Cocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. "Cocoa" can often also refer to the drink commonly known as hot chocolate; cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids; or it may refer to the combination of both cocoa powder and cocoa butter together
 
Beans inside the Pod Cocoa beans before roasting
Climate
Cocoa can be grown up to 300 m above mean sea level. It requires a minimum of 90-100 mm rainfall per month with an annual rainfall of 1500-2000 mm. The plants need equitable climate with well distributed rainfall. If dry periods are prolonged, irrigation scheduling is necessary. The temperature range of 15°-39°C with optimum of 25°C is considered ideal.
Soil
Cocoa requires deep and well drained soils. Poorly drained soil affects growth of plants. Majority of area under Cocoa cultivation is on clay loam and sandy loam soil. It grows well in the pH range of 6.5 to 7.0.
Shade requirement
Cocoa was evolved as an under-storey crop in the Amazonian forests. Thus commercial cultivation of cocoa can be taken up in plantations where 50 per cent of light is ideally available. In India, coconut and arecanut gardens are suited best for cultivating Cocoa. Under arecanut 30-50% of sunlight penetrates through their canopy which can be intercepted by cocoa.
Released varieties from CPCRI
Details of recently released varieties of cocoa
NC-45/53
 
Selection from Nigerian clone
Early, heavy bearer, self and cross compatible
Green (immature) to Yellow (ripe) color pods
Pods (no/tree/year) -75
Pod weight (g)- 321, Beans/ pod- 37, Single dry bean weight (g) - 1.05
Average dry bean yield (kg/tree/year) - 1.33
Potential yield (kg/tree/year) - 2.5
Yield kg/ha - 911
Fat content (%) - 52.5
Shelling percentage - 12
Recommended area - areca and coconut gardens of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
The troposphere is B.The stratosphere is A.The mesosphere is C.The thermosphere is D.
Answer:
If the specific sequence of nitrogenous bases in DNA is changed, this will in turn change the sequence of nitrogenous bases in the mRNA (after transcription). During the process of translation, different amino acids will be incorporated in a different sequence due to the different mRNA codons in the mRNA strand. This would most likely result in a non-functional protein or a different protein with other chemical properties than the one specified in the original DNA sequence.
Answer: the control group was grown at a pH of 2
Explanation:
Seeds comprise a radicle, which descends and becomes the root system; the endosperm, containing stored food; an epicotyl, which develops into the stem and the seed coat that protects the seed. which are small food storage organs and plant embryos encased in a seed coat. These embryos require specific conditions in order to break their dormancy; seed dormancy is a temporary state in which plant development and growth are halted, until specific conditions required for germination to occur. Conditions required for seed germination:
- Light- some seeds require light to break their dormancy
- Oxygen- for respiration
- Water- protein hydration and enzyme activation; should be near to neutral pH
- Temperature- a specific range 20-30 °C which activates specific enzymes needed for growth
During the germination process, plants emerge from the seed and start growing. However, the delicate tissue structures can be damaged by low pH; this can occur due to acid rain, where the pH of the rainwater is lowered by the presence of pollutants.
Due to the presence of atmospheric carbon dioxide, normal rain’s pH is typically around 5.6, and in heavily polluted areas with other gases as pollutants, acid rain’s pH can range from 3-4. A highly acidic pH of 2 can denature enzymes required for germination and seed growth; apart from causing damage to the entire seed, there’s no expected growth at this pH range making it a suitable control.
Experimental controls give valuable information about the experiment’s conditions and validity; they are usually carried out in the same conditions as the other experiments, but the independent variable (pH) is usually changed.
Answer:
B. cardiac cells, which are a type of muscle cell
