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What are prions?

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Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles that cause infectious diseases.
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  2. What are the most usual habitats of fungi ?

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  3. How will you differentiate an ascus from a basidium.

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  5. Give the names of three morphological types of lichens.

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  6. Define viruses.

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  7. What are viroids?

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  8. What are prions?

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  9. Write short notes on capsomere.

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  10. Write short notes on the following- (a) Mixotrophic nutrition (b) ...

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  11. What do you understand by holophytic and holozoic modes of nutrition ?

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  12. Give scientific reasons for the following statements : (i) The mushr...

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  13. Fill in the blanks : (i) The scientific ordering of organisms in a h...

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  14. In the five kingdom system of Whittaker, how many kingdoms are eukaryo...

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  15. Are chemosynthetic bacteria autotrophic or heterotrophic ?

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  16. The common name of pea is simpler than its botanical (scientific) name...

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  17. How is the five kingdom classification advantageous over the two kingd...

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  18. A virus is considered as a living organism and an obligate parasite wh...

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  19. What is the principle underlying the use of cyanobacteria in agricultu...

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  20. Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent slide without...

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