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This section includes 69 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Microbiology knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
__________ produce ascospores in an ascus. |
| A. | Slime molds |
| B. | Dimorphic fungi |
| C. | Club fungi |
| D. | Sac fungi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 52. |
A mutualistic association made up of a fungus and a cyanobacterium is called |
| A. | a saprobe |
| B. | a gamete |
| C. | lichen |
| D. | dimorphic |
| Answer» D. dimorphic | |
| 53. |
Mushrooms are classified in which of the following division? |
| A. | Ascomycota |
| B. | Basidiomycota |
| C. | Zygomycota |
| D. | Deuteromycota |
| Answer» C. Zygomycota | |
| 54. |
Water molds form flagellated spores are called |
| A. | dinoflagellates |
| B. | fruiting bodies |
| C. | zoospores |
| D. | trichocysts |
| Answer» D. trichocysts | |
| 55. |
Ergotism is responsible for all of the following except |
| A. | hallucinations |
| B. | Irish potato famine |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | gangrene |
| Answer» E. | |
| 56. |
Yeasts may undergo |
| A. | alcoholic fermentation |
| B. | homolactic fermentation |
| C. | heterolactic fermentation |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 57. |
Fungi are important in the production of all of the following commercial products except |
| A. | bread |
| B. | beer |
| C. | cheese |
| D. | rubber |
| Answer» E. | |
| 58. |
Which of the following is not a member of the division Ascomycota? |
| A. | Aspergillus |
| B. | Claviceps |
| C. | Penicillium |
| D. | Rhizopus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 59. |
Which of the following is/are the sexual spore? |
| A. | Ascospores |
| B. | Basidiospores |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 60. |
Name the asexual spore(s)? |
| A. | Conidia |
| B. | Sporangiospore |
| C. | Arthospores |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 61. |
The evolutionary record suggests that the first occurrence of multicellularity was in the kingdom |
| A. | Monera |
| B. | Protista |
| C. | Fungi |
| D. | Plantae |
| Answer» C. Fungi | |
| 62. |
The number of sets of chromosomes in a dikaryotic cell |
| A. | is greater than diploid cell |
| B. | is lesser than diploid cell |
| C. | is equal to diploid cell |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 63. |
Slime molds differ from the moldy fungi |
| A. | in their mode of nutrition: phagocytosis for the slime molds; absorptive heterotroph for moldy fungi |
| B. | in that the moldy fungi produce amoeboid or flagellated cells and the slime molds do not |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. in that the moldy fungi produce amoeboid or flagellated cells and the slime molds do not | |
| 64. |
Which spore is on a club and results from the fusion of two nuclei from different strains of the same fungi? |
| A. | Ascospore |
| B. | Basidiospore |
| C. | Blastospore |
| D. | Conidiospore |
| Answer» C. Blastospore | |
| 65. |
The bread mold Rhizopus stolonifer belongs to which of the following fungal divisions? |
| A. | Ascomycota |
| B. | Deuteromycota |
| C. | Oomycota |
| D. | Zygomycota |
| Answer» E. | |
| 66. |
Molds are considered as |
| A. | mesophillic |
| B. | psychotropic |
| C. | thermophillic |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 67. |
Fungi differ from the other eukaryotic microbes in having |
| A. | flagella |
| B. | ergosterol |
| C. | chloroplasts |
| D. | an undulating membrane |
| Answer» C. chloroplasts | |
| 68. |
Why are slime molds considered to resemble plants? |
| A. | They can photosynthesize |
| B. | They have cell walls composed largely of cellulose |
| C. | They form a threadlike structure |
| D. | They form structures that resemble leaves |
| Answer» C. They form a threadlike structure | |
| 69. |
An organism in the Deuteromycota has all the following except |
| A. | asexual spores |
| B. | absorptive nutrition |
| C. | ascospores, basidiospores or zygospores |
| D. | a nucleus |
| Answer» D. a nucleus | |