Identify the incorrect statement regarding Euglena:
1. Euglena's chloroplasts are surrounded by three membranes and contain pyrenoids
2. Euglena has two flagella rooted in basal bodies, one flagellum is very short, and does not protrude from the cell, while the other is relatively long
3. A photosensitive red spot is present towards the anterior end
4. When feeding as a heterotroph, Euglena takes in nutrients by osmotrophy

Subtopic:  Kingdom Protista: Euglenoids |

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The structure shown in the given diagram is related to:

1. Slime moulds
2. Sporozoans
3. Cyanobacteria
4. Mycoplasma

Subtopic:  Protozoa |

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The given diagram shows the life cycle of:

  

1. Puccinia graminis tritici with A part representing the stages in wheat plant and B part representing the stages in Barberry plant
2. Puccinia graminis tritici with A part representing the stages in Barberry plant and B part representing the stages in wheat plant
3. Ustilago tritici with A part representing the stages in wheat plant and B part representing the stages in Barberry plant
4. Ustilago tritici with A part representing the stages in Barberry plant and B part representing the stages in wheat plant

Subtopic:  Kingdom Fungi: Basidomycetes |

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Identify the pair where the fungal pathogen is not correctly matched with the disease it causes in the concerned plant:

1.

Cystopus candidus

White rust of crucifers

2.

Uncinula necator

Powdery mildew of grape-vine

3.

Erysiphe graminis

Powdery mildew of cereals

4.

Phytophthora infestans

Early blight of potato

Subtopic:  Kingdom Fungi: Introduction |

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All the following are bacterial diseases of plants except:
1. Citrus canker
2. Black rot of cabbage
3. Red rot of sugarcane
4. Wildfire of tobacco

Subtopic:  Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Reproduction |

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Most lichen fungi belong to:
1. Phycomycetes
2. Ascomycetes
3. Basidiomycetes
4. Deuteromycetes

Subtopic:  Kingdom Fungi: Ascomycetes | Lichens |

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Soredia, Isidia and Cephalodia are peculiar features of:
1. Asexual reproduction in lichens
2. Sexual reproduction in lichens
3. Vegetative reproduction in lichens
4. Asexual reproduction in dinoflagellates

Subtopic:  Lichens |

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Causing the Great Oxygenation Event and the "rusting of the Earth", which of the dramatically changed the composition of the Earth's life forms and led to the near-extinction of anaerobic organisms?
1. Cynobacteria
2. Diatoms
3. Dinoflagellates
4. Green algae

Subtopic:  Kingdom Monera: Blue Green Algae |

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The human use for lichens include:

I. as a food source
II. in lichenometery
III. as dyes

1. Only I and II
2. Only I and III
3. Only II and III
4. I, II and III

Subtopic:  Lichens |
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If you are told that the given diagram shows a single ‘super cell’ that can ‘move’, you would conclude that this must be:

1. A plasmodial slime mould
2. A pathogenic fungus
3. A coenobium of an alga
4. A bioluminescent dinoflagellate

Subtopic:  Kingdom Protista: Slime Moulds |
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