MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Identify from the following, the only taxonomic category that has a real existence.
A. Phylum
B. Species
C. Genus
D. Kingdom

Answer: Option B

2. In five kingdom system, the main basis of classification is

A. Structure of cell wall
B. Nutrition
C. Structure of nucleus
D. Asexual reproduction

Answer: Option B

3. In which kingdom would you classify the archaea and nitrogen-fixing organism, if the five-
kingdom system of classification is used
A. Protista
B. Fungi
C. Plantae
D. Monera

Answer: Option D

4. The Phylogenetic system of classification was put forth by

A. Theophrastus
B. George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker
C. Carolus Linnaeus
D. Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl

Answer: Option D
 5. Which series ends with the cohort umbellales in Bentham and Hooker's system of classification?
A. Heteromerae
B. Disciflorae
C. Thalamiflorae
D. Calyciflorae

Answer: Option D

6. Which one of the taxonomic aids can give comprehensive account of complete compiled
information of any one genus or family at a particular time?
A. Taxonomic key
B. Flora
C. Herbarium
D. Monograph

Answer: Option D

7. A perennial shrub has compound leaves and solitary zygomorphic and epigynous flowers. Each
flower reveals dichlamydeous condition with many stamens and multiple fruit with
exalbuminous seeds. What is the ratio of advanced and primitive charactrs in it?
A. 1: 2
B. 2: 3
C. 1: 1
D. 3: 2

Answer: Option C

8. Classification of organisms based on evolutionary as well as genetic relationships is called

A. Numerical taxonomy
B. Phenetics
C. Biosystematics
D. Cladistics

Answer: Option D
 9. Phenetic classification of organisms is based on
A. Sexual characteristics
B. Dendrogram based on DNA characteristics
C. The ancestral lineage of existing organisms
D. Observable characteristics of existing organisms

Answer: Option D

10. In angiosperm, characters of flowers are used in classification because

A. Flowers are attractive
B. Flowers are large
C. Characters of flowers are conservative
D. None of the above

Answer: Option C

11. Biosystematics aims at

A. Identification and arrangement of organisms based on cytological characteristics
B. The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
C. Delimiting various taxa of organism and establishing their relationships
D. The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their
phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies

Answer: Option D

12. Practical purpose of taxonomy or classification

A. To know the evolutionary history
B. Explain the origin of organisms
C. Facilitate the identification of unknown species
D. Identification of medicinal plants

Answer: Option C
 13. Two plants can be conclusively said to belong to the same species if they
A. Have more than 90 percent similar genes
B. Can reproduce freely with each other and form seeds
C. Have same number of chromosomes
D. Look similar and possess identical secondary metabolites

Answer: Option B

14. One of the most important functions of botanical gardens is that

A. One can observe tropical plants there
B. They provide the natural habitat for wild life
C. They allow ex-situ conservation of germplasm
D. They provide a beautiful area for recreation

Answer: Option C

15. Which of the following is a merit in the Bentham and Hooker's system of classification?

A. The placement of family - Asteraceae in the beginning of Gamopetalae

B. The placement of order - Ranals in the beginning
C. Closely related families are placed apart
D. The position of gymnosperms in between dicots and monocots

Answer: Option B

16. The term species was coined by______.

A. Aristotle

B. Linnaeus

C. John Ray

D. Engler

Answer: Option C

17. "New Systematics" introduced by Sir Julian Huxley in 1940 is also known as

A. Biosystematics
 B. Cladistics
C. Phenetics
D. Numerical Taxonomy

Answer: Option B

18. Which one of the following is wrongly matched?

A. Puccinia – Smut
B. Root pressure – Guttation
C. Cassia – Imbricate aestivation
D. Root – Exarch protoxylem

Answer: Option A

19. Nuclear membrane is absent in

A. Penicillium
B. Nostoc
C. Volvox
D. Agaricus

Answer: Option B

20. In the five-kingdom classification, Chlamydomonas and Chlorella have been included in

A. Plantae
B. Algae
C. Protista
D. Monera

Answer: Option C

21. Single-celled eukaryotes are included in

A. Fungi
B. Protista
 C. Monera
D. Archaea

Answer: Option B

22. Maximum nutritional diversity is found in the group

A. Fungi
B. Plantae
C. Monera
D. Animalia

Answer: Option C

23. Which one of the following is common to multicellular fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of
mosses?

