Multiple Choice Questions

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Most primitive member, in which roots are not present, is

  • Psilotum

  • Rhynia

  • Lycopodium

  • Selaginella


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Rhynia

Psilophytes are the oldest of seedless vascular plants. They are characterised by the absence of roots and presence of rhizoids, egRhynia- primitive member of Pteridophytes.

Lycopodium and Selaginella are developed pteridophytes in which plant body is differentiated into roots, stems and leaves.


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Which part of an animal virus is not reproduced in multiple copies?

  • Capsid

  • Protein

  • Envelope

  • Ribosome


The process which cannot take place in the absence of viruses is

  • transformation

  • conjugation

  • translocation

  • transduction


Edible part of mushroom is

  • basidiocarp

  • secondary mycelium

  • primary mycelium

  • tertiary mycelium


Nucleic acid is absent in

  • Virus

  • Viroid

  • Prion

  • Mycoplasma


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In Whittaker's system of classification, prokaryotes belong to the kingdom

  • Monera

  • Protista

  • Animalia

  • Fungi


Polyp phase is absent in

  • Hydra

  • Aurelia

  • Physalia

  • Obelia


Contractile vacuole in protozoan Amoeba is meant for

  • respiration

  • excretion

  • locomotion

  • osmoregulation


Thigmotaxis is not shown by

  • Paramecium

  • Amoeba

  • Ascaris

  • Hydra


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Entamoeba histolytica differs from Amoeba in absence of 

  • pseudopodia

  • contractile vacuole

  • nucleus

  • ectoplasm


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