Multiple Choice Quiz on Lichens

This quiz is designed to assess your  understanding about the "Lichen". 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. Lichens that are rock dwellers with xerophytic adaptations are called
lignicolous
terricolous
saxicolous
corticolous
2. If the fungal partner belongs to Ascomycetes, then called
ascomycetes
ascomycetes lichen
lichen
ascolichen
3. Terrestrial species that grow in soil are called
lignicolous
terricolous
saxicolous
corticolous
4. Leprose lichens are
crust like
leaf like
pendulous
scale like
5. Graphis is a
foliose lichen
fruticose lichen
crustose lichen
filamentous lichen
6. Which of the lichen is used to treat hydrophobia?
Peltigera
Cetraria
Cladonia
Graphis
7. Usnic acid, a broad spectrum antibiotic is obtained from
Usnea
Cladonia
both Usnea and Cladonia
Usnea only
8. Which of the following lichen is called as the “reindeer moss” (food for reindeer)
Cetraria islandica
Cladonia rengiferina
Peltigera canina
Evernia
9. Which of the following lichen are the pioneers in xerosere
foliose lichens
leprose lichens
crustose lichens
fruticose lichen
10. Letharia vulpine is a poisonous lichen as they secrete
letharic acid
vulpinic acid
usnic acid
selinium
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