Question # 1

Many fungi are the sources of drugs, which drug is used to lower the blood cholesterol level

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Griseofulvin

Cyclosporine

Lovastatin

Ergotin

The characters of constant nature which are used to define a group are

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Synthetic

Systematic

Variations

Diagnostic

Second largest family of glowering plants

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Leguminoceae

Labiaceae

Cucurbitaceae

Solanaceae

The process in which energy migration takes place within a group of neighbouring pigments is called

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Reductive resonance

Deductive resonance

Inductive resonance

None

In fungi asexual reproduction occurs by all these method except which one

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Spores

Conidia

Binary fission

Budding

The disease in which leaves may appear twisted and finally die is

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Bronzing

Whiptail disease

Whiplash disease

None

Pyruscommunis is the botanical name

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Apple

Almond

Apricot

Lokat

When the leaves fails to produce normal amounts of chlorophyll, the disease is

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Apoptosis

Chlorosis

Chlorination

Necrosis

In Zygomycota during sexual reproduction, zygota formed directly by the fusion of hyphae forms temporary, dormant, thick walled resistant structure called as

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Ascospores

Zygospores

Asci

Ascocarps

Brassica compestris is the member of the family

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Cucurbitaceae

Crucifereae

Compositeae

Ranunculaceae

"In this stage the lichens are just like crumpled leaves attached at one point" about which stage we are talking

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Crustose lichen stage

Foliage lichen stage

Moss stage

Herbaceous stage

Family labiateae is also called

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Lamiaceae

Labiaceae

Lambitaceae

None

Seeds of members of family pharmacies are

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Endospermic

Exalbuminous

Both a and b

None of these

If an author cited two or more specimens as types, the remaining cited species are

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Lectotype

Syntype

Paratype

Neotype

Males suffering from Jacobs's syndrome have sex chromosomes

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XXX

XO

XXY

XYY

Which of the following can be used as evidence of evolutions?

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Comparative embryology

Comparative anatomy

Genetic Code

All of these

Family curcifereae is characterized by the persence of ------------ corolla

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Cross like

Cushion like

Zigzag

None

Saccharomyces cervisiae is the most commonly exploited yeast which feature highlights their economic improtance

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Asexual reproduction

Unicellular

They ferment carbohydrate to ethanol and carbon dioxide

Sexual reproduction

Botanists were agreed that scientific names should be in

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English

Latin

Greek

Spanish

Natural system of classification is based on characters

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Reproductive and anatomical

Morphological and anatomical

Morphological and reproductive

Vegetative and reproductive

Ray florets have ------------ flowers

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Tubular

Ligulate

Round

None

Plants of Euphorbiaceae contain the vitamin

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A

B

C

D

Studying a single population's relationship to its environment will be

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Synecology

Autecology

Ecology

Etealogy

Which one of these is a predatory fungus?

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Pleurotus ostreatus

Mildews

Armillaria

Yeast

All fungi lack chlorophyll and on the basis of their mode of nutrition, they include all these groups except

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Absorptive heterotrphs

Saprotrophs

Decomposers

Autotrophs

The botanical name of Ajwain is

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Ocimum sanctum

Ocimumbasilicum

Methe sylvestris

Coleus aromaticus

When a single gene effects two or more traits the phenomenon is called

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Epistasis

Bombay phenotype

Gene linkage

Pleiotropic

Bentham and Hooker divided plants in 202 orders

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Seeded

non-seeded

Floral

non-floral

In ecosystem an eagle may eat blue birds may eat insects, like caterpillar which feeds on green leaves this is a example of

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Simple food chain

Food web

Succession

Community relay

Locus is

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Segment of chromosome

Position of a gene on the chromosome

Genes present on one chromatid

Collection of genes at specific part of chromosome

The collection of stomatal pores guard cells and subsidiary cells is called;

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Stomatal Apparatus

Guard cells complex

None

Both a & b

An ecosystem is forged from bare rock, sand or clear glacial pool where there is no trace of previous life it refers to

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Secondary succession

Hydrosere

Xerosere

primary succession

Certain hornlike projections are given out from the back of anthers

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Translator

Cuculli

Gynoestigium

Pollinium

Bark of Quillajasaponariais used in perparing

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Fiber

Dye

Paper

Shampoos

Historical remnants of structures that had important function in ancestors but are no longer essential presently are called

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Analogous organs

Vestigial organs

Fossils

None of these

--------- is the process of ATP production in chloroplast is

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Photophosphorylation

Dark reaction

Calvin cycle

All

Members of malvaceae are

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Tropical

Sub-tropical

Temperate

Cosmopolitan

Family ------------ incluldes 100 genera and 850 species

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Compositeae

Crucifereae

Labiateae

Cucurbitaceae

The specimen designated by the author as type specimen is

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Holotype

Isotype

Lectotype

Syntype

The non-protein part covalently bonded to enzyme is

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APO-enzyme

Coenzymes

Co-factor

None

What are the important features that fungi have which help them in their survival on land?

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Tolerate wide range of pH

Tolerate temperature

Tolerate high osmotic pressure

All of the above

The operculum aids in both respiration and reproduction in gastropods

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True

False

None of Above

A distinctive feature of members of the class Polychaeta is

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Parapodia.