A. Diplontic life cycle

B. Multiplication by fragmentation
C. Mode of Nutrition
D. Members of kingdom Plantae

Answer: Option B

24. Which statement is wrong for viruses?

A. All are parasites.

B. Antibiotics have no effect on them.
C. They have ability to synthesize nucleic acids and proteins.
D. All of them have helical symmetry.

Answer: Option D

25. Which one single organism or the pair of organisms is correctly assigned to its or their named
taxonomic group.

A. Paramecium and Plasmodium belong to the same kingdom as that of Penicillium.

 B. Nostoc and Anabaena are examples of protista
C. Yeast used in making bread and beer is a fungus
D. Lichen is a composite organism formed from the symbiotic association of an algae and a
protozoan.

Answer: Option C

26. Which one of the following animals is correctly matched with its particular named taxonomic
category?

A. Cuttlefish - Mollusca, a class

B. Tiger - Tigris, the species
C. Housefly - Musca, an order
D. Humans - primates, the family

Answer: Option B

27. Arrange the following in the ascending order of Linnaean hierarchy

A. Kingdom – Phylum – Class – Order – Family – Genus – Species

B. Kingdom – Family – Genus – Species – Class – Phylum – Order
C. Kingdom – Order – Species – Genus – Class – Family – Phylum
D. Species – Genus – Family – Order – Class – Phylum – Kingdom

Answer: Option D

28. Which one of the following sets of items in the options (1) - (4) are correctly categorized with one
exception in it?

Options Items Category Exception

(1) UAA, UAG, UGA Stop codons UAG

(2) Kangaroo, Koala, Wombat Australian marsupials Wombat

(3) Plasmodium, Cuscuta, Trypanosoma Protozoan parasites Cuscuta

(4) Typhoid, Pneumonia, Diphtheria Bacterial diseases Diphtheria

A. Option (1)
B. Option (2)
 C. Option (3)
D. Option (4)

Answer: Option C

29. Which of the following combination of characters is true for slime molds?

A. Parasitic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed by water

B. Saprophytic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed by water
C. Parasitic, plasmodium with true walls, spores dispersed by air currents
D. Saprophytic, plasmodium without walls, spores dispersed by air currents

Answer: Option D

30. Taxonomic hierarchy refers to

A. A list of botanists or zoologists who have worked on taxonomy of a species or group

B. A group of senior taxonomists who decide the nomenclature of plants and animals
C. Step-wise arrangement of all categories for classification of plants and animals
D. Classification of a species based on fossil record

