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Biology-I-Section-A 6. Both Mycoplasma and Euglenoids:

1. can survive without oxygen
1. An intervening dikaryophase is seen during 2. are unicellular eukaryotes
the sexual reproduction in members of the 3. lack cell wall
fungal class: 4. have two flagella
1. Phycomycetes and Ascomycetes
2. Ascomycytes and Basidiomycetes 7. How many of the given pairs are correctly
3. Basidiomycetes and Deuteromycetes matched for Basidiomycetes?
4. Phycomycetes and Deuteromycetes A. Basidium Bears spores
B. Basidiospores Asexual Spores
2. Which among the following is not a C. Basidiocarp Fruiting body
prokaryote?
1. 0
1. Saccharomyces
2. 1
2. Mycobacterium
3. 2
3. Nostoc
4. 3
4. Oscillatoria
8. What will not be true for members of
3. How many of the given statements are true?
Kingdom Fungi?
I: No virus contains both RNA and DNA.
1. The fungi are heterotrophic organisms.
A virus is a nucleoprotein and the protein
II: Fungi are cosmopolitan and occur in air,
is infectious. 2.
water, soil and on animals and plants.
Bacterial viruses or bacteriophages (viruses
They prefer to grow in warm and humid
III: that infect the bacteria) are usually double 3.
places.
stranded DNA viruses.
4. None of the members is unicellular.
IV: Viroids are smaller than viruses.
1. 1
2. 2
9. The primitive prokaryotes responsible for
3. 3
the production of biogas from the dung of
4. 4
ruminant animals, including the:
1. thermoacidophiles
4. There exists a close association between the
2. methanogens
alga and the fungus within a lichen. The
3. eubacteria
fungus:
4. halophiles
1. Provides food for the alga
Provides protection, anchorage and 10. Viruses have:
2.
absorption for the alga 1. DNA enclosed in a protein coat
3. Fixes the atmospheric nitrogen for the alga 2. Prokaryotic nucleus
4. Releases oxygen for the alga 3. Single chromosome
4. Both DNA and RNA

5. The members of fungal class 11. Chrysophytes, euglenoids, dinoflagellates

‘Deuteromycetes’ are frequently called and slime moulds are included in the kingdom:
‘imperfect fungi’ because: 1. Protista 2. Fungi
1. the sexual cycle has not been observed 3. Animalia 4. Monera
nothing about them indicates their relation
2.
to other fungi
3. unlike all other fungi, they are unicellular
they do not reproduce by asexual
4.
reproduction

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12. Given below are two statements: 16. How many of the given statements will be
Assertion (A): Euglenoids have flagella true for the members of the class ascomycetes
Euglenoids have cellulosic cell of fungi?
Reason (R): (i) These are commonly called sac fungi
wall called pellicle
(ii) These are mostly multicellular
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the They are saprotrophic, decomposers,
1. (iii)
correct explanation of (A). parasitic or coprophilous
Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the (iv) Their mycelium is aseptate
2.
correct explanation of (A). (v) Conidia produced by them are endogenous
3. (A) is True but (R) is False. 1. Two
4. Both (A) and (R) are False. 2. Three
3. Four
4. Five
13. Study the Assertion statement followed by
the Reason statement given below: 17. Identify the incorrect statement regarding
The cyanobacteria that are also cyanobacteria:
Assertion (A): referred to as blue green algae
are not ‘algae’ any more. They have chlorophyll a (similar to green
1.
The cyanobacteria are plants)
Reason (R): They are unicellular and never colonial or
photosynthetic autotrophs. 2.
filamentous
1. (A) is True but (R) is False. They often form blooms in polluted water
3.
bodies
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the
2. 4. Some of them can fix atmospheric nitrogen
correct explanation of (A).
Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the
3.
correct explanation of (A).
18. Nostoc:
4. (A) is False but (R) is True.
I: is a cyanobacterium.
II: is photosynthetic autotroph.
14. A dikaryophase of fungus is commonly seen III: is capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen.
in the sexual reproduction of: 1. Only I and II are correct
I. Phycomycetes 2. Only I and III are correct
II. Ascomycetes 3. Only II and III are correct
III. Basidiomycetes 4. I, II and III are correct
1. Only I and II
2. Only I and III 19. Identify the incorrect statement regarding
3. Only II and III body organization in fungi:
4. I, II and III With the exception of yeast, fungi are
1.
filamentous.
15. After karyogamy followed by meiosis, Their bodies consist of long, slender hyphae
spores are produced exogenously in? 2.
that may be coenocytic or septate.
1. Neurospora 2. Alternaria The network of hyphae is known as the
3. Agaricus 4. Saccharomyces 3.
mycelium.
The cell walls of fungi lack chitin and
4.
polysachharides.

