To successfully grow a crop in an arid area, the best strategy would be:
1. ensuring an extensive irrigation system
2. using NPK fertilizers liberally
3. selecting crops adapted to arid areas
4. practicing shifting cultivation

Subtopic:  Introduction |
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Both Rhizobium and Frankia:
1. are symbionts with legumes
2. are symbionts with actinorrhizal plants
3. initiate the formation of root nodules in the symbiont plant
4. are filamentous bacteria

Subtopic:  Nodule formation |
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If the leaves of whole plant show chlorosis, the mineral nutrient most likely to be deficient would be:
1. boron
2. manganese
3. nitrogen
4. calcium

Subtopic:  Mineral Deficiency & Toxicity |
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Necrosis of young leaves is a symptom of deficiency of calcium in plants indicating that calcium:
1. is a relatively immobile nutrient in plants.
2. is tied up in formed chlorophyll molecules.
3. is concentrated in the xylem of older leaves.
4. is concentrated in older leaves.

Subtopic:  Mineral Function |
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The importance of nitrogen fixation can be judged by the fact that:
1. it can only be done by certain prokaryotes.
2. it is most often the limiting factor in plant growth.
3. it is very expensive in terms of metabolic energy.
4. its availability replaces requirement of some other essential nutrients.

Subtopic:  Nitrogen Metabolism |

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A plant infected with Rhizobium:
1. has necrotic tissues.
2. dies.
3. gets flaccid.
4. probably will grow faster.

Subtopic:  Nitrogen Fixation | Nodule formation |
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Assertion: Micronutrients function in plants mainly as cofactors.
Reason: Iron is a metallic component of cytochromes.

1. Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
2. Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
3. Assertion is true but reason is false.
4. Both assertion and reason are false.

  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
  4. If both the assertion and reason are false
Subtopic:  Mineral Function |
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A plant requires magnesium for

1. holding cells together 2. protein synthesis
3. chlorophyll synthesis 4. cell wall development
Subtopic:  Mineral Function |
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Which of the following is not a macronutrient required by plants?
1. Sulfur
2. Potassium
3. Calcium
4. Iron

Subtopic:  Classification of Nutrients |
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The deficiency symptoms of iron, magnesium and calcium in plants may actually be the symptoms of toxicity of:
1. Molybdenum
2. Manganese
3. Boron
4. Zinc

Subtopic:  Mineral Deficiency & Toxicity |
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