BHU PMT BHU PMT (Mains) Solved Paper-2010

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    What is common about Trypanosoma, Noctiluca, Monocystis and Giardia?

    A)  These are all unicellular protists

    B)  They have flagella

    C)  They produce spores

    D)  These are all parasites

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

                     Trypanosoma, Nortiluca, Monocystis and Giardia are all unicellular protists. Trypanosoma gambiense is the single-celled, parasitic zooflagellate causing trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness. Giardia or the 'Grand old man of the intestine' is a diplomonadid parasitic flagellate occurring in the intestine of man and other animals and causes giardiasis or diarrhoea (ie, very loose and frequent stool containing large quantity of fat). Noctiluca is a marine, colourless  dinoflagellate- It is a voracious predator and has a long, motile tentacle, near the base of which, its single short flagellum emerges.


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