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20. Viroids differ from viruses in having; 25. Which fungus is used extensively in
1. DNA molecules without protein coat biochemical and genetic work?
2. RNA molecules with protein coat 1. Aspergillus 2. Neurospora
3. RNA molecules without protein coat 3. Claviceps 4. Agaricus
4. DNA molecules with protein coat

26.
21. The cyanobacteria are also referred to as: Statement Dinoflagellates are mostly marine
1. Protists I: and photosynthetic.
2. golden algae Statement Majority of Euglenoids are fresh
3. Slime molds II: water organisms.
4. Blue-green algae
Statement I is correct; Statement II is
22. Match each item in Column I with one in 1. correct
Column II and select the correct match from the Statement I is correct; Statement II is
codes given: 2.
incorrect
Group of protozoans Example Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is
A. Amoeboid P. Entamoeba 3.
correct
B. Flagellated Q. Paramecium Statement I is incorrect; Statement II is
4.
C. Ciliated R. Trypanosoma incorrect
D. Sporozoan S. Plasmodium
Codes:
A B C D 27. Consider the given two statements:
1. Q S P R Mycoplasma are members of
Assertion(A):
Kingdom Monera.
2. S Q R P
They lack cell wall and can live
3. P R Q S Reason (R):
without oxygen.
4. R P S Q
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly
1.
explains (A).
23. Which of the following is not true for fungi
belonging to the class phycomycetes? Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not
2.
correctly explain (A).
1. Aseptate and coenocytic mycelium
3. (A) is True; (R) is False
Spores endogenously produced in
2. 4. Both (A) and (R) are False
sporangium
Asexual reproduction by nonmotile
3.
zoospores or motile aplanospores
28. Identify the correct statement regarding
Found in aquatic habitats, decaying wood or
4. Euglenoids:
as obligate parasites on plants
Majority of them are marine water
1.
organisms found in running water.
24. What kind of bacteria play a great role in 2. The cell wall has stiff cellulose plates on the
recycling nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, outer surface.
iron and sulphur? 3. They have only one flagellum.
1. Photoautotrophs Though they are photosynthetic in the
2. Photoheterotrophs 4. presence of sunlight, when deprived of
3. Chemosynthetic autotrophs sunlight they behave like heterotrophs.
4. Methanogens

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29. African sleeping sickness is caused by an 33. The vast majority of bacteria are:
infection with: 1. Photosynthetic autotrophs
a gran negative 2. Chemosynthetic autotrophs
1. a dsDNA virus 2. 3. Heterotrophs
bacterium
a flagellated 4. Methanogens
3. 4. a fungus
protozoan
34. Cyanobacteria:
I: are eubacteria
30. Deuteromycetes are commonly known as II: have chlorophyll a similar to green plants
imperfect fungi because only the asexual or III: can fix atmospheric nitrogen
vegetative phases of these fungi are known.
What can be the possible reason(s) of 1. Only III is correct
unawareness of sexual phases in these fungi? 2. Only I and II are correct
I: Sexual phases are yet to be discovered. 3. Only II and III are correct
The asexual and vegetative stage have been 4. I, II and III are correct
given one name
II: (and placed under deuteromycetes) and the
sexual stage another (and placed under
35. Imperfect fungi include all the following
another class).
except:
1. Alternaria
1. Only I 2. Colletotrichum
2. Only II 3. Trichoderma
3. Both I and II 4. Aspergillus
4. Neither I nor II

