DAILY PRACTICE SHEET – 142

ALGAE & PROTISTA

Biomentors Classes Online, Mumbai
31 October 2018
1. Cyanobacteria / Blue green algae are –
(a) Unicellular only
(b) Colonial only
(c) Filamentous only
(d) Unicellular, colonial or filamentous
2. Cyanobacteria are –
(a) Only fresh water
(b) Only marine
(c) Only terrestrial
(d) Aquatic and terrestrial
3. Which ones forms bloom in polluted water mostly –
(a) Cyanobacteria
(b) Green algae
(c) Red algae
(d) Brown algae
4. Some of the Cyanobacteria can fix atmospheric nitrogen in specialized cells called-
(a) Akinetes
(b) Heterocyst
(c) Homocyst
(d) Nodule
5. Heterocystous cyanobacteria –
(a) Only Nostoc
(b) Only Anabaena
(c) Both Nostoc and Anabaena
(d) Vibrio
6. Cyanobacteria have
(a) Chl a similar to plant including green algae
(b) Distinct from chlorophyll of plants
(c) Bacteriochlorophyll
(d) Bacterioorhodopsin
7. Based upon the modes of nutrition, protists are grouped into –
(a) Plant-like protists and ingestive, animal-like protists; and absorptive, fungus like
protists

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 (b) Crysophytes, Dinoflagellates and Euglenoids only
(c) Slime moulds and fungi only
(d) Flagellated protozoans and sporozoans
8. Which of the following are placed under Protista-
(a) Chryosophytes and Dinoflagellates
(b) Euglenoids
(c) Slime moulds and protozoans
(d) All
9. Protista form a link with –
(a) Plants only
(b) Animals only
(c) Fungi only
(d) Plants, animals and fungi
10. Chrysophytes include -
(a) Diatoms and desmids (golden algae)
(b) Dinoflagellates
(c) Euglenoids
(d) Slime moulds
11. Select the following statement that does not apply to diatoms –
(a) Diatoms cell may be impregnated with silicon
(b) Cell wall is made up of 2 half-shells fit tightly together
(c) Diatom is a chrysophyte
(d) Diatom is multiflagellate
12. Silica gel / Diatomite / Diatomaceous earth is obtained by –
(a) Diatoms
(b) Dinoflagellates
(c) Euglenoids
(d) Brown algae
13. The diatoms do not easily decay like most of the other algae because –
(a) They have highly siliceous wall
(b) They have water proof cells
(c) Their cell wall are mucilaginous
(d) Cell wall is virus-resistant
14. Diatomaceous earth is used for all except –
(a) Polishing
(b) Filteration of oils and syrups
(c) Sound and fire proof room
(d) Biogas

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15. Chrysophytes are –
(a) Planktons
(b) Nektons
(c) Benthonic
(d) Active swimmers
16. Chief producers in ocean are –
(a) Dinoflagellates
(b) Diatoms
(c) Euglenoids
(d) Green algae
17. Photosynthetic protists are –
(a) Euglenoids, Diatoms and Dinoflagellates
(b) Euglenoids and slime moulds
(c) Diatoms and Zooflagellates
(d) Desmide + Ciliates
18. Dinoflagellates are mostly –
(a) Marine
(b) Fresh water
(c) Terrestrial
(d) Saprophytes
19. Red tides in warm coastal water develop due to super abundance of –
(a) Dinoflagellates
(b) Euglenoids forms
(c) Diatoms and desmids
(d) Chlamydomonas nivalis
20. Red tide is caused by –
(a) Ceretium
(b) Noctiluca
(c) Gonyaulax
(d) All of these
21. Dinoflagellates have –
(a) A single flagellum in the transverse groove between the cell plates
(b) A single flagellum in the longitudinal groove between the cell plates
(c) Two flagella one lies longitudinally and the other transversely in a furrow between
the wall plates
(d) No flagella

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22. In which of the following the cell wall has stiff cellulose plate on the outer surface –
(a) Dinoflagellates
(b) Desmids
(c) Diatoms
(d) Euglenoids
23. Which of the following releases toxins that may even kill other marine animals like fishes
(a) Gonyaulax
(b) Paramecium
(c) Euglenoids
(d) Sporozoans
24. Euglenoids e.g., Euglena are found -
(a) In fresh running water
(b) In fresh stagnant water
(c) In marine environment
(d) In both fresh and marine water
25. Which of the following statements about Euglena is true?
(a) Euglenoids are flagellates
(b) Euglena placed in continuous darkness lose their photosynthetic activity and die
(c) The pigments of Euglena are quite different from those of green plants
(d) Euglena is a marine protest
26. Which of the following statements is true about Euglena?
(a) They show flagellar locomotion
(b) They have a rigid cell wall
(c) They have no chloroplast
(d) They are obligate autotroph

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 ANSWERS
1. Ans.(d) Unicellular, colonial or filamentous
2. Ans.(d) Aquatic and terrestrial
3. Ans.(a) Cyanobacteria
4. Ans.(b) Heterocyst
5. Ans.(c) Both Nostoc and Anabaena
6. Ans.(a) Chl a similar to plant including green algae
7. Ans.(a) Plant-like protists and ingestive, animal-like protists; and absorptive,
fungus like protists
8. Ans.(d) All
9. Ans.(d) Plants, animals and fungi
10. Ans.(a) Diatoms and desmids (golden algae)
11. Ans.(d) Diatom is multiflagellate
12. Ans.(a) Diatoms
13. Ans.(a) They have highly siliceous wall
14. Ans.(d) Biogas
15. Ans.(a) Planktons
16. Ans.(b) Diatoms
17. Ans.(a) Euglenoids, Diatoms and Dinoflagellates
18. Ans.(a) Marine
19. Ans.(a) Dinoflagellates
20. Ans.(c) Gonyaulax
21. Ans.(c) Two flagella one lies longitudinally and the other transversely in a furrow
between the wall plates
22. Ans.(a) Dinoflagellates
23. Ans.(a) Gonyaulax
24. Ans.(b) In fresh stagnant water
25. Ans.(a) Euglenoids are flagellates
26. Ans.(a) They show flagellar locomotion