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  • Question
  • Which of the following is least likely to get in or on a protozoan such as a diplomonad or trichomonad?


  • Options
  • A. Flagella
  • B. More than one nucleus
  • C. Genes to produce a cyst form
  • D. Rigid polysaccharide cell wall

  • Correct Answer
  • Rigid polysaccharide cell wall 


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    • 1. Number of motility structures on flagellated cells is

    • Options
    • A. greater than ciliated cells
    • B. lesser than ciliated cells
    • C. equal to ciliated cells
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. Organisms are parasitic and have a resistant spore with one to six coiled polar filaments belong to which phylum of Protozoa?

    • Options
    • A. Labyinthomorpha
    • B. Sarcomastigophora
    • C. Apicomplexa
    • D. Myxozoa
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which of the following is least likely to have a rigid cell wall?

    • Options
    • A. Bacterium
    • B. Archaean
    • C. Fungus
    • D. Protozoan
    • Discuss
    • 4. Which of the following describes the function of a secretory vacuole?

    • Options
    • A. Sites of food digestion
    • B. Maintain osmotic balance by continuous water expulsion
    • C. Contain specific enzymes that perform various functions
    • D. Structures that accept male gametes during sexual reproduction
    • Discuss
    • 5. Saprozoic nutrition is characterized by

    • Options
    • A. phagocytosis of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles
    • B. pinocytosis of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles
    • C. encystment of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of secretory vacuoles
    • D. pinocytosis of soluble nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles
    • Discuss
    • 6. Organisms which have spore-forming stage in their life cycle and lack special locomotory organelles belong to which phylum of Protozoa?

    • Options
    • A. Microspora
    • B. Myxozoa
    • C. Ciliophora
    • D. Apicomplexa
    • Discuss
    • 7. Lysozyme (an endolysin) which will lyse the bacterial cell, releasing the mature virions is present in

    • Options
    • A. immediate early phage genes
    • B. late genes
    • C. delayed early genes
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. The oncogene theory refers to

    • Options
    • A. how chemicals inactivate viruses when applied
    • B. how viruses replicate in host cells
    • C. how viruses transform normal cells into tumor cells
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. The temperate phage possesses a gene that codes for a repressor protein which makes the cell resistant to lysis initiated by

    • Options
    • A. the prophage
    • B. lytic infection by other viruses
    • C. Both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. Reverse transcriptase is a useful enzyme to have when

    • Options
    • A. an RNA virus converts its RNA to DNA
    • B. there are no host cells present
    • C. nutrients are scarce
    • D. spikes are forming in the new virus
    • Discuss


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