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(Single Best Answer) Question 141: Consider the following:

1. Ethylene dibromide

2. Potassium meta-bisulphate

3. Sodium benzoate

Which of the above is / are used as food preservatives ?
A) 1 and 2 only
B) 3 only
C) 2 and 3 only
D) 1, 2 and 3
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(Single Best Answer) Question 142: Which one of the following is an appropriate description of mangrove plants ?
A) Large wood-yielding trees of the tropical forests
B) Plants in marshy areas with breathing roots
C) Succulent plants that can thrive in arid / desert areas
D) Vast grassland areas interspersed with deciduous trees and thorny bushes
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(Single Best Answer) Question 143: Tissue culture technique can be used for

1. developing virus - free plants

2. multiplication of elite genotypes of useful trees

3. production of secondary metabolites of plants

Select the correct answer using the code given below:
A) 1 only
B) 2 and 3 only
C) 1 and 3 only
D) 1, 2 and 3
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(Single Best Answer) Question 144: Which group of algae can provide nitrogenous nutrients to paddy cultivation under natural field conditions ?
A) Blue-green algae
B) Brown algae
C) Green algae
D) Red algae
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(Single Best Answer) Question 145: Bacillus thuringiensis is used to control ?
A) bacterial pathogens
B) fungal pathogens
C) insect pests
D) nematodes
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(Single Best Answer) Question 146: Greenhouse gases are called as such because they ?
A) are used in warming plant growth chambers
B) help in maintaining atmospheric O2 and CO2 balance
C) are produced by green photosynthesizing plants and are trapped in the Earths atmosphere
D) prevent the escape of heat waves reradiated from the Earths surface
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(Single Best Answer) Question 147: The chemical substance Taxol is said to have curative value for malignant tumors. It is obtained from the ?
A) shoots of Taxodium sp.
B) roots and fruits of Taxodium sp.
C) bark from stems of Taxus sp.
D) roots of Taxus sp.
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(Single Best Answer) Question 148: In the hills, the soil erosion takes place due to paid flow of rain water. It can be most effectively controlled by ?
A) building dykes
B) channelizing the water
C) jhum cultivation
D) terrace cultivation
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(Single Best Answer) Question 149: Polymerase Chain Reaction technique is used for ?
A) DNA amplification
B) DNA sequencing
C) screening gene libraries
D) synthesis of polymerases
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(Single Best Answer) Question 150: Some antibiotics act as ionophores, which means that they ?
A) interfere directly with bacterial cell wall synthesis
B) increase cell membrane permeability to specific ions
C) inhibit both transcription and translation
D) inhibit electrophoretic separation of ions
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