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Chapter 5

Variety of life

Encircle the most appropriate answer from the following options

1.           Scientific ne has advantages of choose one:

  1. Same name applied to different organism
  2. Same organism have different name in different areas
  3. Has not scientific basis
  4. Has scientific basis and universally accepted.

2.         In the two kingdom systems which of these would characterize an animal choose one:

  1. Photosynthesis           
  2. Inability to move
  3. Cellulose cell wall       
  4. Ingestion of food

3.         In 1966 Ernst Haeckel proposed a third kingdom called choose one:

  1. Monera           
  2. Protoctista
  3. Fungi  
  4. Plantae

4.         The fine kingdom system of classification was proposed by choose one:

  1. Robert Whittaker
  2. Karlene and Margulis
  3. E-chattas        
  4. Linnaeus

5.         Organism with prokaryotic cells belong to the kingdom choose one:

  1. Protoctista
  2. Monera
  3. Fungi  
  4. Animalia

6.         A set of related genera would be grouped into a choose one:

  1. Family
  2. Order
  3. Species          
  4. Class

7.         A class is a group of related choose one:

  1. Species          
  2. Order
  3. Families          
  4. Genera

8.         Linnaeus developed the system of nomenclature which we still use today choose one:

  1. Scientific        
  2. Phase
  3. Common        
  4. Binomial

9.         In the scientific name of onion, Allium cepa, the Allium belongs to its choose one:

  1. Genus
  2. Order
  3. Species          
  4. Family

10.       The mode of nutrition related to fungi in 5 kingdom classification is choose one:

  1. Photosynthesis           
  2. Absorption
  3. Ingestion         
  4. Chemosynthesis

11.       Which of the following illness is caused by a retrovirus?

  1. AIDS
  2. Malaria
  3. Typhoid          
  4. Sleeping sickness

12.       Which does not describe viruses?

  1. They exhibit some but not the entire characteristic associated with living organism.
  2. They are obligate intracellular parasite.
  3. Each has both DNA and RNA in it.
  4. A protein capsid surrounds the nucleic acid portion.

13.       Which disease is caused by paramyxoviruses?

  1. Herpes simplex          
  2. Tetanus
  3. Measles and mumps
  4. Influenza

14.       Which is an infectious protein particle?

  1. Capsid
  2. Virion
  3. Retrovirus      
  4. Prion

15.       What is the most effective protection against viral infections?

  1. Antibiotic        
  2. Washing Hands
  3. Natural immunity of the host
  4. Disinfectants

16.       The function of the enzyme reverse transcriptase in HIV infection is to choose one:

  1. Convert host RNA into viral RNA
  2. Produce DNA that can be incorporated into the host cell’s DNA from viral RNA
  3. Attach the virus to the host cell’s plasma membranes
  4. Produce new viral RNA from the host cell’s DNA

17.       The human immunodeficiency virus primarily infects choose one:

  1. Helper T cells
  2. Red blood cell
  3. Plasma cells   
  4. Killer T cell

18.       Viruses are considered nonliving because choose one:

  1. Their nucleic acid does not code for protein
  2. They cannot reproduce independently
  3. They don ‘t mutate
  4. They do not locomote

19.       Which of these are found in all viruses among the following options ?

  1. Protein, Nuclic acids, Carbohydrates
  2. DNA, RNA and Protein
  3. Protein and nuclic acid
  4. Envelope, nucleic acid, capsid

20.       Which step in the lytic cycle follows attachment of virus and release of DNA into the host cell?

  1. Assemblage   
  2. DNA replication
  3. Production of Lysozyme        
  4. Disintegration of host DNA

21.       Which of these is a true statement among the following options ?

  1. New viral ribosomes form after viral DNA enters in the cell
  2. Viruses carry with them their own machinery for protein formation
  3. Viruses do not need ribosome for protein formation
  4. Viruses use the hosts ribosomes for their own ends

