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Biological Classification
Daily Practice Problems
Solutions

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Question 1:
A given unicellular organism with a eukaryotic organisation and exhibiting
heterotrophic mode of nutrition is placed in the kingdom: [Level: Moderate]
(a) Monera
(b) Fungi
(c) Protista
(d) Animalia
Answer:
The correct answer is option (c) Protista.
The members of kingdom Protista includes unicellular eukaryotes that show
heterotrophic mode of nutrition.

Question 2:
The bacteria which live in extremely high temperatures as in hot springs are
called: [Level: Moderate]
(a) halophiles
(b) thermoacidophiles
(c) methanogens
(d) thermophiles
Answer:
The correct answer is option (b) thermoacidophiles.
Archaebacteria are special bacteria that live in some of the most harsh habitats
such as extremely salty areas (halophiles), hot springs (thermoacidophiles) and
marshy areas (methanogens).

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Question 3:
Which of the following was NOT the main criteria used by R.H. Whittaker while
classifying organisms into five kingdoms? [Level: Moderate]
(a) Cell structure
(b) Nature of cell wall
(c) Body organisation
(d) Phylogenetic relationships
Answer:
The correct answer is option (b) Nature of cell wall.
R.H. Whittaker (1969) proposed the Five Kingdom Classification based on the
following main criteria – cell structure, body organisation, mode of nutrition,
reproduction and phylogenetic relationships.

Question 4:
Which of the following group of bacteria are characterised by a comma-shape?
[Level: Easy]
(a) Cocci
(b) Bacilli
(c) Vibrio
(d) Spirilla
Answer:
The correct answer is option (c) Vibrio.
Bacteria are grouped under four categories based on their shape – the
spherical ‘cocci’, the rod shaped ‘bacilli’, the comma-shaped ‘vibrio’ and the
spiral ‘spirilla’.

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Question 5:
Which of the following bacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen through
heterocysts? [Level: Easy]
(a) Mycobacterium
(b) Nostoc
(c) Methanobacterium
(d) Vibrio
Answer:
The correct answer is option (b) Nostoc.
Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae like Anabaena and Nostoc can fix
atmospheric nitrogen through some specialised cells called heterocysts.

Question 6:
Find out the incorrect statement: [Level: Difficult]
(a) Cell wall is present in members of kingdom Fungi and Plantae.
(b) Pseudopodia are the locomotory organs in amoeboid protozoans.
(c) Truffels and morels belong to class Ascomycetes.
(d) The malarial parasite Plasmodium belongs to the group of protozoans with
flagella as their locomotory organ.
Answer:
The correct answer is option (d) The malarial parasite Plasmodium belongs to
the group of protozoans with flagella as their locomotory organ.
The malarial parasite Plasmodium belong to a group of protozoans called
sporozoans that lack any locomotory organ.

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Question 7:
The smallest living organism that completely lack a cell wall and can survive
without oxygen is: [Level: Moderate]
(a) Methanobacterium
(b) Nostoc
(c) Mycoplasma
(d) Archaebacteria
Answer:
The correct answer is option (c) Mycoplasma.
Mycoplasma are the smallest living organism that completely lack a cell wall
and can survive without oxygen. Many mycoplasma are pathogenic in animals
and plants.

Question 8:
The walls of diatoms are indestructible due to deposition of: [Level: Moderate]
(a) calcium
(b) phosphorus
(c) silica
(d) alginate
Answer:
The correct answer is option (c) silica.
Diatoms, which are considered as the chief producers in the oceans, have their
cell walls forming two overlapping shells, which fit together as in a soap box.
Their walls are embedded with silica and thus are indestructible.

Question 9:
Which of the following protists form red tides? [Level: Easy]

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(a) Diatoms
(b) Gonyaulax
(c) Trypanosoma
(d) Plasmodium
Answer:
The correct answer is option (b) Gonyaulax.
Very often, red dinoflagellates like Gonyaulax undergo such rapid
multiplication that they make the sea appear red forming red tides. Toxins
released by such large numbers may even kill other marine animals like fishes.

Question 10:
Given below are few characteristics of a group of protists. Study the same and
identify the group to which they belong: [Level: Difficult]
I. Members are generally marine and photosynthetic with red, blue, green,
yellow or brown appearance based on the main pigment present.
II. Cell wall has stiff cellulose plates on the outer surface.
III. Mostly have two flagella – one longitudinal and the other transverse
present in a furrow between the wall plates.
(a) Euglenoids
(b) Chrysophytes
(c) Dinoflagellates
(d) Slime moulds
Answer:
The correct answer is option (c) Dinoflagellates.
Dinoflagellates include mostly marine organisms which are generally
photosynthetic. They appear red, blue, green, yellow or brown depending on
the main pigments present in their cells. The outer surface of their cell wall has

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stiff cellulosic plates on its outer surface. They mostly have two flagella, one
lies longitudinally and the other transversally in a furrow between the wall
plates.