31. What characters will be similar in members

of Kingdom Fungi and Kingdom Animalia as
Biology-I-Section-B
36. Mycelium branched and septate, asexual
per Whittaker’s Five Kingdom Classification?
spores conidia produced exogenously and
a. Cell type
sexual spores produced endogenously are the
b. Cell wall
features of fungi belonging to:
c. Body organisation
1. Phycomycetes 2. Ascomycetes
1. Only a 2. Only b and c 3. Basidiomycetes 4. Deuteromycetes
3. Only a and c 4. Only c
37. Capsid of a virus:
32. Which of the following is not true regarding 1. protects the genetic material.
the structure of the cell wall in members of 2. is infectious.
various Kingdoms in Whittaker’s classification is composed of capsomeres made up of
3.
system? complex polysaccharides.
It is composed of polysaccharides and amino 4. is a nucleoprotein.
1.
acids in Monera.
All members of Kingdom Protista have a cell
2.
wall, usually cellulosic. 38. Nostoc:
3. Cell wall with chitin is present in Fungi. 1. is a green alga
4. Animals lack a cell wall in their cells. is unicellular eukaryote capable of forming
2.
filamentous colonies
3. can fix atmospheric nitrogen
4. carry out anoxygenic photosynthesis

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39. Consider the given two statements: 42. Identify the correct statements regarding
Antibiotics like penicillin are Dinoflagellates:
Assertion (A): not effective against They appear yellow, green, brown, blue or
mycoplasma. I: red, depending on the main pigments
Mycoplasma are organisms that present in their cells
Reason (R):
completely lack a cell wall. The cell wall has stiff cellulosic plates on
II:
the outer surface
1. (A) is True but (R) is False. III: Most of them have single flagellum
Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not
2. 1. Only I and II
correctly explain (A).
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly 2. Only I and III
3. 3. Only II and III
explains (A).
4. I, II and III
4. (A) is False but (R) is True.
43. The organism shown in the given figure:
40. Match each item in Column I with one in
Column II and select the correct match from the
codes given:
Column I Column II
A Phycomycetes P Ustilago and Puccinia
Alternaria and
B Ascomycetes Q
Trichoderma
C Basidiomycetes R Rhizopus and Albugo
Aspergillus and
D Deuteromycetes S
Neurospora 1. is amongst the chief producers in oceans.
Codes: is capable of heterotrophic nutrition when
2.
A B C D deprived of sunlight.
1. R S P Q 3. causes red tide that releases harmful toxins.
2. R S Q P is an extremophile living in hydrothermal
4.
3. S R P Q vents.
4. S R Q P

44. In plants, the common symptoms of viral

infection can be all the following except:
41. Who proposed the five kingdom
1. mosaic formation
classification?
2. leaf rolling and curling
1. Carolus Linnaeus
3. yellowing and vein clearing
2. Aristotle
4. smuts and rusts
3. Bentham and Hooker
4. R. H. Whittaker

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45. Match each item in Column I [Protist] with 49. You discover a unicellular organism. You
one in Column II [Characteristic] and select the shall place this organism in Kingdom Monera
correct option: and not in Kingdom Protista if the cell:
Protist Characteristic has non-cellulosic cell wall composed of
I:
A. Chrysophytes P. Plasmodium polysaccharide and amino acids
Q. Chief producers in the has a nuclear membrane but it is not double
B. Dinoflagellates II:
ocean layered
R. Stiff cellulose plates in cell
C. Euglenoids 1. Only I is correct
wall on outer surface
S. Two flagella, one long and 2. Only II is correct
D. Slime moulds 3. Both I and II are correct
one short
4. Both I and II are incorrect
Codes:
A B C D 50. The members of which of the following
1. R Q S P classes of fungi, predominantly, reproduce
2. Q S P R sexually?
3. Q R S P 1. Ascomycetes
4. R S Q P 2. Imperfect fungi
3. Basidiomycetes
4. Phycomycetes
46. Which of the following are most suitable
indicators of SO2 pollution in the environment?
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2. Conifers
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4. Fungi from where you got the pdf and fill OMR from
there
47. The thalloid body of a slime mould
(Myxomycetes) is known as:
1. protonema
2. Plasmodium
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1. Eubacteria
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