22.       Which part of animal virus is not produced in multiple copies?

  1. Envelope       
  2. DNA
  3. Proteina          
  4. Capsid

23.       RNA retroviruses have a special enzyme that choose one:

  1. Polymerizes host RNA
  2. Synthesis host DNA.
  3. Transcribes viral RNA to cDNA
  4. Translate host DNA

24.       Which is not true of prokaryotes?

  1. Are living cells
  2. Are both archaea and bacteria
  3. All are parasitic
  4. Lack a membranous bounded structure

25.       Vaccin is not available for which virus choose one:

  1. HBV   
  2. HCV
  3. HAB   
  4. HIV

26.       A disease tobacco mosaic virus is caused by choose one:

  1. Virus
  2. Genus
  3. Parasite          
  4. Charles Chamberland

27.       In 1935 isolated crystal of virus from infected leaf of tobacco.

  1. Twort  
  2. D’Herelle
  3. Stanley
  4. Robert Hook

28.       The virus that can pass through porcelain filters is called choose one:

  1. Parasite          
  2. Filterable
  3. Transducer     
  4. Soluble

29.       Virus are strict that require the enzyme of the host cell for their life process.

  1. Symbiont        
  2. Saprophyte
  3. Parasite         
  4. Predators

30.       Which one is composed of one or more species?

  1. Genus
  2. Order
  3. Family
  4. group

31.       Who introduce the system for naming of organisms known as binomial nomenclature?

  1. Carolus Linnaeus    
  2. D’Herelle
  3. Twort  
  4. Stanley

32.       Who proposed a third kingdom to accommodate Euglena like organism and bacteria?

  1. Carolus Linnaeus       
  2. D’Herelle
  3. Twort  
  4. Ernst Haeckel

33.       The eukaryotic multicelluar reducers are choose one:

  1. Parasite
  2. Autotrophic, Photosynthesis
  3. Carolus Linnaeus
  4. Fungi

34.       Plants are choose one:

  1. Heterotrophic
  2. Chemosynthetic
  3. Autotrophic  
  4. All of the above

35.       The word virus is derived from Latin word choose one:

  1. Virion  
  2. Verb
  3. Venome         
  4. None of the above

36.       Edward Jenner first vaccinated an 08 years old boy with pus from cowpox lesion.

  1. 1796   
  2. 1797
  3. 1794   
  4. 1795

37.       In 1884 one of Pasteur’s associate   found that bacteria can not pass through procelain filters.

  1. Twort  
  2. Carolus Linnaeus
  3. Edward Jenner          
  4. Charles Chamberland

38.       Which disease is transferred to human by bites of dogs?

  1. Anthrax          
  2. Rabies
  3. Cholera          
  4. Botulism

39.       Obligate intracellular parasite because they lack metabolic machinery are choose one:

  1. Bacteria          
  2. Fungi
  3. Plants 
  4. Virus

40.       How many caspomeres are present in the capsid of herpes virus?

  1. 163     
  2. 161
  3. 162     
  4. 160

41.       Bacteriophage occurs in two structural form having choose one:

  1. Spherical symmetry  
  2. Rectangular symmetry
  3. Cubical symmetry    
  4. All of the above

42.       In general appearance cubical phase are regular solid or choose one:

  1. Triangular       
  2. Ellipsoidal
  3. Rectangular   
  4. Icosahedral

43.       Tail of bacteriophage has an enzyme for dissolving a portion of bacterial cell wall choose one:

  1. Tylin   
  2. Lipases
  3. Ribozymes     
  4. Lysozyme

44.       The phage which causes lysis of the host cell is known as choose one:

  1. Lytic   
  2. Lysogenic
  3. Non-virulent   
  4. Prophage

45.       A process in which DNA of virus detached from host’s chromosome and start lytic cycle choose one:

  1. Filtration
  2. Lysis
  3. Induction
  4. Lysogenic

46.       Jelly fish choose one:

  1. Amaltas          
  2. Vertebrate
  3. Invertebrate
  4. Organelles of symbiotic origin

47.       Cassia fistula choose one:         

  1. Invertebrate    
  2. 1758
  3. Organelles of symbiotic origin
  4. Amaltas

48.       Robert Whittaker choose one:

  1. Amaltas          
  2. 1758
  3. Invertebrate
  4. 1969

49.       List of names of animal choose one:

  1. 1758   
  2. 1969
  3. 1789
  4. 1858

50.       Mitochondria, chloroplast choose one:          

  1. Vertebrate      
  2. Invertebrate
  3. Amaltas
  4. Organelles of symbiotic origin

51.       T4 Phages choose one:

  1. Double Stranded DNA
  2. Mysterious brain infection in man
  3. DNA incorporated in to host chromosome
  4. Protective agent used to stimulate immune system

52.       Virion choose one:

  1. Protective agent used to stimulate immune system
  2. Nucleocapsid
  3. Lytic Phage
  4. Double Stranded DNA

53.       Prophage choose one:

  1. Nucleocapsid
  2. Lytic Phage
  3. Double Stranded DNA
  4. DNA incorporated into host chromosome

54.       Vaccine choose one:

  1. Mysterious brain infection in man
  2. Protective agent used to stimulate immune system
  3. Double Stranded DNA
  4. Nucleocapsid

