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Kerala SET Exam, 2012

BOTANY
(Original Solved Question Paper)
12903 120 MINUTES
1. The plant part from which colchicine is isolated
A) Fruit &seeds B) Stem& leaf

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C) Seeds & corms D) Fruit & bulb Ans. C

2. Albuminous cells are present in

A) Monocotyledonous plants B) Hydrophytes
C) Gymnosperms D) Bryophytes Ans. C

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3. The Casparian strip is usually composed of
A) Pectin B) Lignin

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C) Suberin D) Chitin Ans. C

4. Histochemical localization of proteins is performed by using

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A) Sudan black
B) Mercuric bromophenol blue
C) Periodic acid Schiffs (PAS) reagent Ans. B

5.
D)

Orcein is obtained from

A) Fractionation of coal tar
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Iodine potassium iodide (IKI) solution
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B) Heartwood of Caesalpinia
Ans. C
C) Roccella tinctoria.
D) Abdominal part of insects Dactylopius coccus
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6. Janus green B is used to stain

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A) Chloroplast B) Golgi complex

C) Vacuoles D) Mitochondria Ans. D
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7. The sectioning of woody materials for histo enzymological study is made

through----
A) Rotary microtome B) Sledge microtome
Ans. B
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C) Cryotome D) Rocking microtome

8. Molecular formula of chlorophyll a is

A) C55H70O5N4Mg B) C55H72O6N4Mg
Ans. D
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C) C55H70O6N4Mg D) C55H72O5N4Mg

9. RQ value of protein is
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A) Higher than 1 B) 1
C) Less than 1 D) Infinite Ans. C
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10. Recombination nodules are present in

A) Kinetochore B) Centriole
C) Synaptonemal complex D) Nucleolar organizing region
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Ans. C

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11. The movement of solutes in the phloem is mainly

A) Lateral B) Acropetal
Ans. D
C) Basipetal D) Centripetal

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12. The first stable compound in Hatch and Slack cycle is
A) Pyruvic acid B) Malic acid
C) Citric acid D) Oxalo acetic acid Ans. D

13. ------------ is an example for sulphur containing amino acid

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A) Aspartic acid B) Methionine
C) Glycine D) Isoleucine Ans. B

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14. Microevolution means
A) Evolution at geographical level
B) Evolution in a small community

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C) Changes in gene frequency within a population Ans. C
D) Spatial evolution

15.

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A) Sympatric speciation
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When a population formerly continuous in range, splits into two or more
geographically isolated populations and form new species, the mode of speciation

B) Polytypic speciation
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C) Allopatric speciation D) Evolutionary speciation Ans. C

16. Endosperm is absent in

A) Orchidaceae B) Compositae
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C) Poaceae D) Malvaceae
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Ans. A

17. Tyloses are

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A) Composite sieve plate B) Specialized laticeferous canals

C) Tracheal plugs D) Resin ducts
Ans. C
18. In Dracaena, secondary vascular bundle is
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A) Bicollataral B) Amphicribral
C) Collateral D) Amphivasal Ans. D

19. Osmium tetra oxide is used in electron microscopy as a

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A) Fixing agent B) Mordant

C) Staining agent D) Precipitator Ans. C
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20. The pH of phloem sap is about------------------

A) 5.5-6.5 B) 6.5 -7.5
8.0-8.5 4.5-5.5
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C) D) Ans.C
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21. Q10 refers to

A) Quantum recharge
B) Respiratory coefficient
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C) A temperature coefficient
D) Photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) coefficient

22. Warburg effect explains decreased rate of photosynthesis due to

A) High concentration of CO2 B) Low concentration of CO2
Ans. C
C) High concentration of O2 D) Low concentration of O2

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23. Fruit drop is caused by

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A) Accumulation of more auxin in fruit than in stem
B) Accumulation of less auxin in fruit than in stem
C) Absence of auxin in stem and roots Ans. B
D) Accumulation of auxin in roots

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24. The closure of lid of pitcher in Nepenthes is
A) A turgor movement B) A paratonic movement

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C) A tropic movement

National park is an example of

A) In vitro conservation
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B)
An autonomic movement

