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AIIMS 2008
Exam
AIIMS
Year
2008
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Mineral Nutrition

AIIMS 2008 · Botany · Mineral Nutrition

Nicotiana sylvestris flowers only during long days and N.tabacum...

Nicotiana sylvestris flowers only during long days and N.tabacum flowers only during short days. If raised in the laboratory under different photoperiods, they can be induced to flower at the same time and can be cross-fertilized to produce self-fertile offspring. What is the best reason for considering NN.sylvestris and N.tabacum to be separate species?

Options

  1. AThey cannot interbreed in nature.
  2. BThey are reproductively distinct.
  3. CThey are physiologically distinct.
  4. DThey are morphologically distinct.

Correct answer

A. They cannot interbreed in nature.

Step-by-step solution

The process by which N2\mathrm{N}_2 is reduced to NH4+\mathrm{NH}_4^{+} is called nitrogen fixation. Nitrogenase enzyme catalyzes this reduction. It is only carried out by prokaryotic microorganisms. Principal N2\mathrm{N}_2-fixers include certain free living cyanobacteria in symbiotic associations with fungi in lichens or with ferns, mosses, and liverworts, and by bacteria or other microbes associated symbiotically with roots, especially those of legumes. About 15 percent of the nearly 20,000 species in the fabaceae (Leguminosae) family have been examined for N2\mathrm{N}_2 fixation, and approximately 90 percent of these have root nodules in which fixation occurs. So without active nitrogenase enzyme there will be no N2\mathrm{N}_2 fixation in legumes.
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