacteria a. RNA

Answer: d b. DNA

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c. DNA and RNA 18. Which of the following is

impossible in absence of virus
d. Only proteins
a. Conjugation
Answer: a
b. Translation
Most plant viruses are RNA viruses.
c. Transformation

d. Transduction
16. The protein coat of virus is called
Answer: d
a. Capsid
Transduction (DNA transfer)
b. Capsule requires bacteriophages

c. Capsooner 19. Which of the following is smallest

virus
d. Fiber
a. Foot and Mouth virus
Answer: a
b. Tobacco mosaic virus
The protein shell surrounding viral
nucleic acid is capsid. c. Coliphage

d. Wound tumour virus

17. Head of the plant virus possess Answer: a

a. DNA Foot and Mouth Disease virus is one

of the smallest known animal viruses.
b. RNA

c. Protein
20. Which of the following is DNA
d. Lipid containing plant virus

Answer: b a. Tobacco mosaic virus

Plant viruses usually have RNA inside b. Tomato mosaic virus

their head region.
c. Cauliflower mosaic virus

d. Potato mosaic virus

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Answer: c a. Virus

Cauliflower mosaic virus is a rare DNA b. Viroid

plant virus; most plant viruses are RNA-
based. c. Mycoplasma

d. Prions

21. Algal viruses are known as Answer: c

a. Binal viruses Mycoplasma is the smallest

organism capable of independent life.
b. Cyanophages

c. Mycophages
24. Which of the following is not true
d. Phycophages for viruses

Answer: d a. DNA

Viruses that infect algae are called b. RNA

phycophages.
c. Both DNA and RNA

d. none
22. Absence of respiration is … Character
of virus Answer: c

a. Living Viruses never have both DNA and

RNA together, only one type at a time.
b. Non living

c. Intermediate
25. One of the living symbols of virus
d. none is

Answer: b a. Obligate parasite

Viruses lack respiration, showing non- b. Sporophyte

living nature outside host cells.
c. Saprophyte

d. None
23. Smallest free living organism is

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Answer: a b. In vitro

Viruses show living nature as obligate c. Both a and b

intracellular parasites.
d. none

Answer: a
26. Temin worked on which virus
Viruses multiply only inside living
a. Herpesvirus cells (in vivo).

b. Rhinovirus

c. Retrovirus 29. X-bodies are formed during

infection of
d. Denguvirus
a. Bacteria
Answer: c
b. Mycoplasma
Howard Temin studied retroviruses and
reverse transcription. c. Virus

d. All

27. Genetic material of reovirus is Answer: c

a. dsDNA X-bodies are inclusion bodies

formed in cells infected by viruses.
b. ssDNA

c. dsRNA
30. Hydrophobia is caused by
d. ssRNA
a. Bacterium
Answer: c
b. Fungus
Reoviruses contain double-stranded
RNA. c. Virus

d. Protozoan

28. Virus multiply Answer: c

a. In vivo

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Hydrophobia is another name for rabies, c. Protozoans

caused by rabies virus.
d. Helminthes

Answer: b
31. The disease caused by virus in crop is
Interferons are antiviral proteins that
a. Potato mosaic inhibit virus multiplication.

b. Citrus canker

c. Brown rot of potato 34. The virus responsible for AIDS is

an example of
d. Leaf spot of cotton
a. Adeno virus
Answer: a
b. Mosaic virus
Potato mosaic is a viral disease of plants.
c. Rhabdo virus

d. Retrovirus
32. Bunchy top of banana is caused by
Answer: d
a. Mycoplasma
HIV is a retrovirus, which uses
b. Deuteromycetes reverse transcription.

c. Xanthomonas

d. Virus 35. Death of host cells due to viral

infection is called
Answer: d
a. Stunting
Bunchy top disease of banana is caused
by banana bunchy top virus. b. Necrosis

c. Rosetting

33. Interferon suppresses the pathogenic d. None

activity of
Answer: b
a. Bacteria
Viral infection often kills host cells,
b. Viruses leading to necrosis.

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c. Neither RNA nor DNA

36. Which of the following is a viral d. Both DNA and RNA

disease
Answer: a
a. Small pox
Influenza virus contains RNA as
b. Malaria genetic material.

c. Diptheria 39. Which one is the smallest among

following
d. Tuberculosis
a. Bacteriophage
Answer: a
b. TMV
Smallpox is a viral disease caused by
variola virus. c. [Link]

d. Neurospora

37. The spread of AIDS is promoted by Answer: a

a. Homosexuality Bacteriophage is much smaller than

bacteria ([Link], Neurospora) and TMV.
b. Immoral way of life

c. Use of infected needles in blood

transfusion 40. Which of the following has tadpole
shape
d. all
a. TMV
Answer: d
b. DMV
AIDS spreads via unsafe sex, infected
needles, and blood transfusion. c. HPV

d. Bacteriophage

38. Influenza virus has Answer: d

a. RNA Bacteriophages have a head-and-tail

structure that resembles a tadpole.
b. DNA

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41. The enzymes formed by c. Dahlia mosaic virus

bacteriophages which ruptures the
bacterial wall is d. T2 bacteriophage

a. Proenzymes Answer: d

b. Phage lysozyme Hershey and Chase used T2

bacteriophage to show DNA is the
c. Endolysins genetic material.

