Lichen is the pioneer vegetation on which succession? from Biolo

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151.

Which important green-house gas, other than carbon dioxide, is being produced from the agricultural fields?

  • Arsine

  • Sulphur dioxide

  • Ammonia

  • Nitrous oxide


152.

The term 'aquaculture means

  • Aspergillosis

  • Inland fisheries

  • Marine fisheries

  • Both (b) and (c)


153.

Ten percent law of energy transfer in a food chain is given by

  • Schimper

  • Elton

  • Haeckel

  • Lindemann


154.

Benthic organisms are found in

  • surface of marine water

  • middle of water in sea

  • bottom of sea

  • on ground


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155.

Small fish get stuck near the bottom of a shark and derives its nutrition from it. This kind of association is called as

  • antibiosis

  • commensalism

  • predation

  • parasitism


156.

the group of Anamniota includes

  • reptiles and birds

  • birds and mammals

  • fishes an amphibians

  • reptiles and mammals


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157.

Lichen is the pioneer vegetation on which succession?

  • Hydrosere

  • Lithosere

  • Psammosere

  • Xerosere


B.

Lithosere

Lithosere is a type of xerosere originating on bare rock surfaces. The original substratum is deficient in water and lacks any organic matter having only minerals in disintegrated state. The pioneer vegetaion is therfore, lichens.

Hydrosere originates in a pond with the colonization of some phytoplanktons which form the pioneer plant community.


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158.

The presence of diversity at the junction of territories of two different habitats is known as

  • bottleneck effect

  • edge effect

  • junction effect

  • Pasteur effect


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159.

Gases found in primitive atmosphere are

  • CH4, NH3, H2, H2O (vapour form)

  • CH4, NH3, CO2, H2O

  • CH4, H2O, CO2

  • CH4, O2, CO2


160.

Nitrifying bacteria are able to

  • convert atmospheric nitrogen into soluble forms

  • convert ammonia to nitrate

  • ammonia to nitrogen

  • nitrate to nitrogen


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