Multiple Choice Quiz on Fungi

This practice test is designed to assess your basic knowledge in ‘Fungi’. Questions come under ‘medium’ category. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Get score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Which of the following secretes toxins during storage conditions of crop plants?
Fusarium
Colletotrichum
Aspergillus
All of these
2. Which of the following statements is true about fungi imperfecti?
They include species that prey only on nematodes
They include toadstools and puffballs
They do not have sexual phase
They include Aspergillus, the fungus used to make soya sauce
3. The edible part of mushroom
basidiocarp
primary mycelium
fungal hyphae
basidiospores
4. Fungal spores produced asexually at the top of hyphae are
oidia
condia
aplanospores
sporangiophore

5. Fungi differ from other kingdoms in being
multicellular consumers
unicellular decomposers
unicellular decomposers
multicellular decomposers
6. Clamp connections are observed in
ascomycetes
oomycetes
zygomycetes
basidiomycetes
7. The pathogen Microsporum responsible for ringworm disease in human belongs to the same kingdom organisms as that of
Taenia, a tapeworm
Ascaris, a round worm
Rhizopus, a mould
Wucherehia, a filiarial worm
8. Which pair of the following belongs to basidiomycete?
Puffballs and Claviceps
Bird's nest fungi and Puffballs
Morchella and Mushroom
Peziza and Stink horns
9. For Mucor zygospore
is thick walled resting spore
is haploid in structure
result of asexual reproduction
germinates to form zoospores
10. Columella is a specialized sterile structure found in the sporangium of
Ulothrix
Rhizopus
Spirogyra
None of these
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