NEET Biology Multiple Choice Questions – Kingdom Fungi

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NEET Biology Kingdom Fungi Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. The branch of botany which is concerned with the study of fungi is called:

  1. Parasitology
  2. Mycology
  3. Bacteriology
  4. Embryology.

Answer: 3. Bacteriology

Question 2. The parasitic fungi take their food from the host with the help of:

  1. Talparaphysis
  2. Soredia
  3. Hausloria
  4. Conidia.

Answer: 2. Soredia

Question 3. Fungi that are used as food :

  1. Rusts
  2. Smuts
  3. Mushrooms
  4. Downy mildews.

Answer: 2. Smuts

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Question 4. Multinuclcatc and aseptate hyphae of rhizopus are called

  1. Oidia
  2. Hcterolhallic
  3. Chlamydospores
  4. Coenocytic.

Answer: 4.  Coenocytic.

Question 5. Sporangia in rhizopus are borne on :

  1. Rhizoidal hyphae
  2. Lateral branch of sporangiophore
  3. Tips of sporangiophores
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 3. Tips of sporangiophores

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Question 6. Commercial mushrooms are grown in soil enriched with horse manure. These mushrooms are :

  1. Autotrophic
  2. Parasitic
  3. Saprophytic
  4. Chemosynthetic

Answer: 3. Saprophytic

Question 7. Mushroom is :

  1. Puccinia
  2. Parasitic
  3. Agaricus
  4. Chemosynthetic.

Answer: 1. Puccinia

Question 8. Who found the phenomenon of heterothallism in Rhizopus

  1. Aiexopouios
  2. Blakeslee
  3. Lyenger
  4. R.n. Singh

Answer: 2. Blakeslee

Question 9. Sporangiospores are :

  1. Flagellated
  2. Biflagellated
  3. Multinucleated
  4. Ciliated

Answer: 3. Multinucleated

Question 10. Torula stage is found in medium

  1. Rich in sugars
  2. Pesticides
  3. Antibiotics
  4. Rich in fats.

Answer: 1. Rich in sugars

Question 11. Sexual reproduction in rhizopus is by

  1. Spores
  2. Oidia
  3. Conjugation of two gametangia
  4. Conidia.

Answer: 3. Conjugation of two gametangia

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Question 12. Yeast is an important source of:

  1. Proteins
  2. Sugars
  3. Riboflavin
  4. Vitamin c

Answer: 2. Sugars

Question 13. Ascocurp of penh llllnni is :

  1. Crithccitiiu
  2. Apntliccium
  3. Acroslromn
  4. Clcistotlicdum.

Answer: 4. Clcistotlicdum.

Question 14. Early blight and late blight arc caused respectively by :

  1. Aspergillus and penicillium
  2. 11Sthugo and puccinia
  3. Graphiola and agarlcus
  4. Aliemaria and phytophthora.

Answer: 4. Aliemaria and phytophthora.

Question 15. Citric acid is commercially manufactured from :

  1. Mucor
  2. Citromyccs pfefferiaur
  3. Aspergillus
  4. Saccharomyces.

Answer: 3. Aspergillus

Question 16. The protective sterile covering in the ascocarp is :

  1. Upidcrm
  2. Epicarp
  3. Peridium
  4. Periderm

Answer: 3. Peridium

Question 17. The hyphae of rhizopus are :

  1. Branched, tubular and coenocytic
  2. Branched and septate
  3. Unbranched and septate
  4. Unbranched, unicellular and tubular.

Answer: 1. Branched, tubular and coenocytic

Question 18. Torula stage is observed in :

  1. Puccinia
  2. Mucor
  3. Agaricus
  4. Penicillium.

Answer: 2. Mucor

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Question 19. Yeasts are used commercially in :

  1. Butter industry
  2. Wine and baking industry
  3. Tobacco industry
  4. Textile industry

Answer: 2. Wine and baking industry

Question 20. In Rhizopus, which of the stages does not contain ‘n’ number of chromosomes

  1. Hyphae
  2. Stolon
  3. Rhizoids
  4. Zygospore

Answer: 4. Zygospore

Question 21. The majority of the species of rhizopus are :

  1. Parasitic
  2. Saprophytic
  3. Epiphytic
  4. Lithophytic.

Answer: 2. Saprophytic

Question 22. When fungi feed on dead organic matter, they are called

  1. Parasite
  2. Saprophytes
  3. Lithophytes
  4. Dimorphic.

Answer: 2. Saprophytes

Question 23. Which of the following is used commonly in genetical experiments:

  1. Mucor
  2. Rhizopus
  3. Morchella
  4. Neurospora.

Answer: 4. Neurospora.