d. Phago protein

Answer: c 44. Coliphage phi x 174 has

Endolysins are enzymes that digest a. ssRNA

bacterial cell walls during phage release.
b. ssDNA

c. dsRNA
42. Virus with icosahedral head and head
tail is termed as d. dsDNA

a. TMV Answer: b

b. DMV φX174 is the first discovered DNA

bacteriophage and has single-stranded
c. Bacteriophage DNA.

d. Variola virus

Answer: c 45. Zymophage remain parasite on

Bacteriophages typically have a. Bacteria

icosahedral heads with tails for infection.
b. Algae

c. Yeast
43. Which of the following was used in
Hershey and Chase to prove that DNA is d. None
the chemical basis of heredity
Answer: c
a. TMV
Zymophages are viruses that infect
b. Cauliflower mosaic virus yeast cells.

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c. Bacteria

46. An extreme example of latency in d. Bacteriophage

which DNA of the phage is integrated
with the DNA of host cell chromosome is Answer: d

a. Lysis Bacteriophages in Ganga water

naturally kill harmful bacteria.
b. Lysogeny

c. Attenuated virus
49. A pro-virus is
d. Prophage
a. Precursor of a viral particle
Answer: b
b. Prolonged viral infection
In lysogeny, phage DNA integrates into
the host genome and remains dormant. c. A symbiotic viral nucleic acid within
the host genome

d. A dormant viral protein

47. Cyanophage attack
Answer: c
a. Cyanobacteria
A provirus is viral DNA integrated
b. Bacteria into host DNA.

c. Fungi

d. Lichens 50. Tailed bacteriophages are

Answer: a a. Motile on the surface of bacteria

Cyanophages specifically infect b. Non-motile

cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).
c. Actively motile in water

d. Motile on surface of plant leaves

48. The purity of holy Ganga is due to the
presence of Answer: b

a. Cyanophage Tailed phages are non-motile; they

rely on passive contact with hosts.
b. Hydrophytes

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b. Viruses multiply only in living host

cell
51. Phages that show lysogenic cycle are
called c. Viruses can not use oxygen for
respiration
a. Temperate phages
d. Viruses can be grown in sugary liquid
b. Virulent phages
Answer: d
c. Avirulent phages
Viruses cannot grow in nutrient
d. Lytic phages media; they require host cells.

Answer: a

Temperate phages can integrate into host 54. Which statement is wrong for
DNA and undergo lysogeny. viroids

a. They are smaller than viruses

52. The best supporting fact that “Viruses b. They cause infections
are living” is that, viruses
c. Their RNA is of high molecular
a. Are made of chemicals weight

b. Cause diseases d. They lack a protein coat

c. Duplicate themselves Answer: c

d. Penetrate cell membrane Viroids contain small, low molecular

weight circular RNA, not high molecular
Answer: c weight.

Self-replication inside host shows their

living characteristic.
55. Viruses did not find a place in
classification because

53. Which of the following is not a. They do not possess a cellular

concerned with viruses structure

a. Viruses are made up of nucleic and b. They can be crystallized

proteins
c. They do not divide outside the cell

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d. All 58. Viroids contain

Answer: d a. Protein only

Viruses lack cells, can be crystallized, b. DNA only

and don’t divide independently, so excluded.
c. RNA and Protein

d. RNA only
56. Which of the following is correct
Answer: d
a. All fungi are filamentous
Viroids are naked infectious RNA
b. Transfer of DNA from one bacteria to molecules without protein coats.
another cannot take place
59. Bacteriophage release lysozyme
c. Viruses cannot have DNA and RNA during

d. Protists reproduce asexually only a. Penetration phase

Answer: c b. Eclipse phase

Viruses never have both DNA and RNA; c. Adsorption phase

only one type of nucleic acid.
d. Maturation phase

Answer: a
57. Virus lack
During penetration, lysozyme helps
a. Protoplasm phage inject DNA by breaking bacterial
cell wall.
b. Cell wall

c. Growth
60. Capsid refers to
d. all
a. Protein coat of virus particle
Answer: d
b. Protein and nucleic acid
Viruses lack all features of true cells:
protoplasm, growth, and cell wall. c. Carbohydrate part of virus

d. None

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Answer: a a. Bacteria

The capsid is the protective protein shell b. Virus

that surrounds viral nucleic acid.
c. Fungi

d. parasite
61. The number of tail fibres in
bacteriophage is Answer: a

a. 2 Bacteriophages infect and destroy

bacterial cells.
b. 4

c. 5
64. Edward Jenner discovered
d. 6
a. Vaccination against smallpox
Answer: d
b. Vaccination against chickenpox
Typical T-even phages (like T4) have 6
tail fibers for attachment to bacteria. c. Immunization against smallpox

d. Immunization against Chickenpox

62. Potato spindle tuber disease is caused Answer: a

by
Edward Jenner developed the first
a. Bacteria vaccine against smallpox.

