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Your advice is sought to improve the nitrogen content of the soil to use for cultivation of a non-leguminous terrestrial crop.

(a) Recommend two microbes that can enrich the soil with nitrogen.

(b) Why do leguminous crops not require such enrichment of the soil?


(a) Azospirillum, Azotobacter, Anabaena, Oscillatoria, etc.

(b) Leguminous crops have a symbiotic association with Rhizobium bacteria which traps N2 directly from the atmosphere and provides it to the plant and in turn gets food and shelter.


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How do cytokine barriers provide innate immunity in humans?


Name the source plants of heroin drug. How is it obtained from the plants?


Write the names of the following :
(a) A 15 mya primate that was ape-like
(b) A 2 mya primate that lives in East African grasslands


Name two diseases whose spread can be controlled by the eradication of Aedes mosquitoes.


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How did a citizen group called Friends of Arcata Marsh, Arcata, California, USA, help to improve water quality of the marshland using Integrated Waste Water Treatment ? Explain in four steps.


Mention the chemical change that proinsulin undergoes, to be able to act as mature insulin.


Write the dual purpose served by Deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates in the polymerisation.


You have obtained a high yielding variety of tomato. Name and explain the procedure that ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.


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Write the effects of heroin on the human body.