Question 11:
To which of the following categories do saprophytic protists? [Level:
Moderate]
(a) Euglenoids
(b) Chrysophytes
(c) Dinoflagellates
(d) Slime moulds
Answer:
The correct answer is option (d) Slime moulds.
Slime moulds are saprophytic protists that move along twigs and leaves
engulfing organic material. Such protists, under suitable conditions, form
aggregation called plasmodium which may grow and spread over several feet.
During unfavourable conditions, the plasmodium differentiates into fruiting
bodies bearing extremely resistant spores with true walls at their tips.

Question 12:
Which among the following forms of protozoans cause sleeping sickness?
[Level: Moderate]
(a) sporozoan
(b) flagellated protozoan
(c) ciliated protozoan
(d) amoeboid protozoan

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Answer:
The correct answer is option (b) flagellated protozoan.
Sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma, a parasitic form of flagellated
protozoan.

Question 13:
Which of the following pairs of fungal classes show ‘dikaryophase’? [Level:
Difficult]
(a) Phycomycetes and Ascomycetes
(b) Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes
(c) Ascomycetes and Deuteromycetes
(d) Deuteromycetes and Phycomycetes
Answer:
The correct answer is option (b) Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes.
In members of fungi like Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes, the fusion of two
haploid cells does not occur immediately. Rather, they exhibit an intervening
dikaryotic stage (n+n, two nuclei per cell). Such a condition is called dikaryon
and the phase is called dikaryophase.

Question 14:
Which of the following is not a sac fungus? [Level: Moderate]
(a) Rhizopus
(b) Neurospora
(c) Claviceps
(d) Penicillium
Answer:
The correct answer is option (a) Rhizopus.

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Rhizopus (common bread mould) belongs to the class Phycomycetes of the

kingdom Fungi. While Neurospora, Claviceps and Penicillium belong to the class
Ascomycetes (commonly called ‘sac fungi’).

Question 15:
Which of the following diseases is not caused by prions? [Level: Moderate]
(a) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
(b) Mad cow disease
(c) Cr-Jacob disease
(d) Tobacco mosaic disease
Answer:
The correct answer is option (d) Tobacco mosaic disease.
Prions are abnormally folded proteins that are known to transmit certain
infectious neurological diseases. The most notable of these diseases are bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly called mad cow disease in cattle
an its analogous variant Cr-Jacob disease (CJD) in humans.

Question 16:
Statement I: [Level: Difficult]
Alternaria, Colletotrichum and Trichoderma are called imperfect fungi.
Statement II:
Imperfect fungi lack asexual phase in their life cycle.
With respect to the statements given above, choose the correct answer from
the options given below:
(a) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(b) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
(c) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

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(d) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.

Answer:
The correct answer is option (a) Statement I is correct but Statement II is
incorrect.
Members of class Deuteromycetes are called imperfect fungi because they lack
sexual phase in their life cycle. Examples of imperfect fungi are Alternaria,
Colletotrichum and Trichoderma.

Question 17:
Match the items given in Column I to Column II and find the correct answer
from the options given below: [Level: Difficult]
Column I Column II
1. Ustilago (i) Ascomycetes
2. Colletotrichum (ii) Deuteromycetes
3. Saccharomyces (iii) Basidiomycetes
4. Albugo (iv) Phycomycetes

1. 2. 3. 4.
(a) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(b) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(c) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(d) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Answer:
The correct answer is option
(c) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)

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Ustilago (smut fungi) belongs to the class Basidiomycetes. Colletotrichum is a

member of the class Deuteromyctes. Saccharomyces (yeast), a unicellular
fungus belongs to the class Ascomycetes. Albugo belongs to the class
Phycomycetes.

Question 18:
Which among the following is correct with regards to ‘viroids’? [Level:
Moderate]
(a) Viroids have free RNA without protein coat.
(b) Viroids have free DNA without protein coat.
(c) Viroids have RNA with protein coat.
(d) Viroids have DNA with protein coat.
Answer:
The correct answer is option (a) Viroids have free RNA without protein coat.
Viroids are infectious agents smaller than the viruses. They have free RNA but
lack the protein coat that is found in viruses, hence named ‘viroids’.

Question 19:
The algal component in the symbiotic association between the algae and fungi
is called: [Level: Easy]
(a) phaeobiont
(b) mycobiont
(c) protobiont
(d) phycobiont
Answer:
The correct answer is option (d) phycobiont.

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The symbiotic association between algae and fungi is called lichen. The algal
component of the association is called phycobiont while the fungal component
is called mycobiont.

Question 20:
Which of the following classes of fungi are called ‘imperfect fungi’? [Level:
Easy]
(a) Ascomycetes
(b) Basidiomycetes
(c) Phycomycetes
(d) Deuteromycetes
Answer:
The correct answer is option (d) Deuteromycetes
The members of class Deuteromycetes of kingdom fungi are called imperfect
fungi because they lack sexual phase in their life cycle. Only the asexual or
vegetative phases of these fungi are known.
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