Question 24. Which of the following is unicellular and uninucleate?

  1. Rhizopus nigricans
  2. Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  3. Puccinia graminis
  4. Morchella esculenta.

Answer: 2. Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Question 25. In a lichen, the fungal partner belongs to :

  1. Phycomycetes
  2. Ascomycetes
  3. Basidiomycetes
  4. Deuteromycetes

Answer: 2. Ascomycetes

Question 26. “Foolish seedling disease of rice” has been behind the discovery of which growth hormones?

  1. Auxins
  2. Ethylene
  3. Gibberellins
  4. Cytokinins.

Answer: 3. Gibberellins

Question 27. Plasmodium is a thallus found in:

  1. Myxomycetes
  2. Phycomycetes
  3. Ascomycetes
  4. Basidiomycetes.

Answer: 1. Myxomycetes

Question 28. Fungi reproduce by only asexual methods in :

  1. Myxomycetes
  2. Ascomycetes
  3. Basidiomycetes
  4. Deuteromycetes.

Answer: 4. Deuteromycetes.

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Question 29. Zygospore of mucor germinates to form :

  1. Mycelium
  2. Promycelium
  3. Hyphae
  4. Germ tube.

Answer: 2. Promycelium

Question 30. Penicillin is produced from :

  1. Penicillium chrysogenum
  2. Penicillium claviform
  3. Penicillium expansum
  4. Penicillium divarication.

Answer: 1. Penicillium chrysogenum

Question 31. Black rust of wheat is caused by :

  1. Rhizopus
  2. Yeast
  3. Penicillium
  4. Puccinia tritici.

Answer: 4. Puccinia tritici.

Question 32. A facultative parasite is one which :

  1. Always requires a living host
  2. Is normally saprophytic but can also become parasitic
  3. Is normally a parasite but can also become a saprophyte
  4. Always requires dead organic matter.

Answer: 2. Is normally saprophytic but can also become parasitic

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Question 33. The severe famine of West Bengal of 1942-43 was due to the destruction of rice crop by a fungus :

  1. Helminthosporium
  2. Penicillium
  3. Puccinia
  4. Rhizopus.

Answer: 1. Helminthosporium

Question 34. Yeast (saccharomyces) belongs to :

  1. Phycomycetes
  2. Ascomycetes
  3. Basidiomycetes
  4. Deuteromycetes.

Answer: 2. Ascomycetes

Question 35. Rhizopus belongs to :

  1. Zygomycetes
  2. Ascomycetes
  3. Deuteromycetes
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 1. Zygomycetes

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Question 36. Fleming discovered penicillin from :

  1. Penicillium camembert
  2. P. Notatum
  3. P. Chrysogenum
  4. P. Expansum.

Answer: 2. P. Notatum

Question 37. How many ascospores are formed in saccharomyces cerevisiae:

  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 8
  4. 16.

Answer: 2. 4

Question 38. Yeast is found abundantly in :

  1. Horse dung
  2. Nose of fishes
  3. Moist bread
  4. Organic substances are rich in sugar.

Answer: 4. Organic substances rich in sugar.

Question 39. The yeast cell wall is made up of:

  1. Pectin
  2. Carbohydrate
  3. Glucose and mannose
  4. Fungal cellulose.

Answer: 4. Fungal cellulose.

Question 40. When a portion of fungal mycelium is used in the formation of reproductive structure :

  1. Eucarpic
  2. Acarpic
  3. Holocarpic
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 1. Eucarpic

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Question 41. An alga and a fungus remain in lichens in :

  1. Parasitic relationship
  2. Symbiotic relationship
  3. Saprophytic relationship
  4. Epiphytic relationship.

Answer: 2. Symbiotic relationship

Question 42. Wheat rust is caused by :

  1. Albugo
  2. Ustilago
  3. Aspergillus
  4. Puccinia.

Answer: 4. Puccinia

Question 43. ‘Smuts’ belong to the genus :

  1. Puccinia
  2. Ustilago
  3. Altemaria
  4. Phytophthora.

Answer: 2. Ustilago

Question 44. Which of the following is a fungal disease?

