1. Which of the following protects the body against infectious disease and foreign invaders?
[A] Leukocytes
[B] Red blood cells
[C] Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
[D] Golgi apparatus
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Correct Answer: A [Leukocytes]
Notes:
White blood cells (WBCs), also called leukocytes or leucocytes, are the cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders. All white blood cells are produced and derived from multipotent cells in the bone marrow known as hematopoietic stem cells.
2. Which among the following disease is called by Yersinia pestis?
[A] Leprosy
[B] Anthrax
[C] Plague
[D] Dengue
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Correct Answer: C [Plague]
Notes:
Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. It is usually found in small mammals and their fleas. The disease is transmitted between animals via their fleas. As it is a zoonotic bacterium, it can also transmit from animals to humans.
3. During the process of Osmosis, the solvent travels from _______ ?
[A] Concentrated solution to dilute solution
[B] Dilute solution to the concentrated solution
[C] Solvent does not travel in osmosis
[D] None of the above
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Correct Answer: B [Dilute solution to the concentrated solution]
Notes:
Osmosis is a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a dilite solution into concentrated one making both the sides equal.
4. The reverse osmosis is the process of forcing a solvent from a region of high solute concentration through a membrane to a region of low solute concentration by applying a pressure on ________?
[A] Concentrated solution
[B] Dilute solution
[C] Membrane
[D] None of the above
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Correct Answer: A [Concentrated solution]
Notes:
This process requires that a high pressure be exerted on the high concentration side of the membrane.
5. The metals in which among the following groups are required in maximum quantities in a living organism?
[A] Potassium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Calcium
[B] Potassium, Molybdenum, Copper, Calcium
[C] Pottassium,Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium
[D] Sodium, Magnesium, Copper, Manganese
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Correct Answer: C [Pottassium,Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium]
Notes:
Potassium, Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium are required in maximum quantities in a living organism.
6. The useful part of Zingiber officinale is ____?
[A] Roots
[B] Rhizome
[C] Leaves
[D] fruits
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Correct Answer: B [Rhizome]
Notes:
The useful part of Zingiber officinale is rhizome. It is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and also as a medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial plant.
7. Pest-resistant cotton commonly known as ‘Bt-Cotton’ is genetically engineered by inserting a gene from a:
[A] Bacterium
[B] Virus
[C] Microalgae
[D] Protist
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Correct Answer: A [Bacterium]
Notes:
Bt cotton is an insect-resistant transgenic crop designed to combat the bullworm. Bt is a soil bacterium containing Cry genes that encode crystal proteins which are fatal to some Lepidopteran caterpillars when ingested.
8. What do we call the non-green heterotrophic plants of plant kingdom?
[A] Bacteria
[B] Fungi
[C] Archaea
[D] Escherichia coli
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Correct Answer: B [Fungi]
Notes:
Fungi are called the non-green heterotrophic plants of plant kingdom. This Kingdom includes smuts, rusts, yeasts, molds, mushrooms, etc. It is an eukaryotic organism.
9. Which of the following is the characteristic of water present in coconut?
[A] liquid endocarp
[B] liquid nucellus
[C] liquid mesocarp
[D] degenerated liquid endosperm
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Correct Answer: D [degenerated liquid endosperm]
Notes:
The coconut water from tender coconut that we are familiar with, is nothing but free nuclear endosperm (made up of thousands of nuclei) and the surrounding white kernel is the cellular endosperm. In the most common types of endosperm development, the Primary Endosperm Nucleus (PEN) undergoes successive.
10. Which process develops new species from the existing species?
[A] Homologous
[B] Analogous
[C] Speciation
[D] Genetic variation
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Correct Answer: C [Speciation]
Notes:
Speciation is the formation of new species. Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for cladogenesis, the splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within lineages.
