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Trichoderma harzianum has proved a useful microorganism for 

  • bioremediation of contaminated soils

  • reclamation of wastelands

  • gene transfer in higher plants

  • gene transfer in higher plants


D.

gene transfer in higher plants

Some common fungal inhabitants of soil help to combat diseases caused by soil-borne fungi. Trichoderma lignorum and Gliocladium fimbriatum are found in damp soils. They have an inhibitory effect on the growth of the mycelium of pythium. They serve to suppress fungi causing damping off disease of the seedings and thereby influence favourably the growth of crops.

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Which one of the following is wrongly matched?

  • Puccinia - Smut

  • Root - Exarch protoxylem

  • Cassia - Imbricate aestivation

  • Cassia - Imbricate aestivation

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Virus envelope is known is 

  • capsid

  • virion

  • nucleoprotein

  • nucleoprotein

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An example of endomycorrhiza is 

  • Nostoc

  • Glomus

  • Agaricus

  • Agaricus

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Select the correct combination of the statement (A-D) regarding the characteristics of certain organisms.

A. Methanogens are Archaebacteria, which produce methane in marshy areas.
B. Nostoc is a filamentous blue-green algae, which fixes atmospheric nitrogen.
C. Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria synthesise cellulose from glucose.
D. Mycoplasma lacks a cell wall and can survive without oxygen.

  • B, C

  • A, B,C

  • B, C, D

  • B, C, D

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Which one of the following has haplontic life cycle?

  • Funaria

  • Polytrichum

  • fully developed foetus and placenta

  • fully developed foetus and placenta

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Phylogenetic system of classification is based on 

  • evolutionary relationships

  • morphological features

  • chemical constituents

  • chemical constituents

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Palisade parenchyma is absent in leaves of 

  • sorghum

  • mustard

  • soybean

  • soybean

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T O Diener discovered a

  • free infectious RNA

  • free infectious DNA,

  • infectious protein

  • infectious protein

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Peripatus is a connecting link between

  • Ctenophora and Platyhelminthes

  • Mollusca and Echinodermata

  • Annelida and Arthropoda

  • Annelida and Arthropoda

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