Kingdom Fungi — NEET Biology MCQs with Solutions
Free NEET Biology Kingdom Fungi MCQs with step-by-step solutions (9 questions). Part of Biological Classification. Practise online on Prepizo — no login needed.
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Questions with solutions
Q1 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
The reserve food material stored in fungi is:
A. Inulin
B. Starch
C. Cellulose
D. Glycogen ✓ Correct
Solution: Fungi (like animals) store food as glycogen; their walls are made of chitin.
Q2 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
The body of a filamentous fungus is a network of thread-like structures collectively called the:
A. Thallus of cells
B. Rhizoid
C. Mycelium (of hyphae) ✓ Correct
D. Protonema
Solution: Hyphae form the mycelium; hyphae may be coenocytic (aseptate) or septate.
Q3 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Rhizopus (bread mould) belongs to which class of fungi?
A. Phycomycetes ✓ Correct
B. Deuteromycetes
C. Basidiomycetes
D. Ascomycetes
Solution: Phycomycetes (e.g. Mucor, Rhizopus, Albugo) have coenocytic hyphae and asexual zoospores/aplanospores.
Q4 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
The "sac fungi" that produce ascospores endogenously in a sac-like ascus are:
A. Phycomycetes
B. Deuteromycetes
C. Basidiomycetes
D. Ascomycetes ✓ Correct
Solution: Ascomycetes (e.g. Aspergillus, Penicillium, yeast) form ascospores within an ascus; many are of great commercial value.
Q5 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
Mushrooms, puffballs and bracket fungi, which bear basidiospores exogenously on a basidium, are:
A. Ascomycetes
B. Basidiomycetes ✓ Correct
C. Slime moulds
D. Phycomycetes
Solution: Basidiomycetes produce basidiospores on club-shaped basidia; they include the common mushrooms and rusts/smuts.
Q6 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
Deuteromycetes are called "imperfect fungi" because:
A. Only their asexual (or vegetative) phase is known ✓ Correct
B. They lack a cell wall
C. They are prokaryotic
D. They cannot reproduce at all
Solution: In Deuteromycetes only asexual/vegetative reproduction is observed; when a sexual stage is found they are reclassified.
Q7 — Kingdom Fungi · hard · theory
In fungi, a temporary dikaryotic (n + n) condition arises during sexual reproduction because:
A. Karyogamy precedes plasmogamy
B. Meiosis occurs before fertilisation
C. They are always diploid
D. Plasmogamy is not immediately followed by karyogamy ✓ Correct
Solution: The sequence is plasmogamy → (delay: dikaryon) → karyogamy → meiosis; the intervening dikaryophase is a hallmark of higher fungi.
Q8 — Kingdom Fungi · hard · theory
Which fungal class is chiefly responsible for the plant diseases "rusts" and "smuts"?
A. Phycomycetes
B. Deuteromycetes
C. Basidiomycetes ✓ Correct
D. Ascomycetes
Solution: Rusts (Puccinia) and smuts are caused by basidiomycetes, of major agricultural importance.
Q9 — Kingdom Fungi · hard · theory
A fungus reproduces asexually by conidia and its sexual stage is unknown; on the mycelium it acts as a decomposer. It is most appropriately placed in:
A. Ascomycetes
B. Basidiomycetes
C. Deuteromycetes ✓ Correct
D. Phycomycetes
Solution: Conidia-forming fungi lacking a known sexual stage are Deuteromycetes; many are decomposers or mineralisers.