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GREEN PARK EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, NAMAKKAL

(Biological classification)
Choose the correct answer :
1. The earliest scientist to attempt a more 6. Which among the following are sole members
scientific basis for classification of organisms of kingdom monera?
was 1) Diatoms 2) Bacteria
1) Aristotle 2) R.H. Whittaker 3) Viruses 4) Fungi
3) Linnaeus 4) Ernst mayr 7. What are responsible for production of biogas
2. Statement – I : Aristotle used simple from dung of ruminant animals?
morphological characters to classify plants. 1) Halophiles
Statement – II : Linnaeus two kingdom 2) Acidophiles
classification distinguished between 3) Methanogens
prokaryotes and eukaryotes 4) Cyanobacteria
1) Both the statements are correct 8. A moneran without cell wall
2) Both the statements are incorrect
1) Slime mould
3) Statement – I is correct, statement – II is
2) Amoeba
incorrect
3) Mycoplasma
4) Statement – I is incorrect, statement – II is
4) Bacteria
correct
9. Blooms in polluted water bodies are often
3. R.H. Whittaker’s five kingdom classification
caused by a bacteria, which is nutritionally
is not based on
1) Photosynthetic heterotrophic
1) Complexity of body organisation
2) Presence of membrane bound organelles 2) Photosynthetic autotrophic
3) Mode of nutrition 3) Chemosynthetic autotrophic
4) Evolutionary relationships 4) Saprophyte
4. The three domain system includes how many 10. Eventhough structurally simpler, complex
kingdoms? metabolic diversity is exhibited by
1) 2 2) 4 1) Lichens
3) 5 4) 6 2) Fungi
5. The limitations of 2-kingdom classification 3) Bacteria
were 4) Plants
1) Prokaryotes and eukaryotes are placed 11. Cyanobacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen
together with the help of specialized cells known as
2) unicellular and multicellular organism are 1) Capsule
placed together 2) Mesosomes
3) Both autotrophic and heterotrophic 3) Heterocysts
organisms are placed together. 4) Chromatophores
4) All of the above
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12. Identify the incorrect statement about 21. Which of the following helps in polishing,
monerans? filtration of oils and syrups?
1) Survival of arachaebacteria in harsh habitats 1) Algin 2) Carrageen
is due to unique cell wall material 3) Diatomaceous earth 4) Chitin
2) Majority of bacteria are autotrophs 22. The toxins released by which group of protists
3) Cyanobacterial colonies are generally can kill other marine animals?
surrounded by gelatinous sheath. 1) Slime moulds
4) Recycling of nutrients like nitrogen, iron 2) Desmids
phosphorous and sulphur is carried out by 3) Red dinoflagellates
chemosynthetic autotrophs
4) Amoeboid protozoans
13. Select the disease caused by bacteria from the
23. Euglenoid’s body is flexible due to the
following.
presence of
1) Rusts 2) Sleeping sickness
1) cellulose
3) Citrus canker 4) Small pox
2) silica
14. Which among the following is not an
advantage of bacteria? 3) pellicle
1) Conversion of milk into curd 4) calcium carbonate
2) N2 fixation in roots of legumes 24. Sleeping sickness is caused by
3) Penicillin, an antibiotic production 1) Amoeboid protozoan
4) Production of organic acids 2) Flagellated protozoan
15. Which kingdom forms a link with plants, 3) Ciliated protozoan
animals and fungi 4) Sporozoan
1) Monera 2) Protista 25. Identify the organism with a cavity (gullet)
3) Archaebacteria 4) Eubacteria that opens to the outside of cell surface?
16. Protists reproduce asexually and sexually by 1) Entamoeba
1) Binary fission and budding 2) Euglena
2) Budding and conjugation 3) Trypanosoma
3) Gamete formation and spore formation 4) Paramoecium
4) Cell fusion and zygote formation 26. Match the column – I and II and choose the
17. Chrysophytes include correct combination from the options given
1) Diatoms and Plasmids below.
