Kingdom Fungi Multiple Choice Questions NEET
1. How many species of fungi are known until now
A. 10000
B. 100000
C. 10000000
D. 1000
Answer: Option B
2. Which of the following group represent pathological fungi?
A. Mushrooms morels and truffles
B. Rusts smuts and molds
C. Penicillium
D. All of these
Answer: Option B
3. Which one of the following is different from all the rest regarding the number of cells in its body?
A. Rusts
B. Mushrooms
C. Molds
D. Yeasts
Answer: Option D
4. Fungi which get their food directly from dead organic matter are called?
A. Parasitic fungi
B. Predators
C. Mutualists
D. Decomposers
Answer: Option D
5. Root like structure in saprotrophic fungi are called
A. Rhizoids
B. Haustoria
C. Hyphae
D. Constricting rings
Answer: Option A
6. Those fungi which can grow only on their living host and cannot be grown on available defined growth culture medium e.g. various mildews and most rust species are called
A. Parasitic fungi
B. Obligate parasitic fungi
C. Facultative parasitic fungi
D. All of these
Answer: Option B
7. Oyster mushroom is an example of predator fungi which attack
A. Pin warms
B. Tapeworms
C. Roundworms
D. Platyhelminthes
Answer: Option C
8. Lichen is a symbiotic mutualistic association of fungi with
A. Autotrophs
B. Roots of vascular plants
C. Green algae and cyanobacterium
D. Leguminous plants
Answer: Option C
9. Foliose lichen are
A. Stem-like
B. Branching
C. Leaf-like
D. Crust like
Answer: Option C
10. An association in which fungal hyphae penetrate the outer cells of the plant root forming coils swellings and minute branches and also extend out into surrounding soil is called:
A. Mycorrhizal association
B. Endomycorrhizae
C. Ectomycorrhizae
D. Lichen
Answer: Option C
11. The Kingdom of recyclers is known as Kingdom
A. Algae
B. Bacteria
C. Fungi
D. Embryophyte
Answer: Option C
12. According to two-kingdom classification, fungi were placed in the kingdom
A. Plantae
B. Animalia
C. Protista
D. Fungi
Answer: Option A
13. Ecological role of fungi as decomposers is only paralleled by
A. Cyanobacteria
B. Blue-green algae
C. Bacteria
D. Virus
Answer: Option C
14. Coenocytic hyphae are also known as
A. Septate
B. Perforated hyphae
C. Aseptate
D. Uninucleate hyphae
Answer: Option C
15. Unicellular fungi which is non-hyphal is
A. Mushroom
B. Yeast
C. Penicillium
D. Mold
Answer: Option B
16. Parasitic fungi absorb nutrients directly from the living host cytoplasm with the help of special hyphal tips called
A. Mildew
B. Constricting ring
C. Haustoria
D. All of these
Answer: Option C
17. Constricting ring around nematode is formed by
A. Arthrobotrys
B. Pleurotus ostreatus
C. Mildews
D. All of these
Answer: Option A
18. Type of lichen which tightly attaches to rocks is
A. Parmelia
B. Fruticose
C. Foliose
D. Crustose
Answer: Option D
19. Mycorrhizae are found in about ______ vascular plants
A. 90%
B. 95%
C. 98%
D. 96%
Answer: Option B
20. Fungi can tolerate pH from
A. 3-7
B. 2-6
C. 2-9
D. 3-6
Answer: Option C
21. Spores in sporangia are produced by the process.
A. Sexual
B. Asexual
C. Both of these
D. None of these
Answer: Option B
22. Which of the following statement is incorrect about asexual reproduction by spores in fungi?
A. Spores are haploid structures
B. They are dispersed via wind water and insects
C. On falling to a suitable place they germinate
D. These are produced through fruiting bodies like ascocarps and basidiocarps.
Answer: Option D
23. The simple breaking of mycelium resulting in the formation of a new mycelium from each broken segments is called
A. Sporing
B. Conidiation
C. Budding
D. Fragmentation
Answer: Option D
24. By which of the following mechanism unicellular yeast reproduce?
A. Sporing
B. Conidiation
C. Budding
D. Fragmentation
Answer: Option C
25. In which of the following example of fungi dikaryotic hyphae exist for long period?
A. Deuteromycota
B. Basidiomycota
C. Zygomycota
D. All of these
Answer: Option B
26. Which of the following is called black bread mold?
A. Pilobolus
B. Penicillium
C. Neurospora
D. Rhizopus
Answer: Option D
27. At which stage in the life cycle of Rhizopus meiosis takes place?
A. Formation of sporangiophore via germination of zygospore.
B. Formation of spores in sporangia
C. Fusion of two hyphae
D. Formation of Zygote by fusion of gametangia.
Answer: Option A
28. Which one of the following is the largest group of fungi?
A. Zygomycota
B. Ascomycota
C. Basidiomycota
D. Deuteromycota
Answer: Option B
29. How many species of ascomycota occur in lichen symbiotic association?
A. 30%
B. 40%
C. 50%
D. 60%
Answer: Option C
30. All such fungi in which sexual phase has not been observed are present in
A. Zygomycota
B. Ascomycota
C. Basidiomycota
D. Deuteromycota
Answer: Option D
31. Mode of nutrition in penicillium is
A. Saprotrophs
B. Parasitic
C. Predators
D. Mutualists
Answer: Option A
32. Penicillium reproduce via
A. Spores
B. Conidia
C. Budding
D. Fragmentation
Answer: Option B
33. How many species of mushrooms are edible?
A. 100
B. 200
C. 3000
D. 4000
Answer: Option B
34. Death cap/death angel (Amanita) and Jack O Lantern mushroom are examples of
A. Edible mushrooms
B. Poisonous mushrooms
C. Both of these
D. None of these
Answer: Option B