55.       Prion choose one:

  1. Double Stranded DNA
  2. Mysterious brain infection in man
  3. DNA incorporated in to host chromosome
  4. Protective agent used to stimulate immune system

56.       During Iytic cycle how many phages are released from infected host cell choose one:

  1. 100-300          
  2. 100-500
  3. 100-200          
  4. 100-400

57.       When a bacteriophage is integrated into a cellular genome it is called a choose one:

  1. Macrophage   
  2. Microphage
  3. Prophage      
  4. Lytic-phage

58.       Bacteriophage choose one:

  1. D’Herelle 1917          
  2. Serum virus
  3. Infectious hepatitis
  4. Common cold

59.       HIV choose one:

  1. Common cold
  2. Failure of immune system
  3. Infectious hepatitis
  4. Serum virus

60.       Hepatitis B choose one:  

  1. Infectious hepatitis     
  2. D’Herelle 1917
  3. Serum virus
  4. Common cold

61.       Phyla choose one:

  1. Decomposer  
  2. Kingdom Animalia
  3. Monera           
  4. Related classes

62.       Multiculler Eukaryotic heterotrophs choose one:

  1. Related classes          
  2. Decomposer
  3. Kingdom Animalia
  4. Monera

63.       Yellow fever choose one:

  1. 1801   
  2. 1901
  3. 1900
  4. 1892

64.       Bacteria choose one:       

  1. Kingdom Monera     
  2. Kingdom Animalia
  3. Kingdom Fungi
  4. Kingdom Protoctista

65.       Fungi choose one:

  1. Monera           
  2. Kingdom Animalia
  3. Related classes
  4. Decomposer

66.       Protista choose one:

  1. Euglena and Amoeba
  2. Dicotydledonae
  3. Mushroom
  4. Monocotyledonae

67.       Release by Lysis or Budding choose one:

  1. Virion 
  2. Dicotydledonae
  3. Monocotyledonae
  4. Euglena and Amoeba

68.       Chitin in cell wall choose one:   

  1. Dicotydledonae          
  2. Mushroom    
  3. (C) Cd4 recepter
  4. Virion

69.        Zea mays choose one:               

  1. Monocotyledonae
  2. Dicotyledonae
  3. Euglena and Amoeba
  4. Virion

70.      T lymphocyte choose one:                     

  1. Virion  
  2. Dicotyledonae
  3. Monocotyledonae      
  4. Cd4 recepter 

71.       In the two kingdom systems which of these would characterize an animal choose one:

  1. Photosynthesis           
  2. Ingestion of food
  3. Cellulose cell wall       
  4. Inability to move

72.       The five kingdom system of classification was proposed by choose one:

  1. E-chattas        
  2. Robert Whittaker
  3. Linnaeus         
  4. Karlene and Margulis

73.       Organism with prokaryotic cells belong to the kingdom choose one:

  1. Protista           
  2. Fungi
  3. Monera          
  4. Animalia

74.       Polio virus is choose one:                      

  1. Rod like          
  2. Tadpole like
  3. Brick like        
  4. Spherical

75.       AIDS spread by choose one:                 

  1. Homosexuality           
  2. Immortal way of life
  3. Infected needles and syringes
  4. All of these

76.       Which of the following is the correct arrangement of kingdoms?

1.         Monera Protista Animaliao Fungi Plantae

2.         Protista Monera Fungi Plantae Animalia

3.         Monera Protista Fungi Plantae Animalia

4.         Monera Protista Plantae Fungi Monera

77.       Linnaeus developed the system of nomenclature which we still use today is choose one:

  1. Common        
  2. Binomial
  3. Scientific        
  4. Phase

78.       The organisms are grouped into larger, more inclusive categories choose one:

  1. Species          
  2. Division
  3. Phylum
  4. Taxa

79.       The mode of nutrition related to fungi in 5 kingdom classification is choose one:

  1. Photosynthesis           
  2. Absorption
  3. Ingestion         
  4. Chemosynthesis

80.       A group of organisms at any particular level in a classification system is called what among the following options  choose one:

  1. Species          
  2. Taxon
  3. Genus
  4. Phylum

81.       Which of the following is not true about viruses?

  1. Obligate intracellular parasite
  2. Contain DNA and RNA
  3. Are acellular   
  4. Uses host machinery

82.       A virus which incorporates its DNA into the DNA of its host organism is a choose one:

  1. Virulent phage
  2. Prophage
  3. Lytic phage    
  4. None of these

83.       Which virus is transmitted by faecal oral route?

  1. Influenza virus
  2. Hepatitis A virus
  3. Dengue virus  
  4. Hepatitis C virus

84.       The plant kingdom is first divided into which category of classification?

  1. Family
  2. Division
  3. Order  
  4. Class

85.       Identifying organisms by their Genus and Species names is called choose one:

  1. Nomenclature
  2. Systematic
  3. Binomial Nomenclature
  4. Succession

86.       The seven bones in the human neck correspond with the same seven, much larger, neck bones in the giraffe. They are choose one:

