FSc Part 1 Biology chapter 8: Kingdom Fungi MCQs with answers

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20 exam-style questions on Kingdom Fungi, each with the answer and a short explanation. Ten of them are below to try. The chapter test draws ten fresh questions each time and is marked the moment you finish, with your score by topic.

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Ten Kingdom Fungi questions with answers

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1. The gills on the underside of a mushroom cap bear

  1. A
    conidiophores bearing conidia
  2. B
    basidia bearing four basidiospores each
  3. C
    sporangia bearing sporangiospores
  4. D
    asci bearing ascospores
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Answer: B. Mushrooms are basidiocarps of Basidiomycota; their gills are lined with basidia.

2. Ringworm and athlete's foot are caused by

  1. A
    fungi that digest keratin in the outer skin cells
  2. B
    bacteria that live in the sweat glands
  3. C
    nematodes that burrow under the skin
  4. D
    viruses that infect the outer skin cells
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Answer: A. These skin infections are caused by dermatophyte fungi, which digest keratin. Ringworm is not caused by a worm.

3. Rhizopus, the black bread mould, belongs to

  1. A
    Zygomycota
  2. B
    Basidiomycota
  3. C
    Deuteromycota
  4. D
    Ascomycota
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Answer: A. Rhizopus is a zygomycete: coenocytic hyphae, sporangia and sexual zygospores.

4. Fungi store their surplus food mainly as

  1. A
    protein crystals in the cytoplasm
  2. B
    glycogen and oil droplets
  3. C
    sucrose in a large central vacuole
  4. D
    starch grains in amyloplasts
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Answer: B. Like animals, fungi store glycogen and lipids. Fungi have no plastids, so they cannot store starch grains in amyloplasts.

5. Lichens are used as indicators of air pollution because they

  1. A
    take in carbon monoxide through stomata and are poisoned
  2. B
    grow well only where the air is heavily polluted
  3. C
    absorb sulphur dioxide directly from the air and die at high levels
  4. D
    release oxygen at night, which reacts with pollutants
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Answer: C. Lichens absorb substances directly from air and rain, so they disappear where sulphur dioxide pollution is high.

6. Cell walls isolated from a mushroom are not damaged by cellulase but are digested by chitinase. What does this show about the wall?

  1. A
    It is made mainly of cellulose, like a plant cell wall
  2. B
    It is made mainly of peptidoglycan, like a bacterial wall
  3. C
    It is made mainly of chitin, not cellulose
  4. D
    It is made mainly of pectin and lignin together
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Answer: C. Chitinase digests chitin, so the wall must contain it, while the failure of cellulase shows that cellulose is not the main component. Peptidoglycan is the wall material of bacteria.

7. Rust of wheat, which forms reddish-brown pustules on leaves and stems, is caused by

  1. A
    Ustilago
  2. B
    Candida
  3. C
    Aspergillus
  4. D
    Puccinia
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Answer: D. Puccinia is a rust fungus (Basidiomycota). Ustilago causes smut, turning grains into black spore masses.

8. Fungi placed in Deuteromycota (imperfect fungi) are grouped together because

  1. A
    they all form spores inside a sac-like ascus
  2. B
    no sexual stage is known for them
  3. C
    they are all obligate parasites of green plants
  4. D
    their cell walls are made of cellulose, not chitin
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Answer: B. Deuteromycota is a convenience group for fungi in which no sexual stage has been observed; most are related to ascomycetes. Their walls contain chitin and they are not all parasites.

9. Hyphae that have no cross-walls and contain many nuclei in a continuous cytoplasm are described as

  1. A
    dikaryotic, with two nuclei in each cell
  2. B
    septate, with pores in the cross-walls
  3. C
    uninucleate, with one nucleus in each cell
  4. D
    coenocytic (aseptate)
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Answer: D. Coenocytic hyphae, as in Rhizopus, lack septa. Septate hyphae have cross-walls, usually with pores.

10. A fungus growing on a rose leaf sends tiny branched tips through the cell walls of living leaf cells and absorbs sugars from them. These specialised tips are called

  1. A
    stolons
  2. B
    rhizoids
  3. C
    haustoria
  4. D
    conidiophores
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Answer: C. Haustoria are hyphal tips of parasitic fungi that penetrate host cells and absorb nutrients. Rhizoids anchor saprotrophic fungi such as Rhizopus and stolons are creeping hyphae.

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20, each with the answer and a short explanation, across 2 topics: Body, nutrition and reproduction of fungi, Classification and importance of fungi. Every chapter test draws ten of them, so you can take it many times.

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