Explore topic-wise MCQs in Cell Biology.

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1.

When phages carry DNA from one host to another its called

A. dead
B. transformed
C. transfected
D. transduction
Answer» E.
2.

Bacteria living in gut of humans that help with digestion have which of following relationship with host?

A. parasitism
B. symbiosis
C. mutualism
D. commensalism
Answer» D. commensalism
3.

Which of following bacteria can photosynthesize?

A. cyanobacteria
B. treponema pallidum
C. salmonella
D. Nongonococcal urethritis
Answer» B. treponema pallidum
4.

Cocci present in clusters are called

A. staphylococci
B. monococci
C. diplococci
D. streptococci
Answer» B. monococci
5.

From which of following subgroups of proteobacteria mitochondria have most likely been derived?

A. alpha
B. beta
C. gamma
D. epsilon
Answer» B. beta
6.

Which of following bacteria play a part in nitrogen recycling?

A. rhizobium
B. Nitrosomonas
C. agrobacterium
D. e coli
Answer» C. agrobacterium
7.

Which of following disease in humans is caused by bacteria Helicobacter?

A. damage to blood vessels
B. stomach ulcer
C. blood poisoning
D. blocked vessels
Answer» C. blood poisoning
8.

Which of following rarely have introns in their genes?

A. animals
B. bacteria
C. archaea
D. fungi
Answer» C. archaea
9.

Which of following structures is produced by help of F factor?

A. Pilli
B. filaments
C. hair
D. fimbriae
Answer» B. filaments
10.

When a prokaryote takes up foreign DNA from surroundings its called

A. mutant
B. dead
C. transformed
D. transfected
Answer» D. transfected
11.

A movement based on a stimulus is called

A. Pilli
B. pull
C. stimulus
D. taxis
Answer» E.
12.

Membrane lipids of which of following have branched hydrocarbons?

A. archaea
B. prokaryotes
C. fungi
D. animals
Answer» B. prokaryotes
13.

What is average diameter of one of smallest bacteria, Mycoplasma?

A. 5 um
B. 1 um
C. 0.1 um
D. 10 um
Answer» D. 10 um
14.

Which of following is an example of filamentous cyanobacterium?

A. Borrelia burgdorferi
B. Leptospira
C. oscillatoria
D. Thiomargarita namibiensis
Answer» D. Thiomargarita namibiensis
15.

Which of following is not a part of bacterial flagellum?

A. motor
B. tail
C. hook
D. filament
Answer» C. hook
16.

Horizontal gene transfer occurs from

A. one organism to another
B. replication
C. reproduction
D. ancestors
Answer» B. replication
17.

Which of following bacteria are responsible for causing cholera?

A. salmonella
B. neisseria gonorrhoeae.
C. Thiomargarita namibiensis
D. vibrio cholerae
Answer» E.
18.

Cocci present in pairs are called

A. diplococci
B. streptococci
C. staphylococci
D. gonococci
Answer» B. streptococci
19.

Which of following is contained by most of bacteria?

A. proteins
B. peptidoglycan
C. proteoglycan
D. sugars
Answer» C. proteoglycan
20.

Gram-negative bacteria are classified in to which of following clades?

A. archaea
B. eukaryote
C. proteobacteria
D. photoautotroph
Answer» D. photoautotroph
21.

What is larger organism in Asymbiotic relationship?

A. host
B. symbiont
C. provider
D. supporter
Answer» B. symbiont
22.

Cyanobacteria is an example of which of following?

A. phototrophs
B. heterotrophs
C. Chemotrophs
D. autotrophs
Answer» B. heterotrophs
23.

Which of following can survive without oxygen?

A. facultative anaerobes
B. obligate aerobes
C. obligate anaerobes
D. heterotrophs
Answer» B. obligate aerobes
24.

Which of following bacteria is most common cause of blindness in world?

A. chlamydia trachomatis
B. salmonella
C. Bdellovibrios
D. Thiomargarita namibiensis
Answer» B. salmonella
25.

Which of following bacteria is not an example of spirochetes?

A. treponema pallidum
B. Borrelia burgdorferi
C. Leptospira
D. salmonella
Answer» E.
26.

Which of following disease in humans is caused by bacteria Campylobacter?