  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Smallpox
  3. Rabies
  4. Ringworm.

Answer: 4. Ringworm.

Question 45. ‘Ergot of rye’ is caused by :

  1. Puccinia
  2. Ustilago
  3. Ciaviceps
  4. Alternaria.

Answer: 3. Ciaviceps

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Question 46. In yeast, cell wall contains :

  1. Amylose and glucose
  2. Glucose and mannose
  3. Glucose and muramic acid
  4. Sucrose and mannose.

Answer: 2. Glucose and mannose

Question 47. The coprophilous fungi inhabit:

  1. Dung
  2. Deadwood
  3. Decaying leaves
  4. Food.

Answer: 1. Dung

Question 48. Bakane disease is connected with the discovery of :

  1. Ga
  2. Iaa
  3. Aba
  4. 2, 4 — D.

Answer: 1. Ga

Question 49. Mycorrhiza is a relationship between :

  1. Algae and fungi
  2. Fungi and the roots of higher plants
  3. Fungi and rhizoids of lower plants
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 2. Fungi and the roots of higher plants

Question 50. Which one of the following is edible?

  1. Agaricus
  2. Rhizopus
  3. Neurospora
  4. Peronospora.

Answer: 1. Agaricus

Question 51. Aflatoxins are produced by some :

  1. Bacteria
  2. Fungi
  3. Viruses
  4. Algae.

Answer: 2. Fungi

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Question 52. Fungi in the division oomycete are known as :

  1. Egg fungi
  2. Sac fungi
  3. Club fungi
  4. Cup fungi.

Answer: 1. Egg fungi

Question 53. Heterothallism prevents :

  1. Breeding
  2. Inbreeding
  3. Crossbreeding
  4. Interbreeding.

Answer: 2. Inbreeding

Question 54. Dolipore septum is a characteristic feature of:

  1. Phycomycetes
  2. Zygomycetes
  3. Ascomycetes
  4. Basidiomycetes.

Answer: 4. Basidiomycetes.

Question 55. Apothecial cups are the characteristic of:

  1. Aspergillus
  2. Saccharomyces
  3. Peziza
  4. Agaricus.

Answer: 3. Peziza

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Question 56. Dikaryotisation in basidiomycetes takes place :

  1. Plasmogamy
  2. Plasmogamy and karyogamy
  3. Clamp connection formation
  4. Karyogamy is followed by meiosis.

Answer: 3. Clamp connection formation

Question 57. Smut of maize is caused by :

  1. Ustilago avenae
  2. Ustilago maydis
  3. Ustilago hordei
  4. Ustilago nuda.

Answer: 2. Ustilago maydis

Question 58. Funga l hyphae penetrate the hard cell walls of their hosts with the help of:

  1. Enzymes
  2. Hormones
  3. Sharp tips
  4. Sugar exudates.

Answer: 1. Enzymes

Question 59. The hyphal system is called mycelium in:

  1. Algae
  2. Fungi
  3. Bryophytes
  4. Pteridophytes.

Answer: 2. Fungi

Question 60. Penicillin was first discovered by :

  1. Alexander fleming
  2. P. Ehrlich
  3. Robert Koch
  4. S. Waksman.

Answer: 1. Alexander Fleming

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Question 61. Select the correctly matched pair.

  1. Cause of Irish potato famine – altemaria solani
  2. Cause of Bengal potato famine – helminths – emporium
  3. Black wart disease of potato – phytophthora infestans
  4. Late blight of potato – cytoplasm candida.

Answer: 3. Black wart disease of potato – phytophthora infestans

Question 62. To digest the food that lies in external, medium fungi secrete:

  1. Enzymes
  2. Hormones
  3. Sugar
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 1. Enzymes

Question 63. Which of the following is a fungicide?

