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5. Which of the following statements is correct?

Biology 1. Lichens do not grow in polluted areas.
1. Cyanobacteria: 2. Algal component of lichens is called mycobiont
I: are eubacteria 3. Fungal component of lichens is called phycobiont
4. Lichens are not good pollution indicators.
II: have chlorophyll a similar to green plants
III: can fix atmospheric nitrogen 6. Which of the following is not a characteristic of
viruses?
1. Only III is correct 1. Obligate parasites
2. Only I and II are correct 2. Crystalline structure outside host
3. Only II and III are correct 3. Both RNA and DNA as genetic material
4. I, II and III are correct 4. Protein coat surrounding nucleic acid

7. Which, among the following, are the smallest living

cells, known without a definite cell wall, pathogenic to
2. What is a key difference between Archaebacteria and
plants as well as animals and can survive without
Eubacteria?
oxygen?
Archaebacteria have peptidoglycan in their cell walls,
1. 1. Pseudomonas 2. Mycoplasma
while Eubacteria do not.
3. Nostoc 4. Bacillus
Archaebacteria are typically found in extreme
2. environments, whereas Eubacteria are found in more
diverse environments.
8. Identify the correct statement regarding Euglenoids:
Eubacteria are prokaryotes, and Archaebacteria are
3. Majority of them are marine water organisms found
eukaryotes. 1.
in running water.
Eubacteria reproduce sexually, while Archaebacteria
4. The cell wall has stiff cellulose plates on the outer
reproduce asexually. 2.
surface.
3. They have only one flagellum.
3. Which of the following statements is correct? Though they are photosynthetic in the presence of
1. Lichens do not grow in polluted areas. 4. sunlight, when deprived of sunlight they behave like
2. Algal component of lichens is called mycobiont. heterotrophs.
3. Fungal component of lichens is called phycobiont.
4. Lichens are not good pollution indicators.
9. You discover a unicellular organism. You shall place
4. Match List I with List II: this organism in Kingdom Monera and not in Kingdom
List I List II Protista if the cell:
A. Rhizopus I. Mushroom has non-cellulosic cell wall composed of
I:
B. Ustilago II. Smut fungus polysaccharide and amino acids
C. Puccinia III. Bread mould II: has a nuclear membrane but it is not double layered
D. Agaricus IV. Rust fungus
1. Only I is correct
Choose the correct answer from the options given 2. Only II is correct
below: 3. Both I and II are correct
1. A-I, B-III, C-II, D-IV 4. Both I and II are incorrect
2. A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
3. A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I 10. Which one of the following is true for fungi?
4. A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I 1. They lack a rigid cell wall
2. They are heterotrophs
3. They lack nuclear membrane
4. They are phagotrophs

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11. All the following fungi belong to Dueteromycetes 18. A spore-like stage, infective to humans, is seen in the
except: life cycle of:
1. Alternaria 1. Malarial parasite 2. Filaria worm
2. Colletotrichum 3. Liver fluke 4. Tape worm
3. Trichoderma
4. Ustilago
19. Identify the incorrect statement regarding body
12. One of the major compound of cell wall of most organization in fungi:
fungi is?
1. With the exception of yeast, fungi are filamentous.
1. peptidoglycan 2. cellulose
Their bodies consist of long, slender hyphae that may
3. hemicelluloses 4. chitin 2.
be coenocytic or septate.
3. The network of hyphae is known as the mycelium.
13. What type of nutrition do the majority of bacteria 4. The cell walls of fungi lack chitin and
exhibit? polysachharides.
1. Photosynthetic autotrophic
2. Chemosynthetic autotrophic
3. Saprophytic 20. How many of the given statements will be true for
4. Heterotrophic the members of the class ascomycetes of fungi?
(i) These are commonly called sac fungi
14. Which of the following is incorrect about (ii) These are mostly multicellular
Cyanobacteria? They are saprotrophic, decomposers, parasitic or
1. They are photoautotrophs (iii)
coprophilous
2. They lack heterocysts (iv) Their mycelium is aseptate
3. They often form blooms in polluted water bodies
4. They have chlorophyll similar to green plants (v) Conidia produced by them are endogenous
1. Two
15. Which of the following shows coiled RNA strand 2. Three
and capsomeres? 3. Four
1. Poliovirus 2. Tobacco mosaic virus 4. Five
3. Measles virus 4. Retrovirus 21. Which of the following statements about
chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria is true?
They utilize sunlight to produce organic compounds
16. A unicellular organism shows: 1.
from carbon dioxide.
I: Eukaryotic cell type
They convert nitrogen in the atmosphere into
II: Absent cell wall 2.
ammonia.
Capability to act as a heterotroph when deprived of They obtain energy through the oxidation of
III: 3.
sunlight inorganic substances to fix carbon dioxide.
This organism must be classified under: They are primarily found in hydrothermal vents and
1. Kingdom Monera, as a mycoplasma 4.
do not require oxygen for survival.
2. Kingdom Protista, as a euglenoid
3. Kingdom Protista, as a dinoflagellate
4. Kingdom Animalia, as a sponge