A. damage to neurons
B. blood poisoning
C. stomach ulcer
D. neurodegeneration
Answer» C. stomach ulcer
27.

Which of following are appendages that facilitate conjugation?

A. pilus
B. flagella
C. pseudomonas
D. cilia
Answer» B. flagella
28.

When DNA is transferred between two individuals of same species its called

A. transformed
B. transfected
C. transduction
D. conjugation
Answer» E.
29.

Which of following bacteria produce tumors in plants?

A. agrobacterium
B. rhizobium
C. Nitrosomonas
D. Thiomargarita namibiensis
Answer» B. rhizobium
30.

Approximately how many genes have been horizontally transferred in bacterial genome?

A. 0.05
B. 0.18
C. 0.3
D. 0.75
Answer» E.
31.

Which of following diseases is caused by Bacillus anthracis?

A. flu
B. common cold
C. tuberculosis
D. anthrax
Answer» E.
32.

Our intestines are home to how many species of bacteria?

A. 1000
B. 200
C. 10000
D. 100
Answer» B. 200
33.

Which of following bacterial types have large amounts of peptidoglycans in their cell walls?

A. gram positive
B. gram negative
C. infectious
D. lytic phages
Answer» B. gram negative
34.

Which of following bacteria is coil-shaped?

A. monococci
B. diplococci
C. spirochetes
D. spirilla
Answer» E.
35.

Which of following archaea live in extremely hot and sulphuric conditions like volcanoes?

A. treponema pallidum
B. Halobacterium
C. Sulfolobus
D. Nongonococcal urethritis
Answer» D. Nongonococcal urethritis
36.

Borrelia burgdorferi causes which of following diseases?

A. stomach ulcer
B. blood poisoning
C. blocked vessels
D. Lyme disease
Answer» E.
37.

Rhizobium belongs to which of following proteobacteria subgroup?

A. alpha
B. beta
C. gamma
D. epsilon
Answer» B. beta
38.

Which of following is a diarrheal disease?

A. Lyme disease
B. tuberculosis
C. anthrax
D. cholera
Answer» E.
39.

Which of following is an example of nitrogen-fixing bacteria?

A. Rhodobacter
B. t phage
C. e coli
D. cyanobacteria
Answer» E.
40.

Ammonium is oxidized to produce which of following by Nitrosomonas?

A. methyl
B. nitrogen
C. nitrite
D. nitrate
Answer» D. nitrate
41.

Picrophilus oshimae bacteria can survive in which of following extreme conditions?

A. CO₂
B. acidic environment
C. radiation
D. heat
Answer» C. radiation
42.

Bacteria obtain energy from which of following forms of sulfur?

A. h2s
B. hs2
C. sulphuric acid
D. sulphur nitrate
Answer» B. hs2
43.

How many types of proteins make up a flagellum?

A. 30
B. 42
C. 69
D. 100
Answer» C. 69
44.

Nitrogen fixation is caused by which of following?

A. phototrophs
B. heterotrophs
C. halophiles
D. heterocyst
Answer» B. heterotrophs
45.

Streptomyces is soil-dwelling species of which of following bacterial types?

A. gram positive
B. gram negative
C. cyanobacteria
D. spirochetes
Answer» B. gram negative
46.

Smaller rings of genomic DNA in Prokaryotes are called

A. plasmid
B. nucleoid
C. nucleolus
D. ribosomes
Answer» B. nucleoid
47.

Which of following are harmful proteins secreted by bacteria?

A. exotoxins
B. endotoxins
C. lipopolysaccharide
D. proteoglycans
Answer» B. endotoxins
48.

Which of following are present in outer cell wall of gram-negative bacteria and are released when bacteria die?

A. exotoxins
B. endotoxins
C. lipopolysaccharide
D. proteoglycans
Answer» C. lipopolysaccharide
49.

Which of following bacteria is an example of slime secreting myxobacteria?

A. Chondromyces crocatus
B. neisseria gonorrhoeae.
C. Thiomargarita namibiensis
D. vibrio cholerae
Answer» B. neisseria gonorrhoeae.
50.

Mycoplasma genitalium has approximately how many genes?

A. 100
B. 343
C. 1000
D. 517
Answer» E.