  1. Analogues      
  2. Homologues
  3. Vestiges
  4. All (A), (B) and (C)

87.       If you compare a human arm with the front leg of an alligator or horse, or the flipper of a whale or a bat’s skin-covered wing then it will be helpful to you to classify these animals on the basis of choose one:

  1. Genetics         
  2. Analogy
  3. Homology     
  4. Biochemistry

88.       The fact that all land animals with backbones have the basic pattern of “fiveboned” arms, this similarity is due to an inheritance from a choose one:

  1. Common ancestor
  2. Different ancestors
  3. Both (A) and (B)         

89.       Organisms in the Kingdom Animalia are choose one:

  1. Multicellular & heterotrophic
  2. Multicellular & autotrophic
  3. Unicellular & autotrophic
  4. Unicellular & Heterotrophic

90.       Which of the following groups would contain the largest number of organisms?

  1. Class  
  2. Order
  3. Phylum          
  4. Family

91.       What do plants and animals have in common?

  1. Both are heterotrophic           
  2. Both are autotrophic
  3. Both are prokaryotic
  4. Both are eukaryotic

92.       If two organisms are in the same phylum, they must also be in the same choose one:

  1. Class  
  2. Species
  3. Family
  4. Kingdom

93.       The level of hierarchy just below Phylum is choose one:

  1. Order  
  2. Family
  3. Class 
  4. Kingdom

94.       Which of the following is necessary for a virus to reproduce?

  1. A living host cell      
  2. A vaccine
  3. A high body temperature
  4. Sunlight, water, and food

95.         is a submicroscopic infectious particle composed of a protein coat and a nucleic acid core.

  1. Virus  
  2. Bacterium
  3. Slime mold     
  4. Water mold

96.       All viruses choose one:

  1. Contain DNA  
  2. Contain RNA
  3. Contain protein           
  4. Are intracellular parasites

97.       An example of latent period in which DNA of phage is integrated with the DNA of host coli chromosome is choose one:

  1. Lysis   
  2. Lysogenic-phase
  3. Prophage       
  4. Attenuated virus

98.       Which of the following is a un-matching set regarding viral diseases?

  1. Rhabdo virus — Rabies         
  2. Paramyxo virus — Mumps
  3. Rhino virus — yellow fever            
  4. Arbo virus — Encephalitis

99.       HIV is choose one:            

  1. Plus strand virus
  2. Un-enveloped minus strand virus
  3. Retrovirus     
  4. Large genome virus

100.    Virus is a Latin word meaning choose one:

  1. Minute creature          
  2. Poison
  3. Medicine        
  4. Disease

101.    Viroids differ from other viruses in having choose one:

  1. Only naked RNA molecule 
  2. Only naked DNA molecule
  3. Virus genome with satellite DNA
  4. Virus genome with histone

102.    The first to isolate a plant virus as crystal choose one:

  1. W.M. Stanely
  2. Smith
  3. Stakmann      
  4. Ivanowski

103.    Genetic material of tobacco mosaic virus is choose one:

  1. RNA   
  2. DNA
  3. Fat      
  4. Protein

105.    Herpes and shingles are caused by choose one:

  1. Medium and large genome DNA virus
  2. Small genome DNA virus
  3. Medium and large genome RNA virus
  4. Small genome RNA virus

106.    The viruses whose genome act directly as messenger RNA after infecting a host cell are called choose one:

  1. Plus strand DNA viruses        
  2. Minus strand RNA viruses
  3. Plus strand RNA viruses    
  4. Minus strand DNA viruses

107.    The best known anti-HIV drug is choose one:

  1. Benzodiazephine        
  2. Leodopa
  3. Azidothymidine
  4. None of these

108.    Living organisms can be classified on the basis of choose one:

  1. Homology      
  2. Cytology
  3. Biochemistry
  4. All of these

109.    Encephalitis is caused by choose one:

  1. Arbo virus     
  2. Rhino virus
  3. Rhabdo virus  
  4. Paramyxo virus

110.    A plant infected from an external source of virus through injured parts is choose one:

  1. Vertical transmission  
  2. Horizontal transmission
  3. Retrograde transmission        
  4. None of these

111.    are small naked fragments of RNA that infect plant cells.

  1. Prions 
  2. Prophages
  3. Macrophages 
  4. Viroids

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