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Biological Classification

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Ques. 1AIPMT 2002

Which fungal disease spreads by seed and flowers?

  1. Loose smut of wheat
  2. Corn smut
  3. Covered smut of barley
  4. Soft rot of potato

Answer

(1) Loose smut of wheat

Solution

Loose smut of wheat is caused by Ustilago tritici (a basidiomycete smut fungus).

Its spores are carried by wind to the open flowers of healthy wheat plants, where they germinate and infect the developing ovary (flower infection).

The mycelium then remains dormant inside the embryo of the seed, so the disease is carried to the next crop through seed (internally seed-borne).

By contrast, covered smut of barley is externally seed-borne (seedling infection), corn smut infects any young tissue locally, and soft rot of potato is a bacterial disease.

∴ Loose smut of wheat spreads by seed and flowers.

Answer: (1)

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Ques. 2AIPMT 2002

Which of the following secretes toxins during storage conditions of crop plants?

  1. Aspergillus
  2. Penicillium
  3. Fusarium
  4. Colletotrichum
Ques. 3AIPMT 2002

In which of the following animals dimorphic nucleus is found?

  1. Amoeba proteus
  2. Trypanosoma gambiense
  3. Plasmodium vivax
  4. Paramecium caudatum
Ques. 4AIPMT 2002

In protozoa like Amoeba and Paramecium, the organ for osmoregulation is

  1. contractile vacuole
  2. mitochondria
  3. nucleus
  4. food vacuole.
Ques. 5AIPMT 2002

Organisms which obtain energy by the oxidation of reduced inorganic compounds are called

  1. photoautotrophs
  2. chemoautotrophs
  3. saprozoic
  4. coproheterotrophs
Ques. 6AIPMT 2001

Cauliflower mosaic virus contains

  1. ss RNA
  2. ds RNA
  3. ds DNA
  4. ss DNA
Ques. 7AIPMT 2001

What is true for cyanobacteria?

  1. Oxygenic with nitrogenase
  2. Oxygenic without nitrogenase
  3. Non-oxygenic with nitrogenase
  4. Non-oxygenic without nitrogenase
Ques. 8AIPMT 2001

What is true for archaebacteria?

  1. All halophiles
  2. All photosynthetics
  3. All fossils
  4. Oldest living beings
Ques. 9AIPMT 2001

Adhesive pad of fungi penetrates the host with the help of

  1. mechanical pressure and enzymes
  2. hooks and suckers
  3. softening by enzymes
  4. only by mechanical pressure
Ques. 10AIPMT 2001

What is true for photolithotrophs?

  1. Obtain energy from radiations and hydrogen from organic compounds
  2. Obtain energy from radiations and hydrogen from inorganic compounds
  3. Obtain energy from organic compounds
  4. Obtain energy from inorganic compounds
Ques. 11AIPMT 2000

Black rust of wheat is caused by

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

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