Multiple Choice Questions

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What will you look for to identify the sex of the following?

  • male frog - a copulatory pad on the first digit of the hind limb

  • Female cock - anal cerci

  • Male shark - claspers borne on pelvic fins

  • Male shark - claspers borne on pelvic fins


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Male shark - claspers borne on pelvic fins

A clasper is a male anatomical structure found in some groups of animals, and used in mating. Male cartilaginous fish like shark hacve claspers formed from the posterior portion of their pelvic fin which serves as intromittent organs used to channel semane into the female's cloaca during mating.

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Ethanol is commercially produced through a particular species of 

  • Clostridium

  • Trichoderma

  • Aspergillus

  • Aspergillus

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Mass of living matter at a trophic level in an area at any time is called. 

  • Detritus

  • Humus

  • Standing state

  • Standing state

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Secondary sewage treatment is mainly a 

  • mechanical process

  • chemical process

  • biological process

  • biological process

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Which one of the following shows maximum genetic diversity in India? 

  • Rice 

  • Maize

  • Mango

  • Mango

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Nitrifying bacteria

  • convert free nitrogen to nitrogen compounds

  • convert proteins into ammonia

  • reduce nitrates to free nitrogen 

  • reduce nitrates to free nitrogen 

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The most common substrate used in distilleries for the production of ethanol is 

  • soya meal 

  • ground gram

  • molasses

  • molasses

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Of the total incident solar radiation, the proportion of PAR is 

  • about 60%

  • less than 50%

  • more than 80%

  • more than 80%

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Which one of the following is not a biofertilizer

  • Rhizobium

  • Nostoc

  • Mycorrhiza

  • Mycorrhiza

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A collection of plants and seeds having diverse alleles of all the genes of a crop is called

  • germplasm

  • gene library

  • genome

  • genome

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