Ex situ conservation
Ans. B
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C) In situ conservation D) All of these Ans. C

26. In Funaria capsule, the peristome consist of

A) 16 teeth B) 32 teeth
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C) 64 teeth D) 128 teeth

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Ans. B

27. Protonema is found in

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A) Riccia B) Anthoceros
C) Marchantia D) Funaria Ans. D

28. Western Ghats passes through ------------ states in India

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A) 6 B) 4
C) 7 D) 5 Ans. A

29. Partial or complete loss of virulence in pathogen is called

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A) Abortive parasitism B) Attenuation

C) Neutralism D) Susceptibility Ans. B
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30. Phytoalexins are produced

A) During infection B) During flowering
C) Throughout the lifecycle D) By seedlings only Ans. A
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31. Katte disease of cardamom is caused due to

A) Colletotrichum elettariae B) Phytophthora medii Ans. C
C) Cardamom mosaic virus D) Fusarium sp.

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32. If the probability of being blood type A is 1/8 and the probability of blood type O
is ½ , what is the probability of being either blood type A or blood type O?
A) 5/8 B) 1/16 Ans. A
C) 1/8 D) 1/2

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33. An animal has a diploid number of 8 chromosomes. During meiosis how many
chromatids are present in metaphase of second meiotic stage?

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A) 16 B) 8
C) 4 D) 32 Ans. A

34. What is the sexual phenotype of a diploid fruit fly that has XXYYY sex

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chromosome?
A) Male B) Female
C) Intersex D) Metamale Ans. B

35.
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Betty has normal vision but her mother is color blind. Sam is color blind. If Betty
and Sam are married and have a girl child, what is the probability that the child
will be color blind?
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Ans. B
A) 1/4 B) 1/2 C) 1/3 D) 2/3

36. How many genotypes are present at a locus with four alleles?
A) 15 B) 10 C) 8 D) 16
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Ans. B
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37. An organism has 10 pairs of independent genes. Aa BB cc Dd Ee Ff Gg HH II Jj.

How many types of gametes with respect to gene content can this individual
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produce?
A) 16 B) 32 C) 64 D) 128 Ans. C

38. Which process of DNA transfer in bacteria require a virus

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A) Conjugation B) Transduction
Ans. B
C) Transformation D) All of these

39. Species A has 2n=16 chromosomes and species B has 2n=14 chromosomes. How
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many chromosomes would be found in an allotriploid of these two species?

A) 21 or 24 B) 42 or 48 Ans. C
C) 22 or 23 D) 45
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40. The percentage of cytosine in double stranded DNA molecule is 40%. What is the
percentage of Thiamine?
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A) 40% B) 60%
C) 20% D) 10% Ans. D
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41. What type of replication require a break in the nucleotide strand to get started
A) Theta replication B) Rolling cycle replication Ans. B
C) Linear eukaryotic replication D) All of these

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42. If two loci are 10 map units apart, what proportion of the meiotic events will
contain a single cross over in the region between these two loci, assuming that no
multiple cross over occur?
A) 10% B) 15% Ans. D
C) 5% D) 20%

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43. What is the effect of high level glucose in lac operon

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A) Transcription is stimulated
B) Little transcription takes place
C) Transcription not affected
D) Transcription may be stimulated or inhibited depending upon the level of Ans. B

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lactose.

44. In RNA silencing, si RNAs and mi RNAs usually bind to which part of the mRNA
molecule that they control
A)
C)
5’UTR
3’poly(A) tail yc
B)
D)
Segments that encodes aminoacids Ans. D
3’UTR
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45. DNA binding regulatory proteins are grouped into distinct classes based on the
motif found within the binding domains. In the following group which are
common bacterial regulatory proteins
A) Helix –turn- helix B) B.zinc finger Ans. A
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C) Leucine zipper D) Helix –loop -helix

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46. In a group of students, about 36% could roll their tongues, a trait determined by a
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dominant gene (R). The other 64% of the students were nonrollers (r) . The
population is in Hardy-Wienberg equilibrium. What is the frequency of the gene R
and its recessive allele r?
A) R=0.3 and r=0.1 B) R=0.64 and r=0.36
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C) R=0.8 and r=0.2 D) R=0.2 and r=0.8 Ans. D

