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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

Year-wise coverage for Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

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

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Life Sciences (XL) 202620263View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 202520253View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 202420242View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 202320232View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 202120212View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201920194View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201820182View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201620161View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201520151View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201420142View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201220122View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 201020101View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 200920091View paper
Life Sciences (XL) 200720072View paper

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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2015 · Life Sciences · Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity · Microbial Groups and Viral Classification
Life Sciences (XL) 2015
Lophotrichous bacteria have
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