Multiple Choice Questions

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Choose the wrong statement

  • Penicillium is multicellular and produces antibiotics

  • Neurospora is used in the study of biochemical genetics

  • Morels and truffles are poisonous mushrooms

  • Morels and truffles are poisonous mushrooms


C.

Morels and truffles are poisonous mushrooms

All statements are correct, except statement (c), which can be corrected as
Morels and truffles are edible and members of Ascomycetes in fungi.

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The function of the gap junction is to

  • performing cementing to keep neighbouring cells together

  • facilitate communication between adjoining cells by connecting the cytoplasm for rapid transfer of ions, small molecules and some large molecules.

  • separate two cells from each other

  • separate two cells from each other

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The chitinous exoskeleton of arthropods is formed by the polymerisation of

  • Keratin sulphate and chondraitin sulphate

  • D-glucosamine

  • N-acetyl glucosamine

  • N-acetyl glucosamine

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Metagenesis refers to

  • Presence of different morphic forms

  • Alternation of generation between asexual and sexual phases of an organism

  • Occurrence of a drastic change in form during post-embyonic development

  • Occurrence of a drastic change in form during post-embyonic development

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Destruction of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord would result in loss of

  • Sensory impulses

  • Voluntary motor impulses

  • Commissural impulses

  • Commissural impulses

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Roots play insignificant role in absorption of water in

  • Sunflower

  • Pistia

  • Pea

  • Pea

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A jawless fish, which lays eggs in fresh water and whose ammocoetes larvae after metamorphosis return to the ocean is:

  • Eptatretus

  • Myxine

  • Neomyxine

  • Neomyxine

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Which one of the following hormones though synthesised elsewhere, is stored and released by the master gland?

  • Antidiuretic hormone

  • Luteinizing hormone

  • Prolactin

  • Prolactin

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Which one is a wrong statement?

  • Archegonia are found in Bryophyta, Pteridophyta and Gymnosperms

  • Mucor has biflagellate zoospores

  • Haploid endosperm is typical feature of gymnosperms

  • Haploid endosperm is typical feature of gymnosperms

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Cell wall is absent in

  • Aspergillus

  • Funaria

  • Mycoplasma

  • Mycoplasma

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