Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Complete the statement using the proper option from those given below. Explain the statement.
Leguminous plants can produce more proteins due to ______.
Options
Mycotoxins
Budding
Rhizobium
Solution
Leguminous plants can produce more proteins due to Rhizobium.
Explanation:
- Rhizobium helps to fix atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates and amino acids so that plants can take it up.
- Rhizobium is a bacterium that grows in the root nodules of plants such as soybean, groundnut, gram, etc.
- Rhizobium converts atmospheric nitrogen and it takes carbohydrates from plants in an exchange thus returning nitrates and amino acids to the plant.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
What is fermentation?
Match the pairs.
| ‘A’ group | ‘B’ group |
| 1. Rhizobium | a. Food poisoning |
| 2. Clostridium | b. Nitrogen fixation |
| 3. Penicillium | c. Bakery products |
| 4. Yeast | d. Production of antibiotics |
Give scientific reasons.
Why are naphthalene balls kept with clothes to be put away?
Write the name of microbes found in the following food material.
Yoghurt
Complete the statement using the proper option from those given below. Explain the statement.
Yeast reproduces asexually by the ______ method.
Write the name of microbes found in the following food material.
Bread
Write the name of microbes found in the following food material.
Root nodules of leguminous plants
Write the name of microbes found in the following food material.
idli
Write the name of microbes found in the following food material.
Dosa
Write the name of microbes found in the following food material.
Spoiled potato curry
