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Micro Organisms problems


  • 1. Which of the following organelles contain DNA, divides and possesses some degree of autonomy?

  • Options
  • A. Golgi apparatus
  • B. Ribosome
  • C. Chloroplast
  • D. Peroxisomes
  • Discuss
  • 2. All of the following are features of prokaryotes except

  • Options
  • A. nitrogen fixation
  • B. photosynthesis
  • C. sexual reproduction
  • D. locomotion
  • Discuss
  • 3. All membranes of free-living organisms have phospholipid bilayers, but exception is

  • Options
  • A. bacteria
  • B. fungi
  • C. archaea
  • D. protozoa
  • Discuss
  • 4. Micro organisms are found in which of the following kingdom of five kingdom concept (Whittaker's classification)?

  • Options
  • A. Monera
  • B. Protista
  • C. Fungi
  • D. All of these
  • Discuss
  • 5. Carl Woese and his colleague are best known for establishing

  • Options
  • A. the five kingdom system
  • B. the three domain system
  • C. the prokaryote-eukaryote system
  • D. the plant-animal system
  • Discuss
  • 6. A newly discovered microscopic structure is hypothesized to be a living organism. Which of the following lines of evidence would support the contention that this organism may be alive?

  • Options
  • A. It contains DNA
  • B. It is made of a single cell
  • C. It utilizes energy
  • D. All of these
  • Discuss
  • 7. The five-kingdom system of classification was set up by

  • Options
  • A. Louis Pasteur
  • B. Robert Whittaker
  • C. Robert Koch
  • D. Masaki Ogata
  • Discuss
  • 8. The word cell was first used by

  • Options
  • A. Robert Hooke
  • B. Theodor Schwann
  • C. Louis Pasteur
  • D. Ronald Ross
  • Discuss
  • 9. Archeal cells usually do not contain peptidoglycan, rather contain pseudo-peptidoglycan which is mainly composed of

  • Options
  • A. N-acetylmuramic acid and L-amino acids
  • B. N-acetylmuramic acid and D-amino acids
  • C. N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid and D-amino acids
  • D. N-acetyltalosaminuronic acid and L-amino acids
  • Discuss
  • 10. A characteristic of protein synthesis in both the archaea and eukarya is

  • Options
  • A. transcription and translation are coupled
  • B. translation is inhibited by diphtheria toxin
  • C. proteins are synthesized from D-, rather than L-, isomers of amino acids
  • D. the initiator tRNA is charged with N-formyl-methionine
  • Discuss

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