Biology MCQs

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Nitrite reductase refers to any of several classes of enzymes that catalyze the reduction of nitrite. They are enzymes that catalyze reduction of nitrate to nitrite using a molybdenum cofactor.

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Marsh Mallow is not a carnivorous plant. Whereas Pitcher plant, Venus Fly Trap and waterwheel plant are carnivorous plants. Carnivorous plants derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods.

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Please note that Polar Bear is the largest land carnivore animal, weighing about 350 to 700 kgs.
Kodiak bear which is also of same size is a Omnivore

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Human papilloma virus (HPV) is a viral infection that’s passed between people through skin-to-skin contact. There are over 100 varieties of HPV. Human Papilloma Virus is 0related to Cervical cancer.

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Uric acid is not soluble in water and is excreted as a dry crystal by the animal’s digestive system. Ammonia is the most toxic nitrogenous waste and must be excreted in large volumes of water.

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Cleviceps purpurea is an important ascomycete that grows on the grains of rye grass cereals. It produces the drug ergot, which is both a severe poison and a useful medicinal drug. It affects the central nervous system as well as causes the contraction of involuntary muscle. Ergotism, caused by eating infected rye bread, was common in the Middle Ages, when it was known as “St. Anthony’s Fire.

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Sunstroke plants or heliophytes are adapted to a habitat with a very intensive insolation, because of the construction of its own structure and maintenance. Heliophytes, for example, are mullein, ling, thyme and soft velcro, white clover, and most roses.

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Guttation takes place due to the development of root pressure. Guttation is the exudation of drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants, such as grasses and a number of fungi.

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Oxygen is a natural element which no animal can live without. Fish and other aquatic animals depend on oxygen gas dissolved in water as much as people depend on oxygen gas in air. Many people are surprised to learn that fish and other aquatic organisms don’t use oxygen from water molecules (H2O). This is because the single oxygen molecule (O) is bound to the two hydrogen molecules (H2) and is not useable in this form. Instead, aquatic organisms depend on dissolved oxygen gas (O2), a colorless, tasteless and odorless substance that enters the water from plants and the atmosphere.

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The retina is a thin membrane which covers the inside back of the eye. Like film in a camera, the retina is the light-sensitive surface where images from the outside world come to a focus.