| Statement I: | The sex organs are absent, but plasmogamy is brought about by fusion of two vegetative or somatic cells of different strains or genotypes. |
| Statement II: | The basidiospores are exogenously produced on the basidium. |
| 1. | A is a plant pathogen and has single stranded RNA as its genetic material; B infects bacteria and usually has double stranded DNA as its genetic material. |
| 2. | A is an animal pathogen and has double stranded RNA as its genetic material; B infects bacteria and usually has double stranded DNA as its genetic material. |
| 3. | A infects bacteria and usually has double stranded DNA as its genetic material; B is a plant pathogen and has single stranded RNA as its genetic material. |
| 4. | A is a plant pathogen and has single stranded RNA as its genetic material; B infects bacteria and usually has single stranded RNA as its genetic material. |
| 1. | protects the genetic material. |
| 2. | is infectious. |
| 3. | is composed of capsomeres made up of complex polysaccharides. |
| 4. | is a nucleoprotein. |
| 1. | Autotrophic bacteria and Heterotrophic bacteria |
| 2. | Bacteria with a cell wall and Bacteria that lack a cell wall |
| 3. | Archaebacteria and Eubacteria |
| 4. | Pathogenic and Non-pathogenic bacteria |
| Assertion (A): | Paramoecium and Amoeba, which were earlier placed in the animal kingdom which lack cell wall, are placed under Kingdom Protista in Whittaker’s Classification. |
| Reason (R): | The unicellular eukaryotic organisms are placed in Kingdom Protista in Whittaker’s Classification. |
| 1. | (A) is True and (R) is False. |
| 2. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
| 3. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
| 4. | (A) is False and (R) is True. |
| I: | Sexual phases are yet to be discovered. |
| II: | The asexual and vegetative stage have been given one name (and placed under deuteromycetes) and the sexual stage another (and placed under another class). |
| 1. | have an inert crystalline structure outside the living cell. |
| 2. | once infect a cell, take over the machinery of the host cell to replicate themselves. |
| 3. | have a cell structure. |
| 4. | have double stranded DNA as their genetic material. |
| Assertion (A): | Lichens are very good pollution indicators. |
| Reason (R): | They grow profusely in polluted areas. |
| 1. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |
| 2. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
| 3. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
| 4. | (A) is False but (R) is True. |
| Assertion (A): | The cyanobacteria that are also referred to as blue green algae are not ‘algae’ any more. |
| Reason (R): | The cyanobacteria are photosynthetic autotrophs. |
| 1. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |
| 2. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
| 3. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
| 4. | (A) is False but (R) is True. |