17. In which group of organisms the Cell walls form two

thin overlapping shells which fit together?
1. Chrysophytes 2. Euglenoids
3. Dinoflagellates 4. Slime moulds

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22. In basidiomycetes: 26. Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria play a great

The sex organs are absent, but role in:
plasmogamy is brought about by fusion 1. forming blooms in polluted water bodies
Statement I:
of two vegetative or somatic cells of recycling nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, iron
different strains or genotypes. 2.
and sulphur
The basidiospores are exogenously 3. making curd from milk
Statement II:
produced on the basidium. 4. fixing nitrogen in legume roots

1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct

2. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct 27. Viroids are different from viruses because they
3. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect consist only of:
4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect 1. DNA without a protein coat
2. Proteins without nucleic acid
3. RNA without a protein coat
23. The dikaryon is a nuclear feature that is unique to 4. Both DNA and RNA without a protein coat
certain fungi including the members of class:
I. Phycomycetes 28. The rod-shaped bacteria belongs to which of the
II. Ascomycetes following category of bacteria?
III. Deuteromycetes 1. Vibrio
IV. Basidiomycetes 2. Bacillus
3. Coccus
1. I and II only 4. Spirillum
2. I and IV only
3. II and III only 29. Citrus canker is caused by a:
4. II and IV only 1. Virus 2. Viroid
3. Prion 4. Bacterium
24. In 1969, who proposed the five kingdom
classification for living organisms?
1. R.H. Whittaker 2. C. Linnaeus 30. Viruses are:
3. A. Roxberg 4. Virchow 1. Obligate intracellular parasites
2. Obligate extracellular parasites
3. Facultative parasites
25. Deuteromycetes are commonly known as imperfect 4. Free living, outside a living cell
fungi because only the asexual or vegetative phases of
these fungi are known. What can be the possible 31. Which of the following are the smallest and simplest
reason(s) of unawareness of sexual phases in these self-replicating bacteria, lack a cell wall and can survive
fungi? without oxygen?
1. Mycoplasma
I: Sexual phases are yet to be discovered.
2. Cyanobacteria
The asexual and vegetative stage have been given 3. Archaebacteria
one name 4. Eubacteria
II:
(and placed under deuteromycetes) and the sexual
stage another (and placed under another class).

1. Only I
2. Only II
3. Both I and II
4. Neither I nor II

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32. Match List - I with List - II 36. Identify the correct statement regarding the given
List - I List - II figure:
(a) Puccinia (i) Parasitic fungus on mustard
(b) Neurospora (ii) Dead substrates
(c) Saprophytes (iii) Wheat rust
(d) Albugo (iv) Biochemical and Genetic Work

Choose the correct answer from the option given below :

(a) (b) (c) (d) A is a plant pathogen and has single stranded RNA as
its genetic material;
1. (iii) (ii) (iv) (i) 1.
B infects bacteria and usually has double stranded
2. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) DNA as its genetic material.
3. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) A is an animal pathogen and has double stranded
4. (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) RNA as its genetic material;
2.
B infects bacteria and usually has double stranded
DNA as its genetic material.
33. The term ‘Plasmodium’ can refer to: A infects bacteria and usually has double stranded
I: the malarial parasite. DNA as its genetic material;
3.
II: true spores of slime moulds. B is a plant pathogen and has single stranded RNA as
its genetic material.
1. Only I is correct A is a plant pathogen and has single stranded RNA as
2. Only II is correct its genetic material;
4.
3. Both I and II are correct B infects bacteria and usually has single stranded
4. Both I and II are incorrect RNA as its genetic material.

