Membrane-bound organelles are absent in

(1) Saccharomyces

(2) Streptococcus

(3) Chlamydomonas

(4) Plasmodium

Virus envelope is known as

(1) capsid

(2) virion

(3) nucleoprotein

(4) core

Some hyperthermophilic organisms that grow in highly acidic (pH2) habitats belong to the two groups called

(1) eubacteria and archaea

(2) cyanobacteria and diatoms

(3) protists and mosses

(4) liverworts and yeasts

Infectious proteins are present in

(1) gemini viruses

(2) prions

(3) viroids

(4) satellite viruses

Oxygenic photosynthesis occurs in

(1) Chromatium

(2) Oscillatoria

(3) Rhodospirillum

(4) Chlorobium

Which one is the wrong pairing for the disease and its causal organism?

(1) late blight of potato-Alternaria solani

(2) Black rust of wheat-Puccinia graminis

(3) Loose smut of wheat-Ustilago nuda

(4) Root-knot of vegetables-Meloidogyne sp.

T. O. Diener discovered a

(1) free infectious RNA

(2) free infectious DNA

(3) infectious protein

(4) bacteriophage

Modern detergents contain enzyme preparations of

(1) acidophiles

(2) alkaliphiles

(3) thermoacidophiles

(4) thermophiles

Bacterial leaf blight of rice is caused by a species of

(1) Xanthomonas

(2) Pseudomonas

(3) Alternaria

(4) Erwinia

In the light of recent classification of living organisms into three domains of life (bacteria, archaea and eukarya), which one of the following statement is true about archaea?

(1) Archaea resemble eukarya in all respects

(2) Archaea have some novel features that are absent in other prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(3) Archaea completely differ from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

(4) Archaea completely differ from prokaryotes