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  • Metabolism of dissolved organic material released by phytoplankton allows heterotrophic bacteria to become part of the particulate organic matter that is passed up the food web to be metabolized and released as mineral elements and CO2 at each transfer. This sentence describes the


  • Options
  • A. microbial loop
  • B. Winogradsky column
  • C. Redfield ratio
  • D. Gibbs free energy

  • Correct Answer
  • microbial loop 


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    • 1. The confirmatory test(s) for HIV infection is/are

    • Options
    • A. virus isolation
    • B. detection of p24 antigen
    • C. detection of viral nucleic acid
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. The arrangement, in which flagella are distributed all round the bacterial cell, is known as

    • Options
    • A. lophotrichous
    • B. amphitrichous
    • C. peritrichous
    • D. monotrichous
    • Discuss
    • 3. Watery soft rot is found mostly in

    • Options
    • A. fruits
    • B. vegetables
    • C. cereals
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. Nitrogen fixation is a process that requires

    • Options
    • A. energy
    • B. an anaerobic environment
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. an aerobic environment
    • Discuss
    • 5. Ergotism is responsible for all of the following except

    • Options
    • A. hallucinations
    • B. Irish potato famine
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. gangrene
    • Discuss
    • 6. Which of the following bacteria is susceptible to thiophen-2-carboxylic acid hydrazide?

    • Options
    • A. M bovis
    • B. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    • C. M chelonei
    • D. M fortuitum
    • Discuss
    • 7. Salmonellae can also be killed by

    • Options
    • A. pasteurisation
    • B. chlorination
    • C. boiling
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. Human pathogenic bacteria is/are

    • Options
    • A. B pseudomallei
    • B. Burkholderia mallei
    • C. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. The agent representing an isolate of hepatitis G virus is

    • Options
    • A. GBA-A
    • B. GBV-B
    • C. GBV-C
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. In glycolysis, ATP is created by

    • Options
    • A. photophosphorylation
    • B. the chemiosmotic mechanism
    • C. substrate level phosphorylation
    • D. the pentose phosphate pathway
    • Discuss


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