34. A dikaryophase of fungus is commonly seen in the

sexual reproduction of: 37. Bacteria reproduce mainly by:
I: Phycomycetes 1. fission
II: Ascomycetes 2. producing spores
III: Basidiomycetes 3. a primitive type of DNA transfer
4. sexual method
1. Only I and II
2. Only I and III
38. Cell wall is absent in:
3. Only II and III
1. Nostoc
4. I, II and III
2. Aspergillus
3. Funaria
35. Why are deuteromycetes significant in ecology?
4. Mycoplasma
1. They exclusively cause plant and animal diseases.
2. They act as primary producers in nutrient-poor soils. 39. Potato spindle tuber disease is caused by a:
They play a crucial role in litter decomposition and 1. Viroid
3.
mineral cycling. 2. Virion
They are the only group of fungi that reproduce 3. Prion
4. 4. Obelisk
sexually in aquatic environments.

40. The three-domain system is a biological

classification that divides cellular life forms into three
domains including all the following except:
1. Archaea
2. Bacteria
3. Eukarya
4. Animalia

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41. What would be true regarding the comparison of a 47. Which of the following organisms are known as
virus and a viroid? chief producers in the oceans?
Protein coat is absent in a viroid but is present in a 1. Dinoflagellates 2. Diatoms
I:
virus 3. Cyanobacteria 4. Euglenoids
Low molecular weight RNA is present in a virus but
II:
is absent in a viroid
1. Only I is correct 48. Find the incorrect statement:
2. Only II is correct 1. Bacteria mainly divide by binary fission
3. Both I and II are correct Under unfavorable conditions, bacteria produce
4. Both I and II are incorrect 2.
spores
Bacteria can reproduce by a sort of sexual
42. Chrysophytes, euglenoids, dinoflagellates and slime
3. reproduction by adopting a primitive type of DNA
moulds are included in the kingdom:
transfer from one bacterium to the other
1. Protista 2. Fungi
4. Bacterial cell wall may be cellulosic
3. Animalia 4. Monera

49. In the five kingdom classification, the members of

43. You discover a new fungus. On careful examination Kingdom Animalia:
you find that the mycelium is septate and branched, they
I: are all heterotrophs
reproduce asexually by conidia and you cannot identify
any sexual stage in its life cycle. To which fungal class II: are all multicellular where cells lack a cell wall
would you place this fungus?
1. Only I is correct
1. Phycomycetes 2. Ascomycetes
2. Only II is correct
3. Basidiomycetes 4. Deuteromycetes 3. Both I and II are correct
4. Both I and II are incorrect

44. Both Mycoplasma and Euglenoids:

1. can survive without oxygen
2. are unicellular eukaryotes 50. The cell walls of diatoms are ‘indestructible’ as they
3. lack cell wall are embedded with:
4. have two flagella 1. Silica 2. Chitin
3. Calcium 4. Raphides
45. The thalloid body of a slime mould (Myxomycetes)
is known as:
1. protonema
51. Which of the following is correct about viroids?
2. Plasmodium
1. They have free RNA without protein coat.
3. fruiting body
2. They have DNA with protein coat.
4. mycelium
3. They have free DNA without protein coat.
4. They have RNA with protein coat.
46. Which, among the following groups of fungi,
produce sexual spores in a sac-like structure
52. The vast majority of bacteria are:
endogenously during sexual reproduction?
1. Photosynthetic autotrophs
1. Basidiomycetes
2. Chemosynthetic autotrophs
2. Ascomycetes
3. Heterotrophs
3. Phycomycetes
4. Methanogens
4. Deuteromycetes

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53. Which of the following are most suitable indicators 57. Consider the following three statements:
of SO2 pollution in the environment? Euglena
1. Lichens A: Locomote by means of a flagellum
2. Conifers B: Have a rigid cell wall
3. Algae C: Do not have chloroplast
4. Fungi
1. Only A is correct
54. Select the correct combination of the statements (a- 2. Only B and C are correct
d) regarding the characteristics of certain organisms: 3. A, B, and C are correct
Methanogens are archaebacteria that produce 4. Only C is correct
(a)
methane in marshy areas
Nostoc is a filamentous blue-green alga that fixes 58. The organism shown in the given figure:
(b)
atmospheric nitrogen
Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria synthesize
(c)
cellulose from glucose
Mycoplasma lack a cell wall and can survive
(d)
without oxygen