2) BGA and Mycoplasma
Column – I Column – II
3) Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
4) Golden algae and Diatoms I) Amoeboid A) Mixotrophic
18. The chief producers in ocean are protozoans nutrition
1) Algae 2) Bacteria II) Euglenoids B) Planktons
3) Diatoms 4) Plants
III) Dinoflagellates C) Red tides
19. The cell walls of diatoms are indestructible
due to deposition of IV) Diatoms D) Parasitic forms
1) Cellulose 2) Carrageen 1) I – A, II – B, III – D, IV – C
3) Silica 4) Lignin 2) I – B, II – A, III – D, IV – C
20. Red tides are caused by 3) I – D, II – A, III – C, IV – B
1) Methanogens 2) Gellidium 4) I – D, II – C, III – A, IV – B
3) Gonyaulax 4) Gracilaria
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27. Read the following statements and select the 33. A dikaryon is formed when
correct statement? 1) A fungus reproduces asexually
1) Fungi constitute a unique kingdom of 2) The two nuclei present in a cell
autotrophic organisms 3) Spores are released
2) White spots on mustard leaves are due to 4) no reduction division takes place
puccinia 34. Fungi and bacteria, which feed on dead and
3) Symbiotic association of algae with roots of decaying organic matter are called
higher plants is mycorrhiza 1) Symbiotic 2) Saprophytic
4) The network of hyphae is mycelium 3) Parasitic 4) Holozoic
28. Some hyphae are continuous tubes filled with 35. Asexual spores are generally absent in
multinucleated cytoplasm. These are called 1) Neurospora 2) Mucor
1) Filamentous hyphae 3) Ustilago 4) Trichoderma
2) Colonial hyphae 36. Mushroom, bracket fungi (or) puff balls are
3) Coenocytic hyphae placed in
4) Mycorrhiza 1) Ascomycetes 2) Basidiomycetes
29. Select the incorrect statement about
3) Deuteromycetes 4) Phycomycetes
phycomycetes?
37. Choose the correct sequence of events during
1) Mycelium is aseptate and coenocytic
fungal sexual cycle?
2) Asexual reproduction takes place by motile
1) Karyogamy, meiosis, plasmogamy
zoospores (or) non motile aplanospores
2) Meiosis, Plasmogamy and karyogamy
3) Rhizopus is a parasitic fungi on mustard
3) Plasmogamy, Karyogamy and meiosis
4) Fusion of gametes to form a zygospore
4) Meiosis, Karyogamy and plasmogamy
30. In Mucor, asexual reproduction takes place by
38. The deuteromycetes reprouduce only by
non-motile spores termed as
asexual spores known as
1) Conidia 2) Zoospores
3) Aplanospores 4) Both (1) and (2) 1) Conidia 2) Zoospores
31. Which among the following is coprophilous? 3) Aplanospores 4) Sporangiospores
1) Ascomycetes 2) Phycomycetes 39. In which group of fungi, majority of members
3) Basidiomycetes 4) Deuteromycetes are decomposers of litter and help in mineral
32. Match the column – I and II and choose the cycling?
correct combination from options given 1) Phycomycetes 2) Ascomycetes
below. 3) Basidiomycetes 4) Deuteromycetes
40. ____ are obligate parasites.
Column – I Column – II
1) Fungi 2) Bacteria
I) Truffles A) Deuteromycetes 3) Viruses 4) Lichens
II) Rusts B) Ascomycetes 41. Who recognized certain microbes as casual
III) Bread mould C) Basidiomycetes organism of mosaic disease?
1) Ivanowsky 2) Pasteur
IV) Imperfect fungi D) Phycomycetes
3) Beijerinek 4) Stanley
1) I – C, II – B, III – D, IV – A 42. Viruses infecting plants generally have
2) I – B, II – C, III – D, IV – A 1) ssRNA 2) dsRNA
3) I – B, II – D, III – C, IV – A 3) dsDNA 4) ssDNA
4) I – A, II – B, III – C, IV – D
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43. The term “ Contagium vivum fluidum” was 48. Bacterial viruses usually have
given by 1) ssRNA 2) dsRNA
1) Pasteur 2) Ivanowsky 3) ssDNA 4) dsDNA
3) Beijerinek 4) W.M. Stanley 49. Which organisms serve as very good pollution
44. Match the following columns. indicators?
Column – I Column – II 1) Algae 2) Viroid
3) Lichens 4) Prions
I) Bovine A) Viroid
50. Select the incorrect statement
spongiform
1) W.M. Stanley showed that viruses can be
encephalopathy
crystallized
II) Mumps B) Virus 2) T.O. Diener discovered an infectious agent
III) Potato spindle C) Prion smaller than viruses
tuber disease 3) The protein coat called “Capsule” is made
IV) Tetanus D) Bacteria up of capsomeres
4) Viral symptoms include leaf rolling and
1) I – C, II – B, III – D, IV – A
curling, dwarfing and stunted growth
2) I – C, II – B, III – A, IV – D
51. Animals store their food reserves in the form
3) I – B, II – C, III – A, IV – D
of
4) I – A, II – B, III – C, IV – D
1) Sucrose 2) Glycogen
45. The genetic material of TMV is
3) Starch 4) Cellulose
1) ssDNA 2) ssRNA
52. After karyogamy followed by meiosis, spores
3) dsDNA 4) dsRNA
are produced exogenously in
46. Abnormally folded proteins causing certain
1) Collectrichum 2) Alternaria
infectious neurological diseases were
3) Agaricus 4) Saccharomyces
1) Viroids 2) Plamids
53. The fungus often used in experimental
3) Viruses 4) Prions
genetics and also called as “Drosophila of
47. Phycobiont and mycobiont together constitute
plant kingdom” is
1) Mycelium 2) Lichens
1) Rhizopus 2) Aspergillus
3) Mycorrhiza 4) Mycoplasma
3) Neurospora 4) Trichoderma