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Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from

  • a unilocular polycarpellary flower 

  • a multipistillate syncarpous flower

  • a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

  • a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis


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a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

The fruit of Ananas comosus (pineapple or ananas) is sorosis, (a type of multiple fruits), developing from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type, the flowers associate by their succulent tepals, the axis bearing them grows and becomes fleshy or woody, thus, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit.

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Senescence as an active development cellular process in the growth and functioning of a flowering plant is indicated in 

  • vessel and tracheid differentiation

  • leaf abscission

  • annual plants

  • annual plants

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The length of different internodes in a culm of sugarcane is variable because of

  • shoot apical meristem

  • position of axillary buds

  • size of leaf lamina at the node below each internode

  • size of leaf lamina at the node below each internode

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In leaves of C4 -plants malic acid synthesis during CO2 -fixation occurs in

  • epidermal cells

  • mesophyll cells

  • bundle sheath

  • bundle sheath

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In germinating seeds fatty acids are degraded exclusively in the

  • proplastid

  • glyoxisomes

  • peroxisomes

  • peroxisomes

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The wavelength of light absorbed by Pr form of phytochrome is

  • 640 nm

  • 680 nm

  • 720 nm

  • 720 nm

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'Foolish seedling' disease of rice led to the discovery of

  • GA

  • ABA

  • 2, 4-D

  • 2, 4-D

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Which one of the following pairs, is not correctly matched?

  • Abscisic acid -  Stomatal closure

  • Gibberellic acid - Leaf fall

  • Cytokinin - Cell division

  • Cytokinin - Cell division

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Fruit and leaf drop at early stages can be prevented by the application of

  • Cytokinins

  • Ethylene

  • Auxins

  • Auxins

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The Golgi complex participates in

  • Fatty acid breakdown

  • Formation of secretory vesicles

  • Activation of amino acid

  • Respiration in bacteria


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