MCQs of Biology – Protozoa

Who has coined the term ;Protozoa”?

All protozoana have:

Study of microscopic organisms like plasmodium, paramecium, Amoeba, etc,is termed:

Protozoans are not included in kingdom Animalia because these are:

Protozoans are considered animals because they are:

As he looked through the microscope, supposed to be either an Amoeba, aciliate or a flagellate, but i can’t figure out which” . They teacher replied,” That’s easy ________.

Which of the following are Protozoans?

In general, how do algae and protozoans differ?

Pseudopodia commonly found in:

What would happen to the contractile vacuole if freshwater protozoans are placed in saline or in iso or hyperosmotic fluid?

What happens if a marine protozoan is transferred to a freshwater medium:

Which cell organielle is found exclusively in protozoans ?

Contractile vacuole is present in:

Which of the following is the main function of contractile vacuole?

A biologist was experimenting with a protozoan and noticed that the animals’ contractile vacuole stopped working although the other parts of the organism seemed to be in good health and exhibited normal activity. Which of the following experiment was likely to have produced this result?

If certain protozoan has two contractile vacuoles instead of one it suggests that it:

Which is the nitrogenous waste material of free- living protozoans?

Protozoans respire through:

The classification of Protozoa is mainly based on:

In Protozoa classification is based on:

Which of the following is not a locomotory organelle in Protozoa?

Which of the following is not the locomotory organ of Protozoa?

Which of the following is not matching?

Class Rhizopoda belongs to the phylum:

Pseudopodia occur in:

Sarcodina is the class of:

Which of the following is the characteristics feature of Rhizopoda?

Amoeba is a:

The type of pseudopodium seen in Euglypha:

Which word best describes the mode of nutrition in a phytomastigine?

Which of the following protozoans live in the gut of termites helping in cellulose digestion?

Trichonympha belongs to the class:

Which one of the following statements is correct?

Which of the following is called, grand old man of intestine’?

Select the matching pair:

Which of the following protozoan depicts the characteristics of both plants and animals?

Which of the following is a connecting link between protozoa and sponges?

The flagellum in Astasia is:

Which of the following is a shelled protozoan?

Exoskeleton is found in:

Locomotory organelles of sporozoa are:

Which class of protozoa includes all parasitic forms?

Sporozoa are characterized by:

Nosema notabilis is an example of:

Plasmodium, the malarial parasite, belongs to the class:

In Sporozoa:

Locomotory organs are absent in:

Presence of two types of nuclei, micronucleus and macronucleus, is characteristic of:

Suctoria is a class of the phylum:

Budding in protozoa is seen in:

The number of divisions that the synkaryon of post zygote vorticella undergoes is:

The exclusively parasitic class is:

The important characteristic of sporozoan protists is:

Which protozoan is unlikely to have a contractile vacuole?

An example of terrestrial protozoan is:

The parasite which lives in the tissue of the host is:

Monocystis is a parasite of:

In Monocystis when a trophozoite changes into the gametocyte, pairing of gametocytes occurs to form gametes. Pairing of gametocytes in this organism is known as:

In which of the following binary fission is not seen?

The contractile vacuole in protozoans is:

Contractile vacuole of protozoans is analogous to which organ of vertebrates?

In protozoans like Amoeba and Paramecium, osmoregulation is carried out by:

When a freshwater protozoan possessing a contractile vacuole is water, the vacuole will:

Contractile vacuole is absent in:

Common feature of Euglena, Amoeba, Trypanosoma and Entarmoeba is:

Conjugation in Protozoa is found in:

Which is not related with the sexual reproduction in protozoans?

Which one of the following is a sexual mode of reproduction in protozoa?