BIOLOGY ENTRANCE QUESTIONS

CHAPTER 2: BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

1. Biological classification of plants and animals was first 8. Bacteria reproduce mainly by
proposed by a) Fission b) Budding
a) Andreas Vesalius b) Aristotle c) Fragmentation d) Conjugation
c) Hippocrates d) Theophrastus e) Spore formation
e) Stephan Hales 9. All single celled eukaryotes are placed under
2. Aristotle classified plants into a) Protista b) Monera c) Parazoa
a) Aquatic plants and terrestrial plants d) Fungi e) Eumetazoa
b) Phanerogamae and cryptogamae 10. All the following can be applicable to protozoans except
c) Angiosperms and Gymnosperms a) they are believed to be primitive relatives of animals
d) Fibre yielding plants and timber yielding plants b) they all are heterotrophs and live as predators or
e) Trees, shrubs and herbs parasites
3. The five-kingdom classification was done based on c) there are six major groups of protozoans
certain characteristics. Which of the following form the d) they are single celled
chief criteria for the above classification? e) they belong to the kingdom Protista
I) Cell structure II) Body organisation 11. Slime moulds are ------ protists
III) Habitat of the organisms a) Free living b) Parasitic c) Symbiotic
IV) Mode of nutrition and reproduction d) Saprophytic e) Nitrogen-fixing
V) Phylogenetic relationships 12. In which of the following organisms the body is covered
a) I, II and IV only b) II, III and V only over by a protein rich layer called pellicle
c) II, III and IV only d) I, II, III and IV only a) Amoeba b) Entamoeba c) Euglena
e) All are included except III d) Plasmodium e) All the above
4. Monera contain none of the following structures except 13. Red tide is caused by
a) Mitochondria b) Nucleus a) Gonyaulax b) Ceratium c) Noctiluca
c) Endoplasmic reticulum d) DNA b) Physarum e) Both a & b
e) Centriole 14. ------ is photosynthetic in the presence of sunlight, when
5. The oldest kingdom is deprived of sunlight, it behaves like heterotroph by
a) Plantae b) Protista c) Monera predating on other small organisms
d) Fungi e) Animalia a) Vorticella b) Euglena c) Mucor
6. Of the following organisms cell wall is present in d) Beroe e) Pleurobrachia
a) Chlamydomonas and paramecium 15. Yeast comes under
b) Amoeba and chlorella a) Myxomycetes b) Phycomycetes
c) Euglena and Chlamydomonas c) Ascomycetes d) Basidiomycetes
d) Paramecium and amoeba e) Deuteromycetes
e) Chlamydomonas and chlorella 16. The cell walls of fungi are composed of
7. Match the following a) Cellulose only b) Pectin only
Column I Column II b) Lignin only d) Chitin and peptidoglycan
I Mycoplasma P True bacteria e) Chitin and polysaccharides
Organisms that 17. All the following statements regarding Diatoms are
II Eubacteria Q completely lack a cell correct except
wall a) most of the Diatoms are photosynthetic
Bacteria living in b) they are found in fresh water as well as in marine
III Halophiles R environments
marshy areas
Bacteria living in c) the cell walls of diatoms form two thin overlapping
IV Thermoacidophiles S shells, which fit together as in a soap box
extreme salty areas
Bacteria living in hot d) they are the chief ‘producers’ in the oceans
V Methanogens T e) the walls of diatoms are embedded with chitin and
springs
cutin and thus the walls are indestructible.
a) I-Q, II-P, III-T, IV-R, V-S
18. Presence of stiff cellulose plates on the outer surface of
b) I-P, II-R, III-Q, IV-S, V-T
the cell wall is a characteristic feature of
c) I-Q, II-P, III-S, IV-T, V-R
a) Slime moulds b) Dinoflagellates
d) I-S, II-P, III-Q, IV-R, V-T
c) Euglenoids d) Flagellated protozoans
e) I-R, II-Q, III-T, IV-P, V-S
e) Blue green algae
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19. The primary grouping of protozoans is based on e) they are not truly living