47. Which of the following changes is a transition base substitution?

A) Adenine replaced by thymine
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B) Cytosine replaced by adenine

C) Guanine replaced by adenine
D) Three nucleotide pairs are inserted into DNA Ans. C
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48. A genetically engineered squash called Freedom II carries genes from

A) Watermelon mosaic virus B) Zucchini virus
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C) Cauliflower mosaic virus D) Both A & B

Ans. D
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49. Which gene is inserted to the target gene to create knockout mice?
A) ‘tk’ gene B) ‘neo’ gene
Ans. C
C) Both A & B D) Neither A & B

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50. In the following common bioinformatic data bases, which contains protein
sequence data?
A) Gene Bank B) EMBL-Bank
C) dbEST D) UniProt Ans. D

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51. Genes found in different species that evolved from same gene in a common
ancestor is called

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A) Homologs B) Paralogs
C) Orthologs D) Homeologs Ans. C

52. Which lichen is known as “Reindeer moss?”

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A) Cladonia rengiferina B) Peltigera canina
C) Lobaria pulmonaria D) Rocella montaignei
Ans. D
53.

B)
C)
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Proflavin and acridine oranges are chemicals that cause mutations because
A) They distort the structure of DNA
They chemically modify the normal bases
They are similar in structure to the normal bases
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D) They sandwich between adjacent bases in DNA Ans. D

54. A codon that specifies aminoacid Tryptophan undergoes a single base substitution
that yields a nonsense codon. What is the mutated codon?
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A) UUG B) UGA
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C) UAA D) UGG Ans. B

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55. The retrovirus genome is

A) RNA
B) DNA
C) RNA in free virus but converted to DNA inside the host cell
Ans. C
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D) DNA in free virus but converted to RNA inside the host cell

56. A recombinant cross is performed between two organisms producing a total of

400 offspring. There were two distinct types of recombinants, with 36 of the first
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type and 58 of the second type present. The recombination frequency of the gene
is
A) 0.145 B) 0.235
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C) 0.345 D) 0.445 Ans. B

57. What are known as “safe havens” during insertion of transposable elements?
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A) Centromere regions B) Retrotransposon regions

C) Heterochromatin regions D) All these
Ans. D
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58. Total length of life cycle in yeast

A) 90 minutes B) 1 hour C) 12 hours D) 24 hours
Ans. A

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59. P elements are transposable elements found in
A) Maize B) Yeast
C) Drosophila D) Arabdiopsis Ans. C

60. Hammerling performed experiments to prove that nucleus is the physical basis of
heredity by working on

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A) Neurospora crassa B) Drosophila melanogaster
C) Acetabularia crenulata D) Saccharomyces pombi Ans. C

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61. Minute granular structures found on the inner face of the thyalakoid membrane
A) Quantasomes B) Diplosomes
C) Oxysomes D) Lysosomes Ans. A

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62. When a cell with 2n = 60 chromosomes undergoes meiosis, each of the four
resulting cells has ------ chromosomes

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A) 30 B)

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60 C) 40

The somatic chromosome number (2n) of Arabidopsis thaliana is

A) 20 B) 10 C) 5
D)

D)
10
Ans. A

30
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Ans. B
64. The normal sequence of markers on a certain Drosophila chromosome is
123.456789, where the dot represents the centromere. One fly was isolated with
the following aberration, 1654.32789. What could be the structural aberration
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involved?
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A) Paracentric inversion B) Deletion

C) Duplication D) Pericentric inversion Ans. D
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65. If the somatic chromosome number for an organism is 2n = 16, the hexaploid
number would be
A) 16 B) 32
Ans. C
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C) 48 D) 64

66. --------------- is a drooping pendant fruticose lichen

A) Physcia B) Cladonia
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C) Usnea D) Haematomma
Ans. C

67. Cyphellae in lichens are analogous to ----------------- in higher plants

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A) Palisade tissue B) Epidermis

C) Bundle sheath D) Stomata Ans. D
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68. Which of the following is called ‘walking fern’?

A) Selaginella rupestris B) Selaginella bryopteris
C) Adiantus incisum D) Adiantum caudatum
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Ans. D

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69. Which of the following has amphiphloic siphonostele?

