Q.1
What is true for slime mould? [ DPMT 2009]
  • a) Parasitic, plasmodium with true walk. Spores dispersed by air currents
  • b) Saprophytic, plasmodium, without walls, saprophytic, plasmodium without walk spores dispersed by air currents
  • c) Saprophytic, plasmodium, without walk, spores dispersed by air currents
  • d) Parasitic, plasmodium without walk spores dispersed by water currents.
Q.2
Which function as directed or indirect food of all marine creatures? .. [ Pb PMT 2005]
  • a) Protozoans
  • b) Phytoplankton
  • c) Fish
  • d) Aquatic insects
Q.3
Early blight of Potato is caused by … [ MPPMT 1990]
  • a) Phytophthora infestans
  • b) Penicillium notatum
  • c) Alternaria solani
  • d) Cystopus candidus
Q.4
Which occurs in sporozoa? [ Bih PMT 1995]
  • a) Cilia
  • b) Pseudopodia
  • c) Flagella
  • d) None of the above
Q.5
Yeast and Penicillium/penicillin producing fungus are included under … [ BHU 1995]
  • a) Basidiomycetes
  • b) Zygomycetes
  • c) Ascomycetes
  • d) Phycomycetes
Q.6
The infective state of malarial parasite Plasmodium that enters human body is … .. [ JIPMER 2002]
  • a) Merozoite
  • b) Sporozoite
  • c) Trophozoite
  • d) Minuta form
Q.7
Alcoholic fermentation is performed by … [ CET Chd. 2000]
  • a) Chlorella
  • b) Agaricus
  • c) Yest
  • d) Puccinia
Q.8
Irish Famine of 1845 was caused by … [ AMU 1999]
  • a) Alternaria solanii
  • b) Sclerospora graminicola
  • c) Phytophthora infestans
  • d) Fusarium oxysporum
Q.9
E. histolytica does not show …[CPMT 2010]
  • a) Binary fission
  • b) Budding
  • c) Encystation
  • d) Excystation
Q.10
Coenocytic mycelium occurs in …[ Har PMT 1994]
  • a) Deuteromycetes
  • b) Ascomycetes
  • c) Phycomycetes
  • d) Basidiomycetes
Q.11
Which one is not related to perfect stage of fungus … [ JIPMER 1999]
  • a) Zygospores
  • b) Meiospores
  • c) Ascospores
  • d) Mitospores
Q.12
Severe famine of West Bengal of 1942-43 was due to destruction of rice crop by a fungus called … [ AMU 1996]
  • a) Helminthosporium
  • b) Penicillium
  • c) Puccinia
  • d) Rhizopus
Q.13
Which one is not a mode of reproduction in Yeast … [ CPMT 1990]
  • a) Budding
  • b) Plasmogamy
  • c) Oogamy
  • d) Ascospore formation
Q.14
Which is wrong combination … [ AIIMS 2001]
  • a) Haemocyanin – Prawn
  • b) Haemoglobin in mammals – RBC
  • c) Haemoglobin in plasma - Pheretima
  • d) Haemozoin - Plasmodium cytoplasm
Q.15
Yeast produces an enzyme complex that is responsible for fermentation. The enzyme complex … [ MPPMT 1989]
  • a) Aldolase
  • b) Dehydrogenase
  • c) Invertase
  • d) Zymase
Q.16
In Amoeba, contractile vacuole is present … [ BHU 2006]
  • a) Near trailing end
  • b) Near advancing end
  • c) At the middle of body
  • d) Any where inside body
Q.17
Amoeba taken downstream to estuary will show ….. [ CPMT 1993]
  • a) Disappearance of contractile vacuole
  • b) Binary fission
  • c) Encystment
  • d) Stoppage of feeding
Q.18
Some protists possess structures for regulation of their content. They are … [ CET Chd 1991]
  • a) Nuclei
  • b) Contractile vacuoles
  • c) Chromatophores
  • d) Membranes
Q.19
Mycorrhiza are useful for … [ AIIMS 2007]
  • a) Providing resistance against stresses
  • b) Killing pathogens and insects
  • c) Enhanced absorption of mineral nutrients and water from soil
  • d) Fixing nitrogen
Q.20
Stage in some fungi having two haploid nuclei per cell is … [ DPMT 2001]
  • a) Diplotene
  • b) Dikaryophase
  • c) Dikaryotic
  • d) Diplotene
Q.21
Fungal spores produced asexually at tops or sides of hyphae are called … [ AFMC 1994]
  • a) Zoospores
  • b) Spores
  • c) Chlamydospores
  • d) Conidia
Q.22
Posterior end of Amoeba is characterized by … [ BihPMT 1996]
  • a) Plasmid
  • b) Amphid
  • c) Uropygium
  • d) Lack of food vacuoles
Q.23
Heterotrophic fungi can live as … [ AMU 2010]
  • a) Parasite
  • b) Saprophyte
  • c) Symbiont
  • d) All the above
Q.24
Fungi can be stained by … [ JIPMER 1999]
  • a) Cotton blue
  • b) Safranine
  • c) Glycerine
  • d) Lactophenol
Q.25
Which one is a saprophytic protest ..[ keral 2012]
  • a) Desmid
  • b) Nostoc
  • c) Slime Mould
  • d) Gonyaulax
Q.26
Protozoans are able to live efficiently due their … [ AMU 1999]
  • a) Motility
  • b) Rapid reproduction
  • c) Ability to manufacture food
  • d) Specialised organelles
Q.27
85) Which causes oriental sore ..[ MPPMT 2011]
  • a) Leishmania cruzi
  • b) Leishmania tropica
  • c) Leishmania braziliensis
  • d) Trypanosoma gambiense
Q.28
Entamoeba histolytica does not form cysts in … [ AMU 2000]
  • a) Liver
  • b) Ascending colon
  • c) Transverse colon
  • d) Descending colon
Q.29
Protists obtain food as … [ CBSE 1994]
  • a) Photosynthesizers, symbiont and holotrophs
  • b) Photosynthesizers
  • c) Chemosynthesizers
  • d) Holotrophs
Q.30
Malarial parasite is … [ CPMT 1992]
  • a) Polygenetic
  • b) Digenetic
  • c) Monogenetic
  • d) Monomorphic
Q.31
What are the characters of dinoflagellates. Planktonic golden yellow algae with soap box like structure.Marine red biflagellate protista Appear yellow, green, brown, blue and red in colour.Biflagellate organisms with pellicle.Saprophytic or parasitic unicellular forms ..
