Multiple Choice Questions

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Late blight of potato is caused by

  • Cystopus

  • Phytophthora

  • Alternaria

  • Ustilago


B.

Phytophthora

Phytophthora infestans causes late blight disease of potato. The disease is widely spread in the hilly areas of India during rainy season. Low temperature and humid atmosphere favour the spread of the disease.


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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


Triticum vulgare has been found to be presently evolved as

  • diploid

  • tetraploid

  • pentaploid

  • hexaploid


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

  • chasmogamaus

  • apogamous

  • cleistogamous

  • polygamous


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