Questions Bank
I. Mark the correct answers:
1. Father of microbiology is:
a. Louis Pasteur
b. Lister
c. A.V. Leeuwenhock
d. Robert Koch
2. Smallpox vaccine was first discovered by
a. Robert Koch
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
d. Edward Jenner
3. Aristotle classified the living organisms based on their morphological
characters and categorized them into
(a) Protista and Monera
(b) Plants and Prokaryotes
(c) Animals and Plants
(d) Animals and Prokaryotes.
4. Which of the following is not a character of Protista?
(a) Protists are prokaryotic
(b) Some protists have cell walls
(c) Some protists are phototrophic
(d) None of these
5. Which of the following group is considered primitive relatives of animals?
(a) Chrysophytes
(b) Protozoans
(c) Fungi
(d) Slime moulds
6. Protozoans are divided into _ groups.
(a) three
(b) four
(c) two
(d) eight.
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, 7. Which of the following characters served as the criteria for advanced system
of classification?
(a) Cell Morphology
(b) Physiological and metabolic characteristics.
(c) Nucleic acid hybridization.
(d) All of the above.
8. In the five-kingdom system of classification of RH Whittaker, how many
kingdoms contain eukaryotes?
(a) Four kingdoms
(b) One kingdom
(c) Two kingdoms
(d) Three kingdoms.
9. Kingdom-Plants includes
(a) Autotrotrophic organisms
(b) eukaryotic organisms
(c) multicellular organism
(d) All of these.
10.Viruses did not find a place in classification since
(a) they are not truly living
(b) they are non-cellular
(c) they are obligate parasite
(d) they are pathogenic.
11.Viruses are non-cellular units but replicate themselves once they infect the
host cell. To which of the following kingdom viruses belong?
(a) Monera
(b) Protista
(c) Fungi
(d) None of these.
12.Which of the following phenomenon proves that viruses have living
characters?
(a) They carry metabolic activity
(b) They carry anaerobic respiration
(c) They multiply in host cells
(d) They cause infection.
13. Prokaryotes are characterized by
A) A true nucleus with double layered nuclear membrane is absent
B) Well developed nucleus with double layered nuclear membrane present
C) Presence of cell wall made of chitins, mucopolysaccharides and absence of
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I. Mark the correct answers:
1. Father of microbiology is:
a. Louis Pasteur
b. Lister
c. A.V. Leeuwenhock
d. Robert Koch
2. Smallpox vaccine was first discovered by
a. Robert Koch
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
d. Edward Jenner
3. Aristotle classified the living organisms based on their morphological
characters and categorized them into
(a) Protista and Monera
(b) Plants and Prokaryotes
(c) Animals and Plants
(d) Animals and Prokaryotes.
4. Which of the following is not a character of Protista?
(a) Protists are prokaryotic
(b) Some protists have cell walls
(c) Some protists are phototrophic
(d) None of these
5. Which of the following group is considered primitive relatives of animals?
(a) Chrysophytes
(b) Protozoans
(c) Fungi
(d) Slime moulds
6. Protozoans are divided into _ groups.
(a) three
(b) four
(c) two
(d) eight.
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, 7. Which of the following characters served as the criteria for advanced system
of classification?
(a) Cell Morphology
(b) Physiological and metabolic characteristics.
(c) Nucleic acid hybridization.
(d) All of the above.
8. In the five-kingdom system of classification of RH Whittaker, how many
kingdoms contain eukaryotes?
(a) Four kingdoms
(b) One kingdom
(c) Two kingdoms
(d) Three kingdoms.
9. Kingdom-Plants includes
(a) Autotrotrophic organisms
(b) eukaryotic organisms
(c) multicellular organism
(d) All of these.
10.Viruses did not find a place in classification since
(a) they are not truly living
(b) they are non-cellular
(c) they are obligate parasite
(d) they are pathogenic.
11.Viruses are non-cellular units but replicate themselves once they infect the
host cell. To which of the following kingdom viruses belong?
(a) Monera
(b) Protista
(c) Fungi
(d) None of these.
12.Which of the following phenomenon proves that viruses have living
characters?
(a) They carry metabolic activity
(b) They carry anaerobic respiration
(c) They multiply in host cells
(d) They cause infection.
13. Prokaryotes are characterized by
A) A true nucleus with double layered nuclear membrane is absent
B) Well developed nucleus with double layered nuclear membrane present
C) Presence of cell wall made of chitins, mucopolysaccharides and absence of
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