EASY
Earn 100

Explain the variegated leaf experiment.

Important Questions on Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.

HARD
A plant in your garden avoids photorespiratory losses, has improved water use efficiency, shows high rates of photosynthesis at high temperatures and has improved efficiency of nitrogen utilization. In which of the following physiological groups would you assign this plant?
MEDIUM
Match the following lists.
  List-I   List-II
A Sunlight is essential to the plant process that purifies air fouled by breathing animals I Melvin Calvin
B Bacteria were used to detect the sites of O2 evolution II Sachs
C Evidence for the production of glucose III Priestley
D Role of air in the growth of green plants IV Ingenhousz
    V Engelman
    VI Neil

The correct match is:

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Study the following lists and match the discoveries and/or inventions made by the scientists during 20th  century

   List - I     List - II
(a) Oxygen evolution from H2O in photosynthesis (i) Benson
(b) C3 path way of Carbon assimilation (ii) V.S. Rama Das
(c) Contribution to C4 -photosynthesis (iii) Robert Hill
(d) Artificial synthesis of genes (iv) Hara Govind Khorana
    (v) Frankel Conrat

The correct answer is

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A chromatography column, packed with silica gel as stationary phase, was used to separate a mixture of compounds consisting of A benzanilide B aniline and C acetophenone. When the column is eluted with a mixture of solvents, hexane:ethyl acetate 20:80 , the sequence of obtained compounds is:
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Assertion (A): When a green alga Cladophora is placed in a suspension of aerobic bacteria, on the illumination of different lights, only at the blue and red light bacteria accumulated.
Reason (R): The bacteria release O2 by the process of photosynthesis.
The correct option among the following is: