Multiple Choice Quiz on Protozoa (Kingdom Protista)

This quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in 'Kingdom Protista'. 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 ' Score'.  Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. The slime moulds are characterized by the presence of
elaters
pseudoelaters
capillitium
all of these
2. In diatoms auxospores help in
spore formation
reproduction
metabolism
growth
3. Bioluminescence is exhibited by
Chlorella
Ceratium
Chlamydomonas
Hirudinaria
4. Auxosspores and hormogonia are formed, respectively
some diatoms and several cyanobacteria
several diatoms and a few cyanobacteria
several diatoms and a few diatoms
some cyanobacteria and many datoms
5. Euglenoids species that have chlorophyll are
facultative autotrophs
facultative heterotrophs
obligate heterotrophs
obligate autrophs
6. Which is correct?
slime moulds are haploid
protozoan lack cellwall
dinoflagellates are immotile
pellicle is absent in euglena
7. A dinoflagellate where mesokaryon does not occur in somatic cells
Gonyaulax
Peridinium
Noctiluca
Ceratium
8. Photosynthetic protists belong to
zooflagellates
bacillariophyceae
bacillariophyceae, euglenophyceae and dinophyceae
bacillariophyceae and Euglenophyceae
9. Percentage of plantkton constituted by protistans is
70%
80%
90%
95%
10. Kingdom Protista includes
life cycle showing zygotic meiosis
life cycle showing gametic meiosis
life cycle showing sporic meiosis
both zygotic and gametic meiosis
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