A young infant may be feeding entirely on mother's milk, which is white in colour but the stools, which the infant passes out is quite yellowish. What is this yellow colour due to?
1. Intestinal juice
2. Bile pigments passed through bile juice
3. Undigested milk protein casein
4. pancreatic juice poured into the duodenum
A fruit developed from hypanthodium inflorescences is called:
1. hesperidium
2. sorosis
3. syconus
4. caryopsis
Which one of the following statements is correct?
| 1. | Patients, who have undergone surgery are given cannabinoids to relieve pain |
| 2. | Benign tumours show the property of metastasis |
| 3. | Heroin accelerates body functions |
| 4. | Malignant tumours may exhibit metastasis |
Transgenic plants are:
| 1. | produced by a somatic embryo in artificial medium |
| 2. | generated by introducing foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell |
| 3. | Produced after protoplast fusion in artificial medium |
| 4. | grown in artificial medium after hybridization in the field |
The letter T, in T- lymphocyte refers to:
1. thyroid
2. thalamus
3. tonsil
4. thymus
Global agreement in specific control strategies to reduce the release of ozone-depleting substance was adopted by:
1. Rio de Janeiro Conference
2. The Montreal Protocol
3. The Kyoto Protocol
4. The Vienna Convention
Reduction in vascular tissue, mechanical tissue and cuticle is characteristic of:
1. xerophytes
2. mesophytes
3. epiphytes
4. hydrophyte
An example of a seed with endosperm perisperm and caruncle is:
1. cotton
2. coffee
3. lily
4. castor
What is not true for genetic code?
| 1. | A codon in mRNA is read in non-contiguous fashion |
| 2. | It is nearly universal |
| 3. | It is degenerate |
| 4. | It is unambiguous |
Peripatus is a connecting link between:
1. Ctenophora and Plantyhelminthes
2. Mollusca and Echinodermata
3. Annelida and Arthropoda
4. Coelenterata and Poriphera