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Essential oils are those which are
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Used in soap manufacture
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Used in perfumes
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Essential for plant producing them
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Essential for human kind
Essential oils are aromatic and so they get evaporated when they are in contact with air. So, the essential oils are used in the preparation of perfumes, flavoring, and medicine.
Indigestible plant matter that dissolves in water is called
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Pectin
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Gum
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Hemicellulose
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Soluble fibre
- The fibre in diet contains substances like cellulose, lignin and pectin and cannot be digested by the action of digestive enzymes.
- Fibres in food can be classified into two types-
Assertion : Biologically, woman is superior to man.
Reason : A woman provides nutrition to developing foetus during gestation and also nourishes the baby on her milk after its birth.
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If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
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If both the assertion and the reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
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If the assertion is true but the reason is false
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If both the assertion and the reason are false
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If the assertion is false but reason is true
Woman plays an important role in the continuity of the family and human race. She provides nutrition to the foetus in her womb for about nine months (280 days) through placenta. Even after birth, she nourishes the infant on `her milk. Hence, biologically woman is superior to man.
Rice bran is used to obtain
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Oil
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Protein
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Starch
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None of the above
Rice bran oil is the oil that is extracted from the hard outer brown layer of rice called the chaff or rice husk.
Sunflower is principally cultivated for its
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Starch
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Protein
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Alkaloid
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Oil seed crop
Sunflower plant is mainly cultivated for the extraction of sunflower oil which is widely used in cooking and other stuffs. So, the need of its oil seed crop is the principle reason for its cultivation.
Seeds of Arachis hypogea are rich in
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Protein and nicotinic acid
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Fats and lecithin
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Vitamin B1, B2, B6 roman and E
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All the above
Groundnut seeds are rich in fats, protein, vitamin, B1, B2, B6, E and nicotinic acid (vitamin B3) and lecithin.
An important oil yielding plant is
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Carthamus tinctorious
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Cicer arietinum
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Lens esculantum
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Eleusine coracana
Carthamus tinctorious (saffllower) is an important plant that is commercially produced for the extraction of vegetable oil.
The oil obtained from the cotyledons of Arachis hypogea is
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An essential oil
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A drying oil
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A non-essential non-drying oil
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An essential drying oil
Which of the following is not an essential oil
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Clove oil
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Eucalyptus oil
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Sandal wood oil
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Ground nut oil
Essential oil evaporate in contact with air and have a pleasant fragrance e.g., rose, sandal, clove, eucalyptus etc. Groundnut oil is a non drying oil and so it is not an essential oil.
The major source of sugar in India is
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Solanum nigrum
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Helianthus tuberosus
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Saccharum officinarum
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None of the above
Sugarcane is the major source of sugar production in India. The botanical name of sugarcane is Saccharum officinarum.