Microorganisms Free Question Bank

Which type of DNA is found in bacteria?

A Helical DNA
B Membrane bound DNA
C Straight DNA
D Circular free DNA
E NA

Plasmids are most often found in

A Virus
B Bacteria
C Fungi
D Viroid
E NA

Cell wall of Gram positive bacteria is made up of

A Murein
B Cellulose
C Lipid and protein
D Cellulose and lipid
E NA

Bacteria with flagella all over the body is

A Peritrichous
B Amphitrichous
C Monotrichous
D None of these
E NA

Which of the following is a free living nitrogen fixing bacterium present in the soil?

A Azotobacter
B Rhizobium
C Nitrosomonas
D Pseudomonas
E NA

What is true about Archaebacteria?

A All fossils
B All photosynthetic
C All Halophiles
D Oldest living beings
E NA

The Ti plasmid is often used for making transgenic plants. This plasmid is found in

A Yeast as a 2 μm plasmid
B Agrobacterium
C Rhizobium of the roots of leguminous plants
D Azotobacter
E NA

Reproduction in most of the bacteria is by a process known as

A Binary fission
B Budding
C Sexual
D Sporulation
E NA

An example of endomycorrhizal is

A Agaricus
B Glomus
C Nostoc
D Rhizobium
E NA

Human insulin is being commercially produced from a transgenic species of

A Escherichia
B Saccharomyces
C Rhizobium
D Mycobacterium
E NA

The genetic material in virus is

A DNA and RNA
B RNA only
C DNA only
D DNA or RNA
E NA

Protein coat of a virus enclosing nucleic acid is called

A Vector
B Capsid
C Plasmid
D Genome
E NA

The Phages that show lysogenic cycle are called

A Lytic phages
B Virulent phages
C Temperate phages
D None of these
E NA

Which one of the following enzymes is present in the bacteriophage?

A Succinic dehydrogenase
B Lysozyme
C Protease
D Urease
E NA

Which one of the following viruses contains both DNA and RNA?

A Cyanophage
B Herpes Virus
C Leuko Virus
D Polio Virus
E NA

dsRNA is found in

A Influenza virus
B Retrovirus
C Reovirus
D TMP
E NA

Which one of the followings is a viral disease?

A Wilting of cabbage
B Leaf roll of potato
C Red rot of sugar cane
D Damping-off disease of seedlings
E NA

Cauliflower mosaic virus contains

A ds DNA
B ds RNA
C ss RNA
D ss DNA
E NA

ELISA is used to detect viruses where the key reagent is

A DNA probe
B Catalase
C Alkaline phosphatase
D RNase
E NA

Due to discovery of which of the following in 1980, the evolution was termed as RNA world

A RNA have enzymatic property
B In some virus RNA is genetic material
C m-RNA, t-RNA- r-RNA synthesize proteins
D RNA is not found in all cells
E NA


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