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NEET UG Mineral Nutrition — practice questions

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Growing plants in a nutrient solution is called:Read the answer and worked solution →How many essential elements are named for plants?Read the answer and worked solution →An essential element must be necessary for growth and:Read the answer and worked solution →The requirement for an essential element must be:Read the answer and worked solution →An essential element must be directly involved in the plant's:Read the answer and worked solution →Essential elements are divided into how many quantitative categories?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a macronutrient?Read the answer and worked solution →Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are mainly obtained from:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a micronutrient?Read the answer and worked solution →Micronutrients are also known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is described as a beneficial element rather than essential?Read the answer and worked solution →The concentration below which growth is retarded is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Loss of chlorophyll leading to yellowing of leaves is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Death of tissue, particularly leaf tissue, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Deficiency of nitrogen, potassium, sulphur or molybdenum inhibits:Read the answer and worked solution →Which elements delay flowering when present at low levels?Read the answer and worked solution →Molybdenum is a component of nitrogenase and:Read the answer and worked solution →Nitrogen fixing microbes may be free-living or:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a free-living aerobic nitrogen fixing microbe?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cyanobacterium is a free-living nitrogen fixer?Read the answer and worked solution →Which rod-shaped microbe forms nodules on legume roots?Read the answer and worked solution →Small outgrowths on legume roots are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which microbe makes nitrogen fixing nodules on non-legumes?Read the answer and worked solution →In nodule formation, rhizobia first colonise and attach to:Read the answer and worked solution →Macronutrient or micronutrient?Read the answer and worked solution →Match each microbe to what it doesRead the answer and worked solution →True or false about mineral nutritionRead the answer and worked solution →Sort each item into its groupRead the answer and worked solution →Fill the gaps on mineral nutritionRead the answer and worked solution →Order the making of a root noduleRead the answer and worked solution →

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Growing plants in a nutrient solution is called:

  1. Hydroponics
  2. Hydrolysis
  3. Hydrotropism
  4. Hydrostatics
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Correct answer: A. Hydroponics

1. The technique replaced soil with solution. 2. It let scientists control every element. 3. It is called hydroponics. _Source: syllabus Biology, Ch 12 'Mineral Nutrition'_

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How many essential elements are named for plants?

  1. 19
  2. 17
  3. 12
  4. 27
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Correct answer: B. 17

1. They divide into macronutrients and micronutrients. 2. Beneficial elements sit outside this count. 3. There are 17 essential elements. _Source: syllabus Biology, Ch 12 'Mineral Nutrition'_

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An essential element must be necessary for growth and:

  1. Retardation
  2. Reabsorption
  3. Reproduction
  4. Respiration
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Correct answer: C. Reproduction

1. Without it the plant cannot complete its life cycle. 2. It also fails to set seeds. 3. It is necessary for normal growth and reproduction. _Source: syllabus Biology, Ch 12 'Mineral Nutrition'_

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