Answer: Option C

31. Photosynthesis generally takes place in which parts of the plant?

A. Leaf and other chloroplast bearing parts

B. stem and leaf

C. Roots and chloroplast bearing parts

D. Bark and leaf

Answer: Option A

32. Plants synthesis protein from

A. starch
B. sugar

C. amino acids

D. fatty acids

Answer: Option C

33. Plants absorb dissolved nitrates from soil and convert them into

A. free nitrogen

B. urea

C. ammonia

D. proteins

Answer: Option A

34. Plants absorb most part of water needed by them through their

A. embryonic zone

B. growing point

C. root hairs

D. zone of elongation

Answer: Option C

35. Photo-oxidation is

A. photorespiration

B. photolysis

C. light and oxygen induced breakdown

D. All of the above

Answer: Option D
36. Process of cell division can take place by

A. heterosis

B. fusion

C. mitosis

D. None of these

Answer: Option C

37. Most highly intelligent mammals are

A. whales

B. dolphins

C. elephants

D. kangaroos

Answer: Option B

38. Plant development is influenced by

A. quality of light only

B. quality and quantity of light

C. quality and duration of light

D. quality, quantity and duration of light

Answer: Option D

39. Prokaryotic cells lack

A. nucleolus

B. nuclear membrane

C. membrane bound by organelles

D. All of these

Answer: Option D
40. Photosynthesis takes place faster in

A. yellow light

B. white light

C. red light

D. darkness

Answer: Option B

41. Nucleus, the genetic material containing rounded body in each cell, was first discovered in 1831 by

A. Robert Hooke

B. Robert Brown

C. Rudolf Virchow

D. Theodore Schwann

Answer: Option B

42. Other than spreading malaria, anopheles mosquitoes are also vectors of

A. dengue fever

B. filariasis

C. encephalitis

D. yellow fever

Answer: Option B

43. Plants that grow in saline water are called

A. halophytes

B. hydrophytes

C. mesophytes

D. thallophytes

Answer: Option A
44. Pyorrhoea is a disease of the

A. nose

B. gums

C. heart

D. lungs

Answer: Option B

45. O2 released in the process of photosynthesis comes from

A. CO2

B. water

C. sugar

D. pyruvic acid

Answer: Option B

46. Plants hormone that induces cell division is

A. auxins

B. gibberellins

C. kinins

D. domins

Answer: Option C

47. Neurospora is used as genetic material because

A. it has short life cycle of 10 days

B. the product of single meiosis can be easily analysed

C. meiotic products are linearly arranged in the form of ordered tetrads

D. is a diploid fungus

Answer: Option A
48. Phloem is a tissue found in

A. reproductive organs of animals

B. plants

C. insects

D. mammals

Answer: Option B

49. N2 content is kept constant in the biosphere due to

A. N2 fixation

B. industrial pollution

C. nitrogen cycle

D. absorption of N2

Answer: Option C

50. Out of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates present in a cell membrane, what is true?

A. Lipids are maximum

B. Carbohydrates are minimum

C. Carbohydrates are maximum

D. All three are in equal proportion

Answer: Option B

51. Potato is a modified form (outgrowth) of

A. root

B. stem

C. fruit

D. leaf

Answer: Option B
52. Prothrombin, which helps in clotting of blood, is released by

A. lymphocytes

B. erythrocytes

C. monocytes

D. blood platelets

Answer: Option D

53. Plants developing in dry conditions are

A. xerophytes

B. mesophytes

C. lithophytes

D. hydrophytes

Answer: Option A

54. Plants growing on sand are called as

A. chasmophytes

B. oxylophytes

C. lithophytes

D. psammophytes

Answer: Option D

55. Plants wilt due to excess of

A. transpiration

B. photosynthesis

C. absorption

D. None of these

Answer: Option A
56. Monotremes are unique mammals because they

A. posses hair

B. give birth to live young

C. secret milk in a pouch

D. lay eggs

Answer: Option D

57. Plant bends towards the source of light because of the movement of curvature known as

A. geotropism

B. thigmotropism

C. chemotropism

D. phototropism

Answer: Option D

58. Plant have ____ while animals lack it.

A. starch

B. cellulose

C. protein

D. fat

Answer: Option B

59. Photosynthesis is a process

A. reductive and exergonic

B. reductive and catabolic

C. reductive, endergonic and catabolic

D. reductive, endergonic and anabolic

Answer: Option D
60. Pigmentation of skin is due to

A. lymphocytes

B. monocytes

C. leucocytes

D. melanocytes

Answer: Option D

61. Comparable to angiosperms, which of the following algae exhibits diplontic life cycle?

A. Spirogyra
B. Ectocarpus
C. Polysiphonia
D. Fucus

Answer: Option D

62. Isogamous condition with non-flagellated gametes is found in [NEET 2013]

A. Chlamydomonas
B. Spirogyra
C. Volvox
D. Fucus

Answer: Option B

63. Besides paddy fields, cyanobacteria are also found inside vegetative part of [NEET 2013]

A. Pinus
B. Cycas
C. Equisetum
D. Psilotum

Answer: Option B
64. Megasporangium is equivalent to [NEET 2013]

