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  • Our skin, when exposed to excess sunlight, becomes dark. This is because our skin pigments called


  • Options
  • A. flavoxanthin
  • B. melanin
  • C. carotene
  • D. Xanthophyll

  • Correct Answer
  • melanin 


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    • 1. Neurospora is used as genetic material because

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    • A. it has short life cycle of 10 days
    • B. the product of single meiosis can be easily analysed
    • C. meiotic products are linearly arranged in the form of ordered tetrads
    • D. is a diploid fungus
    • Discuss
    • 2. Photosynthesis generally takes place in which parts of the plant?

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    • A. Leaf and other chloroplast bearing parts
    • B. stem and leaf
    • C. Roots and chloroplast bearing parts
    • D. Bark and leaf
    • Discuss
    • 3. Radical vascular bundles are those in which

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    • A. xylem is surrounded by phloem
    • B. phloem is surrounded by xylem
    • C. xylem and phloem occur on the same radius
    • D. xylem and phloem occur on the different radii
    • Discuss
    • 4. Outer covering of virus made up of protein is

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    • A. capsid
    • B. coat
    • C. virion
    • D. viriod
    • Discuss
    • 5. Plants synthesis protein from

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    • A. starch
    • B. sugar
    • C. amino acids
    • D. fatty acids
    • Discuss
    • 6. Nucleus, the genetic material containing rounded body in each cell, was first discovered in 1831 by

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    • A. Robert Hooke
    • B. Robert Brown
    • C. Rudolf Virchow
    • D. Theodore Schwann
    • Discuss
    • 7. Rain water helps to increase the ____ to some extent.

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    • A. phosphorous contents
    • B. nitrogen contents
    • C. calcium contents
    • D. potash contents
    • Discuss
    • 8. Photosynthesis is a process

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    • A. reductive and exergonic
    • B. reductive and catabolic
    • C. reductive, endergonic and catabolic
    • D. reductive, endergonic and anabolic
    • Discuss
    • 9. Radioactivity is a phenomenon of the spontaneous emission of

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    • A. protons (alpha particles)
    • B. electrons (beta particles)
    • C. gamma rays (short wave electromagnetic waves)
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 10. Prothrombin which helps in clotting of blood is released by

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    • A. lymphocytes
    • B. erythrocytes
    • C. monocytes
    • D. blood platelets
    • Discuss


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