A) Marsillea B) Lycopodium Ans. A
C) Pteris D) Dryopteris

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70. The fossil fern, Rhynia was discovered by
A) Sir William Dawson B) Kidson and Lang
C) De Bary D) Captain Cooke Ans. B

71. Smallest fern among the following is

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A) Drynaria B) Anogramma
C) Cyathea D) Woodsia Ans. B

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72. Endosperm in gymnosperm is
A) Generally diploid B) Always haploid
C) Triploid D) With different ploidy levels

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Ans. B
73. Characters of both conifer and cycads are found in
A) Ginkgo B) Ephedra

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C) Cupress

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The number of neck canal cells in the archegonium of Cycas is

A) 2 B) 4
Ans. A
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C) 6 D) 0 Ans. D

75. The dwarf shoots of Pinus wallichiana are

A) Monofoliar B) Bifoliar
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C) Trifoliar D) Pentafoliar
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Ans. D

76. Species that occur in different geographical regions separated by special barrier
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are
A) Autogenic B) Allogenic
C) Allopatric D) Sympatric Ans. C
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77. Area within the centre of diversity protected from human interference.
A) Gene sanctuary B) Gene bank
C) Biosphere D) Microcentre Ans. A
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78. Which is the age of ‘higher gymnosperms’?

A) Mesozoic B) Palaeozoic
C) Archaeozoic D) Proterozoic Ans. A
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79. The storage of energy at consumer’s level is

A) Gross primary productivity B) Secondary productivity
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C) Net primary productivity D) Primary productivity Ans. B

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80. Ozone in the atmosphere absorbs:

A) All UV-C B) All UV-C and most of UV-B
C) All UV-A and UV-B D) All UV-A and UV-C
Ans. B

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81. The taxa which is believed likely to join the endangered category in near future is
called:
A) Extinct B) Rare
C) Vulnerable D) Living fossil Ans. C

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82. Total soluble salts in soil are measured by
A) Tensiometer B) Conductivity meter

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C) pH meter D) None of these Ans. B

83. Yeast is an important source of

A) Vitamin C B) Riboflavin

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C) Sugar D) Fat Ans. B

84. Powdery mildews of crops are caused by

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A)
C)
Bacteria
Phycomycetes
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B)
D)
Ascomycetes
Basidiomycetes
Ans. B

A fungus with hyphae containing nuclei from different genomes, the nuclei do not
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fuse but divide independently and simultaneously as new cells are formed is
A) Phycomycetes B) Zygomycetes
C) Deuteromycetes D) Basidiomycetes Ans. D
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86. The type of ovule in which micropyle and funicle lie in one line
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A) Orthotropous B) Anatropous
C) Amphitropous D) Campylotropus Ans. A
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87. Study of pollen grains in honey is known as

A) Iatropalynology B) Aeropalynology
C) Melissopalynology D) Pharmacopalynology Ans. C
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88. Sporopollinin is seen in

A) Intine B) Exine
C) Endocarp D) Mesocarp Ans. B
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89. The common bread wheat is called:

A) Triticum aestivum B) Triticum turgidum
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C) Triticum monococcum D) None of these Ans. A

90. Major component of ‘Jeevani’ is

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A) Ocimum basilicum B) Acorus calamus

C) Trichopus zeylanicus D) Bacopa monnieri Ans. C
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91. Predominant ethnic group in Thiruvananthapuram district is:

A) Kani B) Malavedan Ans. A
C) Malapandaram D) Cholanaikan

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92. X2 test is used to
A) Measure the degree of deviation of the experimental result from the
expected result
B) To test the closeness of observed and expected frequency
C) To test the population variance and sample variance

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Ans. D
D) All of the above

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93. Mode can be located graphically with the help of
A) Line diagram B) Bar diagram
C) Histogram D) Pie diagram Ans. C

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94. X-ray diffraction analysis is based on
A) Beer-Lambert’s law B) Bragg’s equation
C) Partition coefficient D) Sedimentation coefficient Ans. B

