This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Science > Biology > Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Siliceous frustules of diatoms being indestructible, piled up at the bottom of ocean and formed a thick bed over billions of years. Such a thick bed is known as A) Pseudorocks. B) Red sea. C) Diatomaceous earth. D) Red tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diatomaceous earth. 2. ..... is putting things into groups based on similar characteristics. A) Collaboration. B) Classification. C) Critical organization. D) Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Classification. 3. Bacterium that converts protein of dead plants and animals into ammonia is. A) Pseudomonas denitrification. B) Bacillus vulgaris. C) Rhizobium. D) Bacillus denitrificans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bacillus vulgaris. 4. Plasmogamy is fusion of A) Two haploid cells including their nuclei. B) Two haploid cells without nuclear fusion. C) Sperm and egg. D) Sperm and two polar nuclei. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two haploid cells without nuclear fusion. 5. Organisms are named using which 2 levels of the classification system? A) Family and Genus. B) Genus and Order. C) Genus and Species. D) Phylum and Class. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genus and Species. 6. Which of the following is a characteristic of the kingdom Protista? A) They are all multicellular. B) They are all prokaryotic. C) They are a diverse group that can be unicellular or multicellular. D) They are all photosynthetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are a diverse group that can be unicellular or multicellular. 7. Which of the following statements is incorrect about the Two Kingdom Classification? A) It was proposed by Linnaeus. B) The two kingdoms were Plantae and Animalia. C) Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes were grouped together. D) There was clear differentiation between Unicellular and multicellular organisms in this classification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There was clear differentiation between Unicellular and multicellular organisms in this classification. 8. Who is the father of taxonomy? A) Woese. B) Gram. C) Linnaeus. D) Whittaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linnaeus. 9. The phylum Brachiopoda contains how many orders? A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 10. A group of related classes of plants is a A) Kingdom. B) Order. C) Phylum. D) Division. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Division. 11. Read the following statements and select the option which identifies the incorrect ones.i) Potato spindle tuber disease is caused by viroids.ii) Viruses are obligate parasites.iii) Retroviruses have two copies of ssRNAiv) Capsomeres are arranged in rounded form. A) (ii) and (iii) only. B) (i)and (iv) only. C) (iii) only. D) (iv) only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (iv) only. 12. Which of the following statements about Euglena is correct? A) Euglena is a flagellate organism. B) Euglena when placed in continuous darkness, loses its photosynthetic activity and dies. C) The pigments of Euglena are quite different from those of green plants. D) Euglena is a marine protist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euglena is a flagellate organism. 13. Which of the following environmental conditions are essential for optimum growth of Mucor on a piece of bread?A. Temperature of about 25 CB. Temperature of about 5 CC Relative humidity of 5 %D. Relative humidity of 97%E. A shady placeF. A Brightly illuminated place.Choose the answer from the given options A) B, C and F. B) A, C and E only. C) A, D and E only. D) B, D and E only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A, D and E only. 14. What is the correct order of classification?family A) Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. B) Domain, phylum, class, order, kingdom, family, genus, species. C) Species, genus, family, phylum, order, class, domain, kingdom. D) Kingdom, domain, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. 15. The system for identifying organisms that uses two words to name species is A) Dichotomous key. B) Cladistics. C) Fan diagramming. D) Binomial nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Binomial nomenclature. 16. The science of describing, classifying, and naming organisms is called ..... A) Organization. B) Life science. C) Classification. D) Taxonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taxonomy. 17. Plant decomposers are A) Monera and Fungi. B) Fungi and Plants. C) Protista and Animalia. D) Animalia and Monera. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monera and Fungi. 18. What is the advantage of asexual reproduction in protists? A) Genetic diversity. B) Fast increase in number. C) Tide over adverse climatic condition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fast increase in number. 19. Who was the earliest to attempt a scientific basis for classification? A) Linnaeus. B) Huxley. C) Aristotle. D) Darwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aristotle. 