🦠 Microbiology Solved MCQs with Answers

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1927 solved MCQs

The bread mold Rhizopus stolonifer belongs to which of the following fungal divisions?Answer: Zygomycota Saprophytic fungiAnswer: secure their food from dead organic materials The fruiting body of a mushroom is calledAnswer: basidiocarps The amount of phagocytosis done by the PlasmodiumAnswer: is greater than by the water mold mycelium Water molds belong to which division?Answer: Oomycota __________ produce basidiospores.Answer: Club fungi Which of these spores are characteristic of the black bread mold Rhizopus?Answer: Sporangiospore and Zygospore Which of the following is correct?Answer: All members of Sac fungus are members of chemolithotrophic autotroph, and all members of chemolithotrophic autotroph are members of Sac fungus. Which of the following does not represent a human disease caused by fungi?Answer: Malaria Fungi that lack partitions (septa) are calledAnswer: coenocytic Select the statement that does not apply to the kingdom FungiAnswer: The fungi are eukaryotic, multicellular, ingestive heterotrophs The amount of peptidoglycan in the cell walls of a mushroomAnswer: is lesser than the amount of chitin in the cell walls of a mushroom Fungi are important to food webs becauseAnswer: they serve as key decomposers of dead organic matter __________ exhibit yeast-like growth at human body temperatures and mold-like growth at room temperature.Answer: Dimorphic fungi __________ produce motile sexual and asexual spores.Answer: Water molds FungiAnswer: secrete extracellular enzymes to breakdown nutrients The fungus responsible for ergotism belongs to which of the following fungal divisions?Answer: Ascomycota Fungi in the division Deuteromycota are characterized by the fact thatAnswer: a method of sexual reproduction has not been identified Why are slime molds considered to resemble plants?Answer: They have cell walls composed largely of cellulose The most significant reason why fungi are not in the kingdom Plantae is that fungiAnswer: are chemoorganotrophic heterotrophs __________ produce ascospores in an ascus.Answer: Sac fungi Ecologically fungi are important becauseAnswer: Both (a) and (b) The basidiomycetes include plant parasites that can causeAnswer: rust and smut diseases A mutualistic association made up of a fungus and a cyanobacterium is calledAnswer: lichen The thallus of a mold consists ofAnswer: both (a) and (b) __________ produce zygospores.Answer: Black bread molds Which of the following is/are the sexual spore?Answer: Both (a) and (b) Mushrooms are classified in which of the following division?Answer: Basidiomycota Name the asexual spore(s)?Answer: All of these Water molds form flagellated spores are calledAnswer: zoospores