51. Laminaria is a:
Answer: C. brown alga
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52. Alginates obtained from brown algae are used as:
Answer: B. thickeners and stabilizers in food and pharmaceuticals
53. Red algae are mainly found in:
Answer: C. warm seawater
54. Red algae are attached to rocks by a:
Answer: B. holdfast
55. Agar, used in microbiology labs, is obtained from:
Answer: C. red algae
56. Green algae are believed to be closely related to plants because they have:
Answer: B. cellulose cell walls and chlorophyll a and b
57. Which is a green alga?
Answer: C. Spirogyra
58. Chlorella is used as a:
Answer: C. nutritious food source and in photosynthesis research
59. Which of these is a colonial green alga?
Answer: B. Volvox
60. Ulva is commonly called:
Answer: A. sea lettuce
61. The vegetative body of a plasmodial slime mold is the:
Answer: C. plasmodium, a diploid multinucleate cytoplasmic mass
62. Slime molds belong to the phylum:
Answer: C. Myxomycota
63. In slime molds spores are produced inside:
Answer: C. sporangia by meiosis
64. Physarum is a:
Answer: B. plasmodial slime mold
65. Oomycota include:
Answer: B. water molds, white rusts and downy mildews
66. The cell wall of Oomycota is made of:
Answer: B. cellulose
67. The hyphae of Oomycota are:
Answer: B. aseptate and coenocytic
68. Swimming spores of oomycetes are called:
Answer: C. zoospores
69. Zoospores are produced:
Answer: B. asexually in sporangia, and have a single whip-like flagellum
70. The female gametangium in Oomycota is the:
Answer: B. oogonium
71. The male gametangium in Oomycota is the:
Answer: A. antheridium
72. The thick-walled sexual spore that gives the phylum its name is the:
Answer: C. oospore
73. Phytophthora infestans caused the:
Answer: B. Irish Potato Famine
74. Haustoria of Phytophthora:
Answer: B. penetrate host leaves to obtain nourishment
75. Entamoeba histolytica causes:
Answer: C. amoebic dysentery
76. Acanthamoeba can cause:
Answer: B. keratitis of the eye, related to contact lens hygiene
77. Leishmaniasis in Pakistan is caused by Leishmania, transmitted by:
Answer: C. sandfly bites
78. The study of fungi is called:
Answer: B. mycology
79. Fungi are:
Answer: B. heterotrophic and absorb nutrients by external digestion
80. Fungal cell walls contain:
Answer: C. chitin
81. The body of a fungus is called a:
Answer: B. mycelium made of hyphae
82. Hyphae without cross walls are:
Answer: B. non-septate (coenocytic)
83. Which fungus has coenocytic hyphae?
Answer: B. Rhizopus
84. Which fungus has septate hyphae?
Answer: B. Penicillium
85. Fungi store carbohydrates as:
Answer: B. glycogen
86. Fungi are non-motile and lack:
Answer: C. flagella at any stage of the life cycle
87. Fungi were originally classified in kingdom:
Answer: C. Plantae
88. Which feature fungi share with plants?
Answer: C. Cell wall and spores
89. Fungi differ from plants in being:
Answer: B. saprotrophic or heterotrophic with chitin wall and no chlorophyll
90. The largest living organism on earth is a fungus named:
Answer: C. Armillaria ostoyae
91. The fungal groups are classified mainly on the basis of:
Answer: C. methods of reproduction and types of sexual structures
92. Which group is known as conjugating fungi?
Answer: C. Zygomycota
93. Black bread mold is:
Answer: B. Rhizopus nigricans
94. Zygomycota hyphae are:
Answer: B. non-septate
95. Sexual reproduction in Rhizopus takes place by conjugation between:
Answer: B. plus and minus mating strains
96. The thick-walled resistant sexual structure of Rhizopus is the:
Answer: D. zygospore
97. Fusion of gametangia in Rhizopus forms a:
Answer: B. diploid zygote developing into a zygospore
98. Asexual reproduction in Rhizopus is by:
Answer: C. spores formed in sporangia
99. Sac fungi belong to:
Answer: B. Ascomycota
100. Sac fungi are named after their reproductive structure the:
Answer: B. ascus
About Biology Class 11 Unit 7 MCQs (Federal Board)
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