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Vegetative parts of --------- are easier to observe than reproductive parts |
Angiosperms
Gymnosperms
Bryophytes
Pteridophytes
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2 |
The criteria of the classification are the ----------- on which the classification is based. |
Groups
Divisions
Characters
Orders
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3 |
Fungi cause certain animal diseases. How Ringworm and athlete's foot are caused by fungi |
Imperfect fungi
Aspergillus fumigatus
Purple ergot
Soil contaminated with bird's feces
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4 |
Fungi are used in food industry, which fungi is used in bakery for flavor, aroma, color to some cheese |
Yeast
Penicillium
Aspergillus
Neurospora
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5 |
Many fungi are the sources of drugs, which drug is used to lower the blood cholesterol level |
Griseofulvin
Cyclosporine
Lovastatin
Ergotin
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6 |
Why molds can grow on oranges and jelly kept in refrigerator where generally bacteria cannot reach |
They are well adapted to live on land
Hyphae are modified
They can tolerate temperature extremes minus 5 degree centigrade below freezing and 50 degree centigrade or more
They have rhizoids
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7 |
Parasexuality is a special type of genetic recombination which is showed by which group of fungi |
Penicillium
Imperfect fungi
Powdery mildews
Spitting fungus
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8 |
Rusts belong to the group of club fungi they are called so because |
Orange-yellow colored disease spots on their host surface
Dusty spore masses that resemble soot
Rust have fruiting bodies
Puccinia species
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9 |
Saccharomyces cervisiae is the most commonly exploited yeast which feature highlights their economic improtance |
Asexual reproduction
Unicellular
They ferment carbohydrate to ethanol and carbon dioxide
Sexual reproduction
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10 |
In Zygomycota during sexual reproduction, zygota formed directly by the fusion of hyphae forms temporary, dormant, thick walled resistant structure called as |
Ascospores
Zygospores
Asci
Ascocarps
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11 |
A fungal hyphae having 2 nuclei of different genetic type is called as |
Karyogamy
Plasmogamy
Hetrokaryotic
Fragmentation
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12 |
Mushroom belongs to group of club fungi and has septate, length dikaryotic phase, which is the main phylum to which it belongs |
Zygomycota
Basidiomycota
Deuteromycota
Ascomycots
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13 |
Fungi are classified in a number of groups which is one of the following groups that does not show sexual reproduction |
Zygomycota
Ascomycota
Basidiomycota
Deuteromycota
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14 |
In fungi asexual reproduction occurs by all these method except which one |
Spores
Conidia
Binary fission
Budding
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15 |
What are the important features that fungi have which help them in their survival on land? |
Tolerate wide range of pH
Tolerate temperature
Tolerate high osmotic pressure
All of the above
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16 |
A symbiotic association between certain fungi and certain photoautotrophes either green algae or a cyanobacterium or sometimes both is termed as |
Mycorrhizae
Lichens
Endomycorrhizae
Ectomycorrhizae
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17 |
Which one of these is a predatory fungus? |
Pleurotus ostreatus
Mildews
Armillaria
Yeast
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18 |
Parasitic fungi absorb nutrients directly from the living host cytoplasm with the help of hyphal tips called as |
Rhizoids
Constricting ring
Haustoria
Hyphae
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19 |
What are the major decomposers of the biosphere contributing to the recycling of the elements used by living things? |
Saprobic fungi and bacteria
Plants
Animals
Algae
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20 |
All fungi lack chlorophyll and on the basis of their mode of nutrition, they include all these groups except |
Absorptive heterotrphs
Saprotrophs
Decomposers
Autotrophs
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