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MDCAT Biology Online Test MCQs With Answers
Question # 1
Formation of ES complex activates the______ site of an enzyme
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Active
Binding
Catalytic
Allosteric
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Question # 2
An ecosystem is made up of three main components:
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The herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
The produces, the consumers and the decomposers
Primary, secondary and tertiary consumers
Producers, herbivores and carnivoers
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Question # 3
Which hormone require 2nd messenger
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Insulin
Estrogen
Progesterone
Testosterone
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Question # 4
The term ecology comes form the ______ words oikos, meaning "The family household"
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Greek
Latin
English
French
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Question # 5
Animals involved in the construction of corals are
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Polyps
Medusae
Gonozooids
None
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Question # 6
Bacterial live and get food from roots of plants is an example of
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Symbiosis
Mutualism
Parasitism
Infestation
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Question # 7
Monoculture is
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One organism
A lab culture
A pure culture
Both b and c
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Question # 8
The animals which feed on grasses are called:
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Grassers
Browsers
Grazers
Grazophytes
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Question # 9
Which is irrelevant?
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Genome to virus structure
Capsomeres to Capsid
Tumors to retroviruses
Envelope to all viruses
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Question # 10
Aerosol spray foams are potential sources of
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Carbon monoxide
Sulphur dioxide
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Lead compounds
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Question # 11
Ecology is a ______ word.
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German
British
French
Greek
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Question # 12
Crystallization of viruses was done by _____ for the first time
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Ivanowsky
Twort
Stanley
Robert Koch
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Question # 13
Which of the following is not the true about predation
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Prey increases by increasing the predation
Predation increases by increasing the prey
Prey decreases by increasing the predation
Prey must follow the predation
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Question # 14
Newly synthesized Large proteins are digested into small viral proteins by
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Host protease
Viral protease
Viral RT
Host pepsin
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Question # 15
STH promotes_____ after puberty
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Protein synthesis
Cell differentiation
Metabolism
Cell division
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Question # 16
Features of most complex animals are
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Triploblastic with true coelom
Triploblastic with pseudocoelom
Triploblastic with bilateral symmetry
Triploblastic with radial symmetry
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Question # 17
The rate of enzyme action will be minimum at
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Optimum pH
Optimum temperature
Optimum conditions
Maximum temperature
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Question # 18
RNA and Proteins are components of
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Chromosomes
Receptors
Secretions
Ribosome
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Question # 19
The second trophic level includes the:
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Producers
Tertiary consumers
Secondary consumers
Primary consumers
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Question # 20
Plant and animals replace the earlier ones in a way of
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Community relay
Succession
Predecessors
All of these
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Question # 21
These micro-organisms use the proteins and amino acids and release excess of ammonia (NH
3
) or ammonium ions (NH
4
). This process is known as
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Ammonification
Nitrification
Assimilation
All of above
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Question # 22
An association between two organisms, which brings benefit to both the organisms is called:
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Parasitism
Commensalisms
Predation
Symbiosis
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Question # 23
If you are studying the structure of HIV , you will observe spikes associated with the
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Core
Capsid
Envelope
Genome
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Question # 24
Which of the following helps in recognition of substrate
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Active site
Catalytic site
Binding site
All
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Question # 25
In deuterostomes mesoderm is derived from wall of developing
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Coelom
Heart
Archenteron
Blastopore
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Question # 26
Biosphere is spread out over the surface of planet earth extending about ______ kilometers in the upper reaches of atmosphere and also in same distance into the depths of oceans
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8 - 10
8 - 12
8 - 14
8 - 16
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Question # 27
The term niche in ecolgy was first proposed by:
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Charles Eton
Ernst Haeckel
Joseph Grinnell
Carolus Linnaeus
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Question # 28
There are ________ total possible genotypes of blood group ABO system
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3
4
6
7
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Question # 29
Salt water ocean and sea are the largest ecosystem which cover __________ of earth surfaces.
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70%
71%
80%
65%
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Question # 30
This is an association between a host and a parasite
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Predation
Anemies
Parasitism
None of above
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Question # 31
A thin layer of earth in which all living organisms live is called:
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Biosphere
Habitat
Niche
Hydrosphere
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Question # 32
Provirus is
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Genome of bacteriophage
Genome of HIV uncoiled in Host cell
Genome of HIV incorporated in Host genome
Genome of a host
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Question # 33
A symbiotic relationship that benefits one species & neither helps nor harms the other is called
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Mycorrihza
Symbiosis
Commensalism
Mutualism
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Question # 34
The pairs of gills present in cyclostomata are
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5-7
10-12
6-14
4-5
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Question # 35
Iron, iodine and zinc required by the organisms are said to the:
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Macronutrients
Micronutrients
Moderate nutrients
Assimilation
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Question # 36
Lamarck was incharge of invertebrate collection at Natural History Museum is
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Berlin
Paris
California
Brun
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Question # 37
The intake of liquid material across the cell membrane is called as
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Phagocytosis
Pinocytosis
Endocytosis
Exocytosis
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Question # 38
According to fluid mosaic model of cell membrane
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The most common type of molecules in the membrane are proteins
Basic membrane structure results from how proteins interact with water
The membrane is highly mobile mixture of phospholipids and proteins
The unique properties of cell types are determined by their phospholipids
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Question # 39
A mixture of sand and clay in:
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Silt
Kaolin
Humus
Loam
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Question # 40
What will be the risk of heamophilia in sons if father is haemophilic and mother is normal
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0%
20%
25%
50%
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Question # 41
The land will be turned to barren land if there is:
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Little grazing
Moderate grazing
Over grazing
None grazing
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Question # 42
The particles which do not contain any nucleic acid are
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Viruses
Prions
Viroids
All
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Question # 43
Excessive ploughing of lands in arid regions results in the development of
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Forest
Deserts
Grassland
Fields
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Question # 44
Green house effect, acid rain headaches and coughs are related to which of the followings?
