Biological Classification

Heterospory i.e., the formation of two types of spores – microspores and megaspores is a characteristic feature in the life cycle of a few members of pteridophytes and all spermatophytes. Do you think heterospory has some evolutionary significance in the plant kingdom?

●Heterospory development occurs in situ embryos .The embryo takes nutrition from the female gametophyte and which gives it better protection. ● Heterospory occurs due to the evolution of seed habit,...

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Each plant or group of plants has some phylogenetic significance concerning evolution: Cycas, one of the few living members of gymnosperms, is called the ‘relic of the past’. Can you establish a phylogenetic relationship of Cycas with any other group of plants that justifies the above statement?

●Cycas is the connecting link between Gymnosperms and pteridophytes .  ●They show some features which are the same as in  pteridophytes such as flagellated antherozoids, circinate ptyxis,...

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It is said that the elemental composition of living organisms and that of inanimate objects (like earth’s crust) are similar in the sense that all the major elements are present in both. Then what would be the difference between these two groups? Choose the correct answer from among the following:

a. Living organisms have more gold in them than inanimate objects b. Living organisms have more water in their body than inanimate objects c. Living organisms have more carbon, oxygen and hydrogen...

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Sugars are technically called carbohydrates, referring to the fact that their formulae are only multiple of C(H2O). Hexoses, therefore, have six carbons, twelve hydrogens and six oxygen atoms. Glucose is a hexose.Choose from among the following another hexose.

a. Fructose b. Erythrose c. Ribulose d. Ribose A)correct option -A B)Explanation of correct option - ●Fructose is a type of sugar known as a monosaccharide. ●Fructose is also known as “fruit sugar”...

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When you take cells or tissue pieces and grind them with an acid in a mortar and pestle, all the small biomolecules dissolve in the acid.Proteins, polysaccharides and nucleic acids are insoluble in mineral acid and get precipitated. The acid-soluble compounds include amino acids, nucleosides, small sugars etc. When one adds a phosphate group to a nucleoside, one gets another acid-soluble biomolecule called

a. Nitrogen base b. Adenine c. Sugar phosphate d. Nucleotide A)correct option -D B)Explanation of correct option - The basic building block of nucleic acids. A nucleotide consists of a sugar...

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Enzymes are biocatalysts. They catalyse biochemical reactions. In general,they reduce the activation energy of reactions. Many Physico chemical processes are enzyme-mediated. Which of the following reactions is not enzyme mediated in the biological system?

a. Dissolving CO2 in water b. Untwining the two strands of DNA c. Hydrolysis of sucrose d. Formation of peptide bond A)correct option -A B)Explanation of correct option - Carbon dioxide dissolves in...

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Cyanobacteria and heterotrophic microbes have been clubbed together in Eubacteria of realm Monera according to the “Five Kingdom Classification” despite the fact that the two are boundlessly unique in relation to one another. Is this gathering of the two kinds of taxa in a similar realm supported? Provided that this is true, why?

solution: Cyanobacteria combination their food and they are autotrophic. Heterotrophic microbes rely upon different living beings for their food. Both Cyanobacteria and heterotrophic microscopic...

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Neurospora – an ascomycetes parasite has been utilized as an organic instrument to comprehend the system of plant hereditary qualities much similarly as Drosophila has been utilized to examine creature hereditary qualities. What makes Neurospora so exceptionally significant as a hereditary device?

solution: Neurospora is utilized as a hereditary instrument on the grounds that Quickest developing in vitro can be filled in negligible media. • Due to its haploid nature it can communicate both...

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There is a fantasy that following weighty downpours in woodland, mushrooms show up in huge number and make an extremely enormous ring or circle, which might be a few meters in breadth. These are called ‘Pixie rings’. Would you be able to clarify this fantasy of pixie rings in natural terms?

solution: This normally happening ring or curve of mushrooms, happening as a typical turf sickness, is distinguished as enormous dead rings or curve of grass in yards throughout the spring or summer...

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An infection is considered as a living life form and a commit parasite when inside a host cell. Be that as it may, the infection isn’t characterized alongside microscopic organisms or parasites. What are the characters of the infection that are like non-living items?

solution: Infections have no total cell structure.Try not to show development, division, digestion and need breath.High explicit gravityTry not to follow Robert Koch's proposeCan't be become under...

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