Q.

1 What advantages does the five-kingdom classification have over the two-kingdom
classification?
Q.2. Why are cyanobacteria used in agricultural fields for crop improvement?
Q.3. What similarities do a virus and non-living objects share?
Q.4. Why do polluted water bodies have an abundance of Nostoc and Oscillatoria?
Q.5. Name the eukaryotic kingdoms in the five-kingdom classification proposed by Whittaker.
Q.6. What is the nature of the cell wall in diatoms?
Q.7. What is the difference between a virus and a viroid?
Q.8. State the uses of heterotrophic bacteria and archaebacteria which are economically
important.
Q.9. What is diatomaceous earth? Why are diatoms referred to as ‘pearls of the ocean’?
Q.10. Explain the myth of ‘fairy rings’ created by the mushrooms after heavy rains in the
forest.
Q.11. What is the role of fungi our daily lives?
Q.12. What features of Trypanosoma make it fall under the kingdom Protista?
Q.13. The ascomycetes produce fruiting bodies like apothecium, perithecium, or
cleistothecium. What are the differences between these three fruiting bodies?
Q.14. Cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria are very different from each other but fall
under eubacteria of kingdom Monera. Is this type of grouping justified?
Q.15. What do you understand by ‘phycobiont’ and ‘mycobiont’?
Q.16.Name a few plants that are partially heterotrophic.
Q.17. What are the characteristic features of euglenoids?