Environment Quiz for Competitive Exams

The potato is actually a stem that grows from an underground stem stolon. Potato tubers have buds that produce leaves and stems, while roots lack these characteristics.

Blackheart disease in potatoes occurs due to high storage temperatures and low oxygen supply.

The months of February-March or August-September are considered suitable for planting guava plants. Keep a distance of 6x5 meters for planting plants. If plants are planted in a square manner then keep the distance of the plants 7 meters. 132 plants are planted per acre.

This process is called ginning. Therefore ginning is the process of separating seeds from cotton.

Always plant guava plants in a row at a distance of 8 feet. Due to this, the plants get adequate amount of air, water and sunlight, which improves the growth of the crop. There should also be a distance of 10 to 12 feet between two rows.

Bronze is mainly an alloy of copper and tin. Bronze is primarily made up of copper and tin is present in lesser proportions. Instead of tin other metals, non-metals and metalloids are also mixed with copper. Bronze is used in making weapons, coins, medals etc.

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is also called peanut, monkey nut and earth nut. It contains 45% oil and 26% protein.

The first program for the development of hybrid species started in China in the year 1964.

The opaque-2 mutation in maize (Zea mays) is associated with increased levels of free amino acids (FAA) in mature endosperm. In particular, it contains a high concentration of lysine, the most limiting essential amino acid. To investigate the basis of the high-FAA phenotype of opaque-2 maize, we characterized amino acid accumulation during endosperm development of several wild-type and opaque-2 inbreds.