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Post NameHSST BOTANY(Jr)- SR FOR ST ONLY -- KHSE
Question Paper Code045/2017/OL
Category Code355/2016
Date of Test5 June 2017
Medium of QuestionENGLISH
Exam TypeOnline Examination
Total Questions100
1
The Basel Evangelical Mission opened a primary school at Kallai in
Answer
D. 1848
2
In 1959, who was given the title Bharata Kesari by the President of India ?
Answer
C. Mannath Padmanabhan
3
Prabhatham a newspaper started at Shornur in 1934 under the guidelines of
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B. EMS Namboothiripad
4
The first woman judge of Kerala high Court
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A. Annachandi
5
Travancore Muslim Mahajana Sabha was founded by
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B. Vakkam Abdul Khadar Maulavi
6
Kochi port is situated at the head of which lake ?
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C. Vembanadu
7
In which year fidel castro wins revolution in Cuba and becomes Prime Minister ?
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A. 1959
8
India's first LNG powered bus was launched at Thiruvananthapuram by Chief Minister Sri Pinarayi Vijayan and Central Minister for petrolium and natural gas
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D. Dharmendra Pradhan
9
Which Indian won the men's single title at the 2016 Chinese Tai Pei open badminton championship ?
Answer
A. Sourabh Verma
10
Newly elect, secretary general of UNO, Autonio Gutres was Prime Minister of
Answer
B. Portugal
11
The most important indicator of quality of education in a school is
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D. Student achievement level
12
Science education system in India at the school level should be best described as being
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D. Activity centered
13
If you have been given the additional responsibility of the student scholarships, you think that
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B. It is the right of the deserved students to get it and you need to direct the students to make avail of it
14
Learning implies
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C. Occurring within
15
For a meaningful learning to takes place, learner should have
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D. Desired level of ability and motivation
16
One which is not the characteristic of research is
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B. Solutions are arrived through revealed knowledge
17
Choose a wrong statement related with experimental method in research
Answer
D. Residual group is a type of experimental design
18
The aim of workshop in research is
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B. To explore the possibilities of applied aspects of the research
19
Cross-sectional research studies are basically linked with
Answer
A. Sample
20
Arrange the following steps of research in correct sequence a) Results and discussion b) Data analysis c) Identification of research problem d) Listing of research objectives e) Collection of data f) Tool construction
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A. c-d-f-e-b-a
21
Biofortification improves
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D. The nutritional quality of breeding crops
22
A banana herb is virus infected mention the technique that will help in obtaining healthy banana plants from this diseased plant is
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C. Meristematic culture
23
Name the fungus used in organ transplant treatment
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A. Trichoderma
24
Name the type of biodiversity represented by 50,000 different strains of rice in India
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A. Genetic diversity
25
Phytophagous insects feed on
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A. Plant
26
Name the types of association that the genus glomus exhibits with higher plants
Answer
A. Symbiosis
27
Percentage of PAR captured by plants ranges from
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A. 2-10
28
The thermostable DNA polymerase which is isolated from a bacterium Thermus aquaticus
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A. Taq polymerase
29
Name the common ancestor of the great apes and man
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A. Dryopithecus
30
World Forest Day is on
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C. March 21
31
Lamp brush chromosomes occur at
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C. Diplotene stage
32
Taq polymerase is involved in
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A. PCR
33
R.Q. value in Opuntia
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D. Zero
34
Colchicum autumnale is a member of
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B. Liliaceae
35
A condition of air pollution that results when sulfur dioxide and other gases and particles emitted by an erupting volcano react with oxygen and moisture in the presence of sunlight.
Answer
C. Vog
36
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for
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A. Determining the detailed structure and mechanism of the ribosome
37
Vegetative propagation in lemon
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A. Stem cuttings
38
Sweet potato and potato is a result of convergent evolution in
Answer
B. Analogus organ
39
Which of the following plants is characterized by the presence of cortical vascular bundles ?
Answer
B. Nyctanthes
40
Knots are formed in woods
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D. Branches get buried embedded in the stem
41
Lenticels do not occur in
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D. Leaf
42
P-protein is found in
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C. Sieve tube
43
The lacunae in the vascular bundles of monocot stem is
Answer
C. Lysigenous water cavity
44
Which of the following is grown by transplanting ?
Answer
A. Maize
45
Cobalt is associated with
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B. Vitamin B12
46
Who among the following is considered as father of genetic engineering ?
Answer
B. Paul Berg
47
Which of the following is not a gaseous air pollutant ?
Answer
D. Smoke
48
Which one of the following agricultural practices is eco-friendly ?
Answer
A. Organic farming
49
Name the plant which is known as Terror of Bengal
Answer
D. Water hyacinth
50
Angiosperm seeds with perisperm
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B. Black pepper
51
Plant propagation technique practiced in pomograte
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B. Gootee
52
Name the stage of cell division where segregation of independent pair of chromosomes occur
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A. Anaphase -1
53
Name the enzyme responsible for the transcription of tRNA
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A. RNA polymerase III
54
The maximum number of genes is present in human chromosome
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D. Chromosome No. 1
55
A marine angiosperm is
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D. Zostera
56
The colour tag of breeder seed is
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D. Blue
57
The fruit crop that can be propagated by apomictic embryo is
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A. Citrus
58
An endangered carnivorous plant is
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D. Nepenthes
59
What is called nature's supermarket ?
