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Degree College for Women, Wah Cantt

BS-Botany 5th Semester
Mid-Semester Exam Spring 2024
Subject: Lower Fungi
Course Code: BOT-311A Time:1hour 30 mins
Name: ____________ Roll no: ___________

SECTION-A (5)
Q1: Encircle the correct option. (5×1=5)
(i) Only order of Omycota that produce both auxiliary and principal zoospore

(a) Saprolegniales (b) pythiales (c) peronosporales (d)Sclerosporales

(ii) Anisolpidiaceae family belongs to

(a) Hyphochytriales (b) Labyrinthulaes (c) saprolegniales (d) none

(iii) Vegetative reproduction in Fungi is carried out by

(a) budding (b) Fragmentation (c) Fission (d) all a, b , c

(iv) These are terminal and intercalary in position and formed either singly or in chains.

(a) Chlamydomonas (b) oidia (c) conidia (d) All a, b and c

(v) Mass of thread like structure constituting the vegetative body of a fungus is called

(a) Hyphae (b) Mycelium (c) both (d)none

SECTION-B (10)
Attempt all 5 parts. All questions carry equal marks (2×5=10)
1. Define Sclerotium.
2. What are the difference between planospores and aplanospore?
3. What are the key features of zoosporogenesis?
4. What are the biology of Labyrinthulomycota?
5. Define following:
 Holocarpic thalli
 Eucarpic thalli
SECTION-C (10)
Answer the following Long Questions.
Q.1 Explain the difference between Eumycota and Straminopila (4)
Q.2 What are the economic importance and life cycle of Saprolegniales . (2+4)