A. Embryo sac
B. Fruit
C. Nucellus
D. Ovule

Answer: Option D

65. Two adjacent filaments of Spirogyra affinis each 10 cells participating in reproduction. How many
new Spirogyra plants are produced during sexual reproduction?

A. 5
B. 10
C. 20
D. 40

Answer: Option B

66. Which one pair of examples will correctly represent the grouping Spermatophyta according to one of
the schemes of classifying plants:

A. Acacia, Sugarcane
B. Pinus, Cycas
C. Rhizopus, Triticum
D. Ginkgo, Pisum

Answer: Option D

67. Haploid brown, hairlike, delicate unicellular outgrowths are:

A. Root hairs of Gymnosperms

B. Paraphyses of mosses
C. Root modules of Pulses
D. Rhizoids of fern plants
Answer: Option D

68. Which one of the following in Spirogyra is different based on its nucleus?

A. Zygospore
B. Azygospore
C. Aplanospore
D. Akinete

Answer: Option A

69. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched while the remaining three are correct?

A. Bryophyllum – Leaf buds

B. Agave – Bulbils
C. Penicillium – Conidia
D. Water hyacinth – Runner

Answer: Option D

70. Nostoc fixes dinitrogen in symbiotic association with the following :

I. Alnus

II. Gunnera

III. Anthoceros

IV. Casuarina

The correct combination is :

A. I and II
B. II and III
C. I and III
D. I and IV

Answer: Option B
71. Which of the following taxa shows zooidogamous oogamy?

(I) Spirogyra
(II) Funaria
(III) Pteris
(IV) Cycas
The correct answer is :

I, II, III

I, III, IV

I, II, IV

II, III, IV

Answer: Option D

72. Choose the correct statement :

A. Apophysis is the basal fertile part of the capsule in Funaria

B. Apophysis is the apical sterile part of the microsporophyll in Cycas
C. Apospory is the development of sporophyte from vegetative' cells of the gametophyte
D. Apogamy is the development of gametophyte from the vegetative cells of the sporophyte

Answer: Option B

73. Match items in Column I with those in Column II

Column I Column II

(A) Peritrichous flagellation (J) Ginkgo

(B) Living fossil (K) Macrocystes

(C) Rhizophore (L) Escherichia coli

(D) Smallest flowering plant(M) Selaginella

(E) Largest Perennial alga (N) Wolffia Select the correct answer with the following
A – L, B – J, C – M, D – N, E – K

A – K, B – J, C – L, D – M, E – N

A – J, B – K, C – N, D – L, E – K

A – N, B – L, C – K, D – N, E – J

Answer: Option A

74. Select the wrong statement: [NEET 2013]

A. Isogametes are similar in structure, function and behaviour

B. Anisogametes differ either in structure, function or behaviour
C. In oomycetes female gamete is smaller and motile, while male gamete is larger and nonmotile
D. Chlamydomonas exhibits both isogamy and anisogamy and fucus shows oogamy

Answer: Option C

75. Read the following statements (A-E) and answer the question which follows them [NEET 2013]

(A) In liverworts, mosses, and ferns gametophytes are free-living

(B) Gymnosperms and some ferns are heterosporous

(C) Sexual reproduction in Fucus, Volvox and Albugo is oogamous

(D) The sporophyte in liverworts is more elaborate than that in mosses

(E) Both, Pinus and Marchantia are dioecious

How many of the above statements are correct?

A. One
B. Two
 C. Three
D. Four

Answer: Option C