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Microorganisms: Friend and Foe - II

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Which of the following options is process to convert sugar to alcohol?

  1. Fermentation

  2. Fragmentation

  3. Fumigation

  4. Germination


Correct Option: A

Which of the following options is not a function of bacteria?

  1. Breakdown of organic waste into harmless and usable substances

  2. Decomposition of non-biodegradable waste

  3. Increase in soil fertility

  4. Used in baking industry for preparation of breads, pasteries and cakes

  5. Preparation of medicine


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Bacteria do not decompose non-biodegradable wastes.

How plant waste is decomposed?

  1. By the action of enzymes present in the waste.

  2. Soil provides catalyst which helps in decomposition.

  3. By the action of microbes present in the soil.

  4. Nutrients and minerals present in the soil helps in decomposition.


Correct Option: C

Which of the following options is not free living nitrogen fixing bacteria?

  1. Anabaena

  2. Nostoc

  3. Azobacta

  4. Rhizobium


Correct Option: D

Which of the following options is not example of antibiotics?

  1. Streptomycin

  2. Tetracycline

  3. Salmonella

  4. Erythromycine


Correct Option: C

Which of the following diseases is not cured by vaccine?

  1. Small pox

  2. Diptheria

  3. TuberculosIs

  4. Diabetes


Correct Option: D

Which of the following acts as a carrier of dengue?

  1. Female Anopheles mosquito

  2. Tse -tse fly

  3. Wucheria

  4. Female Aedes mosquito


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Female Aedes mosquito acts as a carrier of dengue.

Name the disease causing microorganism.

  1. Antibiotics

  2. Invaders

  3. Pathogens

  4. Carriers


Correct Option: C

Which of the following diseases is not communicable?

  1. Cholera

  2. Chicken pox

  3. Tuberculosis

  4. Arthritis


Correct Option: D

Which of the following options is the proper reason of giving vaccination to the infants/children?

  1. Vaccines introduce weak and dead microbes in the body of child which prepares the body to fight against disease causing microbes.

  2. Vaccines introduce living and healthy microbes in the body of child which prepares the body to fight against disease causing microbes.

  3. Vaccines introduce antibiotics in the body of the child which prepares the body to fight against disease causing microbes.

  4. Vaccines introduce antibodies in the body of the child which prepares the body to fight against diseases.


Correct Option: A

Which of the following organisms cause malaria?

  1. Planaria

  2. Bacillus

  3. Plasmodium

  4. Trypanosoma


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Carrier organisms are the organisms which carry disease-causing microorganisms to spread them from an infected person to a healthy person. All the communicable/infectious diseases are transmitted from a diseased to a healthy person through some source. Malaria is the disease for which the carrier organism is female Anopheles mosquito.

Why are preservatives added to food?

  1. To make food tasty

  2. For improving texture, colour and flavour of food

  3. To preserve food for long time

  4. To make food more nutritious


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Preservatives are substances that prevent attack and growth of micro organisms in food and prevent its spoilage. So, to keep food for longer duration, preservatives are added. 

Why should we keep a handkerchief on the nose and mouth while sneezing?

  1. It prevents the growth of microorganism

  2. It presents breeding of microorganism in air

  3. It prevents spread of micro organisms in the air

  4. It promotes growth of microorganism


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Communicable diseases may spread from a diseased to a healthy person through air, water or food. When we sneeze, we release micro organisms into air. If they are disease-causing, they will infect the other person also. 

Which of the following preservatives, is added in jams, jellies and squashes?

  1. Common salt

  2. Sugar

  3. Vinegar

  4. Ethanoic acid


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Preservatives are substances that prevent attack and growth of micro organisms on food and prevent its spoilage. So, to preserve food for longer duration, preservatives are added. Jams, Jellies and squashes are sweet substances. Sugar also acts as a preservative and is added to these to store them longer. 

What are the conditions at which milk is boiled to prevent growth of microbes?

  1. At 70oC for 5 to 7 min

  2. At 50oC for 15 to 30 second

  3. At 70oC for 15 to 30 second

  4. At 70oC for 15 to 30 min


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 High temperature prevents growth of microbes but providing high temperature for longer duration than the required time can even spoil the food. So, optimally, heating the food substance at 70oC for 15-30 seconds, helps prevent growth of microorganisms. 

