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4451.

Question : Alluvial soils in India are

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found in desert
LEAST FERTILE
very RARE
most extensive SOILS

Answer :D
4452.

Question : Allosomes are

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BEAD LIKE STRUCTURE on chromosomes
sex chromosomes
rounded bodies
node like structure on chromosomes

Answer :B
4453.

Question :Alleles are

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HOMOLOGOUS chromosome
chromosome that have CROSSED over
alternate FORMS of gene
linked genes

Answer :C
4454.

Question : Allveinscarrydeoxygentedbold.

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SOLUTION :CORRECT STATEMENT: All veins carry deoxygenated blood except the PULMONARY vein.
4455.

Question : All the nerves in the body are covered and protected by meaninges.

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SOLUTION :The brain is covered by THREE CONNECTIVE tissue membrane or meninges.
4456.

Question : All the limbs of a tetrapod are nearly equal in size and similar in shape with a membranous skin between the fingers. What would be the chief method of movement?

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Gliding
Jumping
Crawling
Flying 

ANSWER :A
4457.

Question : All the human races like Africans, Asians, Europeans, Americans and others might have evolved from a common ancestor. Provide a few evidences in support of this view.

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Solution :All HUMAN races have evolved from a COMMON ancestor because everybody has:
(i) Common body design, structure, physiology and metabolism
(ii) CONSTANT chromosome number
(III) Common genetic blue print
(iv) Freely inter-breeding SPECIES.
4458.

Question : All the floral parts are arranged on

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PETIOLE
THALAMUS
stamen
petals

ANSWER :B
4459.

Question : All the events from pollen deposition on the stigma until pollen tubes enter the ovules are together referred to as

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Fertilisation
Double fertilisation
Pollen-pistil interaction
Pollination

Answer :C
4460.

Question : All over the world 76 spots are reported as highly sensitive biodiversity spots.

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SOLUTION :False. All over the world 34 SPOTS are REPORTED as highly biodiversity spots.
4461.

Question : All of the following involves osmosis except

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water passing from a root hair to adjacent cells
water passing from a xylem VESSEL ELEMENT to xylem vessel element above it
water entering a MESOPHYLL CELL from the xylem vessel element
water from soil entering a root hair 

Answer :B
4462.

Question :All of the following influenced Darwin as he synthesised the concept of natural selection except

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the FINCHES of the Galapagos
Malthus's essay on the PRINCIPLE of population
the RESULTS of ARTIFICIAL selection
MENDEL's laws of inheritance

Answer :D
4463.

Question : All of the following correctly characterise nematodes except that

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they PLAY an IMPORTANT role in decomposi tion
they are OFTEN parasitic
they have a pseudocoelom
they have both circular and longitudinal MUSCLES 

ANSWER :D
4464.

Question : All of the following are membrane bound organelles except

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mitochondria
lysosomes
RIBOSOMES
SPHAEROSOMES

SOLUTION :N/A
4465.

Question : All mollusces share the following except

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a muscular foot
a VISCERAL mass
a mantle
an OPEN circulatory SYSTEM 

Answer :D
4466.

Question : All human races like Africans, Asians, Europeans, Americans and others look so different from each other still they belong to the same species. Give three points to justify the statement.

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Solution :(i) Freely interbreeding, producing FERTILE offspring.
(ii) Same number of chromosomes-23 PAIRS.
(III) COMMON body design, anatomy and physiology.
4467.

Question : All human races are a single species.

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ANSWER :1
4468.

Question : All fish are

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SCALY
scaleless
DEVOID of medulla
active BALANCERS

ANSWER :D
4469.

Question : All files are stored in the _____

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FOLDER
box
pai
scanner

Solution :folder
4470.

Question : All bacteria have which of the following

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mesosomes
MITOCHONDRIA
chloroplast
GOLGI complex

Solution :N/A
4471.

Question : All bacteria have the following organelle

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mesosomes
mitochondria
chloroplast
Golgi COMPLEX 

ANSWER :A
4472.

Question : All alveoli are not covered by wed of blood capillaries.

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ANSWER :F
4473.

Question : Alginic Acid is a product of

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RED ALGAE
green algae
blue-green algae
brown algae 

ANSWER :D
4474.

Question : Algae, Snake, Insect, Frog, Mongoose.

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Solution :Algae `to`INSECT `to` FROG `to` Snake `to`MONGOOSE
4475.

Question : Algae can be described as

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AUTOTROPHIC and photosynthetic
autotrophic and chemosynthetic
heterotrophic and photosynthetic
heterotrophic and chemosynthetic 

ANSWER :A
4476.

Question : Algae are important to study because

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they are good ORGANISMS to experiment with
they can be grown in large TANK cultures
they may form important constituents of human food in future
the PRODUCE oxygen and organic acids 

Answer :D
4477.

Question : Algae and other submerged green plants often float in water during daytime and sink at night.

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They LOSE weight at night because fish and other animals eat away at their parts.
They become BUOYANT DUE to accumulation of oxygen as a result of photosynthesis,
They become light due to CONSUMPTION of food.
The come up to ENJOY sunlight. 

Answer :B
4478.

Question : Alcoholic fermentation is due to the activityof

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Yeast
Chlorella
Agaricus
Sclerospora 

ANSWER :A
4479.

Question : Air, water, animals, minerals.

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SOLUTION :ANIMALS- OTHERS are ABIOTIC FACTORS.
4480.

Question : Air pollution causing photochemical oxidants production include

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nitrous oxide, nitric acid FUMES, nitric oxide
OZONE, PEROXYACETYL nitrate, aldehydes
oxygen, chlorine, fuming nitric acid
SULPHUR dioxide

Answer :B
4481.