  1. Enzymes
  2. Bordeaux mixture
  3. 2-4 D
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 2. Bordeaux mixture

Question 64. Late blight of potatoes is caused by :

  1. Altemaria solani
  2. Phytophthora infestans
  3. Albugo candida
  4. Fusarium moniliforme.

Answer: 2. Phytophthora infestans

Question 65. White rust of “crucifers” is caused by :

  1. Albugo candida
  2. Pythium
  3. Cercospora
  4. Phyllactinia.

Answer: 1. Albugo candida

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Question 66. Yeast cells are the best source of:

  1. Biotin
  2. Vitamin (b11, b12)
  3. Vitamin a
  4. Vitamin d.

Answer: 2. Vitamin D.

Kingdom Fungi NEET MCQ Question 67. Fungal extract of which fungus is used as poison?

  1. Lentinus
  2. Volveriella
  3. Amanita
  4. Armillaria.

Answer: 3. Amanita

Question 68. All fungi are always :

  1. Autotrophs
  2. Heterotrophs
  3. Saprophytes
  4. Parasites.

Answer: 2. Heterotrophs

Question 69. Rhizopus is :

  1. Parasite
  2. Obligate parasite
  3. Epiphyte
  4. Saprophyte

Answer: 4. Saprophyte

Question 70. Aecidial stages of puccinia develop on :

  1. Wheat leaves
  2. Wheat stem
  3. The upper surface of the barberry leaf
  4. The lower surface of barberry leaf.

Answer: 4. Lower surface of barberry leaf.

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Question 71. ‘Reindeer moss’ is a lichen used as food by men. This belongs to the genus:

  1. Cetraria
  2. Lobaria
  3. Usnea
  4. Cladonia.

Answer: 4. Cladonia.

Question 72. Which of the following groups contain typically coenocytic forms :

  1. Lichens
  2. Phycomycetes
  3. Liverworts
  4. Chlorophyceae.

Answer: 2. Phycomycetes

Question 73. Dikaryon formation occurs in :

  1. Phycomycetes and slime moulds
  2. Ascomycetes and slime moulds
  3. Basidiomycetes and Phycomycetes
  4. Both ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.

Answer: 4. Both ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.

Question 74. A basidiomycetous fungus producing uredospores on wheat plants is :

  1. Ustilago
  2. Puccinia
  3. Phytophthora
  4. Altemaria.

Answer: 2. Puccinia

Question 75. When an entire body of a fungus is used in the formation of reproductive structure, the organism is called as :

  1. Acarpic
  2. Holocarpic
  3. Eucarpic
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 2. Holocarpic

Question 76. Asci are formed in :

  1. Ascobolus
  2. Saccharomyces
  3. Penicilliurn
  4. All the above.

Answer: 4. All the above.

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Question 77. Which of the following stages in rhizopus is diploid?

  1. Zygospore
  2. Hypha
  3. Stolon
  4. Spore.

Answer: 1. Zygospore

Question 78. “Fungi imperfecti” reproduce by :

  1. Sexual method
  2. Asexual method
  3. Vegetative methods
  4. Sexual and asexual methods.

Answer: 2. Asexual method

Question 79. The yeasts and mushrooms differ from algae because they :

  1. Cannot carry out photosynthesis
  2. Lack of cellulosic cell wall
  3. Reproduce by sexual methods
  4. Are terrestrial as well as aquatic.

Answer: 1. Cannot carry out photosynthesis

Question 80. Which group is a pioneer of xerophytic succession?

  1. Algae
  2. Fungi
  3. Bryophytes
  4. Lichens.

Answer: 4. Lichens.

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Question 81. The absorptive nutrition of fungi is aided by :

  1. Dikaryon formation
  2. Spore formation
  3. The fact that they are all parasites
  4. Their large surface area-to-volume ratio.

Answer: 4. Their large surface area-to-volume ratio.

Question 82. Branched conidiophores are found in :

  1. Penicilliurn
  2. Rhizopus
  3. Ustilago
  4. Saccharomyces.

Answer: 1. Penicilliurn

Question 83. Mushroom is a :

  1. Saprophyte
  2. Photosynthesises the food material
  3. Facultative parasite
  4. Obligate parasite.

Answer: 1. Saprophyte

Question 84. Among the following which one is an example of heterothallism :

  1. Pteris
  2. Rhizopus
  3. Cycas
  4. Castor beans.

Answer: 2. Rhizopus

Question 85. In which of the following plants, columella is present in sporangium?

  1. Yeast
  2. Spirogyra
  3. Ulothrix
  4. Rhizopus.

Answer: 4. Rhizopus.

