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Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria get their energy by oxidising:Read the answer and worked solution →Which disease is caused by a bacterium?Read the answer and worked solution →Bacteria reproduce mainly by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which organisms completely lack a cell wall?Read the answer and worked solution →Kingdom Protista holds all eukaryotes that are:Read the answer and worked solution →The cell wall of a diatom is embedded with:Read the answer and worked solution →The heaped up cell walls of dead diatoms make up:Read the answer and worked solution →The chief producers in the oceans are the:Read the answer and worked solution →Red tides in the sea are caused by rapid growth of:Read the answer and worked solution →Instead of a cell wall a euglenoid has a protein rich:Read the answer and worked solution →Deprived of sunlight euglenoids behave like:Read the answer and worked solution →Slime moulds obtain food in which way?Read the answer and worked solution →The aggregation formed by a slime mould is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Amoeboid protozoans capture their prey using:Read the answer and worked solution →Sleeping sickness is caused by which flagellated protozoan?Read the answer and worked solution →The cavity through which Paramoecium takes in food is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Malaria is caused by which sporozoan?Read the answer and worked solution →Which fungus is unicellular?Read the answer and worked solution →The network of thread like filaments in a fungus is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Hyphae that are continuous tubes with many nuclei are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The cell wall of a fungus is built mainly of:Read the answer and worked solution →Fungi living in association with algae form:Read the answer and worked solution →Fusion of protoplasms of two gametes in a fungus is:Read the answer and worked solution →Fusion of two nuclei in the fungal sexual cycle is:Read the answer and worked solution →The stage with two nuclei in one cell is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which class of fungi has an aseptate coenocytic mycelium?Read the answer and worked solution →Ascomycetes are commonly known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which fungus is used widely in biochemical and genetic work?Read the answer and worked solution →Mushrooms, bracket fungi and puffballs belong to:Read the answer and worked solution →How many basidiospores form on a single basidium?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria get their energy by oxidising:

  1. Nitrogen
  2. Nucleotides
  3. Nucleosides
  4. Nitrites
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Correct answer: D. Nitrites

1. They do not use sunlight at all. 2. They oxidise inorganic substances instead. 3. Nitrates, nitrites and ammonia are among them. _Source: syllabus Biology, Ch 2 'Biological Classification'_

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Which disease is caused by a bacterium?

  1. Cholera
  2. Measles
  3. Mumps
  4. Herpes
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Correct answer: A. Cholera

1. Some bacteria are pathogens of humans and crops. 2. Typhoid, tetanus and citrus canker are examples. 3. Cholera belongs on that list too. _Source: syllabus Biology, Ch 2 'Biological Classification'_

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Bacteria reproduce mainly by:

  1. Grafting
  2. Fission
  3. Fusion
  4. Budding
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Correct answer: B. Fission

1. A bacterium simply divides into two. 2. Spores appear only in bad conditions. 3. The main route is fission. _Source: syllabus Biology, Ch 2 'Biological Classification'_

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