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Elbow joint is an example of 

  • pivot joint

  • hinge joint

  • gliding joint

  • gliding joint


B.

hinge joint

In hinge joint, the convex surface of one bone fits into the concave surface of another bone. eg, knee elbow and interphalangeal joints.

Pivot joint, one bone is fixed and second articulated, eg, atlas and axial of skull rotate with axis vertebra.

Gliding joints primarily permit side-by-side and back and forth gliding movements, eg, intercarpal joints and intertarsal joints.

In ball and socket joint, a ball of one bone articulates in sockets of another bone, eg, head of the humerus and glenoid cavity of the pectoral girdle.

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Mannitol is the stored food in of

  • Chara

  • Porphyra

  • Fucus

  • Fucus

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The epithelial tissue present on the inner surface of bronchioles and fallopian tubes is 

  • cuboidal

  • glandular

  • ciliated

  • ciliated

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Which one of the following pairs of food components in humans reaches the stomach totally undigested?

  • Protein and starch

  • Starch and fat

  • Fat and cellulose

  • Fat and cellulose

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The correct sequence of plants in a hydrosere is

  • Oak → Lantana → scirpus→Pistia→Hydrilla→Volvox

  • Volvox → Hydrilla → Pistia → Scirpus → Lantana → Oak

  • Pista → Volvox → Scirpus → Hydrilla → Oak → Lantana

  • Pista → Volvox → Scirpus → Hydrilla → Oak → Lantana

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Uric acid is the chief nitrogenous component of the excretory products of 

  • man

  • earthworm

  • cockroach

  • cockroach

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Which one of the following has haplontic life cycle?

  • Funaria

  • Polytrichum

  • fully developed foetus and placenta

  • fully developed foetus and placenta

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Which one onf the following groups of animals is bilaterally symmetrical and triploblastic?

  • Coelenterates (cnidarians)

  • Aschelminthes (roundworms)

  • ctenophores

  • ctenophores

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Stroma in the chloroplasts of higher plants contains

  • light -independent reaction enzymes

  • Light -dependent reaction enzymes

  • ribosomes

  • ribosomes

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A change in the amount of yolk and its distribution in the egg will effect

  • formation of a zygote

  • the pattern of cleavage

  • number of blastomeres produced

  • number of blastomeres produced

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