Post : Lecturer in Botany
Department : Collegiate Education
Category Code : 278/2016
Qulification: Masters Degree in Botany
Question Paper Code : 43/2017/OL
Date of Test : 01-06-2017
- Which term is specifically used for miniature succession of microorganisms?
- Disclimax
- Subsere
- Serule
- Climax
- Smith (1933) used the following one term instead of conjugales in his algal classification.
- Euconjugatae
- Mougeotiaceae
- Zygnematales
- Desmoidiodeae
- Desikachary (1959) called single celled hormogones of blue green algae as
- Planococci
- Carpospores
- Statospores
- Paraspores
- A layer which helps in the opening of anther
- Tapetum
- Endothecium
- Middle layer
- Epidermal cell
- Which statement is not true for the mosses?
- Sperm produced in archegonia
- Sporophyte is dependent upon gametophyte
- Sporophytes grows by apical cell division
- Mosses are probably sister to the vascular plants
- The soil best for plant is
- Loam soil
- Fine sand
- Coarse sand
- Clay
- The abundance of a species population within its habitat is called
- Absolute density
- Regional density
- Relative density
- Niche density
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- The following one relationship lasts over time
- Mutualism
- Parasitism
- Symbiosis
- Commensalism
- Replication in DNA moves from
- 3' to 5' direction
- 5' to 5' direction
- 3' to 3' direction
- 5' to 3' direction
- Cot ½ of DNA is defined as
- The time taken to reanneal
- Concentration of DNA in a cell at any time
- Amount of cytosine bases in a single strand by DNA
- The initial concentration multiplied by time for half of DNA to reanneal
- Chaperon protein help in
- Protein folding and assembly
- Protein folding only
- Protein stability
- Both Protein folding and assembly and Protein folding only
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- An enzyme responsible for the synthesis of tRNA
- tRNA replicase
- tRNA synthetase
- RNA Polymerase
- Ribosomal enzymes
- Polytene chromosome is generated by
- DNA replication failure
- DNA replication without segregation
- Homologus chromosome pairing
- Transcription process
- Which of the following correctly matches a phase of the cell cycle?
- S1 immediately precedes cell division
- G1 immediately follows cell division
- G2, cell division
- M, duplication of DNA
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- The 'RNA world hypothesis' proposes that
- RNA formed from DNA
- RNA is a catalyst
- RNA is both catalyst and genetic material
- RNA formed from protein
- Which of the following structure is not surrounded by one or more membrane?
- Chloroplast
- Mitochondria
- Proxisome
- Ribosome
- Choose the more appropriate term for 'Connexin' protein
- Desmosomes
- Intercellular spaces
- Tight junctions
- Gap junctions
- Water in non-cyclic photophosphorylation is used for
- Excitation of chlorophyll
- Hydrolysis of ATP
- Oxidization of NADPH
- Reduction of chlorophyll
- The genetic sex of a human being is determined by
- X and Y chromosome, the male being XX
- The Y chromosome
- Z and W chromosome, the male being ZZ
- The number of X chromosome, the male being XO
- The sum total of proteins produced by an organism.
- Proteome
- Metablomics
- Genomics
- All of these
- The term 'Pharming' refers to
- Genetically modified foods from plants
- Recombinant drugs from bacteria
- Transgenic research by animals
- Drug synthesis from transgenic plants
- What type of mating generally seen in the plant 'Primroses'?
- Random mating
- Both Non-random mating and self fertilization
- Non-random mating
- Self fertilization
- Which of the following is not essential for a population at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium?
- No migration between populations
- No involvement of natural selection on the alleles
- Multiple alleles at every locus
- Random mating
- 'Amborella'.
- The first flowering plant
- Sister group of all living angiosperms
- The first gymnosperm clade
- Eudicot
- Atropine is obtained from the plant
- Pacific yew
- Priwinkle
- Belladona
- Foxglove
- The only fungi with flagella
- Chytrids
- Microsporidia
- Zygomycota
- Dikarya
- Reproductive structures bear one or more green cells surrounded by fungal hyphae
- Basidiospore
- Conidia
- Ascospore
- Soredia
- Pseudomonas tobaci which produces the toxin when it affects the tobacco plant
- Victorin
- Periconia toxin
- Piricularin
- Wild fire toxin
- When did the Government of India passed the 'Destructive Insects and Pests Act'?
