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This document contains questions about microorganisms including their types (fungi, algae, protozoa, bacteria, viruses), structures, habitats, roles in food production and the environment. It asks about microscopic structures, modes of nutrition, examples of microbes, properties, sizes, shapes, characteristics of kingdoms, and microbes involved in nitrogen fixation, food production like cheese and bread, and roles in the human body and animal industry. The document covers microorganisms from a basic level through more specialized topics.

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Science Exc

This document contains questions about microorganisms including their types (fungi, algae, protozoa, bacteria, viruses), structures, habitats, roles in food production and the environment. It asks about microscopic structures, modes of nutrition, examples of microbes, properties, sizes, shapes, characteristics of kingdoms, and microbes involved in nitrogen fixation, food production like cheese and bread, and roles in the human body and animal industry. The document covers microorganisms from a basic level through more specialized topics.

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Ch 2 Microorganism

1. What are microorganisms?


2. What is the study of microorganisms called?
3. Who are the scientists that study them?
4. What is a microscope?
5. What is a compound microscope?
6. What are the lenses called?
7. What is the object to be seen called?
8. What is the thin piece of glass called?
9. Where do microorganisms live?
10. What is a cyst?
11. What are the types of microorganisms?
12. Are fungi plants? If yes then what do they share and what it doesn’t?
13. Can they be multicellular?
14. What are hyphae?
15. Which mode of nutrition fungi gets and why?
16. Are most fungi microscopic? And if yes then which is not?
17. Give four examples of fungi.
18. Tell all properties without looking at previous questions
19. What causes greyish patches on bread if it is kept in a warm place after sprinkling it with
water?
20. What are spore-like structures on rhizopus at the top?
21. What are at its base?
22. What are the oldest living organisms?
23. Are they mostly multicellular?
24. What is its size?
25. What is 1 micron?
26. Tell it's different shapes.
27. Are algae plants like fungi? If yes then what does it share?
28. Do they contain leaves, roots, and stems?
29. Tell the colors of algae.
30. What is its size? If there is a bigger one then what is it?
31. Can it be multicellular?
32. Give four examples.
33. Which microorganisms have animal-like characteristics?
34. Are they multicellular?
35. Where are they found?
36. What are parasites?
37. Are they mobile?
38. What is its size?
39. Give 5 examples and 1 parasite example of protozoa.
40. What are the microorganisms that cannot be seen under a microscope?
41. What is its size?
42. Can they grow on their own?
43. Give its four shapes.
44. Where are they found?
45. What are bacteriophages?
46. What do they do to host cells?
47. Give some viral diseased in plants.
48. Give some in animals.
49. Give some in humans.
50. How does milk change to curd?
51. What is the exact bacteria name. What does it convert, what are the conditions, how many
hours does it take.
52. What is the above process called?
53. What is coagulates?
54. How is cheese and paneer made, like from which bacteria?
55. What are the additional bacteria added to give it a special flavor?
56. Curing(Adding special taste) of tea leaves is done by which microorganism?
57. Why is it done?
58. Where else it is also done?
59. Which fungus is added to bread and why? What removes the CO2?
60. What else food items are made with fungus?
61. How is the dough of these made?
62. A Gujurat dish is also made with that fungus. What is that?
63. What is the process of converting sugar to alcohol called?
64. How is beer and wine made?
65. What is an edible fungi?
66. Give a bacteria that is used to make antibiotics and give the names of antibiotics too.
67. BTW What are antibiotics?
68. Vitamin B complex tablet is made using which bacteria?
69. Give a fungus used to make an antibiotic and give the name of antibiotic.
70. What is the immune system?
71. What are pathogens?
72. What are they also called?
73. What does our body produce to fight against them? Explain those things
74. What are vaccines?
75. What is immunization?
76. Name the microbes used to fix nitrogen.
77. What are biological nitrogen fixers?
78. How do bacteria convert nitrogen to usable forms?
79. What is the nitrogen cycle?
80. What is nitrogen fixation?
81. Why is nitrogen needed?
82. Give four ways of nitrogen fixation.
83. What is biological nitrogen fixation?
84. What is atmospheric nitrogen fixation?
85. Give the equations(hint: nitric oxide, Nitrogen dioxide, nitric acid, Calcium nitrate)
86. What is assimilation?
87. What is ammonification?
88. What is nitrification?
89. Which bacteria convert ammonia to nitrites?
90. What convert nitrites to nitrates?
91. What is denitrification? Give the bacteria 2 name.
92. How they help get a good environment?
93. Retting of which fibers is done by bacteria and why?
94. Where is bacteria used in the animal industry?
95. Bacteria and protozoa help in ways in the alimentary canal. How?
96. Continued….

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