Subject

Biology

Class

NEET Class 12

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51.

Which of the following pair is characterised by swollen lips, thick pigmented skin of hands and legs and irritability ?

  • Iodine - Goitre

  • Protein - Kwashiorkor

  • Thiamine - Beri-beri

  • Nicotinamide- Pellagra


D.

Nicotinamide- Pellagra

Pellagra is a disease caused by the deficiency of nicotinamide or nicotinic acid or niacin or vitamin B3. It is common among individuals eating food with low tryptophan. The symptoms of pellagra are inflammation of skin or Dermatitis, diarrhoea and dementia.


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52.

The molecular structure of insulin was first described by :

  • Korenberg

  • Swaminathan

  • Richardson

  • Sanger


53.

Phytochrome occurs in two forms. In which form it promotes the germination of seeds of some species ?

  • Pfr forms

  • Pr forms

  • Both forms

  • None of these


54.

Insect resistance transgenic cotton has been produced by inserting a piece of DNA from:

  • an insect

  • a bacterium

  • a wild relative of cotton

  • a virus


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55.

Mutations which alter nucleotide sequence within a gene are :

  • frame shift mutations

  • base pair substitutions

  • both 'a' and 'b'

  • none of these


56.

Which organism was used by Beadle and Tatum to proposed one gene-one enzyme hypothesis ?

  • E. coli

  • Nostoc

  • Drosophila

  • Neurospora


57.

When a tall plant with rounded seeds (TTRR) is crossed with a dwarf plant with wrinkled seeds (ttrr), the F1 generation consists of tall plants with rounded seeds. How many types of gametes an F1 plant would produce ?

  • One

  • Three

  • Four

  • Eight


58.

Tetradynamous stamens are found in :

  • Chrysanthemum

  • Zinnia

  • Poppy

  • Brassica


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59.

Diadelphous stamens are the characteristic features of :

  • Ranunculaceae

  • Fabaceae

  • Poaceae

  • Malvaceae


60.

Human immuno deficiency virus causes

  • Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome

  • Anthrax

  • Tuberculosis

  • Polio


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