Biology Practice MCQ Page 37

Multiple Choice questions for Biology in the sets of 10 each on one page with questions and answers. All sets are useful in the preparation of subject tests for employment or admission.
Question: 2586   Masses of floating Spirogyra in a pond are supported by bubbles of a gas .The gas is
  1. Air
  2. Oxygen
  3. Methane
Question: 2609   Kelps are obtained from
  1. Algae
  2. Marine algae
  3. Fresh water algae
  4. Lichens
Question: 2610   The individual chain of cells or filament in the colony of Nostoc is known as
  1. Trichome
  2. Heterocyst
  3. Hormogonia
  4. None of the above
Question: 2612   Which on the following is not characteristic of blue-green algae?
  1. No gelationopus sheath
  2. No plastids
  3. No true nucleus
  4. No sexual reproduction
Question: 2613   Meiosis occurs in the zygote of
  1. Chlamdomonas
  2. Puccinia
  3. Funaira
  4. Dryopetris
Question: 2616   Nostoc plants usually found
  1. singly without a sheath
  2. enclosed within gelatinous sheath plants
  3. enclosed within gelatinous sheath of its own in addition to the gelatinous matrix in which the tangled mass of filaments remains embedded .
  4. in a colony of unicellular plants.
Question: 2617   The filaments of blue-green algae are termed as
  1. trichomes
  2. heterocysts
  3. hormogonia
  4. none of the above
Question: 2618   When gametes of Chlamydomonas fail to fuse together the process is termed
  1. Sygamy
  2. Hologamy
  3. Anisogamy
  4. None of the above
Question: 2622   It is the chief component of present in the cell wall of fungi.
  1. Wax
  2. Cellulose
  3. Chitin
  4. Glucose
Question: 2624   In fungi asexual reproduction occurs mostly by
  1. Fragmentation
  2. Budding
  3. Spore formation
  4. All of these
Question: 2626   The colour of mature sporangia of Rhizopus is
  1. White
  2. Brown
  3. Black
  4. Orange
Question: 2628   The horizonatally growing hyphae of Rhizopus are called
  1. Rhizoids
  2. Stolons
  3. Sporangiophores
  4. Holdfast