b. Virus

c. Viroids 65. Mosaic of sugarcane is caused by

d. Mycoplasma a. Bacteria

Answer: c b. Algae

Potato spindle tuber disease is caused by c. Virus

viroids (naked RNA).
d. Fungi

Answer: c
63. Bacteriophages kill

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Sugarcane mosaic disease is a viral c. Mycoplasma

infection affecting leaves.
d. Fungi

Answer: c
66. Prions are largely composed of
Potato leaf curl is caused by
a. Protein mycoplasma-like organisms (not virus).

b. RNA

c. DNA 69. The intact virus unit or infectious

particle is called
d. None
a. Capsomers
Answer: a
b. Virion
Prions are infectious proteins with no
nucleic acids. c. Bacteriophage

d. Muton

67. Which disease is caused by virus Answer: b

a. Tuberculosis A complete infectious viral particle

is termed a virion.
b. Typhoid

c. Polio
70. The smallest pathogenic agent is
d. Diptheria
a. Viroids
Answer: c
b. Virion
Polio is caused by poliovirus (an
enterovirus). c. Virusoids

d. Prion

68. Leaf curl of potato is caused by Answer: d

a. Bacteria Prions are the smallest known

infectious agents, made only of protein.
b. Virus

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b. Nucleoprotein

71. In which virus, DNA is double c. Lipoprotein

stranded
d. DNA and RNA
a. Hepatitis A
Answer: b
b. Hepatitis B
Viruses are nucleoproteins (nucleic
c. Hepatitis C acid + protein coat).

d. Hepatitis D

Answer: b 74. How many genes are present in

simple virus
Hepatitis B virus has a partially double-
stranded DNA genome. a. 5

b. 4

72. Some virus multiply as soon as they c. 3

enter the host cell, resulting in lysis
breakdown of host cell. Such viruses are d. 2
called
Answer: a
a. Prophage
The simplest viruses may carry as
b. Lysogenic viruses few as 5 genes.

c. Lytic viruses

d. None 75. Retroviruses are also called as

Answer: c a. RNA-DNA viruses

Lytic viruses immediately replicate and b. DNA-DNA virus

burst the host cell.
c. RNA-RNA viruses

d. DNA-DNA virus
73. Virus and Bacteriophage are
composed of Answer: a

a. Protein

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Retroviruses use RNA to make DNA via c. HIV

reverse transcriptase.
d. T-2 bacteriophage

Answer: c
76. Viruses can multiply
HIV is a retrovirus because it uses
a. Bacteria only reverse transcriptase (RNA → DNA).

b. All living cells

c. Specific living cells 79. Plant viruses generally contain

d. Rotten food a. DNA

Answer: c b. RNA

Viruses multiply only in specific host c. Protein

cells they are adapted to.
d. Nucleic acid

Answer: b
77. Genetic transfer through virus called
as Most plant viruses have RNA
genomes (like TMV).
a. Sexduction

b. Transduction
80. A virus contains
c. Configuration
a. Protein coat and lipid coat
d. Transformation
b. Protein coat and nucleic acid
Answer: b
c. DNA and RNA both
Virus-mediated DNA transfer in bacteria
is called transduction. d. Carbohydrate and protein coat

78. Which virus is also called retro virus? Answer: b

a. Poliovirus Viruses are made of nucleic acid

(DNA or RNA) and protein coat.
b. Rabies virus

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81. RNA is found in Answer: c

a. Bacteriophage Smallpox virus (a poxvirus) is

among the largest viruses.
b. Animal virus

c. Plant virus
84. Which is rod-shaped virus?
d. All of the above
a. TMV
Answer: d
b. HIV
RNA viruses exist in bacteria, animals,
and plants. c. Smallpox virus

d. Polio virus

82. Viruses do not show Answer: a

a. Both living and non-living characteristics Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) has a
rod-like shape.
b. Respiration

c. Reproduction
85. Which disease is caused by
d. Host specificity retrovirus?