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Oxides of nitrogen
Oxides of sulphur
CO
CFCs
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Question # 45
The hormone which is not secreted by anterior lobe of pituitary is
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GH
ICSH
Prolactin
TRF
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Question # 46
The competitive inhibitor competes with the
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Enzyme
Cofactor
Substrate
Coenzyme
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Question # 47
A change in the community structure of an ecosystem over a period of time is:
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Progression
Sequence
Succession
String
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Question # 48
The nutrients in aquatic ecosystem tends to be concentrated near the
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Bottom
Surface
Center of total depth
10 feet below the surface
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Question # 49
Decrease in progesterone level in blood stimulates the secretion of
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Estrogen
FSH
Cortisol
Oxytocin
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Question # 50
Shallow water zone of the lake near the shore is called:
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Intertidal zone
Littoral zone
profundal zone
Limnetic zone
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Question # 51
Mycorrhiza is an association between the roots of plants growing in acid soil and certain
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Virus
Fungi
Bacteria
Nematods
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Question # 52
The enzyme that works best at intermediate pH is
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Pepsin
Chymotrypsin
Sucrase
Pancreatic lipase
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Question # 53
Which of the following is not an enzyme of HIV
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Reverse transcriptase
Integerase
Protease
Ligase
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Question # 54
Both organisms benefit from the ______ relationship
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Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
All of above
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Question # 55
The productivity of aquatic ecosystem is basically determined by the:
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Light and nutrients
Light and carbohydrates
Light and proteins
Light and minerals
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Question # 56
The actual location of place where an organisms live is called its:
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Ecosystem
Habitat
Niche
Biome
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Question # 57
The animal that is caught and eaten is the
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Predator
Prey
Consumer
Both a and c
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Question # 58
About 20 years ago what was the rate at which human population was increasing
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1%
2%
3%
5%
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Question # 59
Which is correct about myelin sheath
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It speeds up conduction
It is found in all axons
It is found in all dendrites
It is proteinaceous only
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Question # 60
Which of the following acts as a bridge between enzyme and substrate?
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Activator
Cofactor
Prosthetic group
Apo-enzyme
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Question # 61
The gill pouches present in embryos of mammals :
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support that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
homologous structures
used by embryos to breathe
evidence for the degeneration
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Question # 62
Which one of the following always contains DNA?
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Centriole
Lysosome
Golgi apparatus
Mitochondrion
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Question # 63
Grasslands of tropic climate have woody trees and are called:
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Alpine
Boreal
Biome
Savanna
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Question # 64
Chemical nature of spikes present on HIV
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Protein
Carbohydrate
Glycolipid
Glycoprotein
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Question # 65
The amount of energy left after plants have met their respiratory needs shows up the plant:
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Not productivity
Gross productivity
Secondary productivity
Bio energy
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Question # 66
The first comers in an area are termed as
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Consumers
Producers
Pioneers
All of above
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Question # 67
Rh factor or antigen was first studied in :
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Man
Owl
Monkey
Fish
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Question # 68
All carbon atoms in a monosaccharide ____ have hydroxyl group
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Except one
Except Two
Without Exception
Except last
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Question # 69
The compound formed by the combination of a base and a pentose sugar is called:
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Nucleoside
Nucleic acid
Nucleotide
Nuclein
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Question # 70
Dandruff is caused by
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Algae
Bacteria
Fungi
Virus
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Question # 71
Genetic basis of ABO blood group system was explained by:
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Landsteiner
Levine
Bernstein
Carl Correns
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Question # 72
The average rainfall in desert ecosystem is:
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20 - 30 cm
20 - 40 cm
25 - 50 cm
14 - 35 cm
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Question # 73
The relationship of a single population towards its environment is called
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Ecology
Synecology
Autoecology
All of foregoing
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Question # 74
The bond formed between glucose and fructose to form sucrose
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α 1 , 4 Glycosidic bond
β 1 , 4 Glycosidic bond
α 1 , 2 Glycosidic bond
β 1 , 2 Glycosidic bond
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Question # 75
Which of the following cross is carried to check the genotype of an individual showing a dominant phenotype
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Check cross
Test Cross
Criss cross
Self cross
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Question # 76
Leech is preferably a
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Host
Parasite
Predator
Mutualist
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Question # 77
Animals are
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Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Non of the above
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Question # 78
Endangered plant species have been recorded to more than:
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600
400
500
300
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Question # 79
Green plants are ______ trophic level
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First
Second
Third
Forth
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Question # 80
Succession starting in pond is called
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Hydrosere
Xerosere
Pioneers
None of these
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Question # 81
Man depends foams are potential sources of
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Carbon monoxide
Sulphur dioxide
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Lead compounds
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