Multiple Choice Questions

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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


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Sclerenchyma and trachea

The cells of sclerenchyma are long or short, narrow, thick walled and lignified. These are dead cells and do not perform any metabolic function. Tracheids (tracheary element) are elongated cells with tapering ends. The wall of tracheids is moderatly thick and usually lignified.


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Lenticels are involved in

  • transpiration

  • gaseous exchange

  • food transport

  • photosynthesis


Pith is absent in

  • protostele

  • eustele

  • amphiphloic stele

  • ectophloic stele


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


Medullary rays are tissues made up of

  • phloem parenchyma

  • xylem parenchyma

  • sieve tube

  • sclerenchyma


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Interfascicular cambium develops from the cells of

  • medullary rays

  • xylem parenchyma

  • endodermis

  • pericycle


Portion of apical meristem that gives xylem tissue is called

  • protoxylem

  • procambium

  • metaxylem

  • tracheid


Quiescent centre is found in plants at

  • root tip

  • cambium

  • shoot tip

  • leaf tip


Interfascicular cambium is a

  • primary meristematic tissue

  • primordial meristem

  • type of protoderm

  • secondary meristematic tissue


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Age of a tree can be estimated by

  • its height and girth

  • biomass

  • number of annual rings

  • diameter of its heartwood


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