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Which one of the following items gives its correct total number? 

  • Floating ribs in humans - 4 

  • Amino acids found in proteins - 16

  • Types of diabetes - 3 

  • Types of diabetes - 3 


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Floating ribs in humans - 4 

There are 12 pairs of ribs in human, which form the bony lateral walls fo the thoracic cage. The last two pairs of ribs (total four) are called floating ribs because their anterior ends are not attached to either the sternum or the cartilage of another rib. The floating ribs protect the kidneys. There are 7 cervical vertebrae in humans present in the neck. The first cervical vertebra is called atlas second is known as an axis.

There are 20 amino acids found in proteins.

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Earthworms have no skeleton but during burrowing, the anterior end becomes turgid and acts as a hydraulic skeleton. It is due to

  • Coelomic fluid

  • blood

  • gut peristalsis

  • gut peristalsis

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Cornea transplant in humans is almost never rejected. This is because

  • its cells are least penetrable by bacteria

  • It has no blood supply

  • It is composed of enucleated cells

  • It is composed of enucleated cells

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The energy -releasing process in which the substrate is oxidised without an external electron acceptor called

  • fermentation

  • photorespiration

  • aerobic respiration

  • aerobic respiration

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Select one of the following pairs of important features distinguishing Gnetum from Cycas and Pinus and showing affinities with angiosperms

  • the absence of resin duct and leaf venation

  • the presence of vessel elements and absence of archegonia

  • perianth and two integuments

  • perianth and two integuments

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Thorn of Bougainvillea and tendril of Cucurbita are examples of 

  • analogous organs

  • homologous organs

  • vestigial organs

  • vestigial organs

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In the light of recent classification of living organisms into three domains of life (bacteria, archaea and eukarya), which one of the following statement is true about archaea? 

  • Archaea resemble eukarya in all respects

  • Archaea have some novel features that are absent in other prokaryotes and eukaryotes

  • Archaea completely differ from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

  • Archaea completely differ from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes

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Thermococcus, Methanococcus and Methanobacterium emplify

  • archaebacteria that contain protein homologous to eukaryotic core histones

  • archaebacteria that lack any histones resembling those found in eukaryotes but DNA is negatively supercoiled

  • bacteria whose DNA is relaxed or positively supercoiled but which have cytoskeleton as well as mitochondria

  • bacteria whose DNA is relaxed or positively supercoiled but which have cytoskeleton as well as mitochondria

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A competitive inhibitor of succinic dehydrogenase is 

  • malonate

  • oxaloacetate

  • alpha-ketoglutarate

  • alpha-ketoglutarate

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Vacuole in a plant cell

  • is membrane-bound and contains storage

  • is membrane-bound and contains water and excretory substances

  • lacks membrane and contains air

  • lacks membrane and contains air

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