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A) They are big in size than bacteria

(A) Rhizobium

Answer is (A) Yeast

Answer is (A) Anabina

Septicemia: Septicemia is bacteria in the blood (bacteremia) that often occurs with severe infections.

D) i – b, ii – d, iii – f, iv – c, v – a

Answer is (B) Pasteur

Germ theory: The theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms.

Communicable diseases: Diseases that spread through from infected people to healthy ones.

B) Malaria-virus

A) Dr. Albert Sabin

D) Hydrophytes

D) AM the above

(B) Jonas Salk

C) Edward Jenner-1796

Rabies vaccine was discovered by Pasteur.

Fungi: A single-celled or multi-celled organism without chlorophyll that reproduces by spores and lives by absorbing nutrients from organic matter.

Answer is (C) Carbon

Answer is (D) Pasteur

Anthrax: An infectious, usually fatal disease of warm-blooded animals, especially of cattle and sheep, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

(C) Lazzaro Spallanzani

Small pox virus was discovered by Jenner.

Natural gas is used as a source of energy as well as an industrial raw material.

(i) It can be transported easily through pipelines.

(ii) Pipelines have helped in setting up fertilizer plants and power plants on its way.

(iii) Natural gas is a clean source of energy.

(iv) It is an environment-friendly fuel because of the low carbon emission.

The word ‘Vaca’ is derived from vaccine, which means Cow.

Answer is (C) Cow

Malaria: Malaria is a parasitic disease that involves high fevers, shaking chills, flu-like symptoms, and anemia. Transmitted by a mosquito.

Conjunctivitis: Conjunctivitis is swelling (inflammation) or infection of the membrane lining the eyelids (conjunctiva).

Symptoms: Septicemia can begin with: Chills; High fever; Rapid breathing; Rapid heart rate, the person looks very ill.

Chickenpox: Chickenpox is a highly infectious disease characterized by a fever and rash.

Micro arthropods are found on our skin, eyelids, beddings, rugs, etc.

Smallpox: Smallpox is a disease caused by a poxvirus that is transmitted from person to person that causes high fever, characteristic rash, and may kill about one-third of infected.

The earth grows progressively hotter with increasing depth. Where the geothermal gradient is high, high temperatures are found at shallow depths. Groundwater in such areas absorbs heat from the rocks and becomes hot.

It is so hot that when it rises to the earth's surface, it turns into steam. This steam is used to drive turbines and generate electricity.

Viruses are special types of microorganisms, which lie between living and non-living organisms. They can reproduce only in host living cells.

Antibiotics: Substances that killed bacteria were generally named antibiotics.

Antibiotics are obtained from certain fungi like penicillium

Malaria: Malaria is a parasitic disease that involves high fevers, shaking chills, flu-like symptoms, and anemia. Transmitted by a mosquito.

Non-conventional sources of energy are:

(i) Solar Energy: India is a tropical country. It has enormous possibilities of trapping solar energy. Photovoltaic technology converts sunlight directly into electricity. Solar energy is fastly becoming popular in rural and remote areas.

(ii) Wind Energy: India now ranks as a 'wind super power' in the world. The largest wind farm cluster is located in Tamil Nadu from Nagercoil to Madurai. Apart from these, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra and Lakshadweep have important wind farms. Nagercoil and Jaisalmer are well-known for effective use of wind energy in the country.

(iii) Biogas: Shrubs, farm waste, animal and human waste are used to produce biogas for domestic consumption in rural areas. Biogas plants using cattle dung are known as 'Gobar Gas Plants' in rural India. These provide twin benefits to the farmer in the form of energy and improved quality of manure.

(D) All the above

Amebiasis: Infection by a disease-causing amoeba. Amoebic dysentery.

(B) Kerosene

Microbes are useful in home, industry, cleaning the environment.

Some bacteria help the plants by providing them with nitrates that are obtained by fixing atmospheric nitrogen.

(C) Secunderabad

• Pulikat lake of Nellore comes under marine or salt water ecosystem. 
• Because the salinity of water in the lake is 3.5%. 
• Main salts present in the Pulikat lake are sodium and potassium.

Some insects and animals act as vectors of microbes.

The ripening of cheese is due to bacteria.

The answer is (A) Maru Raikas 

The answer is (A) Maru Raikas 

The answer is  (B) 1885

Yes, the poet says that the boys and girls are singing as they pass down the roadway in the rain, so they are obviously happy that it is raining.

The poet is talking about rain that has come after a long time.