Science

Plants grown in total darkness lack chlorophyll and thus appear white or yellow. What this type of growth known as
Etiolation

Colourless plastids are known as
Leucoplasts

The fruits of which tree contain a sweet, edible dark brown pulp, sometimes called St John's bread ?
Carob

In which group yeasts, cup fungi and edible morels places ?
Ascomycetes

In which group are mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls and bracket fungi places?
Basidiomycetes

Which famous person was so fond of mushrooms that he made illegal for anyone else to eat those growing in the papal states, lest there should be a shortage for his own table?
Clement VII

Which fungi is also known as the kerosene fungus?
Amorphotheca resinae

Truffles are rare delicacies much sought after by chefs all over the world. But it grows underground and have to be smelt out to locate them. Which animal is used to most to smell out truffles?
Pig

Which insect cultivate fungus in their colonies and allow only the queen, king and young ones to eat it?
Termites

The occurrence of two forms among the organisms of the same kind is known as
Dimorphism

Who wrote the book Zoological Philosophy in 1809?
Jean Baptiste Lamarck