20. A. Unicellular, colonial, filamentous, marine or terrestrial forms.B. The colonies are surrounded by a gelatinous sheath.C. Some can fix atmospheric nitrogen in specialized cells called heterocyst.D. They often form blooms in water bodies.These above characters are seen in A) Chrysophytes. B) Cyanobacteria. C) Archaebacteria. D) Dinoflagellates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cyanobacteria. 21. Assertion-slime moulds have characters of both plants and animalsReason-reproductive phase is animal like and vegetative phase is plant like A) If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion. B) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion. C) If Assertion is true but Reason is false. D) If both Assertion and Reason are false. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) If Assertion is true but Reason is false. 22. Pinus, a conifer, cannot germinate without the presence of members of kingdom ..... in it's roots. A) Monera. B) Mycorrhiza. C) Zoochlorella. D) Fungi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fungi. 23. Which of the following are heterotrophs and live as predators or parasites? A) Euglenoids. B) Chrysophytes. C) Slime moulds. D) Protozoans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protozoans. 24. Kingdom Monera has eukaryotic cell type A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. The beautiful diatoms and desmids are placed under A) ELUGENOIDS. B) DINOFLAGELLATES. C) CRYSOPHYTES. D) SLIME MOULDS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CRYSOPHYTES. 26. Kingdom protista includes how many from the followings? Dinoflagellates, Deuteromycetes, Protozoans, Phycomycetes, Euglenoids, Lichen, Slime moulds, Archaebacteria, Ascomycetes, Chrysophytes. A) 6. B) 4. C) 5. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 27. Tool used by a taxonomist to identify an unknown organism is a: A) Dichotomous key. B) Scientific name. C) Binomial key. D) Binomial nmenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dichotomous key. 28. Aerobes BACTERIA useS ..... for respiration A) O2. B) CH4. C) CO2. D) N2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) O2. 29. CITRUS CANKER IS CAUSED BY A) Ustilago. B) Xanthomonas. C) Puccinia. D) Albugo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Xanthomonas. 30. What would scientists do it they discovered organisms that could not fit into any of the four kingdoms of the domain Eukarya? A) Change the newly discovered organisms so they will fit one of the four kingdoms. B) Leave the newly discovered organisms alone. C) Destroy the newly discovered organisms. D) Create new kingdoms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Create new kingdoms. 31. Today, scientists use an ..... level system to classify living things. A) 4. B) 8. C) 10. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 32. What is the highest taxonomic rank in the Linnaean system? A) Order. B) Class. C) Domain. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Domain. 33. Edible fungi with dolipore septum is A) Truffle. B) Morchella. C) More than one. D) Agarius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agarius. 34. Mycoplasmas are classified under which of the following kingdoms? A) Fungi. B) Protista. C) Plantae. D) Monera. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monera. 35. Some of the bacteria are ..... , i.e., they synthesise their own food from inorganic substrates. A) Autotrophic. B) Heterotrophic. C) None. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotrophic. 36. My Kingdom includes mushrooms and yeast! A) Eubacteria. B) Fungi. C) Animalia. D) Plantae. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fungi. 37. Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the class Ascomycetes? A) Conidia are the asexual spores produced endogenously on conidiophores. B) Ascospores are the sexual spores produced endogenously in asci. C) Aspergillus, Neurospora and Claviceps are ascomycetes fungi. D) Mycelium is generally branched and septate in ascomycetes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conidia are the asexual spores produced endogenously on conidiophores. 38. Which of the following protists contain chloroplasts and are therefore autotrophic? A) Slime Mold. B) Euglena. C) Amoeba. D) Paramecium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euglena. 39. Mode of nutrition in monera is heterotrophic A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. Which among the following are the smallest living cells, known without a definite cell wall, pathogenic to plants as well as animals and can survive without oxygen (NEET 2017) A) Virus. B) Viroid. C) Mycoplasma. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mycoplasma. 41. Tobacco mosaic virus has A) Single stranded RNA molecule. B) Double stranded RNA molecule. C) Single stranded DNA molecule. D) Double stranded DNA molecule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Single stranded RNA molecule. 42. Whittaker proposed which of the following? A) 5 Domain System. B) 5 Kingdom System. C) 3 Kingdom System. D) 3 Domain System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5 Kingdom System. 43. What is the main advantage of using binomial nomenclature in scientific classification? A) It simplifies the classification to only one level. B) It provides a unique and universal name for each species. C) It is based on the physical appearance of organisms. D) It allows for the use of common names. