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Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity - Life Sciences Previous Year Questions

Practice Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity - Life Sciences previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

14Papers
14Years
28Questions
1Topics

Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity question pattern

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Questions by year

Compare question counts across years.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 15 53.6%
Medium 13 46.4%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 21 75%
MSQ 6 21.4%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 1 3.6%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Life Sciences
28 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity
28 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Microbial Groups and Viral Classification
22 Qs
Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogeny
6 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Life Sciences (XL) 2026
3 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2025
3 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2024
2 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2023
2 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2021
2 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2019
4 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2018
2 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2016
1 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2015
1 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2014
2 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2012
2 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2010
1 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2009
1 Qs
Life Sciences (XL) 2007
2 Qs

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Included previous year papers

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Paper nameYearPDFAttempt
Life Sciences (XL) 20262026
3 questions in this view
2026
Life Sciences (XL) 20252025
3 questions in this view
2025
Life Sciences (XL) 20242024
2 questions in this view
2024
Life Sciences (XL) 20232023
2 questions in this view
2023
Life Sciences (XL) 20212021
2 questions in this view
2021
Life Sciences (XL) 20192019
4 questions in this view
2019
Life Sciences (XL) 20182018
2 questions in this view
2018
Life Sciences (XL) 20162016
1 questions in this view
2016
Life Sciences (XL) 20152015
1 questions in this view
2015
Life Sciences (XL) 20142014
2 questions in this view
2014
Life Sciences (XL) 20122012
2 questions in this view
2012
Life Sciences (XL) 20102010
1 questions in this view
2010
Life Sciences (XL) 20092009
1 questions in this view
2009
Life Sciences (XL) 20072007
2 questions in this view
2007

Sample previous year questions

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2007 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Microbial Groups and Viral Classification
Life Sciences (XL) 2007
Q. 16-22 are matching exercises.
Choose the correct one from the alternatives A, B, C and D.
Group I (Name of the Fungus)Group II (Class)
P. Agaricus sp.1. Ascomycetes
Q. Pilobolus sp.2. Deuteromycetes
R. Neurospora sp.3. Phycomycetes
S. Rhizoctonia sp.4. Actinomycetes
5. Basidiomycetes
6. Zygomycetes
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2
2009 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Life Sciences (XL) 2009
Which one of the following is NOT the criterion for using ribosomal RNAs as evolutionary chronometers ?
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3
2010 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Microbial Groups and Viral Classification
Life Sciences (XL) 2010

Bacterial cell lysis by lysozyme is due to the

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4
2012 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Life Sciences (XL) 2012
Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology groups bacteria into species according to their
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5
2014 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Microbial Groups and Viral Classification
Life Sciences (XL) 2014
Most viral capsids have
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6
2015 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Microbial Groups and Viral Classification
Life Sciences (XL) 2015
Lophotrichous bacteria have
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