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  • Question
  • Which of the following is incorrect?


  • Options
  • A. Plant cells are larger than the bacterial or fungus cells
  • B. Plant cells tend to grow in clumps
  • C. Plant cells are less sensitive to shear than microbial cells
  • D. Plant cells are more genetically unstable than microbial cells

  • Correct Answer
  • Plant cells are less sensitive to shear than microbial cells 


  • More questions

    • 1. The major route for incorporation of ammonia (NH4+) into organic compounds is via

    • Options
    • A. reduction of pyruvate or alpha-ketoglutarate by enzymes
    • B. atmospheric nitrogen fixation
    • C. oxidation of pyruvate
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. RNA that is complementary to a segment of another RNA molecule to which it will bind is known as

    • Options
    • A. missense RNA
    • B. antisense RNA
    • C. nonsense RNA
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. The enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of DNA is called

    • Options
    • A. DNA polymerase
    • B. DNA gyrase
    • C. DNA ligase
    • D. helicase
    • Discuss
    • 4. Which of the following is used by microbial genetisists as a tool?

    • Options
    • A. Bacteriophage
    • B. Plasmids
    • C. Transposable elements
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 5. Nutrient content and biological structures are considered as

    • Options
    • A. implicit factor for microbial growth
    • B. intrinsic factor for microbial growth
    • C. processing factor
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. West Nile virus can cause a disease in human beings that may be transmitted from an infected bird to a person by a mosquito. This is an example of

    • Options
    • A. endogenous infection
    • B. fomite borne disease
    • C. arthropod borne disease
    • D. nosocomial infection
    • Discuss
    • 7. Denitrification is carried out

    • Options
    • A. usually by facultative anaerobes
    • B. predominantly by Pseudomonas spp
    • C. predominantly by Bacillus spp
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. Quantitative measurement of bacterial growth can be carried out by measuring

    • Options
    • A. cell count
    • B. cell mass
    • C. cell activity
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. Which of the following bacteria is moderately saccharolytic?

    • Options
    • A. Bacteriodes fragilis
    • B. B gingivalis
    • C. B melaninogenicus
    • D. B levii
    • Discuss
    • 10. During exponential growth, the growth rate is

    • Options
    • A. number of generations per unit time
    • B. reciprocal of generation time
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss


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