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Pigment that gives blue green colour to cyanobacteria

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Phycocyanin

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Phycobilins are

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Phycocyanin pigment and phycoerythrin protein

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3
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What are heterocysts

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Thick walled cells without nuclei where nitrogen fixation takes place

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Micro tubular structure of flagella or cilia

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9+2

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Over 80% of carbon dioxide fix in the biosphere through

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Dinoflagellates diatoms and euglena like flagellates

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6
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Red tide produced by

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Gonyaulax

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Diatoms are the chief producers in the ocean they have no flagella and float because of

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Presence of lipids

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Fossils of diatoms are called and are used for polishing and filtration of syrups and oils

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Diatomaceous Earth

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Which animal has a light sensitive eyespot

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Euglena like flagellate

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Saprophytic fungi growing on dung are called

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Coprophilic

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Asexual spores of fungi are called

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Conidia

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12
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Sexual reproduction in fungi through

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Ascus

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13
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Fruiting body of fungi

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Ascorp

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Red algae or rhidophycae are characterized by the presence of pigments

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Phycoerythrin and phycocyanin

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Brown algae or phaeophyceae due to the pigment

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Fucoxanthin

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In dilpblastoc organisms ectoderm and endoderm is separated by gelatinous non-cellular layer called

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Mesoglia

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Flatworms are specialised cells for excretion and osmoregulation

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Flame cells

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18
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Skeleton of annelids is called

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Hydrostatic skeleton

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18
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Skeleton of annelids is called

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Hydrostatic skeleton

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Coloured flagellated cells in phylum porifera

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Choanocytes

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Large sized outlets for water in phylum porifera

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Oscula

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21
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Cells which paralyze the prey by injecting poison or hold the prey in cnidaria

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Nematocysts

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Hard exoskeleton of calcium carbonate to form corals are present in which phylum

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Cnidaria

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23
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First triploblastic animals

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Phylum platyhelminthes

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Excretory system of platyhelminthes

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Blind tubules called protonephridia and flame cells

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Platyhelminthes has

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Both male and female reproductive organs in same individual

26
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Largest phylum of animal kingdom

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Arthropoda

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Oral surface of body of echinodermata has five radial areas called

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Ambulacra

28
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Definition of poikilothermic

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Body temperature changes with environment

29
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Definition of poikilothermic

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Body temperature changes with environment

30
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Reptilia amphibia and Pisces are

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Poikilothermic

31
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Heart of amphibia

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Three chambered with 2 auricles and1 ventricle

32
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Oil glands of aves

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Uropygium gland

33
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In pigeon which gland secretes milk in both genders

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Crop gland

34
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Echinodermata exclusively live in

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Marine waters

35
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Arthropoda and moluscls have

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Open circulatory system

36
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Which classes have scales

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Pisces and reptiles

37
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Benign malaria is caused by

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Plasmodium malariae

38
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Oil of turpentine used as a vanish solvent is obtained from

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Pinus

39
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Sulphur showers which are puffy yellow pollen is related to

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Pinus

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Sulphur showers which are puffy yellow pollen is related to

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Pinus

40
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Largest group of gymnosperms

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Coniferous

41
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Enzyme secreted by yeast for fermentation

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Zymase

42
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Ascomycetes are

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Fungus which secrete spores in sacs called asci

43
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yeast is An important source of

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Riboflavin

44
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Foot is modified into arms or tentacles attached to the head in

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Cephalopoda (molluscs) example octopus

45
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Which part of mollusk secretes shell

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The mantle

46
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Water in bryophyta is absorbed through

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Hydroids

47
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Food in bryophyta is absorbed through

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Leptoids

48
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Male sex organ of bryophyta

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Antheridium

49
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Female sex organ of bryophyta

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Archigonium

50
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first animals to have bilateral symmetry

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platyhelminthes

51
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Characterstic circumoesophageal ring present in

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annelids

52
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living fossil

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limulus(arthropoda)

53
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study of molluscan shell

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choncology

54
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Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class

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ASTEROIDEA

55
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mutual symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant

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mycorrhizae

56
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father of mycology

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Heinrich Anton de Bary

57
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father of phycology

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fritsch

58
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Gram-negative, microaerophilic, non-fermentative and nitrogen-fixing bacterial genus from the family of Rhodospirillaceae, non-leguminous

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azospirillum

59
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largest phylum of protozoa

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sarcodina

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