Question No:1
Which of the following is not pathogenic?
(A) Yeast
(B) Albugo
(C) Alternaria
(D) Ustilago
Question No:2
Which of the following is a heteroecious fungus?
(A) Ustilago
(B) Puccinia
(C) Albugo
(D) Phytophthora
Question No:3
In which of the following plants, a vacuolated, sterile columella is present?
(A) In sporangium of Rhizopus
(B) Cleiostothecium of Penicillium
(C) Basidium of Agaricus
(D) Yeast ascus
Question No:4
The hyphae of Rhizopus which help in spreading of the mycelium on bread are known as
(A) zygophores
(B) sporangiophores
(C) stoloniferous hyphae
(D) rhizoidal hyphae
Question No:5
The negatively geotropic and unbranched hyphae in Rhizopus are known as
(A) sporangiophores
(B) zygophores
(C) stoloniferous
(D) rhizoidal hyphae
Question No:6
As regards the mode of nutrition is concerned, Bread mold is considered to be a
(A) parasite
(B) saprophyte
(C) shows mutualism
(D) epiphyte
Question No:7
One of the following units of mycelium helps the Rhizopus for perennation
(A) chlamydospores
(B) ascospores
(C) sporangiospores
(D) oidia
Question No:8
The generic name Penicillium’ is given due to
(A) presence of septate mycelium
(B) presence of uninucleated cells
(C) presence of brush like asexual structures called penicillus
(D) presence of fruiting body known as colletotrichum.
Question No:9
In Penicillium species having branched condiophores, the ultimate branches bearing tufts of flask shaped sterigmata of the phialides are called
(A) metulae
(B) conidiophores
(C) rami
(D) none of these
Question No:10
The Drosophila of plant kingdom is
(A) Aspergillus
(B) Neurospora
(C) Saccharomyces
(D) Sardaria
Question No:11
In mushrooms and puffballs, edible part represents
(A) mycelium
(B) ascocarp
(C) basidiocarp
(D) rhizomorph
Question No:12
Dikaryotization (n + n) in Agaricus is brought about by
(A) clamp connections
(B) somatogamy between two hyphae of different strains
(C) both correct
(D) basidiospores
Question No:13
The gills of a mushroom/gills fungi
(A) help in respiration
(B) help in nutrition
(C) bear spores which help in reproduction
(D) help in enhancing buoyancy
Question No:14
Asexual spores in ascomycetes are called
(A) ascospores
(B) conidia
(C) zoospores
(D) sporangiospores
Question No:15
The umbrella shaped structure of the basidiocarp of Agaricus is known as
(A) stipe
(B) gill
(C) hymenium
(D) pileus
Question No:16
Fermentation to produce alcohol by yeast (Saccharomyces) is due to
(A) amylase
(B) invertase
(C) zymase
(D) galactase
Question No:17
Yeasts differ from bacteria in being
(A) unicellular
(B) eukaryotic
(C) prokaryotic
(D) akaryotic
Question No:18
The non mycelial unicellular ascomycetes having no fruiting bodies are known as
(A) Yeasts
(B) Blue molds
(C) Lichens
(D) Mushrooms
Question No:19
The fusion between daughter cells or sister cells in yeast is called
(A) pseudogamy
(B) adelphogamy
(C) pedogamy
(D) gemmation
Question No:20
The algal partner of the lichen thallus is known as
(A) mycobiont
(B) phycobiont
(C) basidiobiont
(D) lichenobiont