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It provides a unique and universal name for each species. 44. Bacteria belong to which Domain? A) Protista. B) Bacteria. C) Archaea. D) Eukarya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bacteria. 45. Viroids differ from viruses in being A) Proteinaceous particles. B) Naked RNA molecules. C) Naked DNA molecules. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naked RNA molecules. 46. Assertion: "Fungi imperfecti" does not show alternation of generation. Reason:The diploid phase is present in only zygote A) If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion. B) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion. C) If Assertion is true but Reason is false. D) If both Assertion and Reason are false. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) If Assertion is true but Reason is false. 47. What is a Viroid made of? A) DNA. B) DNA and RNA. C) RNA. D) Virus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RNA. 48. In an experiment, a microbiologist put equal number each of the following organism into a flask of sterile broth consisting mostly of sugar and a few amino acids. He then placed the flask in the dark. Which of the organism would be most likely to survive? A) Chemoheterotrophic bacteria. B) Photoheterotrophs. C) Cyanobacteria. D) Photoautotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemoheterotrophic bacteria. 49. What is the primary basis for the classification of organisms into the domain Eukarya? A) Presence of a cell wall. B) Ability to photosynthesize. C) Presence of a defined nucleus and organelles. D) Ability to move. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presence of a defined nucleus and organelles. 50. Pick up the wrong statement. A) Some fungi are edible. B) Nuclear membrane is present in Monera. C) Cell wall is absent in Animals. D) Protists have photosynthetic and heterotrophic modes of nutrition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nuclear membrane is present in Monera. 51. Bacteria reproduce by: A) Mitosis. B) Budding. C) Photosynthesis. D) Binary fission. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Binary fission. 52. Assertion-Slime moulds form fruiting bodies under unfavourable conditionsReason-Naked plasmodium is formed during favourable conditions. A) Both, Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion. B) Both, Assertion and Reason, are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion. C) If Assertion is true but Reason is false. D) If both assertion and reason are false. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both, Assertion and Reason, are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion. 53. An organism with cytoplasm, DNA and RNA but no cell wall is A) Bacterium. B) Virus. C) Mycoplasma. D) Cyanobacterium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mycoplasma. 54. While studying about aquatic organisms, Ram found some organisms in which the cell walls form two thin overlapping shells which fit together. Which organism did he find? A) Euglenoids. B) Chrysophytes. C) Slime moulds. D) Dinoflagellates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chrysophytes. 55. This domain contains organisms that have a true nucleus in each of their cells. This domain breaks down into four kingdoms. A) Archaea. B) Animalia. C) Eukarya. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eukarya. 56. Methanogens are responsible for A) Production of nitrogen gas. B) Recycling of nutrients. C) Production of biogas. D) Production of blooms in polluted water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Production of biogas. 57. Read the following statements & choose the correct ones-I) majority of euglenoids are found in marine water II) instead of cell wall they have lipid rich layer called as pellicle which makes their body flexible III) they have two flagella one long and one short. A) Both I and II. B) II and III. C) I and III. D) Only III. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Only III. 58. MYCELIUM IN FOLLOWING CASE IS ASEPTATE AND COENOCYTIC A) BASIDIOMYCETES. B) PHYCOMYCETES. C) DEUTEROMYCETES. D) ASCOMYCETES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PHYCOMYCETES. 59. Nitrocystis, Euglena, Nostoc, Aulosira, Rhizobium, Mycobacterium leprae, Lactobacillus, Frankia, Spirulina, Physarum, pseudomonasaccording to above given examples find total number of autotrophs among them. A) 5. B) 7. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 60. In plants, mosaic formation, leaf rolling and curling, yellowing of plant parts, vein clearing, dwarfing and stunted growth, necrosis, etc., are the symptoms of A) Fungal diseases. B) Viral diseases. C) Mycoplasmal diseases. D) Bacterial disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Viral diseases. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 1Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 2Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 3Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 4Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 6Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 7Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 8Class 11 Biology Chapter 2 Biological Classification Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books