TS EAMCET Microbiology — practice questions
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Practice TS EAMCET Microbiology in the app →Which kingdom of the five kingdom system contains bacteria alone?A spherical bacterium is known by which name?Which shape category of bacteria is comma-shaped?Which bacterial form has a spiral body?Halophiles among archaebacteria are found in which habitat?Methanogens, a group of archaebacteria, live in which place?Archaebacteria survive harsh habitats because of their unusual what?Methanogens in the gut of cattle help produce biogas from what?Which chlorophyll type do cyanobacteria possess, as green plants do?Another common name for cyanobacteria is what?Heterocysts of Nostoc and Anabaena are specialised for which task?Which of these is a nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacterium?Which nutritional type is the most abundant among bacteria in nature?Bacteria are helpful in converting milk into which product?Citrus canker in crops is caused by which kind of organism?By which process do bacteria mainly reproduce?What do bacteria often form under unfavourable conditions?Which structure is completely absent in Mycoplasma?Mycoplasma are able to survive without which gas?Outside a living host cell, a virus exists as what?The word virus originally means what?Who in 1892 identified microbes causing mosaic disease of tobacco?Beijerinck described the tobacco mosaic agent as what kind of fluid?Viruses can multiply only inside a host, so they are called what?What type of nucleic acid does any single virus carry?Viruses infecting plants generally have which genetic material?Bacteriophages usually carry which type of genetic material?In what geometric forms are capsomeres arranged?Who discovered viroids in 1971?Which plant disease led to the discovery of viroids?What is a viroid made of?Prions are infectious agents consisting of what?A lichen is a symbiotic association between which two organisms?What is the algal partner of a lichen called?The fungal partner in a lichen is termed what?Which symptom is typical of plant virus infection?After infecting a cell, how does a virus replicate?Who is called a father of microbiology for his single-lens microscopes?Which bacterial structure did Ferdinand Cohn discover?Who first used phenol as a disinfectant on open wounds?Which bacterium is a major industrial producer of L-glutamate and L-lysine?Aminoglycoside antibiotics are made using which bacterial genus?In 1546 Girolamo Fracastoro proposed epidemics were caused by what?Microbial degradation of toxic waste in soil and water is known as what?Which branch of microbiology is the study of algae?