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Question 86. Powdery mildew of crops is caused by :

  1. Ascomycetes (Erysiphe)
  2. Basidiomycetes (mushroom)
  3. Phycomycetes (Albugo)
  4. Bacteria.

Answer: 1. Ascomycetes (Erysiphe)

Question 87. Which of the following is not a prokaryote?

  1. Bacteria
  2. Yeast
  3. Blue-green algae
  4. Viruses.

Answer: 2. Yeast

Question 88. Which statement about fungal nutrition is not true?

  1. Some fungi are active predators
  2. Some fungi form mutualistic associations with other organisms
  3. Fungi can make some of the compounds that are vitamins for animals
  4. Facultative parasites can grow only on their specific hosts.

Answer: 3. Fungi can make some of the compounds that are vitamins for animals

Question 89. The organism used for alcohol fermentation is :

  1. Saccharomyces
  2. Aspergillus
  3. Pseudomonas
  4. Penicillium.

Answer: 1. Aspergillus

Question 90. Which causes the disease of potatoes?

  1. Pythium debaryanum
  2. Phytophthora infestans
  3. Peronospora destructor
  4. Synchytrium endobioticum.

Answer: 2. Phytophthora infestans

Question 91. Gametangial copulation (conjugation) is common in :

  1. Ascomycetes
  2. Zygomycetes
  3. Chytridiales
  4. Deuteromycetes.

Answer: 2. Zygomycetes

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Question 92. A fungus which requires only a single host for the completion of its life cycle is called :

  1. Heteroecious
  2. Autoecious
  3. Heterothallic
  4. Heterosporous.

Answer: 2. Autoecious

Question 93. A thick strand of underground hyphae resembling a root is called as :

  1. Rhizoid
  2. Rhizophore
  3. Rhizomorph
  4. Radicle

Answer: 3. Rhizomorph

Kingdom Fungi NEET MCQ Question 94. In yeast meiosis occurs in:

  1. Ascospores
  2. Ascus mother cell
  3. Bud
  4. Pseudomycelium.

Answer: 2. Ascus mother cell

Question 95. A group of algal cells imprisoned in fungal mycelium serving for vegetative multiplication of lichen called :

  1. Isidium
  2. Soredium
  3. Cephalodium
  4. Helotism.

Answer: 2. Soredium

Question 96. Which of the following is mainly caused by the preparation of alcohol?

  1. Lactobacillus
  2. Azotobacter
  3. Penicillium
  4. Saccharomyces.

Answer: 4. Saccharomyces.

Question 97. Motile sperms are absent in :

  1. Rhizopus
  2. Funaria
  3. Fern
  4. Cycas.

Answer: 1. Rhizopus

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Question 98. The first antibiotic isolated was :

  1. Neomycin
  2. Terramycin
  3. Streptomycin
  4. Penicillin.

Answer: 4. Penicillin.

Question 99. Organisms which obtain their food from nonliving material in the environment are called :

  1. Sporophytes
  2. Epiphytes
  3. Parasites
  4. Saprophytes.

Answer: 4. Saprophytes.

Question 100. In rhizopus sexual fusion takes place between :

  1. Two gametangia
  2. Two gametes
  3. Two hyphae
  4. Two sporangia.

Answer: 1. Two gametangia

Question 101. The source of infection for wheat rust in wheat plants is :

  1. Uredospore
  2. Teleutospore
  3. Basidiospore
  4. Aeciospore.

Answer: 4. Aeciospore.

Question 102. Select the correctly matched pair :

  1. Bioindicator of pollution – lichen
  2. Litmus yielding lichen – paramecia saxatilis
  3. Claviceps purpurea — smut of barley
  4. Fungus usnea – source of streptomycin

Answer: 1. Bioindicator of pollution – lichen

Question 103. The taxonomy of true fungi is based on :

  1. Life history
  2. Mode of nutrition
  3. Sexual reproductive structures
  4. Complexity of vegetative structure.

Answer: 3. Sexual reproductive structures

Question 104. Which one of the following is achlorophyllous :

  1. Chlorobium
  2. Chlamydomonas
  3. Yeast
  4. Euglena.

Answer: 3. Yeast

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Question 105. The common black mould is :

