Both, hydrarch and xerarch successions lead to:
1. Excessive wet conditions
2. Medium water conditions
3. Xeric conditions
4. Highly dry conditions

 85%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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Which one of the following animals may occupy more than one trophic levels in the same ecosystem at the same time?

1. Frog 

2. Sparrow

3. Lion 

4. Goat

Subtopic:  Ecological Flow |
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Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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The breakdown of detritus into smaller particles by earthworm is a process called:
1. Catabolism
2. Humification
3. Fragmentation
4. Mineralisation

Subtopic:  Decomposition |
 93%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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''Good ozone'' is found in the:
1. Ionosphere
2. Mesosphere
3. Troposphere
4. Stratosphere

Subtopic:  Ozone Layer Depletion |
 92%
Level 1: 80%+
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The logistic population growth is expressed by the equation:

1. dNdt=rNN-KN

2. dtdN=NrK-NK

3. dNdt=rNK-NK

4. dNdt=rN

Subtopic:  Population: Logistic Growth Model |
 84%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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Which one of the following is a wrong matching of a microbe and its industrial product, while the remaining three are correct?
1. Aspergillus niger – citric acid
2. Yeast – statins
3. Acetobacter aceti – acetic acid
4. Clostridium butylicum – lactic acid

Subtopic:  Microbes in Household Products |
 77%
Level 2: 60%+
AIPMT - 2011
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Read the following statement having two blanks (A and B):

''A drug used for ______ (A)___ patients is obtained from a species of the organism ______ (B)___ ''. The one correct option for the two blanks is:

Blank-A  Blank-B
1. AIDS Pseudomonas
2. Heart  Penicillium
3. Organ-transplant Trichoderma
4. Swine flu  Monascus

             

Subtopic:  Chemicals, Enzymes & Other Bioactive Molecules |
 91%
Level 1: 80%+
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Common cold is not cured by antibiotics because it is:
1. not an infectious disease
2. caused by a virus
3. caused by a Gram-positive bacterium
4. caused by a Gram-negative bacterium

Subtopic:  Common Cold & Malaria Introduction |
 84%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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Read the following four statements (A-D) and find out certain mistakes in two of them:

A: The first transgenic buffalo, Rosie, produced milk which was human alpha-lactalbumin enriched.
B:  Restriction enzymes are used in the isolation of DNA from other macro-molecules.
C:  Downstream processing is one of the steps of r-DNA technology.
D:  Disarmed pathogen vectors are also used in the transfer of r-DNA into the host.

Which of the two statements has mistakes?
1. Statements (A) and (B)
2. Statements (B) and (C)
3. Statements (C) and (D)
4. Statements (A) and (C)

Subtopic:  Transgenic Microbes & Animals |
 64%
Level 2: 60%+
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Silencing of mRNA has been used in producing transgenic plants resistant to:

1. Bacterial blights  2. Bollworms
3. Nematodes  4. White rusts
Subtopic:  Interference RNA Tech |
 90%
Level 1: 80%+
AIPMT - 2011
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