Multiple Choice Questions

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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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Fat and cellulose

In humans, starch is digested in the buccopharyngeal cavity. Cellulose is not digested in the humans because cellulose contains β -1, 4-linkages and vertebrates themselves do not possess any enzymes capable of hydrolyzing β-1, 4 - linkages. Protein is digested in stomach and fat in the small intestine.Thus in the given options, fat and cellulose reach totally undigested in the stomach of humans

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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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Stroma in the chloroplasts of higher plants contains

  • light -independent reaction enzymes

  • Light -dependent reaction enzymes

  • ribosomes

  • ribosomes

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

  • man

  • earthworm

  • cockroach

  • cockroach

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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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Mannitol is the stored food in of

  • Chara

  • Porphyra

  • Fucus

  • Fucus

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Elbow joint is an example of 

  • pivot joint

  • hinge joint

  • gliding joint

  • gliding joint

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

  • cuboidal

  • glandular

  • ciliated

  • ciliated

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