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Multiple choice evs a seeds tells a farmer's story manure manures and fertilisers water absorption organ

Which one of the following can be used as a biofertilizer?

  1. Plasmodium

  2. Rhizobium

  3. Chenopodium

  4. Agrobacterium
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Microorganisms which, when applied to seed, plant surfaces, or soil, colonizes the interior of the plant and promotes growth by increasing the supply or availability of primary nutrients to the host plant. Rhizobium can be used as biofertilizer. Rhizobium are found in the soil and after infection, produce nodules in the legume where they fix nitrogen gas (N2) from the atmosphere turning it into a more readily usable form of nitrogen.


So, the correct option is 'Rhizobium'.

Multiple choice evs a seeds tells a farmer's story manure manures and fertilisers water absorption organ

Bio-fertiliser which makes available phosphorus is?

  1. Azolla

  2. Aulosira

  3. Mycorrhiza

  4. Chromatium
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Mycorrhizal fungi, which form a symbiosis with the roots of nearly all vascular plants, play a key role in solving the phosphate shortage problem for plants. Mycorrhizal fungi can effectively increase phosphate uptake by converting insoluble phosphates to soluble, available forms.

So, the correct option is 'Mycorrhiza'.

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Which of the following is incorrect about leg-haemoglobin?

  1. It acts as $O _2$ scavenger

  2. It imports pink or red colour to the nodules
  3. It combines unit $O _2$ and protects nitrogenase

  4. It is a Mo-Fe protein
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Leg-haemoglobin is an oxygen carrier. It is found in root nodules of leguminous plants. It is red in colour and is a hemoprotein. It provides or helps in providing oxygen to symbiotic bacterial cells. 

It is Mo-Fe protein.

Multiple choice evs a seeds tells a farmer's story manure manures and fertilisers water absorption organ

Leghaemoglobin in symbiotic nodules helps :

  1. To provide energy to the growing symbionts

  2. In nitrogen reallocation between symbionts and plants

  3. By scavenging Oxygen

  4. To stabilize redox potential of host cells
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Leghaemoglobin helps to mantain internal oxygen in symbiotic nodules, because this protein has ten times more affinity for oxygen as compared to blood pigment haemoglobin.Therefore they acts as oxygen scavenger.

So, the correct answer as 'by scavenging oxygen'

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The $N _{2}$ fixing bacterium associated with root nodules of legumes is known as

  1. Azotobacter

  2. Nitrobacter

  3. Lactobacillus

  4. Rhizobium
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Rhizobium is microaerophilic rod shaped gram negative bacteria found in association with legume plants in root nodules. These bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium ions, which can be readily assimilated by plants.

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The pigment useful in nitrogen fixation is

  1. Nitrogenase

  2. Haemoglobin

  3. Myoglobin

  4. Leghaemoglobin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Plants cannot consume atmospheric nitrogen directly, because in atmosphere nitrogen occurs in stable diatomic form. The atmospheric nitrogen needs to be converted into plant usable forms like nitrate, nitrite and ammonium ion. This process is called as nitrogen fixation. 

Rhizobium is a microaerobic bacteria, which occurs in root nodules of legume plants in symbiotic association. Rhizobium bacteria nodule is pink coloured due to presence of a bacterial pigment called as leghaemoglobin. This pigment binds excess oxygen present in nodules. Free oxygen is harmful for the nitrogenase enzyme of Rhizobium. Rhizobium bacteria reduces atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium ions using reducing power obtained from host plant.

Multiple choice evs a seeds tells a farmer's story manure manures and fertilisers water absorption organ

Leguminous plants have their roots modified into

  1. Fibrous roots.

  2. Stilt roots.

  3. Nodulated roots.

  4. Prop roots.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Nodules develop in the roots of leguminuos plants like pulses and grams. These nodules have a very specific function. They inhabit rhizobium bacteria. it is a type of nitrogen fixing bacteria, It absorbs free nitrogen from the atmosphere and converts it into nitrites and nitrates and fixes it in the soil. From soil, plants absorb nitrogen fixed by the bacteria. So, nitrogen requirement of leuminuous plants is fulfilled.

So, option C "Nodulated roots" is the correct answer.

Multiple choice evs a seeds tells a farmer's story manure manures and fertilisers water absorption organ

Function of leghaemoglobin during biological nitrogen fixation in root nodules of legumes is to _________________.

  1. Convert atmospheric ntirogen to ammonia

  2. Convert ammonia to nitrogen

  3. Transport oxygen for activity of nitrogenase

  4. Protect nitrogenase from oxygen
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The primary function of leghaemoglobin is to bind oxygen, thereby protecting the oxygen-sensitive nitrogenase enzyme from inactivation.

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In what family of plants is nitrogen usually fixed ?

  1. Coniferous trees

  2. Sea Grass

  3. Legumes

  4. Deciduous Trees
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In the roots of legumes, there live many bacteria, who through their own metabolic processes are able to convert the nitrogen gas into ammonia or ammonium, depending on the acidity of the soil. Converting nitrogen gas into a more usable form is extremely difficult and is the reason that this process is so specialized. While ammonium may be usable by a few plants, the majority cannot use it and another process is required. Nitrifying bacteria oxidize the ammonia creating nitrite then nitrate allowing for the nitrogen to be assimilated into the plants.

So, the correct answer is 'Legumes'

Multiple choice evs a seeds tells a farmer's story manure manures and fertilisers water absorption organ

Leghaemoglobin helps in

  1. Nitrogen fixation
  2. Protecting nitrogenase from O${ _2}$

  3. Killing bacteria

  4. Transport of food in plants
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Many rhizobia, nitrogen fixing bacteria, live in a symbiotic relationship with plants known as legumes. In such plants, the presence of oxygen in the root nodules would reduce the activity of the oxygen-sensitive nitrogenase. In these situations, the roots of such plants produce a protein known as leghemoglobin. Leghemoglobin buffers the concentration of free oxygen in the cytoplasm of infected plant cells to ensure the proper function of root nodules. Leghemoglobin is a nitrogen or oxygen carrier; naturally occurring oxygen and nitrogen interact similarly with this protein. Hence option B is correct.