Kingdom Fungi — NEET Biology MCQs with Solutions
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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.
Q10 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · numerical
The cell wall of most fungi is chiefly composed of:
A. peptidoglycan
B. lignin
C. cellulose
D. chitin ✓ Correct
Solution: Fungal cell walls are made mainly of chitin (a polysaccharide); cellulose is typical of plants and peptidoglycan of bacteria.
Q11 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · numerical
Yeast, widely used in baking and brewing, reproduces asexually most commonly by:
A. binary fission
B. zoospore formation
C. budding ✓ Correct
D. fragmentation of hyphae
Solution: Yeast (an ascomycete) typically multiplies asexually by budding, in which a small outgrowth pinches off as a new cell.
Q12 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · numerical
The mutualistic association between certain fungi and the roots of higher plants is called:
A. mycorrhiza ✓ Correct
B. rhizoid
C. lichen
D. mycelium
Solution: A mycorrhiza is the symbiosis between a fungus and plant roots; a lichen is a fungus-alga association, and mycelium/rhizoid are fungal structures.
Q13 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · numerical
Match the fungal class with its correct spore type and example: (i) Phycomycetes (ii) Ascomycetes (iii) Basidiomycetes (iv) Deuteromycetes; (p) ascospores, Penicillium (q) basidiospores, Agaricus (r) zoospores/aplanospores, Mucor (s) only asexual conidia, Alternaria.
A. (i)-(r), (ii)-(p), (iii)-(q), (iv)-(s) ✓ Correct
B. (i)-(r), (ii)-(q), (iii)-(p), (iv)-(s)
C. (i)-(s), (ii)-(p), (iii)-(q), (iv)-(r)
D. (i)-(p), (ii)-(r), (iii)-(s), (iv)-(q)
Solution: Phycomycetes make zoospores/aplanospores (Mucor), Ascomycetes ascospores (Penicillium), Basidiomycetes basidiospores (Agaricus), and Deuteromycetes only asexual conidia (Alternaria).
Q14 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · numerical
Assertion (A): In Ascomycetes the sexual spores are produced endogenously inside a sac-like ascus. Reason (R): In Basidiomycetes the sexual spores are borne exogenously on a club-shaped basidium.
A. A is false but R is true
B. A is true but R is false
C. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
D. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
Solution: Both facts are correct, but they describe two different classes independently; R is not an explanation of A.
Q15 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · numerical
Which feature is characteristic of the Phycomycetes, the so-called "lower fungi"?
A. an aseptate, coenocytic (multinucleate) mycelium ✓ Correct
B. production of ascospores within an ascocarp
C. a septate mycelium bearing dikaryotic cells
D. basidiospores developed on the gills of a fruiting body
Solution: Phycomycetes have aseptate, coenocytic hyphae; septa, ascocarps and basidiospores are features of higher fungal classes.
Q16 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · numerical
The antibiotic penicillin is obtained from a fungus that belongs to the class Ascomycetes; this fungus is:
A. Penicillium ✓ Correct
B. Puccinia
C. Agaricus
D. Rhizopus
Solution: Penicillium, an ascomycete, is the source of penicillin; Agaricus and Puccinia are basidiomycetes and Rhizopus is a phycomycete.
Q17 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Fungi have a cell wall composed of
A. Cellulose
B. Non-cellulosic + amino acid
C. Chitin ✓ Correct
D. Absence of cell wall
Solution: Fungal cell walls are made of chitin.
Q18 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
In five kingdom classification, multicellularity began from
A. Fungi ✓ Correct
B. Animalia
C. Plantae
D. Protista
Solution: In the five-kingdom scheme, multicellularity first appears in Kingdom Fungi.
Q19 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Smut and rust fungi are members of:
A. Phycomycetes
B. Deuteromycetes
C. Ascomycetes
D. Basidiomycetes ✓ Correct
Solution: Ustilago (smut) and Puccinia (rust) are basidiomycetes.
Q20 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Claviceps and Neurospora are members of:
A. Deuteromycetes
B. Basidiomycetes
C. Phycomycetes
D. Ascomycetes ✓ Correct
Solution: Claviceps and Neurospora are ascomycetes (sac fungi).
Q21 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
Branched and septate mycelium, conidia and ascospores are characteristics of:
A. Mucor
B. Puccinia
C. All are correct
D. Aspergillus ✓ Correct
Solution: Aspergillus is an ascomycete with branched septate mycelium, conidia and ascospores.
Q22 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Deuteromycetes are commonly known as imperfect fungi because:
A. Both asexual and sexual phases are known
B. Only vegetative phases of these fungi are known
C. Sexual phases of these fungi are known
D. Only the asexual or vegetative phases of these fungi are known ✓ Correct
Solution: Deuteromycetes are 'imperfect' because only their asexual/vegetative stages are known.
Q23 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
The common members of basidiomycetes are:
A. Agaricus, Rhizopus and Alternaria
B. Albugo, Rhizopus and Mucor
C. Agaricus, Ustilago and Puccinia ✓ Correct
D. Alternaria, Colletotrichum and Trichoderma
Solution: Agaricus, Ustilago and Puccinia are basidiomycetes.
Q24 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
The common members of phycomycetes are:
A. Mucor and Rhizopus ✓ Correct
B. Agaricus, Rhizopus and Alternaria
C. Alternaria, Colletotrichum and Trichoderma
D. Agaricus, Ustilago and Puccinia
Solution: Mucor and Rhizopus are phycomycetes.
Q25 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
Which are extensively used in biochemical and genetic work?
A. Alternaria and Trichoderma
B. Claviceps and Neurospora ✓ Correct
C. Mucor and Rhizopus
D. Ustilago and Puccinia
Solution: Neurospora (and Claviceps) are ascomycetes widely used in biochemical and genetic research.
Q26 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
The common members of deuteromycetes are:
A. Ustilago and Puccinia
B. Colletotrichum and Trichoderma ✓ Correct
C. Albugo, Rhizopus and Mucor
D. Trichoderma, Rhizopus and Alternaria
Solution: Alternaria, Colletotrichum and Trichoderma are deuteromycetes; Rhizopus is a phycomycete.
Q27 — Kingdom Fungi · medium · theory
Which of the following is NOT true for fungi?
A. Some unicellular fungi, e.g. yeast, are used to make bread and beer
B. Wheat rust is caused by Puccinia
C. White spots seen on mustard leaves are due to a parasitic fungus
D. Yeast is a source of antibiotics ✓ Correct
Solution: Antibiotics like penicillin come from Penicillium, not yeast.
Q28 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Vegetative reproduction in fungi can take place by:
A. All are correct ✓ Correct
B. Fission
C. Budding
D. Fragmentation
Solution: Fungi reproduce vegetatively by fragmentation, fission and budding.
Q29 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Asexual reproduction in fungi can take place by:
A. Conidia
B. All are correct ✓ Correct
C. Sporangiospores
D. Zoospores
Solution: Asexual fungal spores include conidia, sporangiospores and zoospores.
Q30 — Kingdom Fungi · easy · theory
Zygospore is formed in:
A. Phycomycetes ✓ Correct
B. Deuteromycetes
C. Ascomycetes
D. Basidiomycetes
Solution: Zygospores are formed in phycomycetes by fusion of gametes.