Multiple Choice Questions

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Assertion : Pollution is always caused by human activities.

Reason : Pollution is not different from contamination.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


D.

If both assertion and reason are false

Pollution is an undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, water and land that may or will harmfully affect human lives or other organism. It is either natural or man- made. Natural pollution comes from volcanic eruptions, emission of natural gas, soil erosion, UV rays, etc. Most of the pollution is man-made.

Contamination occurs due to the presence of harmful organisms or their products or undersirable products in a desirable product causing disease or discomfort, for the organism who consume it. Therefore, pollution and contamination are two different things.


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Assertion : Chlorofluorocarbons are responsible for ozone depletion.

Reason : Ozone level decreases by as much as 67% every year.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Gene which suppresses other gene's activity but does not lie on the same locus is called as

  • epistatic

  • supplementary

  • hypostatic

  • codominant


Pure line breed refers to

  • heterozygosity only

  • heterozygosity and linkage

  • homozygosity only

  • homozygosity and self assortment


Which part of the world has a high density of organism?

  • Deciduous forests

  • Grasslands

  • Tropical rain forests

  • Savannahs


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Assertion : The earliest fossil form in the phylogeny of horse is eohippus.

Reason : Eohippus lived during the early pliocene epoch.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Assertion : Vegetable oils are fats which are present in plant cells in soluble form.

Reason : Vegetable oils occur only in cells of embryo.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Assertion : Haemophilia is a recessive sex linked disease.

Reason : Haemophilia occurs due to mutation of a structural gene on chromosome 15.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


If a homozygous red-flowered plant is crossed with a homozygous white-flowered plant, the offsprings will be

  • half- white flowered

  • half- red flowered

  • all white flowered

  • all red flowered


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Assertion : Antigen can be easily recognized because it has antigenic determinants.

Reason : The recognition ability is innate.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false