Multiple Choice Questions

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Triticum vulgare has been found to be presently evolved as

  • diploid

  • tetraploid

  • pentaploid

  • hexaploid


D.

hexaploid

The common bread wheat (Triticum aestivum = T. vulgare) is an allohexaploid. It has two copies of each of the genomes A, B and D. Its somatic complement is represented as AA BB DD.


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Vaccines prepared by genetic engineering are safe to man because they are

  • least active form of virus

  • active form of virus

  • coat protein formed as antibody

  • All of the above


Wildlife is destroyed most when

  • there is lack of proper care

  • mass scale hunting for foreign trade

  • its natural habitat is destroyed

  • natural calamity


Science of engineering and technology applied to life sciences is

  • Biotechnology

  • Genetic engineering

  • Pathology

  • Biological science


Which of the following. is generally used in chronic diarrhoea, dysentery, bleeding, piles, leucorrhoea etc?

  • Quinine

  • Ephidrine

  • Chir

  • Catha


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The growth of pollen tube towards embryo sac is

  • geotropism

  • chemotaxis

  • thigmotaxis

  • phototaxis


A hyaline bisexual and self-fertilized flower that does not open at all is

  • chasmogamaus

  • apogamous

  • cleistogamous

  • polygamous


Late blight of potato is caused by

  • Cystopus

  • Phytophthora

  • Alternaria

  • Ustilago


Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is synthesized in

  • nucleolus

  • nucleosome

  • cytoplasm

  • ribosome


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The number of RNA molecules in 60S sub- particles of 80S ribosomes are

  • five 

  • four

  • three

  • two