- 1947
- 1914
- 1952
- 1925
- The fungus Pestalotia palmarum belongs to the group
- Deuteromycetes
- Ascomycetes
- Zygomycetes
- Basidiomycetes
- The concept of in vitro cell culture was developed by
- Kotte and Robins
- Haberlandt
- Hanning
- Knop
- The embryo formed by unfertilized egg
- Androgenic embryos
- Somatic embryos
- Parthenogenetic embryos
- Adventive embryos
- The first report of forming haploid embryos from Datura by in vitro was published
- Guha and Maheswary
- Nitsch
- Maheswary
- Bourgin and Nitsch
- Ajmalacine, serpentine, reserpine obtained from
- Aster group
- Liliaceae group
- Euphorbia group
- Rauwolfia group
- National Orchidaria situated at
- Shillong
- Calcutta
- Calicut
- Palode
- Tree of 21st century
- Rubber
- Orchid
- Neem
- Anthurium
- Triticum dicoccum is commonly known as
- Emmer wheat
- Club wheat
- Elinkorn wheat
- Durum wheat
- The fruit of abelmoschus esculentus
- Capsule
- Berry
- Loculisidal capsule
- Hesperidium
- Terpenoids have been extensively used in the chemotaxonomy of
- Horedum plants
- Papaver plants
- Citrus plants
- Strychnos plants
- The highest chromosome number in Ophioglossum reticulatum
- 2n = 1206
- 2n = 1026
- 2n = 1260
- 2n = 1620
- A pendulous type of inflorescence
- Head
- Spike
- Catkin
- Umbel
- Which year marked the birth of modern system of biological nomenclature?
- 1857
- 1757
- 1758
- 1854
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- Sewall Wright effect refers to random fluctuations in the gene frequencies in
- Large population
- Ecosystem
- Small population
- None of these
- The Central Tuber Crops Research Institute located
- Kasargode
- Trivandrum
- Coimbatore
- Simla
- A nodal organization in India to coordinate all the activities related to plant collection, introduction, documentation and sustainable management of germplasm.
- IARI
- ICRISAT
- NBPGR
- IBPGR
- The method of selection of plants from the population by their phenotype
- Mass selection
- Pureline selection
- Clonal selection
- Both Mass selection and Clonal selection
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- In which category the chemical mutagen, 2-amino purine includes
- Alkylating agents
- Acridine dyes
- Other agents
- Base analogues
- What is LD 50?
- Mutagen kills 50% treated materials
- Mutagen kills 50% un-treated materials
- Low dose of 50% chemicals
- Low dose of semi mutagen
- The codons which collectively code for the same amino acid
- Synonymous codons or Degenerate codons
- Initiation codons
- Termination codons
- Triplet codons
- A mother of blood group O has a child of O group. The father could be
- O only
- A or B
- AB only
- A or B or O
- How many genetically different gametes can be made by an individual genotype AaBbccDDEe?
- 10
- 32
- 8
- 5
- Cite an example of non-allelic interaction
- Complementary gene action
- Multiple allelism
- Co-dominance
- Incomplete dominance
- Polymerase chain reaction involves
- Polymerisation and denaturation
- Extension and annealing
- Denaturation, annealing and polymerisation
- None of these
- DNA is separated by
- Agarose Gel electrophoresis
- PAGE
- SDA-PAGE
- SDS-PAGE
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- If the respiratory substrate is fat and oil, what will be the R.Q.?
- 1.7
- 1.0
- 0.7
- infinite
- Biosynthesis of Ethylene from
- Mevalonic acid
- Tryptophan
- Methionine
- Cysteine
- A programme to identify complete gene structures in genomic DNA
- SWISSPORT
- BLAST
- GENSCAN
- Phylip
- A mating is expected to produce 50% heterozygotes and homozygotes is
- Both BB x Bb and Bb x Bb
- BB x Bb
- Bb x Bb
- bb x bb
- How many triplet codons can be made from four nucleotides A, U, G and C containing one or more Uracils?
- 37/64
- 27/64
- 17/64
- 47/64
- Given the antisense strand DNA codon 3'TAC5', the anticodon that pairs with corresponding mRNA codon could be
- 3'UAC5'
- 3'CAT5'
- 5'AUG3'
- None of these
- Super bug is a
- Transgenic plant
- Transgenic insect
- Bacterium
- Virus
- Which of the following is a cloning vector?
- Cosmid
- All of these
- Phasmid
- Plasmid
- The following one sclerids is found in the seed coats of Pisum sativum
- Astrosclerids
- Brachysclerids
- Osteosclerids
- Trichosclerids
- Haematoxylin belongs to which category?
