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Question 11 Mark
Euglena is both an autotroph and a heterotroph. Justify.
Answer
  • In the presence of sunlight, they are photosynthetic and autotrophs.
  • In the absence of sunlight, they are predators(heterotrophs) of other smaller organisms.
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Question 21 Mark
In the five-kingdom classification of Whittaker, some acellular organisms are not included. What are these organisms?
Answer
Viruses and viroids.
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Question 51 Mark
What are dolipores? In which class of fungi are these present?
Answer
Dolipores or central pores are barrel-shaped outgrowths present in septa of class-Basidiomycetes (club fungi).
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Question 81 Mark
Name the group of Monerans, which lacks a cell wall.

OR

Name the smallest known prokaryote.

Answer
Mycoplasma.
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Question 101 Mark
What is retting of fibres? Name a bacterium involved in it.
Answer
The separation of fibres from soft tissue is called retting of fibres, e.g., jute, flax. Bacterium used for this is Pseudomonas fluoroscens.
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Question 121 Mark
Name the sexual spores produced by the sac fungi. Name the structure in which they are formed.
Answer
 Ascospores; they are formed in asci (ascus-singular).
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Question 131 Mark
Which are the most advanced group of fungi?
Answer
Basidiomycetes (the club fungi) are the most advanced and most commonly seen fungi.
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Question 141 Mark
What kind of nutrition occurs in a parasite?
Answer
Parasites have phagotrophic and absorptive type of nutrition.
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Question 161 Mark
Name the kingdom under which cyanobacteria have been classified.
Answer
Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic organisms belonging to kingdom-Monera.
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Question 171 Mark
Name the domains in the three-domain classification, which include prokaryotes.
Answer
Archaea and Bacteria.
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Question 181 Mark
How the Aristotle divided animals into two groups?
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Aristotle divided animals in two groups. These are Enaima (with red blood) and Anaima (without red blood).
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Question 191 Mark
Which are the main groups of kingdom-Animalia?
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Sponges, coelenterates, helminthes, annelids, arthropods, molluscs, Echinodermata, amphibian, reptiles, ayes and mammals.
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Question 201 Mark
Flagellar locomotion can be observed in which protistans?
Answer
Euglena, dinoflagellates and zooflagellates.
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Question 211 Mark
Who proposed the two kingdom classification?
Answer
Linnaeus proposed the two kingdom classification in 1758.
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Question 221 Mark
Name the substance present in the cell wall of diatoms that makes them hard and indestructible.
Answer
Silica.
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Question 251 Mark
Give one evidence to show that viruses are smaller than bacteria.
Answer
Viruses pass through the bacteria-proof filters.
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Question 261 Mark
What is the body organisation in members of Kingdom-Animalia?
Answer
Body organisation in members of Kingdom-Animalia is cellular, tissue, organ and organ system level.
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Question 271 Mark
What are coprophilous fungi?
Answer
The fungi, which grow on the dung of animals, are called coprophilous fungi.
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Question 281 Mark
Mention two features in which the slime moulds resemble animals.
Answer
  1. They have no cell wall.
  2. They engulf/ingest organic food material.
  3. They exhibit amoeboid movement.
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Question 291 Mark
Who discovered viroids? Name a plant disease caused by viroids.
Answer
  • T.O. Diener discovered viroids.
  • Potato spindle tuber disease.
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Question 301 Mark
The two gametangia come in contact and fuse to form a zygote in which event? Give two examples.
Answer
Gametangial copulation, e.g., Rhizopus, Mucor, etc.
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Question 331 Mark
Who is credited with the discovery of viruses? Name the virus he discovered.
Answer
D.I. Ivanowsky discovered tobacoo mosaic virus.
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Question 341 Mark
What is diatomaceous earth? Mention any two economic uses of it.
Answer