Question : Air pollutants causing photochemical oxidants production include

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nitrous oxide, NITRIC acid FUMES, nitric oxide
ozone, peroxyacetyl NITRATE, aldehydes
oxygen, chlorine, fuming nitric acid
sulphur dioxide

ANSWER :B
4482.

Question : Air pollutants

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SOLUTION :`CO_(2)`,CO
4483.

Question : AIDS related complex or ARC is

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LESS SEVERE FORM of AIDS
not LINKED to AIDS
severe form of AIDS
none of the above

Answer :A
4484.

Question : AIDS is not transmitted by contact with a patient's clothes.

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ANSWER :TRUE
4485.

Question : AIDS is an epidemic disease

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Solution :CORRECT STATEMENT: AIDS is a viral DISEASE.
4486.

Question : Ahmad is a 50 years old man who is mainly a sedentary worker. Her always gets his medical check up done once in a year. Till last year all his blood reports were normal. This year his blood (and even urine) tests showed the presence of large quantities of sugar. The doctor gave him some medicines to control sugar. The doctor also asked him to avoid certain food items and adopt a healthy life-style. (a) Name the disease which Ahmad is suffering from. (b) Name the gland whose malfunctioning causes this disease. (c ) How the gland whose malfunctioning of this gland cause this disease ? (d) What is done if this disease does not get controlled by taking oral medicines ? (e) Name one vital organ which gets damaged if this disease persists uncontrolled for a long time. (f) What life-style changes would you suggest for Ahmad which can help him control this 'disease' ?

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Solution :(a) Ahmad is suffering from 'diabetes'.
(b) Malfunctioning of pancreas causes diabetes.
(c ) Pancreas makes and secretes insulin hormone into the blood. The function of insulin hormone is to lower the blood sugar level (or blood glucose level). If due to malfunctioning, pancreas does not produce and secrete sufficient amount of insulin hormone into blood, then the sugar level in blood RISES too much leading to diabetes.
(d) The persons having severe diabetes which cannot be controlled by MEDICINES are GIVEN insulin injections.
(e) If uncontrolled diabetes persists for a long time, it may damage kidneys.
(f) Ahmad can control diabetes :
(i) by controlling DIET (by avoiding sweet food items containing sugar such as chocolates, sweets, soft drinks, etc.),
(ii) by taking regular physical exercise (including brisk walk, etc.), and
(iii) by reducing weight.
4487.

Question : Agent orange is a herbicide that contains syn-thetic

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auxin
cytokinin
gibberellins
pigments

Answer :A
4488.

Question : Agar is commercially obtained from

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blue-green ALGAE
brown algae
red algae
green algae 

ANSWER :C
4489.

Question : After the first rainfall, there is lush green grass growing. What, other than the seeds, makes this possible?

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SOLUTION :The vegetative parts such as STEM and roots develop into NEW plants by means of vegetative REPRODUCTION.
4490.

Question : After the death of two insects, one of the insects was buried in hot mud and the other in usually found mud. Which of the two is more likely to be preserved better and why ?

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SOLUTION :The insect buried in hot mud is more likely to be PRESERVED better, because it will not decompose QUICKLY. Also the mud will harden on cooling, retaining the impression of body parts of the insect.
THUS, insect buried in hot mud will be fossilised whereas other will not be.
4491.

Question : After ovulation endocrine part of ovary is

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CORPUS LUTEUM
corpus callosum
corpus spongiosum
corpus albicans

Answer :A
4492.

Question :After observing the variations Hugo de Vries first of all described the mutation in

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OENOTHERA lamarkiana
NEUROSPORA crassa
Pisum sativum
Drosophila melanogaster

Answer :A
4493.

Question : After culturing the anther of a plant, a few diploid plants were got along with haploid plants. Which of the following parts might have given rise to diploid plants?

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VEGETATIVE CELL of POLLEN
cells of ANTHER wall
generative cell of pollen
intine of pollen wall

Answer :B
4494.

Question : After complete exhalation the lungs of a healthy man contains a litre of gas, this quantity is known as

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RESIDUAL volume
functional residual capacity
total LUNG capacity
dead SPACE 

ANSWER :A
4495.

Question : After a sperm has penetrated an ovum in the process of fertilisation, entry of further sperms is prevented by

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DEVELOPMENT of the PIGMENT coat
development of the VITELLINE membrane
condensation of yolk
formation of FERTILISATION membrane

Answer :D
4496.

Question : Afferent nerve fibres carry impulses from

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effector ORGANS to CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
receptors to central nervous system
central nervous system to muscles
central nervous system to receptors

Answer :B
4497.

Question : Affinity of CO for haemoglobin as compared to O_(2) is

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2 TIMES
20 times
100 times
200 times

ANSWER :D
4498.

Question : Aerobic Respiration is the process in which complex molecules are changed into simpler molecules :

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In the ABSENCE of `O_(2)`
In the absence of `O_(2)`
Both (A) and (B)
NONE of the above.

ANSWER :A
4499.

Question : Adverse effects of vision, genetic change, cancerous ulceration, tuberculosis.

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4500.

Question : Advanced agricultural practice leads to excessive use of fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation. Use of such agricultural products can cause some health issues in human beings. Uncontroled use of chemicals can also cause adverse effect on our environment. Why is pesticide persist for long time in an environment?

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SOLUTION :Pesticides are non-biodegradable wastes. They are not CONVERTED into simple substances by DECOMPOSERS.