Multiple Choice Questions

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Pith is absent in

  • protostele

  • eustele

  • amphiphloic stele

  • ectophloic stele


A.

protostele

Protostele is simplest and most primitive type of stele, in which, vascular cylinder consists of solid core of xylem surrounded by phloem, pericycle and endodermis. There is no pith.


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Quiescent centre is found in plants at

  • root tip

  • cambium

  • shoot tip

  • leaf tip


Age of a tree can be estimated by

  • its height and girth

  • biomass

  • number of annual rings

  • diameter of its heartwood


Medullary rays are tissues made up of

  • phloem parenchyma

  • xylem parenchyma

  • sieve tube

  • sclerenchyma


Lenticels are involved in

  • transpiration

  • gaseous exchange

  • food transport

  • photosynthesis


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Interfascicular cambium develops from the cells of

  • medullary rays

  • xylem parenchyma

  • endodermis

  • pericycle


Interfascicular cambium is a

  • primary meristematic tissue

  • primordial meristem

  • type of protoderm

  • secondary meristematic tissue


In the following pairs, where do you get lignin in both the element?

  • Tracheid and collenchyma

  • Sclerenchyma and sieve tube

  • Sclerenchyma and trachea

  • Parenchyma and endodermis


One of the characteristic of sieve tube is

  • it is a part of phloem

  • function is transport of inorganic solutes

  • it is dead cell

  • sieve plate is not present


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Portion of apical meristem that gives xylem tissue is called

  • protoxylem

  • procambium

  • metaxylem

  • tracheid


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