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Microbes - 1

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these cannot be classified as a microbe?

  1. Fungi
  2. Bacteria
  3. Protozoa
  4. Aves
  5. Algae
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these is NOT a friendly microbe?

  1. Yeast
  2. Lactobacillus
  3. HIV
  4. Rhizobium
  5. Azetobacter
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the term for a virus that attacks bacteria?

  1. Bacteriophage
  2. Agaricus
  3. Saccharomyces
  4. Lactobacillus
  5. Azetobacter
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following microbes can change shape?

  1. Spirogyra
  2. Yeast
  3. Bread mould
  4. Chlamydomonas
  5. Amoeba
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these can increase soil fertility?

  1. Amoeba
  2. Rhizobium
  3. Bread mould
  4. Yeast
  5. Lactobacillus
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these is NOT an antibiotic?

  1. Streptomycin
  2. Tetracycline
  3. Sodium benzoate
  4. Erythromycin
  5. Kanamycin
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these famous personalities discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic?

  1. Edward Jenner
  2. Louis Pasteur
  3. Robert Koch
  4. Alexander Fleming
  5. Anton von Leeuvenhock
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of these is a chemical preservative?

  1. NPK
  2. Penicillin
  3. Alcohol
  4. Nitrate
  5. Sodium metabisulphite
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is said to be 'in the borderline between living and non-living'?

  1. Bacteria
  2. Virus
  3. Algae
  4. Protozoa
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

'Pulse Polio Programme' was started in India to eradicate which disease?

  1. Typhoid
  2. Polio
  3. Tuberculosis
  4. Cholera
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these is NOT a method of food preservation?

  1. Using sugar
  2. Using oil and vinegar
  3. Refrigeration
  4. Keeping food at room temperature, in moisture
  5. Using salt
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these is NOT a process of nitrogen cycle occurring in nature?

  1. Starch is produced by photosynthesis
  2. Blue-green algae and bacteria fix nitrogen
  3. Uptake of nitrate by plants
  4. Lightning fixes nitrogen
  5. Death of organisms and nitrogenous waste excretion brings nitrogenous materials back to soil.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following terms correctly defines pasteurisation?

  1. Action done by rhizobium
  2. Using of chemical preservatives in food
  3. A method of milk preservation
  4. Anaerobic respiration
  5. Use of antibiotics
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of these organisms can produce wine from natural sugars?

  1. Yeast
  2. Blue-green algae
  3. Bread mould
  4. Virus
  5. Spirogyra
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Against which of these diseases is antibiotic NOT effective?

  1. Malaria
  2. Typhoid
  3. Tuberculosis
  4. Cholera
  5. Cold and flu
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