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1
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Do all the organisms present in soil fall in the category of microbes ?

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No

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2
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Can we see fungus just with a magnifying glass?

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Yes

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What’s the first virus picture?

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Anden ovirus

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What’s the 2nd virus picture?

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Bacteriophage

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5
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Malaria is caused by which class of microbes ?

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Protozoans

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Spirilla is also known as ?

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Spirochetes

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What are the pictures in fig 1.2 ?

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Chlamydomonas and spirogyra

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What are the pictures in fig 1.3?

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Ameoba and paramecium

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What are the pictures in fig 1.4 ?

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Bread mould (rhizopus) , penicillium and aspergillus

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10
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What are single celled microbes ?

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Bacteria , algae , protozoa

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11
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What are some multicellular microbes ?

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Fungi and algae

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12
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Which microbes live alone ?

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Amoeba

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13
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Which microbes live in colonies ?

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Fungi and bacteria

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14
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Ingredients in rava , idlis , bhaturas ?

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Curd

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15
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Louis Pasteur discovered fermentation in the year ?

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1857

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16
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Medicines are produced from ?

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Bacteria and fungi

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17
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Name three antibiotics

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Streptomycin, erythromycin, tetracycline

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18
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Who discovered pencillin and when ?

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1929 , alexander Fleming

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19
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Antibodies aren’t effective against ?

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Diseases like cold and flu as these are caused by viruses

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20
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What are the microbes called that increase soil fertility?

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Biological nitrogen fixers

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21
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What is anthrax ?

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Dangerous human and cattle disease

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22
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What’s the mode of transmission for tb , measles ?

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Air

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23
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What’s the mode of transmission for tb , measles ?

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Air

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24
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Mode of transmission for chicken pox

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Air/contact

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25
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Mode of transmission for chicken pox

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Air/contact

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26
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Mode of tramission for polio

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Air /water

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27
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Mode of transmission for cholera

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Water /food

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28
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Mode of transmission for typhoid and hepatitis b

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Water

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29
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Who discovered the bacterium that causes anthrax and what’s the bacterium called

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Robet köch in 1877 , bacillus anthracis

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30
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Who discovered the bacterium that causes anthrax and what’s the bacterium called

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Robet köch in 1877 , bacillus anthracis

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31
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Which plant disease does bacteria cause ?

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Black rot of cabbage

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32
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Which plant disease does bacteria cause ?

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Black rot of cabbage

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33
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Which plant disease does fungi cause ?

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Late blight of potatoes, white rust of mustard

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34
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Which

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35
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Meat fish tamrind amla raw magoes are preserved by ?

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Salting

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36
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By whom was pasteurisation discovered?

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Louis Pasteur

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37
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Nitrogen is essential constituent as a part of ?

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Proteins , chlorophyll, nucleic acids and vitamins

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38
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What forms calcium carbonate?

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Carbon dioxide and calcium hydroxide

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39
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What forms calcium carbonate?

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Carbon dioxide and calcium hydroxide

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40
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Bacteria can be found in pools and lakes of ?

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Caustic soda and concentrated sulphuric acid

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41
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What are used to measure microbes ?

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Microns or micrometre

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42
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1000 micrometres are equal to?

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1mm

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43
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When a virus hosts another virus

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Virus confection /superinfection like HIV

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44
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RNA us involved in

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Protein synthesis

45
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Bacteriophage is composed of

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Capsid (peotein)

46
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Bacteriophage is composed of

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Capsid (peotein)

47
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Virus containing rna

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Ribovirus

48
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Virus containing rna

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Ribovirus

49
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What do rna and dna stand for

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Ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid

50
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The infective part of a virus ?

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Viron

51
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What caused sars(severe acute respiratory syndrome)?

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Sars cov

52
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Gentic material of prokaryotic organism is found in ?

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Nucloid

53
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Cell wall of bacteria is made of ?

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Peptoglycan (protein , carbs )

54
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Cell wall of bacteria is made of ?

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Peptoglycan (protein , carbs )

55
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Bacteria found in intestine ?

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Escherischia coli

56
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Parasitic fungi

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Mildew

57
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Parasitic fungi

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Mildew

58
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Which encompasses breoder range ?

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Saprotepohic

59
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Fermentation reales which alcohol?

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Ethnol

60
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Legs of paramecium?

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Cilia

61
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Legs of paramecium?

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Cilia

62
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Yeast posses which mode of reproduction?

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Fragmentarion and budding

63
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What’s alternative for yeast ?

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Bakind soda (sodium bicarbonate) NaHCO3

64
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What promotes yeast growth !

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Molasses

65
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What promotes yeast growth !

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Molasses

66
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Ethylalochol

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C2h5oh

67
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Common yeast

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Saccharomyces cerevisia (unicellular)

68
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Two immunities

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Inate and acquired

69
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Tcv

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Typhoid conjugate vaccine

70
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Tetnus , lockjaw

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Bacterial infection

71
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Atomic nitrogen and molecular

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N , N2

72
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No2 and h20 forms

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Hno3 (nitric acid )

73
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First to observe microbes

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Antoine van leuwenhock (Dutch microscopist )

74
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Bacteria reproduce by ?

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Binary fission

75
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Fungal diseases in plants , animals and human

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Plants , rust of wheat late blight of beans
Animals , aspergillosis

76
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When plants and algae are hosts

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Phytophage , phycophage

77
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Aids

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Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome

78
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Citrus canker

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Plant bacterial diease

79
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Yeast is multi cellular? And it’s cell wall is made up of (fungi)?

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Nope moulds is , chitin

80
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Paramecium is also knows as

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Slipper animalcule

81
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Paramecium is also knows as

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Slipper animalcule

82
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Reproduction in algae

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Fragmentation, fission , spore formation

83
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Acetic acid

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Ch3cooh

84
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Vaccine for tb

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Bcg(bacillus calmette guerin

85
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Free living nitrogen fixing bacteria and cynobacteria ?

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Azotobacter , nostoc

86
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What plaque is transmitted by rats

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Bubonic

87
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What spreads through food ?

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Tb and streptococcus infection through milk

88
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What spreads through food ?

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Tb and streptococcus infection through milk

89
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Bacteria causing food poisoning

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Salmonella and clostridium

90
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Bacteria causing food poisoning

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Salmonella and clostridium

91
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Fungi causing food poisoning

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Mould like aspergillus and penicillium

92
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Std

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Syphilis and aids

93
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Fungi can be

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Sapeohytes and parasites , aerobic and anaerobic

94
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Fungi can be

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Sapeohytes and parasites , aerobic and anaerobic

95
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Example of fungi

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Penicillium andaspergillus

96
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Reproduction in protozoa

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Binary fission , spore formation and budding

97
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Reproduction in protozoa

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Binary fission , spore formation and budding

98
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Eugenla is

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Flagellated

99
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Sleeping sickness is caused due to which fly

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Tsetse fly

100
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Which infection leads to blood poisoning

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Staphylococcus

101
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Freezer and refrigerator

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5 and 18

102
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Sodium metabucsuphate, sodium benzoate, citric acid

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Na2s205, c6h5coona , c6h807

103
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Sodium metabucsuphate, sodium benzoate, citric acid

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Na2s205, c6h5coona , c6h807

104
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Nitrogen perectnage

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78.62%

105
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Loose association with maizee

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Azospirillium

106
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Amonnifying bacteria

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Bacillus ramosus

107
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Ammonia to nitrite (no2-

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Nitrosomonos

108
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Ammonia to nitrite (no2-

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Nitrosomonos

109
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Nitrite to nitrate no3-

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Nitrobacter

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