Answer: b a. AIDS

Viruses cannot respire on their own, b. Polio

unlike living cells.
c. Cancer

d. Rabies
83. Which one is largest virus?
Answer: a
a. TMV
Retrovirus HIV causes AIDS.
b. HIV

c. Small pox virus

86. Which of the following is not a
d. Mumps virus viral disease?

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a. Influenza All listed viruses have RNA

genomes.
b. Polio

c. Chickenpox
89. Which enzyme is present in
d. Cholera retrovirus?

Answer: d a. Ligase

Cholera is bacterial (caused by Vibrio b. Transcriptase

cholerae), not viral.
c. Reverse transcriptase

d. DNA polymerase
87. Which is DNA virus?
Answer: c
a. Polio
Reverse transcriptase allows
b. Rabies retroviruses to make DNA from RNA.

c. Adenovirus

d. Measles 90. Which is the smallest virus?

Answer: c a. Potato spindle tuber viroid

Adenoviruses contain double-stranded b. Polio virus

DNA.
c. HIV

d. Adenovirus
88. Which one is RNA virus?
Answer: a
a. Polio virus
Viroids (like potato spindle tuber
b. Influenza virus viroid) are even smaller than viruses.

c. Rabies virus

d. All of the above 91. Which is an RNA virus?

Answer: d a. Polio virus

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b. Rabies virus

c. Influenza virus 94. Who coined the term retrovirus?

d. All of these a. Pasteur

Answer: d b. Howard Temin

Polio, Rabies, and Influenza viruses are c. Darwin

RNA-based.
d. None

Answer: b
92. Which virus is known as oncovirus?
Howard Temin discovered reverse
a. Polio virus transcriptase and coined the term
retrovirus.
b. Rabies virus

c. Retrovirus
95. Which of the following is not a
d. Measles virus characteristic of virus?

Answer: c a. Acellular

Retroviruses can cause cancer, hence b. Cytoplasm

called oncoviruses.
c. Protein coat

d. DNA or RNA
93. Which virus causes rabies?
Answer: b
a. Hydrophobia virus
Viruses lack cytoplasm since they
b. Lyssa virus are acellular.

c. HIV 96. A patient is diagnosed with AIDS.

The doctor explains that the virus
d. Both (a) and (b) responsible is unique because it uses a
special enzyme to convert its RNA
Answer: d into DNA, which then integrates into
the patient's own white blood cell
Rabies is caused by Lyssavirus, often genome. This description best matches
referred to as hydrophobia virus. which type of virus?

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a) Bacteriophage The text defines a "plaque" as a clear

zone formed in a bacterial colony due to
viral action, which is the lytic cycle of a
b) Caulimovirus bacteriophage destroying the host cells.

98. A farmer observes stunted growth

c) Retrovirus and mosaic patterns on the leaves of
her tobacco plants. You analyze the
infectious agent and find it contains
d) Lytic virus only RNA and a protein coat. This
agent cannot be cultured on a nutrient
gel alone. Why is culturing it this way
Answer: c) Retrovirus impossible?

Retroviruses, like HIV, are characterized a) It lacks a cell membrane.

by the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which
creates DNA from an RNA template, a
process mentioned as "teminism" in the text. b) It is an obligate parasite.
97. A microbiologist notices clear, circular
zones (plaques) appearing on a petri dish c) It is too small to be seen.
containing a uniform lawn of bacteria.
What is the most likely cause of these
clear zones, and what do they indicate? d) It requires sunlight for energy.

a) Bacterial colonies forming; indicates Answer: b) It is an obligate parasite.

growth.

Viruses are obligigate parasites,

b) Fungal contamination; indicates infection. meaning they "cannot multiply outside a
living cell" (as per the text). They lack
the necessary machinery for metabolism
c) Viral action; indicates lysis of bacterial and replication without a host.
cells.
99. Which of the following scenarios
provides the strongest argument for
d) Antibiotic diffusion; indicates resistance. considering viruses as entities on the
boundary of living and non-living?
Answer: c) Viral action; indicates lysis of
bacterial cells. a) They can be crystallized like a
chemical.

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The text describes viroids as being

b) They cause diseases in living organisms. "smaller than viruses" and composed of
"RNA only," lacking a protein coat,
which matches the description of this
c) They possess genetic material that allows new pathogen. Prions are composed only
them to duplicate themselves inside a host. of protein.

d) They have a protein coat that protects

them.

Answer: c) They possess genetic material

that allows them to duplicate themselves
inside a host.

While they can be crystallized (non-

living property), the key characteristic that
leans toward "living" is their ability to
"duplicate themselves" (as stated in the text)
by hijacking a host cell's machinery, which
is a fundamental life process.

100. A new plant disease is discovered

where the pathogen is found to be even
smaller than a typical virus and consists
only of a single-stranded RNA molecule
with no protein coat. This pathogen is
most similar to which of the following?

a) Bacteriophage

b) Viroid

c) Mycoplasma

d) Prion

Answer: b) Viroid

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