Kingdom Protista MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions and Answers)
Question 1 : Protista includes
A) Unicellular procaryotes
B) Unicellular eucaryotes
C) Bacteriophages
D) Blue-green algae
Answer : B
Question 2 : Which do not belong to Protista?
A) Euglenoids
B) Zooflagellates
C) Methanogens
D) Ciliates
Answer : C
Question 3 : Kingdom Protista includes
A) Unicellular eucaryotes
B) Colonial eucaryotes
C) Both A and B
D) Multicellular eucaryotes
Answer : C
Question 4 : Percentage of global photosynthesis performed by photosynthetic protists is
A) 30%
B) 50%
C) 65%
D) 80%
Answer : D
Question 5 : Percentage of plankton constituted by protistans is
A) 95%
B) 85%
C) 80%
D) 70%
Answer : A
Question 6 : The life style present in protists is
A) Plant
B) Fungal
C) Animal
D) All the above
Answer : D
Question 7 : Protistans are connecting link between
A) Plants and Animals
B) Fungi and plants
C) Monerans and kingdoms of multicellular organisms
D) Fungi and animals
Answer : C
Question 8 : Parasitic mode of nutrition is
A) Absortive
B) Phagotropic
C) Both A and B
D) Holotrophic
Answer : C
Question 9 : A symbiotic protist is
A) Plasmodium
B) Lophomonas
C) Fuligo
D) Trypanosoma
Answer : B
Question 10 : Binary fission is transverse in
A) Paramecium
B) Euglena
C) Ceratium
D) Amoeba
Answer : A
Question 11 : Plasmotomy occurs in case of
A) Uninucleate protists
B) Binucleate protists
C) Multinucleate protists
D) All the above
Answer : C
Question 12 : The first eucaryotes to evolve were
A) Bryophytes
B) Green algae
C) Blue-green algae
D) Protistans
Answer : D
Question 13 : Which one is slowest mode of locomotion
A) Pseudopodial
B) Ciliary
C) Flagellar
D) Both A and C
Answer : A
Question 14 : Which is the fastest mode of locomotion
A) Wriggling
B) Pseudopodial
C) Ciliary
D) Flagellar
Answer : C
Question 15 : A conserved structure is
A) Contractile vacuole
B) Flagellum
C) Pseudopodium
D) All the above
Answer : B
Question 16 : Gametic meiosis occurs in
A) Diatoms
B) Acellular Slime Moulds
C) Noctiluca
D) All the above
Answer : D
Question 17 : Binary fission is oblique in
A) Ceratium
B) Noctiluca
C) Fuligo
D) Vorticella
Answer : A
Question 18 : In protista, phagotrophic nutrition is found in
A) Protozoan protists
B) Some dinoflagellates
C) A few euglenoids
D) All the above
Answer : D
Question 19 : Osmotrophy is related to
A) Saprophytic nutrition
B) Parasitic nutrition
C) Ingestive nutrition
D) Holophytic nutrition
Answer : A
Question 20 : Syngamy may occur through
A) Isogamy
B) Anisogamy
C) Oogamy and paedogamy
D) All the above
Answer : D
Question 21 : Mixotrophic nutrition is present in
A) Navicula
B) Amoeba
C) Paramecium
D) Euglena
Answer : D
Question 22 : Name of the luminescent protist
A) Navicula
B) Amoeba
C) Elphidium
D) Noctiluca
Answer : D
Question 23 : Which is a marine protist?
