Mycology Quiz

1. Conidia born at the tip of the conidiophore…..
o Acropleurogenous
o Acrogenous
o Adiaconidia
o None of the above
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2. 2. Question
Conidia developing at the tip and along the sides of the conidiophore……
o Acropetal
o Acrogenous
o Acropleurogenous
o None of the above
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3. 3. Question
……………..acts as decomposers (for dead animals in the environment)), degrade complex organic
materials to simple organic compounds and inorganic molecules, to make carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus
and other critical constituents of dead animals available for living organisms.
o Bacteria
o Fungi
o Other Chemo-organotrophic organisms
o All of above
Incorrect
4. 4. Question
Fungi are unicellular or multicellular……. organisms, spore bearing, have absorptive nutrition, lack
chlorophyll, and reproduce sexual and asexually.
o Prokaryotes
o Eukaryote and Prokaryotes both
o Eukaryotes
o None of the above
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5. 5. Question
Fungi ranks among the lower plants…., but lacks the photosynthetic pigment.
o Thallophyta
o Mammalia
o Maxillopoda
o Sauropsida
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6. 6. Question
Fungi are… .
o Heterotropic
o Saprophytic
o Parasitic
o All of the above
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7. 7. Question
Fungal cell wall is made up of …..
o Chitin
o Arabinolactan
o Mannan
o All of the above
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8. 8. Question
Chitin is a strong but flexible nitrogen containing polysaccharide consisting of …
o N-acetyl glucosamine
o Mannan
o Arabinolactan
o None of the above
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9. 9. Question
Cytoplasmic membrane of fungi contains…
o Ergosterols
o Glutamic acid
o Muramic acid
o All of the above
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10. 10. Question
Fungi are of two principal kinds…

o Yeast and moulds
o Yeast and Yeast like fungi
o Moulds
o None of the above
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11. 11. Question
Fungi reproduce….
o Sexually
o Asexually
o Sexually , Asexually or both
o None of the above
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12. 12. Question
……. is a branching tubular structure, 2-10u in diameter and main element of vegetative or growing form
of mould.
o Hyphae
o Ascus
o Columella
o Spore
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13. 13. Question
Hyphae become interwined to form a mesh like structure known as….

o Spore
o Mycelium
o Columella
o Thallus
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14. 14. Question
Fungi that exists in the mycelial form in nature at room temperature (25 degree C) but converts to a
yeast form at 39 degree C or in the tissues of animal, such fungi are known as…….
o Yeast like fungi
o Dimorphic fungi
o Pseudohyphae
o Mushrooms
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15. 15. Question
Hyphae divided into different segments by crosswalls is known as …
o Septate Hyphae
o Coenocytic hyphae
o Mycelium
o None of the above
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16. 16. Question
Continous non-septate hyphae is known as ….

o Coenocytic hyphae
o Septate hyphae
o Mycelium
o None of the above
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17. 17. Question
Ascomycetes reproduce sexually to develop fruiting bodies called…….bearing several club shaped
ascospores.
o Ascocarp
o Basidiocarp
o Carp
o None of the above
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18. 18. Question
A saucer of cup shaped ascocarp that is completely opened at maturity is called an….
o Cleistothecium
o Apothecium
o Ascocarp
o Basidia
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19. 19. Question
A completely enclosed ascocarp is …..

o Cleistothecium
o Apothecium
o Ascocarp
o Basidia
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20. 20. Question
Zygomycetes reproduce sexually and asexually to form…. and … spores respectively.
o Zygospores and sporangiospore
o Zygospore and Basidiospore
o Zygospore and Ascospore
o Sporangiospore and Zygospore
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21. 21. Question
Chlamydospores and Arthospores are the examples of ………….
o asexual spores
o sexual spores
o Both
o None of the above
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22. 22. Question
Mushroom are classified under class……
o Basidiomycetes
o Zygomycetes
o Ascopmyctes
o None of the above
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23. 23. Question
Diseases caused by fungi in animals are known as………
o Mycoses
o Keratitis
o Both
o None of the above
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24. 24. Question
Term Fungus in Latin refers to ……
o Toxin
o Mushroom
o Bacteria
o None of the above
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25. 25. Question
The term mykes in Greek refers to….
o Toxin
o Mushroom
o Bacteria
o None of the above
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26. 26. Question
A chain of conidia in which the youngest conidium is at the tip and the oldest is at the base….
o Acrogenous
o Acropetal
o Acropleurogenous
o None of the above
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27. 27. Question
A large, globose, thick-walled conidium, usually produced by Emmonsia (Chrysosporium) parvum, in the
lungs of humans and animals..
o Acropleurogenous
o Acropetal
o Acrogenous
o Adiaconidia
Incorrect
28. 28. Question
A thallic conidium released by lysis or fracture of the supporting cell.
o Ameroconidium (pl. ameroconidium)
o Adiaconidia
o Annelloconidium (pl. annelloconidia)
o Aleurioconidium (pl. aleurioconidia)
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29. 29. Question
A one-celled conidium.
o Acrogenous
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30. 30. Question
An asexual state of a fungus.
o Telemorph
o Anamorph
o Morph
o None of the above
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31. 31. Question
A specialized conidiogenous cell producing conidia in basipetal succession by a series of short percurrent
proliferations. The tip of an annellide increases in length and becomes narrower as each subsequent
conidium is formed.
o Thallus
o Columella
o Ameroconidium
o Annellide
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32. 32. Question
A conidium produced by an annellide.
o Aleurioconidium
o Ameroconidium
o Adiaconidia
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33. 33. Question
A funnel-shaped swelling of a sporangiophore, immediately below the columella, seen in zygomycetes.
o Anamorph
o Apophysis
o Telemorph
o None of the above
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34. 34. Question
A yeast is a ……fungus that has a single nucleus and reproduces either asexually by budding and
transverse division or seually through spore formation.
o Multicelluar
o Unicellular or multicellular
o Unicellular
o None of the above
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35. 35. Question
The body or vegetative structure of of a fungus is called….
o Columella
o Basidia
o Thallus
o None of the above
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36. 36. Question
Dimorphic fungi can change freom the yeast (Y) form in the animal to the mould or mycelia form (M) in
the external environment in response to changes in the environmental factors. This shift is known
as……….. .
o MY Shift
o Frame Shift
o YM shift
o None of the above
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37. 37. Question
A type of conidial ontogeny involving the conversion and subsequent disarticulation of a determinant
conidiogenous hypha.
o Basocatenulate
o Ascocarp
o Arthric
o None of the above
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38. 38. Question
A thallic conidium released by either the splitting of a double septum or by the fragmentation or lysis of
a disjunctor cell.
o Arthroconidium (pl. arthroconidia):
o None of the above
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39. 39. Question
A fruiting body containing asci and ascospores.
o Asci
o Ascocarp
o Carp
o None of the above
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40. 40. Question
A sac-like cell containing ascospores, characteristic of the Ascomycetes.
o Ascus (pl. asci)

