| 1. | Polyembryony will be seen and each seed will produce many plantlets |
| 2. | Seeds of hybrid plants will show longer dormancy |
| 3. | Farmers can keep on using the seeds produced by the hybrids to raise new crop year after year |
| 4. | There will be segregation of the desired characters only in the progeny |
| 1. | lack of niche specialisation |
| 2. | higher annual rainfall |
| 3. | availability of fruits throughout the year |
| 4. | temperature conducive for their breeding |
| 1. | Substance with hydrophobic moiety |
| 2. | Substance with hydrophilic moiety |
| 3. | All substance irrespective of hydrophobic and hydrophilic moiety |
| 4. | Substance soluble in lipids |
| 1. | 100% | 2. | 56.25% |
| 3. | 18.75 % | 4. | 9% |
| (a) | It is a member of Chlorophyceae |
| (b) | Food is stored in the form of starch |
| (c) | It is a monoecious plant showing oogonium and antheridium |
| (d) | Food is stored in the form of laminarin or mannitol |
| (e) | It shows dominance of pigments chlorophyll a, c and Fucoxanthin. |
| 1. | (a) and (b) only | 2. | (a), (b) and (c) only |
| 3. | (a), (c) and (d) only | 4. | (c), (d) and (e) only |
| (a) | Splitting of the water molecule takes place on the inner side of the membrane. |
| (b) | Protons accumulate within the lumen of the thylakoids. |
| (c) | Primary acceptor of electron transfers the electrons to an electron carrier. |
| (d) | NADP reductase enzyme is located on the stroma side of the membrane. |
| (e) | Protons increase in number in stroma. |
| 1. | (a), (b) and (e) | 2. | (a), (b) and (d) |
| 3. | (b), (c) and (d) | 4. | (b), (c) and (e) |
| 1. | 47 chromosomes with XXY sex chromosomes |
| 2. | 45 chromosomes with XO sex chromosomes |
| 3. | 47 chromosomes with XYY sex chromosomes |
| 4. | Trisomy of chromosome 21 |
| (a) | Synapsis of homologous chromosomes |
| (b) | Chromosomes become gradually visible under microscope |
| (c) | Crossing over between non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes |
| (d) | Terminalisation of chiasmata (e) Dissolution of synaptonemal complex |
| 1. | (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) | 2. | (b), (c), (d), (e), (a) |
| 3. | (b), (a), (c), (e), (d) | 4. | (a), (c), (d), (e), (b) |
| 1. | (a) Cellulase (b) Protease | 2. | (a) Cellulase (b) Chitinase |
| 3. | (a) Chitinase (b) Lipase | 4. | (a) Cellulase (b) Lipase |
| List-I | List-II |
| (a) Carbon dissolved in oceans | (i) 55 billion tons |
| (b) Annual fixation of carbon through photosynthesis | (ii) 71% |
| (c) PAR captured by plants | (iii) \(4 \times 10^3 \)kg |
| (d) Productivity of oceans | (iv) 2 to 10% |
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | |
| 1. | (ii) | (iv) | (iii) | (i) |
| 2. | (iii) | (iv) | (ii) | (i) |
| 3. | (ii) | (iii) | (iv) | (i) |
| 4. | (iii) | (ii) | (i) | (iv) |