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Which mammal has a natural sun-burn lotion?
Hippopotamus
Mammals are divided into several orders. Which order includes the most advanced mammals?
Primates
The ouch in which a kangaroo mother keeps her young baby is called
Marsupium
Polar bears lives at
North pole only
Which order of mammals contains the bats?
Chiroptera
How many cavities does the stomach of a cow have?
Four
Which rare mammal has been slaughtered by villages because it feared as a harbinger of death?
Aye Aye
Which pigments are found in the red algae?
Phycoerythrin and Phycocyanin
Kelps are a kind of
Green Algae
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Several algae are held to the bottom of a pond or sea by a structure known as
Holdfast
What is the name given to plant which can not grow on soil-rich in lime or calcium carbonate?
Calcifuge
Which pigment is present in brown algae?
Fucoxanthin
The wall of a true fruit is known as
Pericarp
The wood produced by gymnosperms is commercially known as
Softwood
What are Parthenocarpic fruits?
Fruits formed without fertilization
What is a ‘bedder’?
It is a plant suitable for a garden bed
Except tree ferns, most ferns have rhizomes. What are rhizomes?
Underground stems
The way in which leaves are arranged on a stem is known as
Phyllotaxy
Which plant tissue is mainly concerned with the transport of water and minerals?
Xylem
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Through which tissue of plant is food and other organic substances translocated?
Phloem
Which plant has the distinction of bearing the biggest seed?
Coco demer
With a growth rate of about 5 mm a minute, it is one of the fastest growing organism in the world. It is also known as ‘the lady of the white veil’. Identify it?
Stinkhorn fungus
Adventitious roots are…..
Roots arising in places other than the root system
what are the taproots?
A root system, on which there is one major root with other roots branching of it
A root system composed mainly of branches rather than one of principal root is known as Fibrous root system
Which are the earliest plants of bear seeds?
Gymnosperms
Which are the earliest plants to have a conduction system for conduction of water and food?
Ferns
What is the name of the plant whose berries are used to make gin?
Juniperus
Small plants with soft stem are called
Herbs
Medium-sized plants with woody stems that branch profusely from the base and attain a bushy appearance are called
Shrubs
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A plant that grows in soil with a high concentration of salt, as found in salt marshes, is known as
Halophyte
This large brown seaweed was once an important source of potash, iodine and soda. Name it
Kelp
Plants living perched on other plants but not obtaining water or food from them are called
Epiphytes
Which stain is used for demonstrating lignin?
Phloroglucinol
Which stain is used for demonstrating fungal hyphae and spores?
Aniline blue
In certain plants, the alternating generations of their life-cycle are morphologically identical. What is this condition known as
Isomorphism
The stalk of the flower is called
Pedicel
The female sex organ of the bryophytes, pteridophytes and most gymnosperms is known as
Archegonium
Plant cells thought to be gravity sensitive are known as
Statoliths
An ovary of fruit having separate or distinct carpels known as
Apocarp
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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
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Who first discovered viruses?
Martinus Willem Beijerinck
The term ‘virus’ means
Poison
Bacteriophages are
Virus which infect bacteria
when was the first AIDS case discovered in India?
1986
What is the other name for ‘biotin’?
Vitamin H
Which vitamin is also known as ‘PP Vitamin’?
Niacin
Which vitamin is also known as ‘ Tocoferol’?
Vitamin E
The deficiency of which vitamin causes night blindness ?
Vitamin A
The deficiency of vitamin B2 causes
Angular stomatitis
The deficiency of vitamin B1 causes
Beriberi
The deficiency of which vitamin causes pellagra?
B3
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Who discovered vitamin A?
Elmer Verner Mccollum
Who discovered vitamin D?
Edward Mellanby
Who discovered vitamin C?
Szent Gyorgi
Who discovered vitamin K?
Stefan Ansbacher
Who coined the word ‘vitamin’?
Casimir Funk
Which animal do not need vitamin C ?
Cat
The word ‘protein’ comes from
A Greek word meaning ‘of first importance’
Which was the first enzyme to be prepared from animal tissue?
Pepsin
Where would you normally find the protein Fibroin?
Silk
Which was the first protein hormone ever to be synthesized?
Oxytocin
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