Microorganisms: Types, Diseases, and Classification

Test your knowledge of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, the diseases they cause, their ecological relationships, and vaccines used against them.

10 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a communicable disease?

  1. Cholera
  2. Common cold
  3. Chickenpox
  4. Anaemia
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

DPT vaccines are administered against

  1. virus
  2. bacteria
  3. fungus
  4. protozoa
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Yellow vein mosaic of okra is caused by a

  1. bacterium
  2. fungus
  3. virus
  4. protozoan
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The microorganisms that live on a host’s body and take benefit from it without harming the host are called

  1. saprophytes
  2. commensals
  3. symbionts
  4. microbes
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a viral disease?

  1. Mumps
  2. Polio
  3. Dysentery
  4. Rabies
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding yeast?

  1. It is a unicellular and saprophytic fungus.
  2. Yeast cell has a cell wall.
  3. It exhibits sexual as well as asexual reproduction.
  4. It cannot be used in biological researches.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a non–infectious disease?

  1. Leukaemia
  2. Flu
  3. Cold
  4. Small pox
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Hepatitis B is caused by a

  1. bacterium
  2. fungus
  3. virus
  4. plasmodium
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following diseases affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis?

  1. Polio
  2. Rabies
  3. AIDS
  4. Typhoid
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Late blight of potato is caused by a

  1. virus
  2. fungus
  3. amoeba
  4. bacterium