Q.1
Mycorrhizal association occurs in Pinus, Ficus and … [ Har PMT2000]
  • a) Utricularia
  • b) Eucalyptus
  • c) Azadirachta
  • d) Legumes
Q.2
Kingdom protista includes … [ Pb.PMT 2005]
  • a) Life cycle showing sporic meiosis
  • b) Life cycle showing zygotic meiosis
  • c) Life cycle showing gametic meiosis
  • d) Both b and c
Q.3
In yeast, cell wall contains … [ AFMC 1999]
  • a) Amylose and glucose
  • b) Glucose and mannose
  • c) Glucose and muramic acid
  • d) Sucrose and mannose
Q.4
Wonder drug is extracted from … [ HPPMT 2012]
  • a) Aspergillus
  • b) Claviceps
  • c) Penicillium
  • d) Albugo
Q.5
Deuteromycetes are called “fungi imperfecti” as they have … [AIIMS 2012]
  • a) Aseptate mycelium
  • b) Autotrophic nutrition
  • c) Only asexual stages
  • d) Zygote does not undergo cleavage
Q.6
Quartan malaria is due to … [ BHU 1996]
  • a) Plasmodium falciparum
  • b) P. vivax
  • c) P. ovale
  • d) P. malariae
Q.7
Bakane disease of Rice is due to …
  • a) Erysiphe
  • b)Gibberella
  • c) Phytophthora
  • d) Albugo
Q.8
A unicellular sac fungus is … [ kerala 2011]
  • a) Claviceps
  • b) Penicillium
  • c) Saccharomyces
  • d) Neurospora
Q.9
Majority of lichens are made of … [ CBSE 1997]
  • a) Blue-green algae and basidiomycetes
  • b) Blue-green algae and ascomycetes
  • c) Red algae and ascomycetes
  • d) Brown algae and higher plants
Q.10
Which one is a fungal disease? .. [ RPMT 1996]
  • a) Tuberculosis
  • b) Cholera
  • c) Small pox
  • d) Ringworm
Q.11
Apple scab is caused by … [ BHU 1997]
  • a) Puccinia
  • b) Erysiphe
  • c) Ustilago
  • d) Venturia
Q.12
Which is not a protistan disease …[ JIPMER 2003]
  • a) Giardiasis
  • b) Amoebiasis
  • c) Sleeping sickness
  • d) Elephantiasis
Q.13
Sexual stages of pathogens of Blast of Rice and Red Rot of Sugarcane are named respectively ….
  • a) Magnaporthe grisea Colletotrichum falcatum
  • b) Colletotrichum falcatum and Pyricularia oryzae
  • c) Glomerella tucumanensis and Magnaporthe grisea
  • d) Magnaporthe grisea and Glomerella tucumanensis
Q.14
Entamoeba histolytica infection occurs through … .[ BHU 1990]
  • a) Contaminated water and food
  • b) Sweat
  • c) Bird droppings
  • d) Mosquito bites
Q.15
Which is not found in mushroom … [ Odisha 2007]
  • a) Eukaryotic structure
  • b) Dikaryotic mycelium
  • c) Basidiospores
  • d) Ascospores
Q.16
Black colour of Bread Mould is due to … [ Manipal 2001]
  • a) Zygophores
  • b) Colour of hyphae
  • c) Decaying organic matter
  • d) Sporangia
Q.17
Causal organism for Black Stem Rust of Wheat is … [ AFMC 2007]
  • a) Melanospora lini
  • b) Claviceps purpurea
  • c) Sclerospora graminicola
  • d) Puccinia tritici
Q.18
Which is not true for Paramecium? [ Odisha 2009]
  • a) Under unfavourable conditions form cysts
  • b) Presence of large number of cilia on the whole body surface
  • c) Contain contractile vacuoles for osmoregulation
  • d) Use pseudopodia for capturing prey
Q.19
Mycorrhiza functions as … [ CPMT 1998]
  • a) Modified root
  • b) Root hair in adverse conditions
  • c) Organism for vegetative propagation
  • d) Mechanical tissue for support
Q.20
Sporangiospores of Mucor are … [ MPPMT 2002]
  • a) Polyploid
  • b) Triploid
  • c) Diploid
  • d) Haploid
Q.21
True symbiotic association between fungus and seed plants is … [ AMU 1997]
  • a) Endomycorrhiza
  • b) Ectomycorrhiza
  • c) Helotism
  • d) Commensalism
Q.22
Which one has haplontic life cycle? [ CBSE 2009]
  • a) Wheat
  • b) Funaria
  • c) Polytrichum
  • d) Ustilago
Q.23
The most common organ involved in extraintestinal amoebiasis is …. [ CET Chd. 2011]
  • a) Liver
  • b) Lungs
  • c) Brain
  • d) Spleen
Q.24
Incubation period of Plasmodium falciparum is …[ AMU 2003]
  • a) Ten days
  • b) 15 days
  • c) 20 days
  • d) 30 days
Q.25
What is wrong for Entamoeba [ Odisha 2003]
  • a) Presence of contractile vacuole
  • b) Presence of nucleus
  • c) Presence of food vacuole
  • d) Presence of pseudopodium
Q.26
Binary fission is absent in … [ Odisha 2005]
  • a) Euglena
  • b) Monocystis/Plasmodium
  • c) Paramecium
  • d) Amoeba
Q.27
