NEETBiologyBiological ClassificationMCQ+4 / −1
All of the following statements concerning the actinomycetous filamentous soil bacterium Frankia are correct except that Frankia
- Acan induce root nodules on many plant species
- Bcan fix nitrogen in the free-living state
- Ccannot fix specialized vesicles in which the nitrogenase is protected from oxygen by a chemical barrier involving triterpene hopanoids
- Dlike Rhizobium, it usually infects its host plant through root hair deformation and stimulates cell proliferation in the host's cortex.
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Correct answer: B
Frankia, is a nitrogen fixing mycelial bacterium which is not free living and associated symbiotically with the root nodules of several non legume plants.
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