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- Question
Some microorganisms have the ability to increase the nitrogen content of soils, are called as
Options- A. nitrogen fixation
- B. denitrification
- C. nitrification
- D. all of these
- Correct Answer
- nitrogen fixation
- 1. Most soil protozoa are flagellates or amoebas, having their dominant mode of nitrogen as
Options- A. ingestion of bacteria
- B. ingestion of mold
- C. ingestion of fungi
- D. all of these Discuss
- 2. The organisms responsible for the characteristic musty or earth odor of a freshly plowed field is/are
Options- A. Nocardia
- B. Streptomyces
- C. Micromonospora
- D. all of these Discuss
- 3. Denitrification may be distinguished as
Options- A. dissimilative
- B. assimilative
- C. both (a) and (b)
- D. blue baby syndrome Discuss
- 4. The nitrogenase consists of
Options- A. dinitrogenase
- B. dinitrogenase reductase
- C. both (a) and (b)
- D. none of these Discuss
- 5. Which of the following soil microorganism is involved in the reduction of sulfates to H2S?
Options- A. Thiobacillus thiooxidans
- B. Desulfotomaculum
- C. Rhodospirillum
- D. Rhodomicrobium Discuss
- 6. A heterocyst is
Options- A. a type of spore
- B. a terminally differentiated cell that fixes nitrogen
- C. the progenitor of cyanobacterial vegetative cells
- D. a cell that carries out oxygenic photosynthesis Discuss
- 7. The diagnostic enzyme for nitrogen-fixing organisms is
Options- A. nitrogenase
- B. nitrate reductase
- C. nitrate oxidase
- D. none of these Discuss
- 8. The groups of bacteria which have the ability to fix nitrogen from air to soil are
Options- A. symbiotic
- B. nonsymbiotic
- C. both (a) and (b)
- D. none of these Discuss
- 9. The transformation of nitrates to gaseous nitrogen is accomplished by microorganisms in a series of biochemical reactions. The process is known as
Options- A. nitrification
- B. denitrification
- C. nitrogen fixation
- D. ammonification Discuss
- 10. The population of algae in soil is __________ that of either bacteria or fungi.
Options- A. generally smaller than
- B. generally greater than
- C. equal to
- D. none of these Discuss
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Correct Answer: ingestion of bacteria
Correct Answer: all of these
Correct Answer: both (a) and (b)
Correct Answer: both (a) and (b)
Correct Answer: Desulfotomaculum
Correct Answer: a terminally differentiated cell that fixes nitrogen
Correct Answer: nitrogenase
Correct Answer: both (a) and (b)
Correct Answer: denitrification
Correct Answer: generally smaller than
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