  1. Rhizopus
  2. Aspergillus
  3. Saccharomyces
  4. Penicillium.

Answer: 1. Rhizopus

Question 106. Open ascocarp is :

  1. Apothecium
  2. Perithecium
  3. Ascoonium
  4. Cleistothecium.

Answer: 1. Apothecium

Question 107. Hypertrophy of floral parts is caused by :

  1. Cystopus or albugo
  2. Aspergillus
  3. Cephaleuros
  4. All the above.

Answer: 1. Cystopus or albugo

Question 108. Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic relationship between higher plants and :

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

Answer: 2. Fungi

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Question 109. Identify the wrongly matched pair :

  1. Smut disease of cultivated plants – ustilago
  2. Smut of wheat – Puccinia
  3. Loose smut of wheat – ustilago tritici
  4. Late blight of potatoes – phytophthora infestans.

Answer: 2. Smut of wheat – Puccinia

Question 110. Binucleate spores of Puccinia graminis released from barberry leaf and responsible for initial infection in a wheat plant are called:

  1. Pycniospores
  2. Aeciospores
  3. Uredospores
  4. Teleutospores.

Answer: 2. Aeciospores

Question 111. The sequence of structures in a conidial mycelium of penicillium spinulosum shall be :

  1. Foot cell → condiophore → phialides → conidia
  2. Conidiophore→ foot cell → sterigmata→ conidia
  3. Foot cell → phialides →conidia
  4. Conidiophore → phialides → conidia.

Answer: 4. Conidiophore →phialides→ conidia.

Question 112. The conidia of penicillium are :

  1. Thick-walled, uninucleate
  2. Thin-walled uni-or multinucleate
  3. Thick-walled multinucleate
  4. Thin or thick-walled, multinucleate.

Answer: 2. Thin-walled uni-or multinucleate

Question 113. In penicillium aspergillus the conidial chains borne at the tips of:

  1. Metulae
  2. Sterigmata
  3. Rami
  4. Conidiophores.

Answer: 2. Sterigmata

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Question 114. Which is regarded as drosophila of the plant kingdom?

  1. Neurospora
  2. Aspergillus
  3. Penicillium
  4. Yeast.

Answer: 1. Neurospora

Question 115. Mehta is famous for his work on :

  1. Blast of rice
  2. Brown leaf spot of rice
  3. Wheat rust
  4. White smut.

Answer: 3. Wheat rust

Question 116. Phytophthora infestans is characterised by :

  1. Coenocytic mycelium
  2. Exposed sporangiophores with sympodial branching
  3. Cellulosic cell wall
  4. All the above.

Answer: 4. All the above.

Question 117. Ascocarp of penicillium is :

  1. Cleistothecium
  2. Perithecium
  3. Apothecium
  4. Ascostroma.

Answer: 1. Cleistothecium

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Question 118. The term ‘lichen’ was first coined by :

  1. Linnaeus
  2. Theophrastus
  3. Fritsch
  4. John ray.

Answer: 2. Theophrastus

Question 119. Which food is used by a fungal partner made by an algal partner in a lichen?

  1. Starch
  2. Sugar
  3. Mannitol
  4. Glycogen.

Answer: 3. Mannitol

Question 120. After plasmogamy, the ascogonium of penicillium shows :

  1. Formation of autogenous hyphae
  2. Transverse septation into dikaryotic cells
  3. Crozier formation
  4. Coiling of antheridium around the ascogonium.

Answer: 2. Transverse septation into dikaryotic cells

Question 121. The two conidia of a chain in aspergillus are connected through a space called :

  1. Separating disc
  2. Connective
  3. Isthmus
  4. Disjunctor.

Answer: 2. Connective

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Question 122. Which of the following refers to the perfect stage of Aspergillus?

  1. Eurotium
  2. Emericella
  3. Both of these
  4. None of these.

Answer: 3. Both of these

Question 123. Meiosis in aspergillus occurs inside the :

  1. Crozier
  2. Ascogenous hyphae
  3. Ascus
  4. Ascus mother cell.

Answer: 4. Ascus mother cell.

