Viruses are:
1. Obligate intracellular parasites
2. Obligate extracellular parasites
3. Facultative parasites
4. Free living, outside a living cell
1. Obligate intracellular parasites
2. Obligate extracellular parasites
3. Facultative parasites
4. Free living, outside a living cell
The cell walls of diatoms are ‘indestructible’ as they are embedded with:
| 1. | Silica | 2. | Chitin |
| 3. | Calcium | 4. | Raphides |
Bacteriophages are:
| 1. | Bacteria infecting ss RNA viruses |
| 2. | Bacteria infecting ds RNA viruses |
| 3. | Viruses that infect bacteria and generally have ds DNA |
| 4. | Viruses that infect bacteria and generally have ds RNA |
Yeast is unique amongst the members of Kingdom Fungi because it:
1. reproduces by ascospores
2. is unicellular
3. does not have a chitinous cell wall
4. does not have a sexual mode of reproduction
The phenomenon of red tides is associated with blooms of:
| 1. | Zooxanthelle | 2. | Gonyaulax |
| 3. | Blue green algae | 4. | Ctenoplana and Beroe |
Identify the incorrect statement regarding Euglenoids:
| 1. | Majority are found in fresh stagnant water |
| 2. | Presence of two flagella |
| 3. | Behave as heterotrophs when deprived of sunlight |
| 4. | Pigments entirely different from those found in higher plants |
The commercial production of citric acid is possible with the help of:
1. Xanthomanascitri
2. Claviceps purpura
3. Trichodermaharzianum
4. Aspergillus niger
Which of the following is not true for fungi belonging to the class phycomycetes?
| 1. | Aseptate and coenocytic mycelium |
| 2. | Spores endogenously produced in sporangium |
| 3. | Asexual reproduction by nonmotile zoospores or motile aplanospores |
| 4. | Found in aquatic habitats, decaying wood or as obligate parasites on plants |
Which of the following is not a character of Ascomycetes?
| 1. | Mycelium is unbranched and septate |
| 2. | Asexual spores conidia are produced exogenously |
| 3. | Sexual spores called ascospores are produced endogenously |
| 4. | Conidia on germination produce mycelium |
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