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GROWTH & REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS MCQs

Plant Growth And Development, Reproduction In Animals, Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants

Total Questions : 111 | Page 8 of 12 pages
Question 71. Arithmetic growth is exhibited by
  1.    Apical meristems
  2.    Vascular cambium
  3.    Cork cambium
  4.    All of these
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Answer: Option D. -> All of these
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D
The meristems of the root and shoot apex or the cambial cells of the vascular and cork cambium show arithmetic growth.
Question 72. The flowers of Oxalis open during the day and close at night, such type of movement is
  1.    Photonasty
  2.    Nyctinasty
  3.    Phototactic
  4.    Seismonastic
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Answer: Option A. -> Photonasty
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A
Photonasty is the response ofplants to the availability of light.
Question 73. Chemical name of ethephon is __.
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The widely used compound or a source of ethylene is ethephon, 2-chloroethyl phosphonic acid.
Question 74. Development in plants depends on
  1.    Extrinsic factors only
  2.    Intrinsic factors only
  3.    Both extrinsic and intrinsic factors
  4.    Neither extrinsic nor intrinsic factors
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Answer: Option C. -> Both extrinsic and intrinsic factors
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C
Growth and differentiation together is termed as development and in plants it is dependent on both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.The former includes both intracellular (genetic) or intercellular factors (chemicals such as plant growth regulators) while the latter includes light, temperature, water, oxygen, nutrition, etc.
Question 75. A biochemical process in plants by which meristematic cells undergo changes and transform into permanent cells is
  1.    Differentiation
  2.    Dedifferentiation
  3.    Redifferentiation            
  4.    all the above
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Answer: Option A. -> Differentiation
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A
The cells derived from root apical and shoot-apical meristems and cambium differentiate and mature to perform specific functions. This act leading to maturation is termed asdifferentiation.During differentiation, cells undergo few to major structural changes both in their cell walls and protoplasm. For example, to form a tracheary element, the cells would lose their protoplasm. They also develops a very strong, elastic, lignocellulosic secondary cell walls, to carry water to long distances even under extreme tension.
Question 76. Gibberellic acid was originally discovered in _______.
  1.    Fungi
  2.    Algae
  3.    Bacteria
  4.    Virus
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Answer: Option A. -> Fungi
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A
GAs were first discovered in thefungusGibberella fujikuroi, from whichgibberellic acid(GA3) and other GAs are produced commercially.
Question 77. Identify the mismatch from the following.
  1.    Apical meristems - Produce primary permanent tissues
  2.    Intercalary meristems - Present in between mature tissues
  3.    Secondary meristems - Increase girth of monocot plants
  4.    Lateral meristems - Produce secondary permanent tissues
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Answer: Option C. -> Secondary meristems - Increase girth of monocot plants
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C
Secondary lateral meristems like vascular cambium and cork cambium are seen in dicotyledonous plants and gymnosperms and are absent in monocotyledons.
Question 78. Auxanometer is used to detect
  1.    Respiration
  2.    Transpiration
  3.    Plant movement
  4.    Growth
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Answer: Option D. -> Growth
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D
Anauxanometeris an apparatus for measuring increase or rate of growth in plants.
Question 79. Coconut milk factor is a/an ______.
  1.    Auxin
  2.    Gibberellin
  3.    Abscisic acid
  4.    Cytokinin
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Answer: Option D. -> Cytokinin
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D
Coconut milk factor is a cytokinin.Kinetin does not occur naturally in plants. Search for natural substances with cytokinin-like activities led to the isolation of zeatin from corn-kernels and coconut milk.
Question 80. Which of the following is caused by gibberellins?
  1.    Bolting in cabbage
  2.    Morphogenesis in tobacco callus
  3.    Rapid divisions in carrot cells
  4.    Elongation of oat coleoptile
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Bolting in cabbage
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A
Bolting (internode elongation) just prior to flowering in cabbage is a test for gibberellin. Gibberelin helps in stem elongation.

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