Diatomaceous earth refers to the deposits of the nearly indestructible siliceous cell wall of diatoms in the ocean floor.
  • It is used in filtration of oils and syrups.
  • It is used in polishing of metals.
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Question 351 Mark
Mark the odd one in the following groups.
Entamoeba, Trypanosoma, Gonyaulax, Plasmodium.
Answer
Gonyaulax.
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Question 361 Mark
Mention any two cellular structures absent in kingdom-Animalia of four kingdom classification system of organisms that are present in kingdom-Protista.
Answer
Cell wall and chloroplasts are absent in cells of members of kingdom-Animalia.
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Question 371 Mark
Which of the organisms are called jewels of the plant world? Elaborate about them.
Answer
Diatoms are called the jewels of the plant kingdom because of cell wall ornamentation and presence of golden brown chromatophores.
There are two types of diatoms, i.e., the pennate diatom and centric diatom. Pennate diatoms are like small rectangular soap boxes. Centric diatoms are circular.
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Question 391 Mark
What are the modes of locomotion found in protists?
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Wriggling, cilia, mucilage propulsion, pseudopodia.
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Question 401 Mark
Give the name of a fungus which causes rust diseases.
Answer
Puccinia graminis tritici causes black stem rust of wheat.
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Question 411 Mark
Define mixotrophic nutrition.
Answer
Mode of nutrition in which organism derive nourishment from both autotropic and heterotrophic mechanisms,e.g., Euglena.
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Question 421 Mark
Give the name of the classes of kingdom-Plantae.
Answer
Algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms.
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Question 431 Mark
Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent slide without a label. In your effort to identify it, you place the slide under microscope and observe the following features :-
  1. Unicellular
  2. Well defined nucleus
  3. Biflagellate–one flagellum lying longitudinally and the other transversely.
What would you identify it as? Can you name the kingdom it belongs to?
Answer
Dinoflagellates are unicellular eukaryotes. Most of them have two flagella; one lies longitudinally and the other transversely in a furrow between the wall plates. Dinoflagellates belongs to kingdom protista.
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Question 451 Mark
Why do mosquito bites cause itching?
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When female mosquitoes like Anopheles, suck human blood, it simultaneously injects a poisonous liquid containing the protozoan cells into our blood. This poison causes the itching and causes swelling of the area.
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Question 461 Mark
What are the types of mycorrhiza?
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Mycorrhiza can be of two types:
  1. Ectomycorrhiza.
  2. Endomycorrhiza.
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Question 481 Mark
What is capsid and how is it useful for viruses?
Answer
Capsid is a proteinaceous covering around the virus. It protects the nucleoid from damage from physical and chemical agents.
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Question 491 Mark
In which kingdom of five kingdom classification, nuclear membrane is not present?
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Bacteria are prokaryotes which belong to kingdom-Monera. Monerans do not have nuclear membrane enclosing the nucleus of the cell.
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Question 501 Mark
Why are cysts formed in protistans?
Answer
Cysts formation helps to overcome unfavourable condition for reproduction.
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Question 521 Mark
As per the three-domain system of classification, human can be kept under which domain?
Answer
Eukaryota.
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Question 541 Mark
Why virus cannot grow on non-living culture medium?
Answer
A virus cannot grow on non-living culture medium because it needs living cells for its metabolism and multiplication.
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Question 561 Mark
What is the basic difference between conidia and aplanospores?
Answer
Conidia are produced exogenously (outside on the conidiophores) while aplanospores are formed endogenously (within the sporangia).
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Question 601 Mark
Why are viruses described as obligate intracellular parasites?
Answer
It is because viruses can multiply inside their specific host cells only; outside the host cells, they are inert.
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Question 611 Mark
What are the harmful effects of bacteria?
Answer
Bacteria cause several diseases in human.

