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Home⇒ Medical Science⇒ Microbiology⇒ Microbes in aquatic environment
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Q1 ⇒ The Redfield ratio is an index of concentration of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] carbon, hydrogen and oxygen nitrogen, potassium and iron carbon, phosphorous and sulfur |
Q2 ⇒ Metabolism of dissolved organic material released by phytoplankton allows heterotrophic bacteria to become part of the particulate organic matter that is passed up the food web to be metabolized and released as mineral elements and CO2 at each transfer. This sentence describes the microbial loop [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] Winogradsky column Redfield ratio Gibbs free energy |
Q3 ⇒ The rate of flux of oxygen in air is __________ to/than the rate of flux of oxygen in water. greater [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] lesser approximately equal half |
Q4 ⇒ Which of the following is correct? Ultramicrobacteria or nanobacteria are the dominant bacteria in marine systems [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] Ultramicrobacteria or nanobacteria are so numerous that they are a major food source for heterotrophic flagellates Both (a) and (b) none of the above |
Q5 ⇒ Which of the following is correct? A Winogradsky column is used to demonstrate interactions and gradients that occur in aquatic environments [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] A Winogradsky column is used to filter out microorganisms from a water sample taken from a deep black smoker Both (a) and (b) A Winogradsky column is used to filter out microorganisms from non-aquatic environments |
Q6 ⇒ The sulfur pearl of Namibia, Thiomargarita namibiensis Both (a) and (b) [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] is the worlds largest bacterium stores high concentrations of nitrate in a huge internal vacuole which takes up 98% of the organisms volume is the worlds smallest bacterium |
Q7 ⇒ Members of all of the following genera of bacteria typically are found in a maturing Winogradsky column except Escherichia [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] Clostridium Rhodospirillum Chlorobium |
Q8 ⇒ Hyphomycete fungi both (a) and (b) [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] produce nonmotile tetaradiate conidia grow in leaves and the infected leaves are the preferred food source for some aquatic insects none of the above |
Q9 ⇒ Which of the following species in water reveal the presence of fecal pollution of human or animal origin? All of these [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] E.coli Fecal Streptococci Clostridium perfringens |
Q10 ⇒ All of the following species are considered coliforms except Salmonella typhi [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] Enterobacter aerogenes Klebsiella pneumoniae Escherichia coli |
Q11 ⇒ The amount of oxygen dissolved in hypolimnion water in the winter is __________ to/than the amount of oxygen dissolved in hypolimnion water in the summer greater [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] lesser approximately equal to half |
Q12 ⇒ Coliforms are used as indicator organisms because both (a) and (b) [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] they are present wherever enteric pathogens are present a testing procedure with great specificity is easy to perform none of the above |
Q13 ⇒ Trickling filter comes under secondary treatment [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] primary treatment tertiary treatment none of these |
Q14 ⇒ Chemical precipitation of phosphorus is tertiary treatment [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] primary treatment secondary treatment both (a) and (b) |
Q15 ⇒ Because it can be used with a variety of media and allow a resuscitation step the __________ technique has become the common and often preferred method of evaluating the microbiological characteristics of water. membrane filtration [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] most probable number Winogradsky MUG |
Q16 ⇒ Removal of solids is generally considered as a Primary treatment [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] Secondary treatment Tertiary treatment None of these |
Q17 ⇒ Which of the following is correct? All members of Hyphomycetes are also members of Fungi, but not all members of Fungi are members of Hyphomycetes [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] All members of Fungi are also members of Hyphomycetes, but not all members of Hyphomycetes are members of Fungi All members of Hyphomycetes are members of Fungi, and all members of Fungi are members of Hyphomycetes No member of Hyphomycetes is a member of Fungi |
Q18 ⇒ __________ is an environment like __________ where microorganisms are functioning in an extremely thin film of water and where oxygen-containing air is close to them. high oxygen diffusion environment; soils [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] low oxygen diffusion environment; soils low oxygen diffusion environment; lakes high oxygen diffusion environment; lakes |
Q19 ⇒ Loss of carbon through the microbial loop in oligotrophic environments is __________ to/than the loss of carbon through the microbial loop in copiotrophic environments. greater [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] lesser approximately equal half |
Q20 ⇒ Activated sludge undergoes Secondary treatment [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] Primary treatment Tertiary treatment any of these |