A) Amoeba proteus
B) Pelomyxa
C) Noctiluca
D) Paramecium
Answer : C
Question 24 : Protists having noncontractile pusule are
A) Sporozoans
B) Ciliates
C) Dinoflagellates
D) Navicula
Answer : C
Question 25 : Night phosphorescence or glow of sea water is due to
A) Noctiluca
B) Navicula
C) Phacus
D) Dictyostelium
Answer : A
Question 26 : Paralytic shell fish poisoning is caused by
A) Pinnularia
B) Gonyaulax
C) Elphidium
D) Vorticella
Answer : B
Question 27 : Night visibility increases in paints having
A) Foraminiferan ooze
B) Diatomaceous earth
C) Sporozoans
D) Noctiluca
Answer : B
Question 28 : The protistans in which cell size decreases with each division are
A) Dinoflagellates
B) Diatoms
C) Slime Moulds
D) Radiolarians
Answer : B
Question 29 : A protistan which is commonly called plant-animal is
A) Navicula
B) Noctiluca
C) Vorticella
D) Euglena
Answer : D
Question 30 : The interphase dinoflagellate nucleus contains
A) No chromatin reticulum
B) Condensed chromosomes
C) Acentric chromosomes
D) All the above
Answer : D
Question 31 : The storage product in Euglena (green euglenoids) is
A) Glycogen
B) Oil
C) Paramylum
D) Chrysolaminarin
Answer : C
Question 32 : Diatoms belong to
A) Dinoflagellates
B) Chrysophytes
C) Pyrrhophytes
D) Euglenoids
Answer : B
Question 33 : Food reserve of diatom is
A) Starch
B) Chrysolamirarin
C) Paramylon
D) Glycogen
Answer : B
Question 34 : Photosynthetic protists belong to
A) Bacillariophyceae
B) Bacillariophyceae and euglenophyceae
C) Bacillariophyceae, euglenophyceae and dinophyceae
D) Zooflagellates
Answer : C
Question 35 : The storage product of chrysophytes is
A) Oil and leucosin
B) Starch
C) Paramylum
D) Glycogen
Answer : A
Question 36 : Bivalved siliceous shell or frustule occurs in
A) Diatoms
B) Foraminiferans
C) Radiolarians
D) Heliozoans
Answer : A
Question 37 : Periplast of Euglena lies
A) External to plasma membrane
B) Internal to plasma membrane
C) As a thickening of plasma membrane
D) One on side of the organism
Answer : B
Question 38 : Metaboly is characteristic of
A) Amoebids
B) Helliozoans
C) Euglenoids
D) Dinoflagellates
Answer : C
Question 39 : Shell Fish taken from water during a red tide would be
A) Rich in proteins
B) Poisoned with neutrotoxin
C) Dead
D) Rich in fats
Answer : B
Question 40 : Golden Brown protists are
A) Bacillariophyceae
B) Dinophyceae
C) Both bacillariophyceae and dinophyceae
D) Euglenophyceae
Answer : C
Question 41 : Whirling Whips are protists which possess two flagella that beat
A) Slightly towards one side so as to cause rotation of the organism while moving forward
B) Forward, backward and sideways
C) At right angles to each other due to being present in different grooves
D) Along with numerous cilia
Answer : C
Question 42 : Protists having transverse and longitudinal groove in their theca are
A) Foraminiferans
B) Radiolarians
C) Diatoms
D) Dinoflagellates
Answer : D
Question 43 : Photosynthetic euglenoids are
A) Obligate autotrophs
B) Facultative heterotrophs
C) Facultative autotrophs
D) Obligate heterotrophs
Answer : B
Question 44 : Eye spot of Euglena is a
A) Nonplastid structure found near the reservoir
B) Nonplastid structure found on the side near the middle
C) Plastid structure present near the reservoir
D) Plastid structure found near the middle
Answer : A
Question 45 : Photosynthetic protists having trichocysts are
A) Dinophyceae
B) Ciliates
C) Bacillaripphyceae
D) Euglenophyceae
Answer : A
Question 46 : What is true about Euglena?
A) It stores fat as a reserve food
B) It swims by means of a single flagellum
C) Creeping movements can occur through meataboly
D) Both B and C.
Answer : D
Question 47 : In dinophyceae the two flagella are
A) Anterior
B) One transverse and other vertial
C) Lateral
D) Posterior
Answer : B
Question 48 : The sulcus or longitudinal groove of dinophycean shell contains
A) Narrow smooth flagellum
B) Thick ribbon-shaped flagellum
C) Tail
D) Mucilage canal
Answer : A
Question 49 : Mesokaryon is
A) A nucleus like structure
B) Nucleoid with histone protein
C) A nucleus with condensed chromosomes
D) A nucleoid with distinct chromosomes
Answer : C
Question 50 : Mesokaryon occurs in
A) Zooflagellates
B) Euglenoids
C) Sarcodines
D)Dinoflagellates
Answer : D