Multiple Choice Questions

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Ethylene is a

  • gaseous hormone

  • gaseous enzyme

  • liquid-gas mixture

  • solid hormone


A.

gaseous hormone

Ethylene is thought of as the aging hormone in plants. In addition to causing fruit to ripen, it can cause plants to die. It can be produced when plants are injured, either mechanically or by disease. Ethylene gas is used commercially to ripen tomatoes, bananas, pears, and a few other fruits postharvest


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Cerebrospinal fluid is present

  • beneath the pia mater

  • between piamater and arachnoid

  • between arachnoid and duramater

  • between duramater and cranium


Which is not a gonadal hormone

  • Progesterone

  • Testosterone

  • Adrenalin

  • Estrogen


Antifeedant property occurs in

  • nicotine

  • azadiractin

  • rotenone

  • cinerin


Antibiotic flavicin is obtained from

  • Aspergillus flavus 

  • Aspergillus clavatum

  • Streptomyces grieseus

  • Streptomyces fradiae


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'Climacteric' is

  • a phenomenon related to fruit ripening

  • the condition of a plant when all its fruits are almost ripe

  • the condition of a plant when most of its leaves have turned yellow

  • none of the above


The dendrite carries impulses

  • towards the cyton

  • away from cyton

  • across the body

  • from one neuron to another


The crystal of lead zirconate is a key component of

  • sonography

  • electrocardiography

  • electroencephalography

  • magnetoencephalography


The part of an eye which acts like a diaphragm of a photographic camera is

  • pupil

  • iris

  • lens

  • cornea


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Cochlea of mammalian internal ear is concerned with

  • hearing

  • balance of body posture

  • both (a) and (b)

  • perception changes of atmospheric pressure