o Basidia
o Ascocarp
o None of the above
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41. 41. Question
A haploid spore produced within an ascus following karyogamy and meiosis.
o Asci
o Ascospore
o Basidiospore
o None of the above
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42. 42. Question
A group of fungi that reproduce sexually by the endogenous formation of ascospores in an ascus.
o Basidiomycetes
o Ascomycetes
o Deuteromycetes
o Zygomycetes
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43. 43. Question
A conidium that is forcibly discharged.

o Ballistoconidium (pl. ballistoconidia)
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44. 44. Question
A group of fungi that reproduce sexually by the exogenous formation of basidiospores from a basidium.
o Ascomycetes
o Zygomycetes
o Basidiomycetes
o Deuteromycetes
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45. 45. Question
A haploid spore produced on a basidium following karyogamy and meiosis.
o Zygospore
o Ascocpore
o Basidiospore
o Arthrospore
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46. 46. Question
A cell that gives rise to a basidiospore, characteristic of the Basidiomycetes.
o Columella
o Basidium (pl. basidia)
o Thallus
o None of the above

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47. 47. Question
A chain of conidia, the oldest conidium is at the apex and the youngest is at the base.
o Basocatenulate
o Ballistoconidium (pl. ballistoconidia)
o Basipetal
o None of the above
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48. 48. Question
A chain of conidia having the youngest cell at the base.
o Basipetal
o Basocatenulate
o Blastic
o None of the above
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49. 49. Question
Blastoconidia developing at the opposite poles of a parent cell.
o Bipolar budding
o UniPolar budding
o Binary Fission
o None of the above
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50. 50. Question
Phialides arising from metulae as in the genus Aspergillus.
o Basocatenulate
o Biseriate
o Basipetal
o None of the above
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1. Conidia born at the tip of the conidiophore…..

o None of the above

o None of the above

o Other Chemo-organotrophic organisms

o Eukaryote and Prokaryotes both

o None of the above

o All of the above

o All of the above

Chitin is a strong but flexible nitrogen containing polysaccharide consisting of …

o None of the above

Cytoplasmic membrane of fungi contains…

o All of the above

10. 10. Question

Fungi are of two principal kinds…

o Yeast and Yeast like fungi

o None of the above

11. 11. Question

o Sexually , Asexually or both

o None of the above

12. 12. Question

13. 13. Question

Hyphae become interwined to form a mesh like structure known as….

14. 14. Question

o Yeast like fungi

15. 15. Question

Hyphae divided into different segments by crosswalls is known as …

o None of the above

16. 16. Question

Continous non-septate hyphae is known as ….

o None of the above

17. 17. Question

o None of the above

18. 18. Question

19. 19. Question

A completely enclosed ascocarp is …..

20. 20. Question

Zygomycetes reproduce sexually and asexually to form…. and … spores respectively.

o Zygospores and sporangiospore

o Zygospore and Basidiospore

o Zygospore and Ascospore

o Sporangiospore and Zygospore

21. 21. Question

Chlamydospores and Arthospores are the examples of ………….

o None of the above

22. 22. Question

Mushroom are classified under class……

o None of the above

23. 23. Question

Diseases caused by fungi in animals are known as………

o None of the above

24. 24. Question

Term Fungus in Latin refers to ……

o None of the above

25. 25. Question

The term mykes in Greek refers to….

o None of the above

26. 26. Question

o None of the above

27. 27. Question

28. 28. Question

A thallic conidium released by lysis or fracture of the supporting cell.

o Ameroconidium (pl. ameroconidium)

o Aleurioconidium (pl. aleurioconidia)

29. 29. Question