Some MCQs for Practice

1. Protista is the connecting link between which groups?
a. Monera and Fungi
b. Monera and Animals
c. Monera and plants
d. Monera and virus

Ans: b

2. Which group is known as 'Jewels of Plant Kingdom'?
a. Chrysophytes
b. Fungi
c. Protists
d. Euglenoids

Ans: a

3. Which group has got lipids capable of storing light?
a. Protists
b. Sporozoans
c. Euglenoids
d. Diatoms

Ans: d

4. Which among the following indicates pertroleum presence?
a. dinoflagellates
b. Chrysophytes
c. Slime moulds
d. Protozoans

Ans: b

5. the protein covering in virus is known as?
a. capsomere
b. capsid
c. peplomere
d. peplid

Ans: b

6. Which of the folowing has double stranded DNA?
a. Adenovorus
b. Cauliflower M.V.
c. Simian virus
d. all the above

Ans: d

7. Φx174 has which type of genetic material?
a. ss-RNA
b. ss-DNA
c. ds-RNA
d. ds-DNA

Ans: b

8. Which among the following is the character of retrovirus?
a. positively stranded ds-DNA
b. positively stranded ss-RNA
c. negatively stranded ds-DNA
d. negatively stranded ss-DNA

Ans: b

9. Which among the following has a helical symmetry?
a. Turnip Mosaic Virus
b. Potato Mosaic Virus
c. Tobacco Mosaic virus
d. Bacteriophage

10. The red pigment that represents the eyespot in Euglenoids is made of________
a. Astaxanthin
b. Protoxanthin
c. Xanthophyll
d. Chorophyll

Ans: a

11. Euglna stores carbohydrates in the form of______________?
a. Amylopectin
b. Paramylum bodies
c. Paramylon
d. both (b) and (c)

Ans:d

12. 'Palmella stage' is present in which of the following?
a. Algae
b. Euglena
c. All of the above
d. None of the above

Ans: c

13. Which group is known as the 'consumer-decomposer' protists?
a. Slime moulds
b. Euglenoids
c. Amoeboids
d. Sporozoans

Ans: a

14. The plasmodium of a slime mould secretes_______
a. lime
b. tanin
c. resin
d. silica

Ans: a

15. Macrocyst formation represents:
a. Asexual reproduction
b. Sexual reproduction
c. Vegetative reproduction
d. None of the above

Ans: b