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The agrochemicals like pesticides, insecticides and fungicides disturb the whole food chain through a process called

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Which of the following is an example of a prominent dormancy breaking compound with advantage of wide safety margin between active and toxic dosages?

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Which one of the following statements about transport mechanism in plants is correct?

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In India, Mishra and Rao (1948) first time reported ecotypic differentiation in

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Which of the following pollution types is the most common and dangerous type of environmental pollution that has been reported in all metropolitan cities and industrialised countries of the world?

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In which of the following types of endosperm, the first nuclear division of the primary endosperm nucleus is followed by the formation of either a longitudinal or transverse wall in the central cell?

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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I List-II
a. Gravelly soil 1. Soil contains large particles of rocks together with sand and silt
b. Silt soil 2. Soil directly derived from limestones
c. Loam soil 3. Soil is practically intermediate between sandy and clay soils
d. Calcareous soil 4. Soil composed of sand, silt and clay particles of different sizes in more or less equal proportions

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In which of the following ecosystems, secondary and tertiary consumers are usually absent?

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During microsporogenesis the middle layers become flattened and crushed at the time of meiotic divisions in the microspore mother cells except in

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Which of the following plants do not flower in response to gibberellins?

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Pollination is brought about by the movement of water which brings the anthers of male flowers against the stigmas in case of

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All diseases caused by viruses are of

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The cohesion-tension theory of the translocation of water in plants was first introduced by

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Consider the following statements regarding Xenia and choose the correct answer:
1. If a white variety (yy) is pollinated with pollen from a yellow variety (YY), one of the male gametes (Y) will unite with the egg (y) to produce a hybrid embryo (Yy) which will act as a heterozygote for yellow endosperm in the next generation
2. The second male gamete (Y) will unite with the two polar nuclei (y, y) and produces the primary endosperm nucleus (Yyy) which is triploid
3. If a yellow endosperm variety (YY) is crossed with pollen from a white grained variety, the grains produced are white like the pollen parent

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Which of the following plant pigments absorbs in red and far-red region of light?

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Solar energy is converted into ATP in

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Who among the following defined apomixis as the substitution for sexual reproduction of an asexual process which do not involve any nuclear fusion?

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The ultimate cause of water movement in a plant stem against gravity is

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Which of the following cell organelle is reponsible for cellular respiration?

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The basic distinction between peroxidase and oxidase activity is that

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