  • a) a) 1, 2 and 3 only
  • b) 2,4 and 5 only
  • c) 2 and 3 only
  • d) 2 and 5 only
Q.32
Which one is a protozoan disease … [ JKCMEE 2007]
  • a) AIDS
  • b) Taeniasis
  • c) Polio
  • d) Malaria
Q.33
Schuffner’s dots observed in erythrocytes are due to …. [ CPMT 1992]
  • a) Filaria
  • b) Malaria
  • c) Kala-azar
  • d) Giardia
Q.34
Which one produces alcohol? [ MPPMT 1995]
  • a) Clostridium botulinum
  • b) Leuconostoc citrovorum
  • c) Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • d) Torulopsis utilis
Q.35
Toadstool ( poisonous mushroom) is .. [ CET Chd 1997]
  • a) Ganoderma
  • b) Phallus
  • c) Amanita
  • d) Morchella
Q.36
Entamoeba coli causes … [ CBSE 1994]
  • a) Pyorrhoea
  • b) Diarrhoea
  • c) Dysentery
  • d) None
Q.37
Late blight of Potato is due to … [ BHU 2006]
  • a)Alternaria solani
  • b) Albugo candida
  • c) Fusarium moniliforme
  • d) Phytophthora infestans
Q.38
Yeast is … [ AIIMS 1997]
  • a) Purely aerobic
  • b) Anaerobic
  • c) Rarely anaerobic
  • d) Both aerobic and anaerobic
Q.39
Causative agent of amoebiasis is …. [ MPPMT 1993]
  • a) Amoeba proteus
  • b) Entamoeba histolytica
  • c) Entamoeba coli
  • d) Entamoeba gingivalis
Q.40
A fungus that causes damage to timber resources is … [ JIPMER 19977]
  • a) Aspergillus
  • b) Puccinia
  • c) Polyporus
  • d) Morchella
Q.41
Medically the secondary host of Plasmodium is … [ MPPMT 1994]
  • a) Male Anopheles
  • b) Female Anopheles
  • c) Female Culex
  • d) Male Culex
Q.42
Cheese maturation is connected with …. [ manipal 1999]
  • a) Aspergillus oryza
  • b) Aspergillus niger
  • c) Penicillium camemberti
  • d) Penicillium chrysogenum
Q.43
Ascocarp of Penicillium is … [ Pb PMT 1999]
  • a) Perithecium
  • b) Apothecium
  • c) Acrostroma
  • d) Cleistothecium
Q.44
Mycorrhiza is … [ JIPMER 2003]
  • a) Symbiotic association of soil fungus and root of higher plants
  • b) Parasitic association between a fungus and roots of speed plants
  • c) Saprophytic association between a fungus and root of seed plants
  • d) Symbiotic association between alga and root of seed plants
Q.45
A plant disease in which the pathogen is seen as a cottony growth on the surface of host is called … [ CBSE 2011]
  • a) Rust
  • b) Smut
  • c) Powdery mildew
  • d) Downy mildew
Q.46
The casual organism for African sleeping sickness is … [ CPMT 2000]
  • a) Trypanosoma cruzi
  • b) T. rhodesiense
  • c) T. tangelo
  • d) T. gambiense
Q.47
“ Witches Broom” of legumes is due to … [ AMU 1998]
  • a) Mycoplasma
  • b) Bacterium
  • c) Fungus
  • d) Virus
Q.48
The stage of Entamoeba histolytica that causes intestinal ulceration is … [ RPMT2000]
  • a) Trophozoite
  • b) Metacystic trophozoite
  • c) Binucleate stage
  • d) Tetranucleate stage
Q.49
Protistan genome has … [ CBSE 1994]
  • a) Membrane bound nucleoproteins embedded in cytoplasm
  • b) Free nucleic acid aggregates
  • c) Gene containing nucleoproteins condensed together in loose mass
  • d) Nucleoprotein in direct contact with cell substance
Q.50
Presence of two types of nuclei, micronucleus and macronucleus, is characteristic of protistan group … [ BHU 1994]
  • a) Sporozoa
  • b) Ciliata
  • c) Flagellata
  • d) Sarcodina
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