Multiple Choice Questions

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Phellogen and phellem respectively denote

  • Cork and cork cambium

  • Cork cambium and cork

  • Secondary cortex and cork

  • Cork and secondary cortex


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Cork and cork cambium

In the dicot stem, the cortical cells get differentiated to give rise to another meristematic tissue, which is called cork cambium or phellogen. On the other side, it forms phellem (cork) and in the inner region, it forms secondary cortical cells (phelloderm).


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Plants having little or no secondary growth are

  • Grasses

  • Deciduous angiosperms

  • Cycads

  • Conifers


Which of the following properties is shown by cytokinins?

  • Delay leaf senescence

  • Cause leaf abscission

  • Promote seed dormancy

  • Promote stornatal closing


Hormone inducing fruit ripening is

  • Cytokinin

  • Ethylene

  • Aabscissic acid

  • Gibberellic acid


Which one correctly describe reproduction and life cycle of fern?

  • Spore → Gamete → Prothallus → Sporophyte

  • Gamete → Spore → Prothallus → Plant

  • Prothallus → Sporophyte → Gamete → Fern

  • Sporangia → Spore → Prothallus → Sporophyte → Plant


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Which of the following is not an auxin?

  • IM

  • IBA

  • Zeatin

  • NM


Genetic dwarfism can be overcome by

  • Gibberellin

  • Ethylene

  • Auxin

  • ABA


Pneumatophores occur in

  • Halophytes

  • Free-floating hydrophytes

  • Submerged hydrophytes

  • Carnivorous plants


Sweet potato is a modified

  • Stem

  • Adventitious root

  • Rhizome

  • Tap root


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Which one of the following generally acts as an antagonist to gibberellins?

  • Zeatin

  • Ethylene

  • ABA

  • IAA


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