Clitellum.

Annuli.

Absence of setae.

Arenicola is an example of class

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Oligocheata

Polycheata

Hirudinea

None of above

Nematodes live in both aquatic and terrestrial environments

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True

False

none of the above

Scientific name of blood fluke is

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Schistosoma

Taenia solium

Echinocissus granulosus

Clonorchis sinensis

Which of the following is true of the radula of most molluscs?

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It is used in reproduction

It is used in excretion

It is used in rasping food

It is used in gas exchange

The scientific name of the common pork roundworm is

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Ascaris lumbricoides.

Enterobius vermicularis.

Trichinella spiralis.

Wuchereria bancrofti.

In Schizogony ----------- divisions takes place in mature individual

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Mitotic

Meiotic

Multiple mitotic

First mitotic then meiotic

The scientist who describe a system of classification that distinguished between kingdoms according to cellular organization and mode of nutrition was

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R. M. Kristensen

Carolus Linnaeus

Rebert II. Whittaker

None of above

No free living larval forms occur in the annelid subclass(es)

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Hirudinea

IIirudinea and Oligochaeta

Polychaeta

Polychaeta and Oligochaeta

A ------------- is a mucoid mass that extends to the stomach of gastropods. It contains trapped food particles and is rotated by cilia

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Protostyle

Umbo

Crystalline style

Gastric shield

--------------- are the characters that have arisen since common ancestory with the group

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Homologous characters

Derived characters

Synapomorphies

Both B and C

Tsetse files are ------------- host for Trypanosoma brucei, causing sleeping sickness to humans

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Intermediate

Primary host

Definitive host

Both A and C are correct

The aschelminthis contain organs for gas exchange and circulation.

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True

False

none of the above

Animals of phylum cnidaria are

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Diploblastic

Triploblastic

None of above

All are the characteristics of phylum cnidaria except

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Presence of mesoglea

Contain mesenchyme

gastrovascular cavity

contain nematocysts

Process during which aschelminths shed their cuticle is called

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moltin (g)

ecdysis

eutely.

both a and b are correct.

The annelid class whose members are mostly marine is

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Hirudinea.

Oligochaeta.

Polychaeta.

Clitellata.

Animals of phylum cnidaria can be found in

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Aquatic environment

Marine environment

Dry and harsh environment

Both A and B are correct

Most triploblastic animals have an

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tissue system level of organization

colonial level of organization

organ system level of organization

both A and B are correct

The ------------- is a site of amino acid metabolism in an earthworm and is analogous to the vertebrate liver.

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Typhlosole

Seminal vesicle

Nephridium

Chloragogen tissue

All the following characteristics are present in Dephnia except

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Carapace covers thorax

One pair of compoynd eyes

Presence of parapodia

Eight pairs of thoracic appendages

Annelids and Arthropods share all of the following characteristics except one. Select the exception.

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A ventral cord

A complete digestive tract

Metamerism

An exoskeleton

Oligochaetes are

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Monoecious.

Dioecious.

Monoecious dioecious.

asexual.

Presence of metameric segmentation

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Lumbricus

Daphnia

Arenicola

Both A and C are correct

Primary host for Fasciola hepatica is

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Snail

Sheep

Cattle

Both A and B are correct

Which one is a member of class zoomastigophorea?

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Trichonympha

Trypanosoma

Paramyxa

Giardia

Most polychaetes are

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Monoecious.

Dioecious.

Protandric.

Asexual.

A clitellum is present in the members of the class Polychaeta is

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Hirudinea.

Polychaeta.

Oligochaeta.

IIirudinea and Oligochaeta

Scientific name of fish tape worm is

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Clonorchis sinensis

Schistosoma

Diphyllobothrium latum

Fasciola hepatica

Which of the following is a distinct feature that occurs in all pseudocoelomate phyla?

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pseudocoelom

adhesive glands

cuticle

none of the above

Polymorphism is characteristic of phylum

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phylum Nematoda

phylum Annelida

phylum Cnidaria

None of above

All of the following mollusc characters would be found in a member of the class Bivalvia except one. Select the exception.

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Visceral mass

head-foot

mantle cavity

radula

A distinctive feature of members of the subclass Hirudinea is

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Parapodia.

Tentacles.

Anterior and Posterior suckers.

Palps.

Of the following, which is the most recently described pseudocoelomate animal phylum?

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Pariapulida

Acanthocephala

Loricifera

Nematomorpha

Which of the following is true of the visceral mass of a mollusc?

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It contains the gills

It secretes the shell

It is used in locomotion

It contains gonads and digestive glands

Intermediate host for fish tape worm is

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Pig

Copepod

Snail

Humans

The mantle of most mollusks

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is modified for locomotion

is used in attracting prey

secretes the shell

supports the radula

Which of the following phyla are not pseudocoelomate?

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Acanthocephala

Rotifera

Polychaeta

Nematoda

All are the characteristics of phylum Apicomplexa except------------------

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Single type of nucleus

Have resistant spores

Apical complex for penetrating host cells

No cilia and flagella

Which one is not a characteristic habitat of Archaea?

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Acidic environment

Fresh water

High salt

Ocean floor