(A) Many plants produce and store chemicals such as nicotine,caffeine,quinine,strychnine,and opium as a defense mechanism against grazers and browsers

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(A) Many plants produce and store chemicals such as nicotine,caffeine,quinine,strychnine,and opium as a defense mechanism against grazers and browsers.$Calotropis$ is a plant that produces highly poisonous cardiac glycosides.These chemicals act as a deterrent,preventing herbivores like cattle or goats from eating the plant,as they can cause severe toxicity or death.

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Cattle or goats are never seen browsing on $Calotropis$ growing in abandoned fields because of the presence of:

A
Poisonous glycosides
B
Alkaloids like quinine
C
Opium
D
Long chain fatty acids

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Column-$I$	Column-$II$
$(a)$ Camouflage	$(i)$ Dendrobates pumilio
$(b)$ Batesian mimicry	$(ii)$ Horse-shoe bat
$(c)$ Warning mimicry	$(iii)$ Monarch butterfly
$(d)$ Echolocation	$(iv)$ Praying Mantis

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Match the columns:

Column-$I$ Column-$II$

$(a)$ Camouflage $(i)$ Dendrobates pumilio

$(b)$ Batesian mimicry $(ii)$ Horse-shoe bat

$(c)$ Warning mimicry $(iii)$ Monarch butterfly

$(d)$ Echolocation $(iv)$ Praying Mantis