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#Question id: 8775


Use the following information to answer the question. Paulinella chromatophora is one of the few cercozoans that is autotrophic, carrying out aerobic photosynthesis with its two elongated "chromatophores." The chromatophores are contained within vesicles of the host cell, and each is derived from a cyanobacterium, though not the same type of cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chloroplasts of algae and plants. A crucial photosynthetic gene of the cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chromatophore is called psaE. This gene is present in the nuclear genome of the cercozoan, but is not in the genome of the chromatophore. This is evidence of ________.

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. reciprocal mutations in the chromatophore and nuclear genomes
  2. horizontal gene transfer from bacterium to eukaryotes
  3. genetic recombination involving a protist and an archaean
  4. transduction by a phage that infects both prokaryotes and eukaryotes
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#Question id: 10362

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Bacteria can convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, Several form symbiotic associations with higher plants is given below;

               HOST PLANT                                                                          N-FIXING SYMBIONTS

A) Gunnera                                                                            i) Frankia

      B) Azolla                                                                                ii) Acetobacter

C) Leguminous                                                                     iii) Azospirillum

             D) Actinorhizal                                                                      iv) Nostoc

             E) Sugarcane                                                                         v) Anabaena

             F) Miscanthus                                                                       vi) Sinorhizobium


Which of the following combination with the host plants and n-fixing symbionts is CORRECT?

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#Question id: 10363

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Free living nitrogen fixing takes place as shown in the following;

             TYPE                                                                                       N-FIXING GENERA

A) Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)                                        i) Bacillus

B) Aerobic                                                                                     ii) Clostridium

C) Facultative                                                                              iii) Anabaena

D) Anaerobic nonphotosynthetic                                            iv) Rhodospirillum

E) Anaerobic photosynthetic                                                     v) Azospirillum

 Which of the following combination of free living nitrogen fixing bacteria is correct?

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#Question id: 10364

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Which of the following is the most common type of symbiosis occurs between members of the plant family and soil bacteria?

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#Question id: 10365

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Why the nitrogenase enzymes catalyzes the nitrogen fixation reaction only in microanaerobic or anaerobic conditions?

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#Question id: 10366

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Cyanobacteria can fixes nitrogen in an anaerobic conditions. Which of the following statements about heterocyst which is specialized cell of blue-green algae is incorrect?

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#Question id: 10367

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Cyanobcteria also fixes nitrogen under anaerobic conditions without  heterocyst where?