a) size and shape b) mode of nutrition 28. From the following choose the characters applicable to
c) mode of reproduction d) their habitat the members belonging to the kingdom Animalia
e) locomotory structure I. they are heterotrophic eukaryotic organisms lacking
20. The study of Fungi is called a cell wall
a) Phycology b) Mycology c) Palynology II. they directly or indirectly depend on plants for food
d) Malacology e) Myrmecology III. they store food reserves as glycogen or fat
21. The mycelium in fungi may be septate or aseptate. In IV. their mode of nutrition is either holozoic or
which of the following classes the mycelium is aseptate holophytic
and coenocytic V. they follow a definite growth pattern
a) Phycomycetes b) Ascomycetes VI. both lower and higher forms show elaborate
c) Basidiomycetes d) Deuteromycetes sensory and neuromotor mechanism
e) Both a & b VII. the sexual reproduction is by copulation of male and
22. Trypanosoma gambiense is a female followed by embryological development
a) Obligatory monogenetic parasitic a) Only I, II, IV & VI are applicable
b) Obligatory digenetic parasite b) Only II, III, V & VI are applicable
c) Facultative monogenetic parasite c) Only I, II, III & VI are applicable
d) Facultative digenetic parasite d) Only I, II, III, V, VII are applicable
e) Incidental nonpathogenic parasite e) All are applicable except IV
23. A cell from an unknown organism is examined under a 29. The principal components of viruses are
microscope. It has a membrane bound nucleus, a large a) Protein & lipid b) DNA & RNA
central vacuole, chloroplasts and a cell wall. What type c) RNA & lipid d) DNA & carbohydrate
of cell is it. e) Protein & nucleic acid
a) Prokaryotic cell b) Bacterial cell 30. An American microbiologist ------ isolated the tobacco
c) Plant cell d) Fungal cell mosaic virus in the form of crystals
e) Animal cell a) W.M. Stanley b) Iwanowsky
24. Match the following c) Beijerinek d) Louis Pasteur
Column I Column II e) T.O. Diener
I Rhizopus K Edible mushroom 31. Generally, viruses that infect plants have
II Agaricus silvaticus L Puccinia graminis a) Single stranded RNA
III Agaricus campestris M Bread mould b) Double stranded RNA
Poisonous c) Single stranded DNA
IV Black rust of wheat N d) Double stranded DNA
mushroom
Saccharomyces e) Both DNA & RNA
V O Baker’s yeast 32. A taxonomic system based only on the traits that reflect
cerevisiae
a) I-O, II-K, III-M, IV-N, V-L the order in time in which branches arose in phylogenetic
b) I-L, II-M, III-N, IV-K, V-O tree is called
c) I-M, II-N, III-K, IV-L, V-O a) phylogeny b) cladistics
d) I-M, II-K, III-N, IV-L, V-O c) classical d) phenetics
e) I-M, II-K, III-L, IV-N, V-O e) adansonian
25. Fungi store food in the form of 33. The group of organisms which are considered as oxygen
a) Glycogen b) Inulin c) Glucose evolvers:
b) Starch e) Both a & b a) Chemoautotrophs b) Chemoheterotrophs
26. The protozoan Trypanosoma gambiense causes the c) Chemolithotrophs d) Eukaryotes
disease e) Photoautotrophs
a) Elephantiasis b) African sleeping sickness 34. Prions are:
c) Yellow fever d) Typhus fever a) A single stranded DNA
e) Dysentery b) A single double stranded DNA
27. Viruses did not find a place in Whittaker’s five kingdom c) Histone and RNA
classification since d) Histone and non-histone
a) they are obligatory parasites e) An infectious protein
b) they take over the machinery of the host cell to 35. Cell wall of bacteria possesses diaminopimilic acid
replicate which along with other amino acids forms peptide, will
c) they remain inactive in the free state inter connect the glycan part which is known as:
d) they do not possess a metabolic machinery of their a) Chitin b) Cellulose c) Mucin
own d) pectin e) Murein

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