The correct statements are:

1. (a), (b) and (c) 2. (b), (c) and (d)

3. (a), (b) and (d) 4. (b) and (c)
1. is amongst the chief producers in oceans.
is capable of heterotrophic nutrition when deprived of
2.
55. Which property of viroids makes them distinct from sunlight.
all other pathogens? 3. causes red tide that releases harmful toxins.
They lack protein coats and consist of low molecular 4. is an extremophile living in hydrothermal vents.
1.
weight RNA.
They replicate independently of the host cell
2.
machinery. 59. Which one of the following is not a criterion for
3. They infect both animals and plants. classification of fungi?
4. They possess DNA as their genetic material. 1. Mode of nutrition
2. Mode of spore formation
3. Fruiting body
56. Consider the given statements: 4. Morphology of mycelium
Lichens consist of a fungal partner and
60. Phylogenetic classification systems are based on:
Statement I: an algal partner in a symbiotic
association. 1. all observable characteristics.
The fungal partner in lichens provides cytological information like chromosome number,
2.
organic food through photosynthesis, structure, behaviour.
Statement II: evolutionary relationships between the various
while the algal partner absorbs nutrients 3.
from the soil. organisms.
natural affinities among the organisms and consider,
1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct not only the external features, but also internal
4.
2. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect features, like ultra-structure, anatomy, embryology
and phytochemistry.
3. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct
4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect

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61. Both Dinoflagellates and Euglenoids: 67. Gonyaulax is:

1. have stiff cellulosic cell wall 1. a heterotrophic bacteria pathogenic to cereal crops
2. have two flagella 2. a dinoflagellate responsible for red tides
3. can behave as heterotrophs when deprived of sunlight
3. a free living nematode
4. are mostly marine and photosynthetic
4. a thermophilic archaebacterium
62. Which group of bacteria can fix atmospheric
nitrogen in specialized cells called heterocysts?
1. Archaebacteria 68. Consider the two given statements:
2. Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria Association between mycobiont and
Statement I:
3. Cyanobacteria phycobiont is found in Lichens.
4. Mycoplasma An association between roots of higher
Statement II:
plants and fungi is called mycorrhiza.
63. Which of the following are found in extreme saline 1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect
conditions? 2. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct
1. Archaebacteria 3. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect
2. Eubacteria 4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct
3. Cyanobacteria
4. Mycobacteria 69. Fungi reproduce sexually through a sequence
involving:
64. Mycorrhiza is: 1. Plasmogamy, karyogamy, and mitosis
a fungus that lives on dead or decaying organic 2. Plasmogamy, karyogamy, and meiosis
1.
matter. 3. Karyogamy, plasmogamy, and budding
2. a fungus that parasitizes on an animal body. 4. Spore formation, plasmogamy, and binary fission
is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a
3. 70. Which disease is caused in humans by the protozoan
plant.
Trypanosoma gambiense?
is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a
4. 1. Malaria
cyanobacterium
2. African sleeping sickness
3. Elephantiasis
4. Dysentery
65. Bladderwort and Venus fly trap are:
I: examples of insectivorous plants. 71. Which of the following organisms is not matched
II: partially heterotrophic. with the correct nature of the cell wall present in their
1. Only I is correct cell/cells?
2. Only II is correct Organism Nature of cell wall
3. Both I and II are correct 1. True bacterium Polysaccharide + Amino acid
4. Both I and II are incorrect
2. Fungus With chitin
66. Consider the two statements: 3. Euglenoids Cellulosic
Statement I: No virus contains both RNA and DNA. 4. Diatoms Embedded with silica
Bacteriophages are usually single-
Statement II:
stranded RNA viruses.

1. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct

2. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect
3. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct
4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect

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72. Which of the following statements about fungal 77. Consider the given two statements:
reproduction is correct? In the five kingdom classification of
Fungi reproduce only asexually, through spores like Statement I: Whittaker, there is no mention of lichens,
1. conidia, sporangiospores, zoospores, and never viruses, viroids and prions.
undergo sexual reproduction. Lichens, viruses, viroids and prions are
Statement II:
The reproductive cycle of fungi consists of only two all ‘acellular’ organisms.
2. phases—fusion of nuclei (karyogamy) and meiosis—
leading to the formation of diploid spores. 1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct
The sexual reproduction in fungi involves three 2. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct
distinct steps: plasmogamy, karyogamy, and meiosis, 3. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect
3.
with spores being formed in specialized fruiting 4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect
bodies.
In fungi, sexual reproduction occurs only in 78. Consider the given two statements:
unfavorable conditions, and plasmogamy directly Protists are primarily unicellular
4. Statement I:
leads to haploid spore formation, bypassing eukaryotic organisms.
karyogamy and meiosis. Statement All protists have a cell wall made of
II: cellulose.

73. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of 1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct
viruses? 2. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect
1. Presence of a protein coat
3. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct
2. Ability to replicate without host cells
3. Contain either DNA or RNA 4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect
4. Non-cellular structure

74. Identify the character that is not found in euglenoids. 79. What characters will be similar in members of
1. They have two flagella. Kingdom Fungi and Kingdom Animalia as per
Whittaker’s Five Kingdom Classification?
2. They are exclusively marine
a. Cell type
When deprived of sunlight, they become b. Cell wall
3.
heterotrophic c. Body organisation
The pigments of euglenoids are identical to those
4.
found in the higher plants 1. Only a 2. Only b and c
3. Only a and c 4. Only c
75. A nuclear feature is found in a certain fungus. It is a
specialized type of heterokaryon, which is characterized
80. Identify the incorrect statement:
by two genetically distinct nuclei in each cell. This
feature is called: Chrysophytes include diatoms, which are chief
1.
producers in the ocean.
1. Dikaryon 2. Dictyate
Dinoflagellates have stiff cellulose plates on the outer
3. Dinokont 4. Diplococcus 2.
surface of their cell wall.
Euglenoids are heterotrophic organisms, which have
3.
a single flagellum.
76. Which bacterial group is known for nitrogen fixation
as well as carrying out oxygenic photosynthesis? 4. Slime molds are saprophytic protists.
1. Cyanobacteria
2. Methanogens
3. Chemoheterotrophic bacteria
4. Mycoplasma

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81. The most abundant prokaryotes helpful to human in 86. Match the following protozoa with their respective
making curd from milk and in production of antibiotics characteristics:
are the ones categorized as: Column I Column II
1. Cyanobacteria A. Amoeba i. Causes sleeping sickness
2. Archaebacteria
B. Paramecium ii. Has pseudopodia
3. Chemosynthetic autotrophs
4. Heterotrophic bacteria C. Trypanosoma iii. Possesses cilia
D. Plasmodium iv. Causes malaria
82. Consider the two statements:
Viruses are considered living organisms 1. A-ii, B-iii, C-i, D-iv 2. A-i, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv
Statement I: as they can reproduce independently 3. A-iii, B-iv, C-i, D-ii 4. A-iv, B-i, C-ii, D-iii
outside a host cell.
Viruses contain either DNA or RNA as
Statement II:
their genetic material, but not both. 87. What kind of bacteria play a great role in recycling
nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, iron and sulphur?
1. Statement I is correct; Statement II is correct 1. Photoautotrophs 2. Photoheterotrophs
2. Statement I is correct; Statement II is incorrect 3. Chemosynthetic autotrophs 4. Methanogens
3. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is correct
4. Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is incorrect
88. In 1969, who proposed the five kingdom
classification for living organisms?
83. In basidiomycetes: 1. R.H. Whittaker 2. [Link]
I: The asexual spores are generally not found. 3. A. Roxberg 4. Virchow
Vegetative reproduction by fragmentation is
II:
common.
89. Which of the following fungus does not belong to
III: The sex organs are absent.
the Class Ascomycetes?
1. Only I and II are correct
1. Rhizopus 2. Aspergillus
2. Only I and III are correct
3. Only II and III are correct 3. Neurospora 4. Claviceps
4. I, II and III are correct

84. In Whittaker’s five Kingdom classification, 90. Cr-Jacob disease in humans:

organisms with eukaryotic cell type and cellular body 1. is caused by a low molecular weight free RNA
organisation are kept under: is an analogous variant of Bovine Spongiform
2.
1. Kingdom Monera 2. Kingdom Protista Encephalopathy
3. Kingdom Fungi 4. Kingdom Plantae 3. is easily curable with antibiotics
4. is an autoimmune non-infective condition

85. Archaebacteria do not include:

1. Halophiles
2. Thermoacidophiles
3. Methanogens
4. Blue green algae

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