Some of them are as follows:

Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Cholera, etc.

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Question 641 Mark
How the saprotrophic Basidiomycetes are able to decompose plant matter?
Answer
The saprotrophic Basidiomycetes can decompose plant matter because they have enzymes for metabolising both cellulose and lignin.
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Question 661 Mark
What are the most common habitats of fungi?
Answer
Fungi are known to grow well in moist, dark and warm places so, they can be commonly seen in any habitat where organic matter and moisture are available.
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Question 691 Mark
How are lichens related to air pollution?
Answer
The decrease in lichen population of an area is indicative of air pollution particularly SO2 pollution.
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Question 701 Mark
Name the genetic material of:
  1. Tobacco mosaic virus.
  2. Bacteriophage.
Answer
  1. Single-stranded RNA.
  2. Double-stranded DNA.
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Question 711 Mark
Why are viruses not included in any of the kingdoms?
Answer
  1. They are non-cellular organisms.
  2. They have an inert crystalline structure outside their host cell.
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Question 721 Mark
Mention two uses of cilia to Paramoecium.
Answer
  1. Cilia help in locomotion.
  2. They also help in steering the water laden with food materials into the gullet, i.e. help in food capture.
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Question 731 Mark
Write the names of two genera of fungi belonging to Basidiomycetes that are parasitic on plants and name the disease each of them uses in the plants.
Answer
  • Ustilago causes smut disease.
  • Puccinia causes rust disease.
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Question 741 Mark
Write one similarity and one difference between zoospores and aplanospores.
Answer
  • Both are formed within the sporangia.
  • Zoospores are motile and aplanospores are non motile.
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Question 761 Mark
Mention any two types of each of:
  1. Asexual spores.
  2. Sexual spores, produced by fungi.
Answer
  1. Aplanospores.
  2. Conidia.
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Question 771 Mark
Fill in the blanks (A) and (B) Classification proposed by Whittaker includes:.Monera,
  1. Fungi.
  2. Animalia.
Answer
  1. Protista.
  2. Plantae.
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Question 781 Mark
 Differentiate between chrysophytes and dinoflagellates.
Answer
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Chrysophytes
Dinoflagellates
1.
They are the planktons that passively float on the surface of water.
They have two flagella for locomotion.
2.
Silica is deposited on the cellulosic cell wall
Silica is not found in the cell walls.
3.
Cell wall occurs as two thin overlapping shells that fit together as in a soap box.
Cell wall occurs as stiff plates on the outer surface.
4.
They do not release any toxins.
They release some toxin, which kill fish populations.
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Question 791 Mark
Mention the two events which occur in a basidium, as soon as it is formed.
Answer
Karyogamy and meiosis occur in a basidium, as soon as it is formed.
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Question 801 Mark
Who gave the term'virus'? What does the word 'virus' mean?
Answer
  • Louis Pasteur gave the term 'virus'.
  • It means venom or poisonous fluid.
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Question 811 Mark
Name the following:
  1. The domain in three-domain system of classification, Which includes Kingdoms, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia.
  2. The photosynthetic pigment common to cyanobacteria and green plants.
  3. A moneran that lacks cell wall.
  4. The characterisitic type of nutrition in animals.
  5. The chemical nature of fungal cell wall.
Answer
  1. Eukarya.
  2. Chlorophyll.
  3. Mycoplasma.
  4. Holozoic.
  5. Chitin.
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Question 821 Mark
Give two reasons why fungi have been removed from plant kingdom and placed as a separate kingdom.
Answer
  1. The cell wall of fungi is made of chitin, while that of plants is made of cellulose.
  2. All fungi are heterotrophs and non-chlorophyllous while all plants are autotrophs and chlorophyllous.
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Question 831 Mark
Give the name of causative agents of these diseases.
  1. Cholera.
  2. Typhoid.
Answer
  1. Cholera: Vibrio cholerae.

