{"id":292,"date":"2023-06-11T21:59:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=292"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:48:07","slug":"q-in-the-nature-which-of-the-following-is-are-most-likely-to-be-found-surviving-on-a-surface-without-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-in-the-nature-which-of-the-following-is-are-most-likely-to-be-found-surviving-on-a-surface-without-soil","title":{"rendered":"Q. In the nature, which of the following is\/are most likely to be found surviving on a surface without soil?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fern<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Litchen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moss<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mushroom<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Select the correct answer using the code given below<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 and 4 Only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 Only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 and 3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 3 and 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) 2 and 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lichens&nbsp;have&nbsp;specific requirements for their habitats.<\/strong>\u202fThese requirements are:\u00a0<strong>water, air, nutrients, light, and substrates.<\/strong>\u00a0Every lichen\u00a0lives\u00a0on top of something else. The\u00a0<strong>surface of that \u201csomething else\u201d is called a substrate<\/strong>. Just about anything that holds still long enough for a lichen to attach to and grow is a suitable substrate. Trees, rocks, soil, houses, tombstones, cars, old farm equipment and more can be substrates. The most common natural substrates are trees and rocks.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lichens are a\u00a0<strong>complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>dominant partner is the fungus<\/strong>, which gives the lichen the majority of its characteristics, from its thallus shape to its fruiting bodies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>alga can be either a green alga or a blue-green alga, otherwise known as cyanobacteria<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mosses are non-flowering\u202fplants\u202fwhich produce spores and have\u202fstems\u202fand leaves, but don\u2019t have true roots.\u202f<\/strong>So,\u202f<strong>without roots, some moss suck\u202fnutrients up\u202fthrough the rhizoids\u202fand others draw in moisture and minerals from rain and the water&nbsp;<\/strong>around them\u202fthrough their highly absorbent surfaces. It often grows from trees, absorbing water and nutrients from the atmosphere, but with proper care it can also grow indoors.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fern&nbsp;is a member of a group of\u202f vascular plants\u202f(plants with\u202fxylem\u202fand\u202fphloem). They grow in soils.<\/strong>&nbsp;There are four particular types of habitats that ferns are found in: moist, shady\u202fforests; crevices in rock faces, especially when sheltered from the full sun; acid wetlands including\u202fbogs\u202fand\u202fswamps; and tropical\u202ftrees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A\u202f<strong>mushroom\u202for\u202ftoadstool\u202fis the&nbsp;fleshy,\u202fspore-bearing\u202ffruiting body\u202fof a\u202ffungus, typically produced above&nbsp;ground, on soil, or on its\u202ffood\u202fsource.&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mushroom, the conspicuous umbrella-shaped fruiting body (sporophore) of certain fungi.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mushrooms can form a symbiotic relationship with trees. Mushrooms can also be grown&nbsp;hydroponically as fungi.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Most of the time, they grow in healthy soil.<\/strong>&nbsp;However, they could be growing because the soil contained spores, the environment is allowing for their growth or the plants are being overwatered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_972d57-be .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_972d57-be .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_972d57-be\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select the correct answer using the code given below Answer: (c) 2 and 3 Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[36],"years":[52],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-environment","years-52"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":36,"label":"Environment"}],"years":[{"value":52,"label":"2021"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":36,"name":"Environment","slug":"environment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":193,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}