95.
A)
C)
Protein
Aminoacids
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Sudan Black B is often used for visualization of
B)
D)
Carbohydrates
Lipids Ans. D
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96. Which instrument is more useful to study the surface details of a specimen?
A) Phase contrast microscope B) Scanning electron microscope
C) Light microscope D) Transition electron microscope
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Ans. B
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97. Stock and scion are needed for doing

A) Budding B) Grafting
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C) Layering D) None of these Ans. B

98. Insecticide that remains active in environment for the longest period of time
A) Organophosphates B) Chlorinated hydrocarbons
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C) Carbonyles D) None of these Ans.C

99. The large center root of plant used in bonsai is cut off
A) To dwarf the plant
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B) To cause root brancing

C) To make the root system shallow enough to fit in the container
D) To simplify the root pruning job Ans.A
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100. Which vegetable crops use large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer?

A) Leaf B) Root
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C) Fruit D) All of these Ans. D

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101. Rhinoviruses are the causative organism for

A) Tuberculosis B) Whooping cough Ans. D
C) Diphtheria D) Common cold

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102. Bacterial cell divides once in every minute. It takes I hour to fill a petri plate. How
much time is taken to fill half of the plate?
A) 59 minutes B) 49 minutes
C) 30 minutes D) 29 minutes Ans. A

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103. Infective RNA particles without protein sheath are:
A) Rickettse B) Mycoplasma

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C) Virus D) Viroid Ans. D

104. Operating system is

A) A collection of hardware components

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B) A collection of input-output devices
C) A collection of software routines
Ans. C
D) All of the above

105.
A)
C)
OMIM
Golden path
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A data base of current sequence map of the human genome is called
B)
D)
HGMD
GeneCards Ans. C
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106. Laminarin is the reserve food material of
A) Chlorophyta B) Rhodophyta
C) Phaeophyta D) Cyanophyta Ans. C
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107. Chlamydomonas and Volvox are similar because

A) Both of them are motile B) They are filamentous
Ans. A
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C) They are colonial D) They have diploid thallus

108. Which of the following algal group never produces motile, flagellated cells
among any of its members?
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A) Chrysophyta B) Phaeophyta
C) Chlorophyta D) Rhodophyta Ans. D

109. The most primitive algal group is

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A) Green algae B) Brown algae

C) Red algae D) Blue-green algae Ans. D
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110. The newly collected specimen which is used as a substitute, when the original
type material is missing in a herbarium, is designated as
A) Lectotype B) Holotype
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C) Neotype D) Isotype Ans.C

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111. Hypanthodium is the characteristic of

A) Amorphophallus B) Acrocephalus
C) Ficus D) Euphorbia Ans. C

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112. A single seeded fruit with inseparably fused testa and pericarp is
A) Achene B) Caryopsis
C) Cypsella D) Cremocarp Ans. B

113. A family having unisexual flowers with parietal placentation is

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A) Cruciferae B) Euphorbiaceae
C) Orchidaceae D) Cucurbitaceae Ans. D

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114. The family Lythraceae belongs to the series
A) Disciflorae B) Calyciflorae
C) Heteromerae D) Inferae Ans. B

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115. The family Amaryllidaceae differs from Liliaceae in having
A) Actinomorphic to slightly zygomorphic flowers
B)
C)
D)
Inferior ovary
Axile placentation
Perianth of six tepals yc Ans. B
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116. The lowest ranking taxa in numerical taxonomy is
A) Species B) Operational taxonomic unit
C) Character states D) Variety
Ans. B
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117. Cladistic relationship is expressed in terms of correlation amongst individuals

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with regard to
A) Phenotypic characters
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B) Their evolutionary history

C) Relationship between operational taxonomic unit
D) Their chromosomal behaviour Ans. B
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118. Primary centre of origin of rice is

A) Asia minor centre B) Central Asia centre
C) Hindustan centre D) Mediterranean centre
Ans. C
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119. Heterosis results from

A) Harmfull effects of recessive alleles and heterozygosity
B) Homozygosity
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C) Heterozygosity
D) Heterozygosity and masking of harmfull effects of recessive alleles
Ans.D
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120. Production of a double cross hybrid involves

A) Two inbreds B) Four inbreds
C) Six inbreds D) Three inbreds Ans. B
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