Past Paper Questions

Question 1

Bacterial membrane lipid bonds

Answer 1

Ester

Question 2

Bacteria resistance to chloramphenicol

Answer 2

Acetylation

Question 3

Multiple flagella at each end of a bacterium

Answer 3

Amphitrichous

Question 4

Reverse transcription produces

Answer 4

Complementary DNA

cDNA

Question 5

Lowest infectious dose for human

Answer 5

Francisella tulatensis

Question 6

To stain an Endospore you use

Answer 6

Malachite green

Question 7

ATP is synthesised during fermentation by

Answer 7

Oxidative phosphorylation

Question 8

Alpha toxin from clostridium perfringens is a

Answer 8

Cytolytic toxin

Question 9

The protein not present in coccoid bacterial cells

Answer 9

MreB

Question 10

Group 1 virus in the Baltimore system

Answer 10

DsDNA

Question 11

Aminoglycoside phosphotransferase encode resistance to

Answer 11

Kanamycin

Question 12

Dipicolinic acid chelates

Answer 12

Calcium

Question 13

Parasporal insecticide is produced by

Answer 13

Bacillus thuringiensis

Question 14

Organic compounds as a carbon and energy source are used by

Answer 14

Chemoheterotrophs

Question 15

The formation of a heterokaryon is

Answer 15

The cell firms containing nuclei with different genotypes

Question 16

Natural bioluminescence of fungi is based on

Answer 16

Luciferase production

Question 17

Haustoria

Answer 17

Portion of a parasitic fungus that penetrated host tissue to draw nutrients from it

Question 18

Basidiospore discharge uses

Answer 18

Sterigmata, hilar appendage, buller’s drop and vertical Gill plates

Question 19

Fungi that form an intimate parasitic association with their hosts without killing them are

Answer 19

Biotrophs

Question 20

Linnaean classification is based on

Answer 20

Morphology

Question 21

Giardia, trachomonas, Entamoebe and microsporidia were once called

Answer 21

Archezoa

Question 22

Cercozoa are

Answer 22

Unikonts

Question 23

Excavates are grouped due to

Answer 23

Sharing a well defined set of morphological features

Question 24

Archaeal membrane lipid bonds

Answer 24

Ether

Question 25

Chromoalveolates are united via

Answer 25

Secondary endosymbiosis

Question 26

Unikonts

Answer 26

Animals, fungi and amoebozoa

Question 27

Bikonts

Answer 27

Chromalveolate Rhizaria Excavates Plants

Question 28

Crystal violet stains

Answer 28

Gram positive

Question 29

Component of Archaeal phospholipid

Answer 29

Phytanyl

Question 30

DNA taken up by a competent cell that packs that DNA is called

Answer 30

Transformation

Question 31

Two cells joined by a pilus and transferring a plasmid is

Answer 31

Conjugation

Question 32

Fungi that lack a sexual stage

Answer 32

Mitosporic fungi

Question 33

Dikaryotic fungi

Answer 33

2 different and district nuclei

Question 34

Monokaryotic fungi

Answer 34

Single nucleus

Question 35

Aconidial fungi

Answer 35

No asexual spores

Question 36

Giardia, trichomonas, entamoeba and microsporidia were once

Answer 36

Archezoa

Question 37

Unikonts

Answer 37

Animals, fungi, amoebozoa

Question 38

Bikonts

Answer 38

Plants, excavates, rhizaria and chromalveolates

Question 39

Drug target in plasmodium

Answer 39

Apicoplast

Question 40

Serial endosymbiosis theory relies on

Answer 40

Cyanobacterial origin of mitochondria

Question 41

Convergent evolution

Answer 41

Is independent evolution of the same featur from differenct ancestral condition

Question 42

Primal amoebic meningoencephalitis is caused by

Answer 42

Naegleria fowleri

Question 43

Hydrogenosomes are an unusual version of

Answer 43

Mitochondria

Question 44

Monomer of chitin

Answer 44

N-acetyl glucosamine

Question 45

Auto tropism

Answer 45

Plant organs tendency to grow straight

Question 46

Chemotropism

Answer 46

Plants growing to chemical stimuli

Question 47

Galvanotropism

Answer 47

Plants growing to electrical stimuli

Question 48

Thigmotropism

Answer 48

Plants growing to touch

Question 49

Heterotrophy

Answer 49

Deriving nutrient requirement from complex organic substance

Question 50

Edible field mushroom agaricus campestris is

Answer 50

A basidiomycota

Question 51

Philades give rise to

Answer 51

Conidiophores

Question 52

Fungal cell walls do not include

Answer 52

Alpha glucans as they are part of the matrix