Question 124. Bunt of wheat/kamal bunt is caused by :

  1. Ustilago tritici
  2. Tillctia tritici
  3. Puccinia graminis tritici
  4. Puccinia recondida.

Answer: 2. Tillctia tritici

Question 125. Hyphal outgrowth arising from the lower cortex of the thallus of foliose lichens is called:

  1. Mycelium
  2. Rhizines
  3. Haustoria
  4. Rhizoids.

Answer: 2. Rhizines

Question 126. The edible fruiting bodies which are underground arc called :

  1. Truffles
  2. Puff balls
  3. Ascocarp
  4. Basidiocarp.

Answer: 1. Truffles

NEET Biology MCQs

Question 127. Lichenin/lichen starch is present in :

  1. Cells of phycobiont
  2. Cell walls of phycobiont
  3. Cells of mycobiont
  4. Cell walls of mycobiont.

Answer: 4. Cell walls of mycobiont.

Question 128. The yeast/s showing diplobiontic life history :

  1. Saccharomyces
  2. Saccharomyces
  3. Schizosaccharomyces
  4. None.

Answer: 2. Saccharomycodes

Question 129. An anticancer drug is obtained from a giant puffball which is :

  1. Amanita
  2. Lycoperdon
  3. Claviceps
  4. Clavatia.

Answer: 4. Clavatia.

Question 130. Wilt of banana and tomato is caused by :

  1. Sclerotia
  2. Puccinia
  3. Fusarium
  4. Altemaria.

Answer: 3. Fusarium

Question 131. The source of griseofulvin an anti-ringworm drug is :

  1. Torula
  2. Penicillium griseofulvum
  3. Penicillium chrysogenum
  4. Candida.

Answer: 2. Penicillium griseofulvin

NEET Biology MCQs

Question 132. Extract of sclerotia of a fungus is used to produce l.s.d. It is :

  1. Cannabis (bhang)
  2. Amanita
  3. Claviceps
  4. Poppy.

Answer: 3. Claviceps

Question 133. In this fungus, the zygote acts as an ascus and the diploid nucleus undergoes meiosis to form four ascospores:

  1. Penicillium
  2. Yeasts
  3. Phycomycetes
  4. All fungi.

Answer: 2. Yeasts

Question 134. What is unique in the cell wall of fungi?

  1. Cellulose
  2. Diaminopimelic acid
  3. Acetyl glucosamine
  4. Muramic acid.

Answer: 3. Acetyl glucosamine

Question 135. Point out the wrong pair:

  1. Ascocarp—ascomycetes
  2. Coenocytic mycelium—lower fungi
  3. Clamp connections—oomycetes
  4. Basidiocarp—clamp connections.

Answer: 1. Ascocarp—ascomycetes

Question 136. The passing of the life cycle by a fungus only on one host is known as:

  1. Endurance
  2. Autoecious
  3. Heteroecism
  4. Epiphytism.

Answer: 2. Autoecious

Question 137. A parasite which can act as a saprophyte as well is known as:

  1. Obligate saprophyte
  2. Facultative saprophyte
  3. Obligate parasite
  4. Facultative parasite.

Answer: 2. Facultative saprophyte

Question 138. The term heterogeneous means :

  1. Presence of heterokaryon
  2. Presence of heterothallism
  3. Passing of life cycle on two hosts
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 3. Passing of life cycle on two hosts

NEET Biology MCQs

Question 139. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched

  1. Angular leaf spot—
  2. Wilt of cotton—
  3. Leaf spot of cotton—
  4. Red rot of sugarcane—

Answer: 3. Leaf spot of cotton—

Question 140. Match the terms in column 1 with those in column 2.

Kingdom Fungi Question 140 Match The coloumns

  1. 1-E,2-A,3-B,4-C,5-D
  2. 1-E,2-A,3-C,4-B,5-D
  3. 1-E,2-A,3-B,4-D,5-C
  4. 1-E,2-A,3-C,4-F,5-D

Answer: 1. 1-E,2-A,3-B,4-C,5-D

Question 141. Match list 1 wish list 2 and select the correct

Kingdom Fungi Question 141 Match The coloumns

  1. A-4,B-2,3-3,4-1
  2. A-3,B-2,3-4,4-1
  3. A-4,B-3,3-2,4-1
  4. A-3,B-2,3-1,4-d

Answer: 3. A-4,B-3,3-2,4-1

Question 142. The phenomenon in which plasmogamy, karyogamy and haploidisation do not follow a sequence in terms of time and space is called :

  1. Heterozygosity
  2. Parasexuality
  3. Homozygosity
  4. Heterothallism.

Answer: 2. Parasexuality

Question 143. Phytoalexins are:

  1. Certain chemicals produced by pathogens to kill the host
  2. Certain phenolic substances are produced by the host to kill the pathogens
  3. Certain chemicals essential for better growth of plants
  4. Certain inorganic substances help the pathogens to invade the host cells.