  2. Typhoid: Salmonella typhii.

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Question 841 Mark
Name the kingdom to which organisms with each of the following characteristics belong:
  1. Have cell wall made of polysaccharides and amino acids.
  2. Heterotrophs, multicellular with loose tissue and cells with a cell wall.
Answer
  1. Monera
  2. Fungi.
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Question 851 Mark
Name the scientist who showed that
  1. viruses could be crystallised.
  2. viruses are smaller than bacteria.
Answer
  1. W.M. Stanley.
  2. M.W. Beijerinek.
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Question 861 Mark
What technical term is given to the symbiotic association of fungi with:
  1. Algae.
  2. Roots of higher plants, respectively?
Answer
  1. Lichen.
  2. Mycorrhizae.
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Question 871 Mark
Mention two features in which deuteromycetes resemble ascomycetes.
Answer
  1. Members of both the classes have septate and branched mycelia.
  2. They reproduce asexually by conidia formation.
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Question 881 Mark
Write the name of three parasitic protozoans.
Answer
  1. Plasmodium causes malaria.
  2. Entamoeba histolytica causes amoebic dysentery.
  3. Trypanosoma causes sleeping sickness.
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Question 901 Mark
State the function of heterocyst in Nostoc.
Answer
It is the specialised cell in which atmospheric nitrogen is fixed by Nostoc.
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Question 911 Mark
List two important features of Gonyaulax.
Answer
Gonyaulax are important because:
  1. They have red coloured pigments present in their cells make the sea glow red. They are called red tides.
  2. They produce toxins such as saxitoxin that kills the fish.
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Question 921 Mark
Why the pseudoparenchyma fungal tissue is called false parenchyma?
Answer
This is because pseudoparenchyma is formed by close packing, and fusion of hyphae. Individual hyphae are not distinguishable.
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Question 931 Mark
What are acellular slime moulds?
Answer
Acellular slime moulds are consumer-decomposer protists which have a diploid somatic phase represented by Plasmodium, cellulose covered spores for dispersal and haploid swarm cells or myxoamoebae for sexual reproduction.
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Question 941 Mark
What is a dikaryon?
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It is a cell in certain fungi in which two genetically different nuclei are present after plasmogamy.
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Question 951 Mark
How do halophiles prevent cellular dehydration?
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Halophiles contain a chemical called halorhodopsin that pumps chlorides into the cells and prevents cellular dehydration.
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Question 961 Mark
How does a nucleoid differ from a nucleus?
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Nucleus is membrane bound structure located in centre of enkaryotic cell while necleoid is a membraneless structure found in prokaryotic cell (false nuleus).
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Question 971 Mark
In the five kingdom system of Whittaker, how many kingdoms are eukaryotes?
Answer
In five kingdom system of classification given by Whittaker, four kingdoms include eukaryotes; Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia.
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Question 981 Mark
Gamete formation and fusion are absent in bacteria. How do then bacteria undergo sexual reproduction?
Answer
It occurs by conjugation. It involves transfer of genetic material from one bacterium to another through cell to cell contact.
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Question 1001 Mark
Why are viruses called nucleoproteins?
Answer
Because viruses are composed of a nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) and a protein coat capsid.
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Question 1011 Mark
Why are most fungi referred to as saprotrophs?
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They are referred to as saprotrophs because they are heterotrophs and absorb soluble organic matter from the dead and decaying organic substrates.
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Question 1021 Mark
  1. Name the specialised cells where nitrogen fixation occurs in the trichomes of certain cyanobacteria.
  2. Give two examples of cyanobacteria where such cells are present.
Answer
  1. Heterocysts.
  2. Nostoc, Anabaena.
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Question 1051 Mark
Why were bacteria, cyanobacteria and fungi includedin plant kingdom, in the earlier classification systems?
Answer
Because they all have a cell wall.
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Question 1081 Mark
What is the difference between virus and viroid?
Answer
Viroid is a free RNA; it lacks the protein coat that is found in viruses, hence the name viroid. The RNA of the viroid is of low molecular weight. Viroids are smaller than virus.
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Question 1121 Mark
Why two kingdom classification continued to be used for a long time?
Answer
Classification of organisms into plants and animals was easily done and was easy to understand.
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Question 1131 Mark
What important ecological role do the chemosynthetic bacteria play?
Answer
They play an important role in the recycling of nutrients like nitrogen, iron, sulphur and phosphorus.
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Question 1151 Mark
Why are Plasmodium (malarial parasite)-like protozoans called sporozoans?
Answer
They have an infectious spore-like stage in their life cycle; hence, they are called sporozoans.
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Question 1171 Mark
Why lichens are called dual organisms?
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Lichens are dual organisms which contain a fungus or mycobiont and an alga or phycobiont.
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Question 1181 Mark
Which bacteria live inside human body without causing any harm?
Answer
Treponema denticola, Torale, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coll. They are called coliforms.
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Question 1201 Mark
What do you understand by three domains of life?
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As per three-domain system; living beings are divided into three domains, viz. Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota.
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Question 1221 Mark
Which enzyme is present in bacteriophages?
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Lysozyme is present in the region that comes in contact with host cell.
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