Darwin's finches and Australian marsupials are an example of:

The biodiversity is ______ at lower altitudes and ______ with increasing higher latitudes.

Introduction of which of the following on Galopagos islands caused extinction of Abingdon tortoise ?

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An overwhelming majority (99 per cent) of animals and nearly all plants cannot maintain a constant internal environment. Their body temperature changes with the ambient temperature. In aquatic animals, the osmotic concentration of the body fluids change with that of the ambient air and water osmotic concentration. These animals and plants are simply conformers. Considering the benefits of a constant internal environment to the organism, we must ask why these conformers had not evolved to become regulators. Recall the human analogy we used above; much as they like, how many people can really afford an air conditioner? Many simply 'sweat it out' and resign themselves to suboptimal performance in hot summer months. Very small animals are rarely found in polar regions. During the course of evolution, the costs and benefits of maintainin a constant internal environment are taken into consideration. Some species have evolved the ability to regulate, but only over a limited range of environmental conditions, beyond which they simply conform.
If the stressful external conditions are localised or remain only for a short duration, the organism has five other alternatives for survival.
Identify the animal which is NOT a conformer.

Arrange the following in order of their appearance, if a sperm starts travelling from testicular lobules?
(A) Urethra
(B) Vas deferens
(C) Urethral meatus
(D) Vasa efferentia
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Which of the following statements are NOT true for biopiracy?
(A) It is the use of bio-resources by multinational companies with proper authorisation by the concerned country
(B) Developing countries are rich in biodiversity
C) Developed countries are rich in traditional knowledge related to bio resources
(D) Biopiracy involves inadequate compensation and benefit sharing between developed and developing countries, while using latter's bioresources by the former
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Pollen pistil interaction involves all events from the landing of pollen grains on the stigma until the pollen tube enters the embryo sac (when the pollen is compatible). When a pollen tube grows through the style and enters into the ovules, it finally discharges two male gametes in one of the synergids. Syngamy and triple fusion are two fusion events occur in angiosperms. Thus, angiosperms exhibit double fertilization. The products of these fusions are the diploid zygote and triploid primary endosperm nucleus. Zygote develops into embryo and primary endosperm cell forms the endosperm tissue. The developing embryo passes through different stages before maturation.
Which of the following is not a stage of growing embryo in dicotyledon plants?

Two long parallel wires separated by a distance of 2.50 cm, repel each other with a force of \( 4 \times 10^{-5} \text{ N/m} \). The current in one wire is 0.5 A. The current in the second wire will be

A metallic wire of uniform area of cross section has a resistance R, resistivity \(\rho\) and power rating P at V volts. The wire is uniformly stretched to reduce the radius to half the original radius. The values of resistance, resistivity and power rating at V volts are now denoted by R', and P' respectively. The corresponding values are correctly related as __________ . Fill in the blank with the correct answer from the options given below

Other than absorption of phosphorus from soil, Glomus gives other benefits to plants like:
A. Addition of organic matter to the soil.
B. Resistance to root borne pathogens.
C. Tolerance to salinity
D. Increase in soil fertility
E. Tolerance to drought
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Identify the correct sequence of events for the technique of DNA fingerprinting.
(A) Hybridization using labelled VNTR probe, followed by detection of hybridized DNA fragments by autoradiography
(B) Transfer of separated DNA fragments to synthetic membranes, such as nitrocellulose or nylon
(C) Isolation and digestion of DNA by restriction endonucleases
(D) Separation of DNA fragments by electrophoresis
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The corner points of the bounded feasible region determined by the system of linear constraints are \((0,0), (5,0), (6,5)\), \((6,8),(4,10), (0,8)\). Let \(Z=3 x-4 y\) be the objective function. The minimum value of \(Z\) occurs at

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Adsorption is the process of attracting and retaining the adsorbate molecules on the surface of adsorbent. It is of two types i.e. Physisrption and chemisorption. To increase the rate of reaction, the substance called 'catalyst' is added. Promotors enhance the activity of catalyst while poison decrease the catalyst activity. Solutions may be true solution, suspension and colloids. Colloids are heterogenous but quite stable. On the basis of nature of interaction, colloids may be Lyophilic or Lyophobic. On the basis of type of dispersed phase particles, there may be multimolecular colloids, macromlecular colloids and associated colloids. The congulation of colloids may be done by boiling, dialysis or by mixing oppositely charged sols.
Reason for the stability of colloidal solution is :