Answer: 2. Certain phenolic substances produced by the host to kill the pathogens

Question 144. In yeast, during budding, which process occurs?

  1. Doubling of chromosomes
  2. Spindle formation
  3. Unequal division of cytoplasm
  4. Synopsis.

Answer: 3. Unequal division of cytoplasm

Question 145. Which one of the following is not the mode of reproduction in yeast?

  1. Budding
  2. Fission
  3. Plasmogamy
  4. Oogamy.

Answer: 4. Oogamy.

Kingdom Fungi MCQs For NEET

Question 146. The umbrella-shaped structure of the basidiocarp of Agaricus is known as :

  1. Gill
  2. Stipe
  3. Pileus
  4. Hymenium.

Answer: 3. Pileus

Question 147. Dolipore septa are found in :

  1. Deuteromycetes
  2. Basidiomycetes
  3. Zygomycetes
  4. Phycomycetes.

Answer: 2. Basidiomycetes

Question 148. Hymenium in Agaricus represents the :

  1. The rhizomorphs
  2. Fertile layer of basidia
  3. The presence of dolipore septal complex
  4. The haplomycelium.

Answer: 2. Fertile layer of basidia

Question 149. Fairy rings are formed by :

  1. Agaricus
  2. Wood fungi
  3. Moulds
  4. Penicillium.

Answer: 1. Agaricus

Question 150. Massive fortifications produced in Agaricus are known as :

  1. Basidiocarp
  2. Pyrenocarp
  3. Ascocarp
  4. Cystocarp.

Answer: 1. Basidiocarp

Question 151. The part of the mushroom visible above the ground is :

  1. Ascus
  2. Basidium
  3. Ascocarp
  4. Basidiocarp.

Answer: 4. Basidiocarp.

Kingdom Fungi MCQs For NEET

Question 152. gills are seen in :

  1. Bacteria
  2. Oscillatoria
  3. Ulothrix
  4. Agaricus.

Answer: 4. Agaricus.

Question 153. Which of the following is an edible fungus?

  1. Mucor
  2. Verticillium
  3. Agaricus
  4. Fusarium.

Answer: 3. Agaricus

Question 154. Substances which are formed by host tissue in response to injury, physiological stimuli, infectious agents or their products which inhibit the growth of micro-organisms are called :

  1. Inhibitions
  2. Phytotoxins
  3. Phytoalexins
  4. Prohibitions.

Answer: 3. Phytoalexins

Question 155. Consider the following processes heterokaryon formation diploidisation of nucleus  restoration of diploid nuclei to their haploid state (apodization) parasexual cycle in fungi involves :

  1. 1 and 2
  2. 1 and 3
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 1,2 and 3.

Answer: 4. 1,2 and 3.

Question 156. Which one of the following substances plays an important role in the biochemical defence of host plants?

  1. Mycotoxin
  2. Phytoalexin
  3. Vivotoxin
  4. Pathotoxin.

Answer: 2. Phytoalexin

Question 157. The well-known famine in Ireland in the 40s has been attributed mainly to the failure of the potato crop which was infected by :

  1. Alternaria solani
  2. Phytophthora infestans
  3. Phytophthora parasitic
  4. Pythium aphanidematum.

Answer: 2. Phytophthora infestans

Question 158. Large strain cells are found in the yeast :

  1. Saccharomyces
  2. Saccharomyces
  3. Both
  4. None.

Answer: 1. Saccharomyces

Question 159. The structure first to enter a bud in yeast :

  1. Mitochondrion
  2. Nucleus
  3. Endoplasmic reticulum
  4. Vacuole.

Answer: Nucleus

Question 160. Yeast is used for the production of :

  1. Ethyl alcohol
  2. Acetic acid
  3. Cheese
  4. Curd.

Answer: 1. Ethyl alcohol

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