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Pentamerous, actinomorphic flowers, bicarpillary ovary with oblique septa, and fruit a capsule or berry, are characteristic features of

  • Asteraceae

  • Brassicaceae

  • Solanaceae

  • Solanaceae


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Solanaceae

Family Solanaceae possesses pentamerous, actinomorphic, hypogynous, hermaphrodite, complete flowers, bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, bilocular ovary with axile placentation and oblique septa. The fruit is a berry or septicidal capsule.
In Asteraceae, ovary is bicarpellary, suncarpous, inferior, unilocular and fruit is cypsela.
In Brassicaceae, ovary is bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, unilocular but later becomes bilocular due to false septum, fruit is siliqua or silicula.
In Liliaceae, flowers are usually trimerous, ovary is tricarpellary, syncarpous, superior, tricolour and fruit is fleshy berry or capsule.

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Which of the following statements regarding mitochondrial membrane is not correct?

  • The outer membrane is permeable to all kinds of molecules

  • The enzymes of the electron transfer chain are embedded in the outer membrane

  • The inner membrane is highly convoluted forming a series of infoldings

  • The inner membrane is highly convoluted forming a series of infoldings

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Sulphur is an important nutrient for optimum growth and productivity in

  • pulse crops

  • cereals

  • fibre crops

  • fibre crops

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Moss peat is used as a packing material for sending flowers and live plants to distant places because

  • it is easily available

  • it is hygroscopic

  • it reduces transpiration

  • it reduces transpiration

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The thalloid body of a slime mould (Myxomycetes) is known as

  • Autosomal

  • Cytoplasmic

  • Y-linked

  • Y-linked

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What type of placentation is seen in sweet pea?

  • Basal

  • Axile

  • Free central

  • Free central

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How many ATP molecules could maximally be generated from one molecule of glucose, if the complete oxidation of one mole of glucose to CO2 and H2O yields 686 kcal and the useful chemical energy available in the high energy phosphate bond of one mole of ATP is 12 kcal?

  • Two

  • Thirty

  • Fifty seven

  • Fifty seven

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An organic substance bound to an enzyme and essential for its activity is called

  • coenzyme

  • holoenzyme

  • apoenzyme

  • apoenzyme

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A common structural feature of vessel elements and sieve tube elements is

  • thick secondary walls

  • pores on lateral walls

  • presence of P-protein

  • presence of P-protein

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Bowman's glands are found in

  • olfactory epithelium

  • external auditory canal

  • cortical nephrons only

  • cortical nephrons only

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