Which of the following atmospheric gases is fixed by Rhizobium?

  1. Carbon dioxide

  2. Oxygen

  3. Nitrogen

  4. Hydrogen


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Nitrogen is a gas that cannot be directly used by plants. Rhizobium is bacteria present in root nodules of leguminous plants that converts the atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen salts to be used in soluble form.

Which of the following bacteria, has symbiotic relationship with leguminous plants?

  1. Azobacter

  2. Clostridium

  3. Rhizobium

  4. Lactobacillus


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Symbiotic relationship is the relationship between two groups of organisms both of which are benefited from each other in a mutual manner. Rhizobium is the bacterium, which lives in root nodules of leguminous plants. It gets its shelter from the plant and in reverse it fixes the atmospheric nitrogen to make it available to the plant. 

Which of the following is not a method of preservation?

  1. Deep freezing

  2. Canning

  3. Pasteurization

  4. Immunization


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 Deep freezing involves keeping food  at low temperature to prevent growth of micro organisms. Canning involves preservation through cutting off atmospheric contact with food. Pasteurization is a method of preserving milk by boiling and cooling it immediately. Thereafter, immunization refers to the protection against diseases by vaccination and is thus not a method of preservation. 

Carrier organism of which of the following diseases is female anopheles mosquito?

  1. Dengue

  2. Malaria

  3. Sleeping sickness

  4. Yellow fever


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Female mosquitoes contain particular enzymes that can cause malaria. These enzymes are not secreated by male mosquitoes.

Which of the following bacteria help in the process of ammonification?

  1. Nitrobacter

  2. Putrefying bacteria

  3. Nitrosomonas bacteria

  4. Rhizobium


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Putrefying bacteria is the bacterial form, which converts organic form of nitrogen into ammonia. This process is known as ammonification. Nitrobacterium converts nitrites into nitrates. Nitrosomonas converts nitrogen into nitrites and Rhizobium fixes atmospheric nitrogen. 

What is the function of nitrobacter bacteria?

  1. To convert ammonia into nitrites

  2. To convert nitrites into nitrates

  3. To convert nitrates into nitrites

  4. To convert nitrates into ammonia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Nitrobacterium is the bacterial form, which converts the already formed nitrites into more soluble andmore easily absorbable nitrogen salts i.e. the nitrates. 

Name the process by which percentage of nitrogen remains more or less constant in the atmosphere.

  1. Nitrogen fixation

  2. Nitrogen cycle

  3. Ammonification

  4. Denitrification


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Nitrogen fixation is the process, which converts atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen salts, ammonification refers to formation of ammonia from organic nitrogen, and denitrification refers to the conversion of nitrogen salts into atmospheric nitrogen back. To keep the percentage of nitrogen constant in the atmosphere, all these processes along with some other go simultaneously and the process in known as nitrogen cycle. 

Which of the following diseases is caused by fungi in animals?

  1. Rust of wheat

  2. Citrus canker

  3. Yellow vein mosaic

  4. Foot and mouth disease


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 Rust of wheat is a plant disease caused by bacteria. Yellow vein mosaic of bhindi is again a plant disease but caused by a virus. Foot and mouth disease is a viral disease, which affects cattle.Citrus canker is the disease for which the causal organism is fungi. 

Which of the following plant parts help(s) in absorption of nitrogeneous compounds from the soil?

  1. Leaves

  2. Stem

  3. Roots

  4. Flowers


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Any nutrient, which is to be absorbed by the plant is absorbed in the soluble form in water and this function is performed by the roots of plants. 

In which of the following form, plants and animals take nitrogen from atmosphere?

  1. In gaseous form (as nitrogen gas) directly

  2. In elementary form of nitrogen

  3. In compound form of nitrogen

  4. As a mixture of nitrogen and water from the cell.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Plants and animals contain nitrogen as a major constituent of their body in form of proteins in major. The percentage of atmospheric nitrogen i.e. N2 gas is very high but it cannot be directly used and utilized by living organisms. Nitrogen does not exist in elemental form as N so can not be used also. The gaseous N¬2 from the atmospheric is first converted into such compounds, which are readily used by plants and animals and thus is the correct option

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