Which of the following human pathogens is a flagellate protozoan …[ kerala 2012]
  • a) Plasmodium
  • b) Trypanosoma
  • c) Taenia
  • d) Entamoeba
Q.28
Lichens are described as indicators of … [ WB2010]
  • a) Soil pollution
  • b) Water pollution
  • c) Air pollution
  • d) Agricultural productivity
Q.29
Basidiospores are produced by .. [ KCET 2003]
  • a) Yeast
  • b) Diatoms
  • c) Agaricus
  • d) Bacteria
Q.30
Where will you look for sporozoites of malarial parasite … [ CBSE 2011]
  • a) Spleen of infected human
  • b) Saliva of infected female Anopheles
  • c) Salivary glands of freshly moulted female Anopheles
  • d) RBCs of persons suffering from malaria
Q.31
What is incorrect about Paramecium … [ Har PMT 2003]
  • a) Macronucleus can be more than one
  • b) Micronucleus can be more than one
  • c) Macronucleus is vegetative
  • d) Micronucleus is reproductive
Q.32
In Albugo, sexual reproduction results in formation of … [ RPMT 2011]
  • a) Zygospore
  • b) Teliospore
  • c) Oospore
  • d) Basidiospore
Q.33
Which of the following is a good example of heterothallism? …
  • a)Spirogyra
  • b) Rhizopus
  • c) Pinus
  • d) Castor bean
Q.34
Which is common amongst Euglena, Amoeba, Entamoeba and Trypanosoma … [ Odisha 2004]
  • a) Binary fission
  • b) Contractile vacuole
  • c) Holozoic nutrition
  • d) Multiple fission
Q.35
Fungal cell wall is composed of …[ CPMT 1998]
  • a) Chitin
  • b) Chitin or cellulose
  • c) Hemicellulose
  • d) Cellulose
Q.36
Chaga’s fever is caused by … [ DPMT 2005]
  • a) Trypanosoma cruzi
  • b) Trypanosoma gambiense
  • c) Trypanosoma brucei
  • d) Trypanosoma vivax
Q.37
The stage of Plasmodium that contains rhoptries is … [ RPMT 2000]
  • a) Ookinete
  • b) Signet ring stage
  • c) Sporozoite
  • d) Merozoite
Q.38
Zygospores of Mucor is .. [ DPMT 2007]
  • a) Haploid
  • b) Thick-wall resting spore
  • c) Asexual spore
  • d) Spore that germinates to form zoospores
Q.39
Life cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is … [ Odiasha2012
  • a) Haplontic
  • b) Diplontic
  • c) Haplodiplontic
  • d) None of the above
Q.40
Ainsworth has placed Rhizopus in … [ CPMT 2002]
  • a) Zygomycetes
  • b) Mastigomycotina
  • c) Ascomycotina
  • d) Myxomycota
Q.41
Mushroom is …… [ BHU 1999]
  • a) Saprophyte
  • b) Facultative parasite
  • c) Obligate parasite
  • d) Phagotroph
Q.42
Select the correct match … [ CET Chd 2006]
  • a) Phytoplankton – Protozoa
  • b) Symbiosis – Lichen
  • c) Holozoic nutrition – Fungi
  • d) Autotrophs
Q.43
Parasites which can grow saprobiotically in the absence of hosts are …. [ JIPMER 1997]
  • a) Facultative saprophytes
  • b) Obligate saprophytes
  • c) Obligate parasites
  • d) Facultative parasites
Q.44
Select the false statement … [ kerala 2006]
  • a) Scientists who study and contribute to classification of organisms are known as systematists
  • b) Phycomycetes are called club fungi because of a club-shaped end of mycelium known as basidium
  • c) Carolus Linnaeus developed the first scientific system of naming species
  • d) A five kingdom arrangement of organisms was introduced by R.H.Whittaker
Q.45
Plasmodium vivax produces … [ Odisha 2007]
  • a) Black water fever
  • b) Cerebral malaria
  • c) Ovale malaria
  • d) Benign tertian malaria
Q.46
Purified antibiotic penicillin of Penicillium notatum was obtained by … [ Odisha 2005]
  • a) Alexander Fleming
  • b) Howard Florey
  • c) Robert Hook
  • d) Carolus Linnaeus
Q.47
Structure helping lichens in respiration is … [ AIIMS 2002]
  • a) Isidium
  • b) Cyphella
  • c) Cephalodium
  • d) Soredium
Q.48
Asexual reproduction in ascomycetous fungi take place by … [ Odisha 2010]
  • a) Gametangia
  • b) Conidiophore
  • c) Exospores
  • d) Endospores
Q.49
A fungus which requires only one single host for completion of its life cycle is called ..[ CET Chd 200]
  • a) Heteroecious
  • b) Autoecious
  • c) Heterothallism
  • d) Heterosporous
Q.50
Who received Nobel Prize for discovering oocysts of Plasmodium? … [ RPMT 2005]
  • a) Ronald Ross
  • b) Rosenoff
  • c) Lavern
  • d) Leeuwenhoek
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