Saturday, December 14, 2013

MSC. ZOOLOGY OR ANIMAL SCIENCE ENTRANCE EXAM MODEL QUESTIONS _TAXONOMY

1.   The largest herbarium of the world is located at
a)   New York               b) Geneva c) Berlin d) Kew

2.   National Botanical Research Institute is situated at
a)  Delhi b)  Calcutta c) Lucknow  d) Dehradun

3.   Artificial system of plant classification was proposed by
a)  De Candolle b) Engler & Prantl c) Theophrastus d) Bentham & Hooker

4.   According to the four kingdom classification, the unicellular non-nucleated organisms are placed
a)   monera b) protista c) animalia  d) plantae

5.   In the five kingdom system of classification, which single kingdom  out of the following can  
      include blue-green algae, nitrogen fixing bacteria and methanogenic archaebacteria?
a)   plantae b) protista c) monera   d) fungi

6.   Engler and Prantl published a phylogenetic system in the monograph
a)   Die Naturlichen Pflanzen Familien b) Historia plantarum
c)   species plantarum   d) Genera plantarum

7.   “Ordines Anomali”  of Bentham and Hooker includes
a)   seed plants showing abnormal forms of growth and development
b)   plants described only in fossil state    
c)   plants described in the literature but which Bentham and Hooker did not see in original
d)   a few orders which could not be placed satisfactorily in the classification

8.   ICBN stands for
a)   International Code of Botanical Nomenclature b) Intentional Congress of Biological Names     c)   Indian Code of Botanical Nomenclature d) Indian Congress of Biological Names

Biological Classification

9.   Bacterial endotoxin is
a)   lipopolysaccharide located on the surface of the bacteria
b)   a toxic protein that stays inside the bacterial cell
c)   a toxic protein that is excreted into the medium  d) none  of the above

10. Mycoplasmas
a)   lack a cell wall b) have a cell wall
c)   are sensitive to penicillin d) are usually as big as most other bacteria.



11  Bacterial blight of rice is caused due to
a)   Xanthomonas oryzae b) Helminthosporium oryzae
c)   Pseudomonas falcatum           d) Xanthomonas falcatum


12. Litmus is obtained from
a)   lichen b) algae c) fungi d)  protozoa

13.  In bacteria, the cell wall is made up of
a)   murein b) cgutub c) pectin d) cellulose

14. The main difference in Gram (+)ve and Gram (-)ve bacteria resides in their
a)   cell wall b) cell membrane c) cytoplasm d)  flagella.

15. A non-photosynthetic aerobic nitrogen fixing soil bacterium is
a)   Rhizobium b) Clostridium c) Azotobacter d)  Kelbsiella.

16. Mycorrhiza exhibits the phenomenon of
a)   oarasutusn b) symbiosis c) antagonism d) endemism

17. Columella is a specialized structure found in the sporangium of
a)   Spirogyra b) Ulothrix c) Rhizopus d) none of these

18. Viroids differ from viruses in being
a)   naked DNA molecules b) naked DNA with viral genome
c)   naked DNA molecules only            d) satellite RNA with viral genome

19. Helotism is a term used for the sumbiosis of
a)   algae and fungi b) algae and Cycas d)  Pinus and fungi d) algae and bacteria

20. Which one of following shows heterothallism?
a)   Rhizopus b)bacterium c)Cycas   d) Ricinus

21. Parasexuality was first disvicered in
a)   baceteria b) virus c)funi d) algae

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