FIP2023-Biology quiz

Sample Question

Which of the following is NOT true about bacterial endospores?

• All bacteria can sporulate.

• Endospores can resist bad environments.

• Endospores germinate in favorable environments.

• Clostridium species can form endospores.

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  Which of the following is true about the theory of spontaneous generation?

• States that all cells come from pre-existing cells

• States that life arises from non-living matter

• Is believed to be true today

• All of the above

• Which is NOT true of bacteria?

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      They are prokaryotes

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• • They have peptidoglycan in their cell walls

• • They have a nucleus

• • Some use photosynthesis

• Who came up with the rules for attributing a certain disease to a specific microbe?

• • Bassi

• • Semmelwise

• • Koch

• • Lister

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  What is osmosis?

• • Movement of particles from high concentration to low

• • Bursting of cells due to pressure

• • Movement of water

• • All of the above

Identify the eminent Biologist/ Scientist

• Gregor Johann Mendel

• Theophrastus

• Aristotle

• None of these

Homozygous or Heterozygous: ff

• Homozygous

• Heterozygous

• Both

• None of These

The alternate form of a gene is

• Dominant character

• Alternate type

• Recessive character

• Allele