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271.

Sugarcane show high efficiency of CO2 fixation because of :

  • Calvin cycle

  • Hatch and Slack cycle

  • TCA cycle

  • greater sunlight


272.

Photosynthetic unit is :

  • glyoxysome

  • spherosome

  • microsome

  • quantasome


273.

The photorespiratory carbon-oxidation cycle involves the interaction of

  • chloroplast

  • mitochondria

  • peroxisomes

  • all of these


274.

Assertion : The collenchyma is a thick walled living tissue.

Reason : The collenchyma is thickened due to the deposition of pectin.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


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275.

Assertion : When six molecules ofcarbon dioxide participate in photosynthesis, 12 molecules of NADP and 18 ATP are used up, forming one hexose molecule. 

Reason : The photosynthetic light reaction results in the formation of ATP and NADPH.

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

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

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


276.

Photorespiration usually occurs in

  • one cell organelle

  • two cell organelles

  • three cell organelles

  • four cell organelles


277.

Stomata opens

  • in day time - for gaseous exchange

  • in day time- no gaseous exchange

  • in night time only - for gaseous exchange

  • in night time only - no gaseous exchange


278.

Which of the following statements about phytochrome is true?

  • Pr absorbs yellow light and becomes Pfr

  • Pr absorbs red light and becomes Pfr

  • Pfr absorbs red light and becomes Pr

  • Pfr absorbs yellow light and becomes Pr


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279.

Blackman's law is related to

  • respiration

  • transpiration

  • root pressure

  • photosynthesis


280.

Who discovered photophosphorylation?

  • Arnon et. al.

  • Von Mayer

  • Calvin et. al.

  • Hill


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