Multiple Choice Questions

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Phytohormones are

  • hormones regulating growth from seed to adulthood

  • growth regulators synthesised by plants and influencing physiological process

  • hormones regulating flowering

  • hormones regulating secondary growth.


B.

growth regulators synthesised by plants and influencing physiological process

Growth regulators are organic substances, other than nutrients, which in low concentration regulate growth, differentiation and development by promoting or inhibiting the same. Phytohormones are growth regulators produced naturally in plants and translocated to another region for regulating one or more physiological reactions when present in low concentration. Phytohormone can have a promoting or inhibiting effect on a process


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Assertion : Vernalization is acceleration of subsquent flowering by low temperature treatment.

Reason : Site of vernalization is apical meristem.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


Which one of the following methods is commonly used to maintain the genetic traits of a given plant

  • By propagating through seed germination

  • By propagating through vegetative multiplication

  • By generating hybrids through intergeneric pollination

  • By treating the seeds with gamma radiations


The cells of the quiescent centre are characterised by

  • having dense cytoplasm and prominent nuclei

  • having light cytoplasm and small nuclei

  • dividing regularly to add to the corpus

  • dividing regularly to add to tunica


Which of the following plant growth regulators (PGRs) promotes root initiation, flowering and induced parthenocarpy?

  • Gibberellin

  • Auxin

  • Cytokinin

  • Ethylene


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Abscisic acid is known as the stress hormone because it

  • breaks seed dormancy

  • induces flowering

  • promotes leaf fall

  • promotes closure of stomata


Assertion: Plant growth as a whole is indefinite.

Reason: Plants retain the capacity of continuous growth throughout their life.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


Refer the given figures on photoperiodism and select the correct option.

  • A B C
    no correlation between light period and flowering long light- exposure period short light- exposure period
  • A B C
    long light- exposure period no correlation between light period and flowering short light- exposure period
  • A B C
    short light exposure period long light exposure period no correlation between light period and flowering
  • A B C
    no correlation between light period and flowering short light exposure period long light exposure period

Assertion: Cytokinins increases shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

Reason : Cytokinins induce cell division.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion

  • If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both assertion and reason are false


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Dust, oolong and brick are varieties of

  • coffee

  • pepper

  • tea

  • lavang


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