Answer
B. Coconut palm
60
Non-specific type of defence acquired by the body at the time of birth
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B. Innate immunity
61
The primary goal of bioinformatics is to increase the understanding of biological processes. Which sets it apart from other approaches, is its focus on developing and applying computationally intensive techniques to achieve various goal includes
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D. The modeling of evolution and cell division/mitosis
62
A collaborative data collection of the functional elements of the human genome that uses next-generation DNA-sequencing technologies and genomic tiling arrays, technologies able to generate automatically large amounts of data with lower research costs but with the same quality and viability
Answer
A. Encode project
63
A bioinformatics tool which can be used to characterize the Pan Genome
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B. BPGA
64
A specimen later selected to serve as the single type specimen when an original holotype has been lost or destroyed or where the original author never cited a specimen
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C. Neotype
65
The standard size of herbarium sheet is
Answer
A. 16 Β½ Γ— 11Β½ inches
66
The term primarily used today to refer to the discipline of finding, describing and naming taxa, particularly
Answer
C. Alpha taxonomy
67
The ripening of fruit and loss of leaves in the winter are controlled in part by the production of a gas by the plant
Answer
A. Ethylene
68
A frond which is a vegetative leaf analogous to the typical green leaves of seed plants that does not produce spores, instead only producing sugars by photosynthesis can be called as
Answer
A. Trophophyll
69
An ion involved in phosphorylation of ADP to ATP
Answer
C. Mg²⁺
70
Nucleotide proteins involved in phospholipid synthesis
Answer
B. CTP
71
The type of bonding in the branch points of amylopectin is
Answer
B. 1-6 glycosidic
72
Antimicrobial phytochemicals which can help plants to resist infection and invasions
Answer
C. Phytoalexins
73
Evolutionarily conserved protein involved in folding of proteins is
Answer
A. Chaperons
74
A known protein aminoacid is
Answer
C. Taurine
75
An adaptive structure in plants for the elimination of surplus water is
Answer
A. Hydathodes
76
A second messenger molecule in cells which plays a pivotal role in hormone action is
Answer
D. c AMP
77
Viola and oxalis produce two types of flowers one is chasmogamous flower name the other type
Answer
C. Closed flowers
78
Suggest a method to remove oil from seeds based on the techniques in biotechnology
Answer
A. r DNA technology
79
SCID is caused by
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A. A defect in gene
80
Name the interaction between a whale and the barnacles growing on its back
Answer
B. Commensalism
81
The plant that catches its prey with leaf fibre.
Answer
B. Roridula
82
Single leaf plant is
Answer
A. Amorphophalus
83
Which Indian forest region has maximum diversity in wild life ?
Answer
C. Western ghats
84
The photosynthetic pigment which is blue green in pure state
Answer
A. Chlorophyll-a
85
The plant part showing negatively traumatropic movement is
Answer
B. Root tip
86
Metabolically advantageous sugar is
Answer
B. Sucrose
87
Auxins are indole derivatives synthesized from
Answer
B. Tryptophan
88
Replenishing or filling up reactions are called
Answer
D. Anaplerotic reactions
89
Free living nitrogen fixing cyano bacteria includes
Answer
A. Calothrix
90
First aminoacid discovered in protein is
Answer
C. Asparagine
91
Which principle is enunciated by Supreme Court in M.C. Mehta Vs Kamalnath by upholding that natural resources are meant for public use and enjoyment, the state is under duty to protect it ?
Answer
C. Public trust principle
92
Where a public authority received an application for information pertaining to a subject matter held by another public authority, the application shall be transferred to the concerned authority within _________________ of the receipt of the application.
Answer
B. 5 days
93
Who among the following can donate organ to the recipient without the permission from government ?
Answer
A. Wife
94
Under Food Security Act, the Food grains given to the house hold covered under Antyodaya Annayogana is
Answer
D. 35 kg/month
95
Article 51 of Indian Constitution speaks about the
Answer
B. Promotion of International Peace and Security
96
In which of the following case Supreme Court declared that judicial review is a basic structure of constitution so it could not be taken away by the parliament through amendment.
Answer
C. Minerva Mills Limited Vs Union of India
97
Which of the following Amendment Act makes the Right to Education as the Fundamental Right to all children of age of 6-14 years by inserting Article 21A to the Constitution.
Answer
A. 86th Amendment Act
98
Article 75(1A) provides that the size of the council of ministers of center shall not exceeds
Answer
A. 15% of the total number of members in Lok Sabha
99
Under the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013, the offense of trafficking does not include
Answer
C. Follows a woman and contacts her to foster personal interaction against her will
100
Who among the following are excluded from the scope of Article 311 ?
Answer
D. Members of Defense Services

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