List of top Plant Biotechnology Questions asked in ICAR AIEEA (PG)

The ICAR-National Organic Farming Research Institute (ICAR-NOFRI) is stationed in which of the following states/UTs of India?
A membrane consists of 50% protein and 50% phosphoglycerides by weight. The average molecular weights of the lipids and proteins are 800 Da and 50 kDa respectively. The molar ratio of lipid to protein in this membrane is:
Which one of the followings is a phosphorous-containing membrane lipid?
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R
Assertion A : With the increase in the chain length of the saturated fatty acids, their melting point increases while their solubility in water decreases.
Reason R : The intermolecular interactions between the saturated fatty acid molecules increase with the increase in their chain length.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
Match List I with List II
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP) is converted to Thymidine monophosphate (TMP) by which of the following biochemical reaction?
Which class of cereal proteins tends to lower the nutritional quality of the cereal grains?
How many times the Fe-protein and the Mo-Fe Protein components of the nitrogenase complex have to interact with each other for the reduction of one dinitrogen molecule to one hydrogen and two ammonia molecules?
An optical density of 1.0 is obtained for a solution using spectrophotometer. Which of the following interpretation can be made from this observation?
The "Golden rice" has been developed to help people suffering from which one of the following diseases?
Which of the following statements is correct as regard to $C_2$ photorespiratory cycle?
If the intracellular concentration of NaCl is 1%, then which solution is hypotonic to the cell?
The urea cycle occurs in which of the following organelles? Choose the most appropriate option.
In germinating oilseeds, which of the following metabolic end product of the glyoxylate pathway is transported out of glyoxysomes for further utilization in the TCA cycle?
Which one of the following amino acids will move the fastest, and thus be eluted first, on a reverse-phase HPLC column?
In CAM plants, a metabolite 'X' is stored in vacuoles at night for its future use as a source of carbon dioxide. Which gets fixed by Rubisco in chloroplasts during the day time. 'X' is -
Which one of the following enzymes does NOT catalyze a physiological irreversible step in glycolysis?
During SDS-Poly Acrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), how many molecules of SDS are expected to bind to a 44 kD protein?
Which one of the following coenzymes is required by the enzymes involved in the catalysis of transamination reactions?
Which of the following parameters remains unchanged in the two Lineweaver-Burk plots of an enzyme drawn in the absence and presence of a competitive inhibitor respectively?
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is more susceptible to alkaline hydrolysis than Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) because:
Nitrate assimilation in leaves occurs in two sequential steps catalysed by Nitrate reductase (NR) and Nitrite reductase (NiR) enzymes respectively. Which of the following statements is true about these two enzymes?
Which of the following quantities is used to express Michaelis-Menten constant ($K_m$) of an enzyme?
For a weak acid with a $pK_a$ value of 6.0, the ratio of acid to salt at pH 5.0 will be:
How many rounds of $\beta$-oxidation process would be required to convert Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), an endogenous plant hormone of auxin class, into Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA)?