NEET UG Biological Classification — practice questions
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Practice NEET UG Biological Classification in the app →Whittaker (1969) proposed how many kingdoms in biological classification?Halophiles thrive in:The Five Kingdom Classification was proposed in 1969 by:How many kingdoms did Whittaker recognise?Which kingdom holds all the prokaryotes?Bacteria are grouped into how many categories by shape?The comma shaped bacterium is called a:Bacteria as a group are noted for the most extensive:Bacteria that live in extremely salty places are called:Archaebacteria of hot springs are known as:Methane in the gut of cattle is produced by:Blue green algae are more correctly called:Nitrogen is fixed in cyanobacteria inside specialised cells called:Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria get their energy by oxidising:Which disease is caused by a bacterium?Bacteria reproduce mainly by:Which organisms completely lack a cell wall?Kingdom Protista holds all eukaryotes that are:The cell wall of a diatom is embedded with:The heaped up cell walls of dead diatoms make up:The chief producers in the oceans are the:Red tides in the sea are caused by rapid growth of:Instead of a cell wall a euglenoid has a protein rich:Deprived of sunlight euglenoids behave like:Slime moulds obtain food in which way?The aggregation formed by a slime mould is called a:Amoeboid protozoans capture their prey using:Sleeping sickness is caused by which flagellated protozoan?The cavity through which Paramoecium takes in food is the:Malaria is caused by which sporozoan?Which fungus is unicellular?The network of thread like filaments in a fungus is the:Hyphae that are continuous tubes with many nuclei are called:The cell wall of a fungus is built mainly of:Fungi living in association with algae form:Fusion of protoplasms of two gametes in a fungus is:Fusion of two nuclei in the fungal sexual cycle is:The stage with two nuclei in one cell is called a:Which class of fungi has an aseptate coenocytic mycelium?Ascomycetes are commonly known as:Which fungus is used widely in biochemical and genetic work?Mushrooms, bracket fungi and puffballs belong to:How many basidiospores form on a single basidium?Deuteromycetes are called imperfect fungi because they lack a known:Insectivorous plants such as the Venus fly trap are:The alternation of haploid and diploid phases in plants is called:Animals store their food reserve as:The mode of nutrition of animals is described as:Who first recognised the microbe of tobacco mosaic disease?Who showed that viruses could be crystallised?The genetic material of a virus can be:Viruses that infect plants usually carry:The protein coat that protects viral nucleic acid is the:A viroid differs from a virus in having no:Mad cow disease is caused by an agent called a:A lichen is a partnership between a fungus and an:Lichens are useful because they act as indicators of:Biological classification was first proposed by: