Root cap is absent in from Science The World of The Living

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21.

Adding salt and sugar to food substances helps in preserving them for a longer duration. It is because excess salt and sugar

  • cause rupturing of microbial cells

  • cause change in the shape of microbial cells

  • remove water from food

  • plasmolyse the microbial cells


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22.

Root cap is absent in

  • hydrophytes

  • mesophytes

  • halophytes

  • xerophytes


A.

hydrophytes

Hydrophytes are those plants which live in water and adjust with their surroundings. They either remain fully submerged in the water like Hydrilla, Valisineria, etc. or most of their body parts remain under the water like trapa, lotus, etc. water lilies, sedges, are other important water plants. Root caps contain startocytes which are involved in gravity precipitation in plants. It protects the growing tip in plants. It protects the growing tip in plants. It is absent in hydrophytes, as it grows in or water


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23.

Hormone Adrenaline

  • helps the body to adjust stress level when one is very angry or worried

  • helps control height

  • helps control balance of electrolytes in the body

  • helps control level of sugar in the blood


24.

The thumb of humans moves more freely than other fingers due to the presence of

  • gliding joint

  • hinge joint

  • saddle joint

  • pivotal joint


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25.

A common characteristic feature of plant sieve-tube cells and mammalian erythrocytes is

  • absence of chloroplast

  • absence of cell wall

  • presence of haemoglobin

  • absence of nucleus


26.

The smallest of living organisms with cell wall are

  • yeast

  • cyanobacteria

  • algae

  • bacteria


27.

Antibiotics are effective against

  • influenza

  • hepatitis A

  • dengue fever

  • cholera


28.

Which of the following is immovable joint?

  • Pivot-joint between head and neck

  • Hinge-joint of elbow

  • Joint between skull bone

  • Ball and socket joint


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29.

Which blood corpuscle help in coagulation of blood?

  • Lymphocyte

  • Platelets

  • Monocyte

  • Red blood corpuscles


30.

In yeast asexual reproduction takes place through

  • Budding

  • Fission

  • Both (1) and (2)

  • None of these


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