- Acidic stains
- Neutral stains
- Basic stains
- All of these
- DPX stands for
- Distrene Plasticizer Xylene
- Dilute Primary Xylol
- Distrene Prime Xylene
- Dilute Plastic Xylol
- Cells which are involved in the lateral transport of solutes
- Parenchyma cells
- Leaf traces
- Transfer cells
- Foliar trace
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- Secondary cortex is
- Phellogen
- Phelloderm
- Phellum
- Complementary cells
- A graph which containing frequencies in the form of vertical rectangles
- Frequency curve
- Frequency polygon
- Histogram
- Both Frequency curve and Frequency polygon
- The first TEM was designed by
- Koehler
- Smith
- Zeiss
- Knoll and Ruska
- The pollen tube enters through the nucellus by a process
- Porogamy
- Chalazogamy
- Mesogamy
- Orthogamy
- If a student is not able to follow a class, teacher may
- Repeat the same many times
- Explain it in different ways
- Ask him to leave that topic
- Feel sympathy towards him
- An effective teacher adopt the norms of
- Autocratic society
- Laissez-faire society
- All these
- Democratic society
- To develop rapport with students
- Do not punish students
- Do not blame students
- Treat them in a humanistic way
- Keep contact with parents
- If students ask question in the class
- Ask them to find answer from Internet
- Ask them not to disturb the class
- Ask them to meet after the class
- Encourage them to ask questions
- Open book examination helps to
- Compel students for not learning
- Compel students for not attending the classes
- Compel students to think in different ways
- None of these
- Research that is conducted purely for the development of theory is termed
- Applied research
- Fundamental research
- Laboratory research
- Action research
- In an experiment of visual perception you make sure that your laboratory has the same temperature and has the same level of lighting throughout the experiment. This is an example of
- Holding extraneous variable constant
- Manipulating an independent variable
- Randomly assigning participants to conditions
- Ignoring extraneous variables
- Two factors that enter into determining the number of participants needed to ensure a valid survey are
- Administration technique and population characteristics
- Population characteristics and sampling technique
- Sampling technique and the amount of acceptable error
- The amount of acceptable error and expected magnitude of proportions in the population
- A scale that provides the most information about a variable is the
- Nominal scale
- Ordinal scale
- Interval scale
- Ratio scale
- When you critically evaluate the method section of a research report, the litmus test of that section is
- Whether you can replicate the study from the description given
- Whether the method described is a standard one
- The test given to the participants to determine whether they should be included in the study
- Any test that is administered as a part of the procedure
- "The term 'law' in Article 21 of the Constitution refers to positive or state made law and not natural justice and this meaning of the language of Art. 21 cannot be modified with reference to preamble". The above observations on the utility of preamble as an aid of interpretation was made by the Supreme Court in
- Berubari Union Cae (AIR 1960 SC 845)
- A. K. Gopalan V. State of Madras (AIR 1950 SC 27)
- Kesavananda Bharathi V. State of Kerala (AIR 1973 SC 1461)
- Golaknath V. State of Punjab (AIR 1967 SC 1643)
- Safeguards from arbitrary arrest and detention under Articles 22(1) and 22(2) is not available in case of
- Preventive detention
- Alien enemies
- Both Preventive detention and Alien enemies
- Neither Preventive detention nor Alien enemies
- Which of the following are correctly matched?
i) Ninth Schedule Added by 1st Amendment
ii) Tenth Schedule Added by 52nd Amendment
iii) 11th Schedule Added by 73rd Amendment
iv) 12thSchedule Added by 74th Amendment- i & ii
- i, ii & iii
- ii, iii & iv
- i, ii, iii & iv
- Indian Constitution consists of
- 22 Parts
- 28 Parts
- 23 Parts
- 12 Parts
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- If Rajya Sabha fails to return a money bill with its recommendations within 14 days allowed to it.
- The Bill becomes void
- Again a fresh bill has to be introduced in Lok Sabha
- It is deemed to have been passed by both houses on the expiry of that period
- The Bill becomes void & Again a fresh bill has to be introduced in Lok Sabha only
- Sexual abuse of children by public servants and blood relatives, impregnating a child and striping a child naked in public are treated as an offense of ________________ under protection of children from Sexual Offense Act 2012.
- Sexual assault under Sec. 7
- Aggravated sexual assault under Sec. 9
- Aggravated penetrative sexual assault under Sec. 5
- Sexual harassment under Sec. 11
- How many schedules does the Right to Information Act 2005 have,
- 5
- 2
- 10
- 8
- How frequently shall Social Audit be conducted in Grama Panchayat under Mahathma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act?
- Once in every six months
- After one yaer
- Every month
- 15 days
- The National Food Security Act came into force in
- 2013
- 2012
- 2014
- 2011
- The first _______________ has been launched for blind and visually impaired in 2015.
- Eyeway National Programme
- Eyeway National Helpdesk
- Eyeway domestic Helpdesk
- None of these
- Keibul Lamjao, worlds only floating national park is located in which state?
- Assam
- Tripura
- Manipur
- Arunachal Pradesh
- The leader of revolt of 1857 in Lucknow was
- Tatya Tope
- Kunwarsingh
- Birjis Qadir
- Begum Hazrat Mahal
- "Atoms can neither be created nor be destroyed" This principle is created by
- Avogadro
- Dalton
- Rutherford
- Neils Bohr
- The first book completely printed in the Malayalam Language?
- Samkshepavedartham
- Vedopadesham
- Bible
- Rajya Samajaram
- Paliyam Satyagraha was launched by
- A. G. Velayudhan
- T. K. Madhavan
- C. Kesavan
- Mannath Padmanabhan
- Olympics in 2016 was held at
- Beijing
- Rio De Janeiro
- Tokyo
- Brazil
- "Sabdikkunna Kalappa" written by
- S. K. Pottakkad
- Kesav Dev
- Vallathol Narayana Menon
- Ponkunnam Varky
- International Mother Language Day is being observed the world on
- 21 February
- 8 March
- 22 April
- 5 June
- Jhansi Rani of Travancore
- Anna Chandi
- Arya Pallan
- Akkamma Cherian
- Kuttimalu Amma
- Atma vidya Sangam was found by
- Ayyam kali
- Chattampi Swamikal
- Sreenarayana Guru
- Vaghbhatananda
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