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151.

Hydroponics is

  • nutrient less culture

  • water less culture

  • soilless culture

  • none of these


152.

Leghaemoglobin helps in

  • imparting colour to floral petals

  • protecting nitrogenase from O2

  • destroying bacteria

  • transport of food in plants


153.

Which among the following is a rootless plant?

  • Nymphaea

  • Sagittaria

  • Ceratophyllum

  • Vallisneria


154.

Assertion : Plants absorb sulphur in the form of sulphate ions.

Reason : Sulphur bacteria are required for the formation of sulphate.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


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155.

The function of leghaemoglobin during biological nitrogen fixation in root nodules of legumes is to

  • convert atmospheric N2 to NH3

  • convert ammonia to nitrite

  • transport oxygen for activity of nitrogenase

  • protect nitrogenase from oxygen


156.

Assertion: Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in legume root nodules survive in oxygen-depleted cells of nodules.

Reason: Legheamoglobin completely removes oxygen from the nodule cells.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion

  • If Assertion is true but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false.


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157.

Nif genes occur in

  • Rhizobium 

  • Aspergillus

  • Penicillium

  • Streptococcus


A.

Rhizobium 

The nif genes are genes encoding enzymes involved in the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen into a form of nitrogen available to living organisms. The primary enzyme encoded by the nif genes is the nitrogenase complex which is in charge of converting atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to other nitrogen forms such as ammonia which the organism can use for various purposes. Besides the nitrogenase enzyme, the nif genes also encode a number of regulatory proteins involved in nitrogen fixation. The nif genes are found in both free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria and in symbiotic bacteria associated with various plants.


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158.

The "Repeating Unit" of glycogen is

  • fructose

  • mannose

  • glucose

  • galactose


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159.

VAM is

  • symbiotic bacteria

  • saprophytic bacteria

  • saprophytic fungi

  • symbiotic fungi


160.

The first stable product of fixation of atmospheric nitrogen in leguminous plants is

  • NO2-

  • ammonia

  • NO3-

  • glutamate


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