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✓✗Branched chain lipids occur in the cell membranes of
- Archaebacteria
- Mycoplasma
- Actinomycetes
- Streptomyces
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✓✗Under optimal conditions of temperature and nutrition, most of the bacteria divide at an interval of -
- 24 hrs
- 20 minutes
- 60 minutes
- 5 minutes
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✓✗Which of the following statements is not true for retroviruses?
- DNA is not present at any stage in the life cycle of retroviruses.
- Retroviruses carry gene for RNA- dependent DNA polymerase.
- The genetic material in mature retroviruses is RNA.
- Retroviruses are causative agents for certain kinds of cancer in man
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✓✗Which among the following is not a prokaryote?
- Saccharomyces
- Mycobacterium
- Nostoc
- Oscillatoria
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✓✗Lichens are pioneer of vegetation in a
- xerosere
- hydroponics
- marine life
- hydrosere
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✓✗One of the following is non-pathogenic
- Entamoeba hartmanni
- E. histolytica
- E. coli
- E. gingivalis
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✓✗Which of the following is a photosynthetic prokaryote?
- Rhizobium
- Nostoc
- Pseudomonas
- Staphylococcus
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✓✗Which is true about malarial parasite?
- It is found in salivary glands of mosquito only
- After erythrocytic cycle gametes are formed
- Release of trophozoites accompanied with fever
- Sporogony starts in stomach cavity of mosquito
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✓✗Which method is absent in Amoeba?
- Binary fission
- Multiple fission
- Sporulation
- Conjugation
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✓✗Bacterial cell includes all except
- Nuclear material without membrane
- Cell wall of murein
- DNA compound with histones
- Ribosomes
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✓✗Given below are two statements: one is labelled Assertion (A) and the other is labelled Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Nostoc and Anabaena are placed in Kingdom Monera.
Reason (R): They lack a well-defined nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
Assertion (A): Nostoc and Anabaena are placed in Kingdom Monera.
Reason (R): They lack a well-defined nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
- A is true but R is false.
- A is false but R is true.
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✓✗Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Mycoplasma can pass through less than 1 micron filter size.
Statement II : Mycoplasma are bacteria with cell wall.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
Statement I : Mycoplasma can pass through less than 1 micron filter size.
Statement II : Mycoplasma are bacteria with cell wall.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
- Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
- Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
- Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
- Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
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✓✗Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria obtain energy for ATP production by
- fixing atmospheric nitrogen
- oxidising inorganic substances such as nitrates, nitrites and ammonia
- absorbing sunlight
- decomposing dead organic matter
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✓✗Contractile vacuoles of Paramecium are analogous to
- Sweat glands of mammals
- Uriniferous tubules
- Gastrovascular cavity of Hydra
- Typhlosole of Earthworm
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✓✗The set of bacterial diseases is
- typhoid, measles, chickenpox
- tetanus, botulism, leprosy, enteric fever
- plague, cholera, rabies
- polio, rabies, tetanus and cholera