| 1. | Phosphorylase | 2. | Recombinase |
| 3. | Transferase | 4. | Polymerase |
| 1. | Uniport | 2. | Transport |
| 3. | Antiport | 4. | Symport |
| 1. | A significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss. |
| 2. | Declaration of more biodiversity hotspots. |
| 3. | Increase in agricultural production |
| 4. | Collection and preservation of seeds of different genetic strains of commercially important plants. |
| (a) | the female flower buds of plant producing unisexual flower need not be bagged. |
| (b) | there is no need to emasculate unisexual flowers of selected female parent |
| (c) | emasculated flowers are to be bagged immediately after cross pollination |
| (d) | emasculated flowers are to be bagged after removal of anthers |
| (e) | bisexual flowers, showing protogyny are never selected for cross |
| 1. | (a), (b) and (c) only | 2. | (b), (c) and (d) only |
| 3. | (b), (c) and (e) only | 4. | (a), (d) and (e) only |
| 1. | Thomas Morgan | 2. | Sutton and Boveri |
| 3. | Gregor Mendel | 4. | Robert Brown |
| 1. | Catalase | 2. | leg haemoglobin |
| 3. | Transaminase | 4. | Glutamate dehydrogenase |
| 1. | Redifferentiation | 2. | Development |
| 3. | Plasticity | 4. | Differentiation |
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (a) | Sacred groves | (i) | Alien species |
| (b) | Zoological park | (ii) | Release of large quantity of oxygen |
| (c) | Nile perch | (iii) | Ex-situ conservation |
| (d) | Amazon forest | (iv) | Khasi Hills in Meghalaya |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | |
| 1. | (iv) | (iii) | (i) | (ii) |
| 2. | (ii) | (iv) | (i) | (iii) |
| 3. | (iv) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) |
| 4. | (iv) | (iii) | (ii) | (i) |
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (a) | Gene gun | (i) | Replacement of a faulty gene by a normal healthy gene |
| (b) | Gene therapy | (ii) | Used for transfer of gene |
| (c) | Gene cloning | (iii) | Total DNA in the cells of an organism |
| (d) | Genome | (iv) | To obtain identical copies of a particular DNA molecule |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | |
| 1. | (ii) | (i) | (iv) | (iii) |
| 2. | (i) | (iii) | (ii) | (iv) |
| 3. | (iv) | (i) | (iii) | (ii) |
| 4. | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) |