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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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mesophyll cells

C4- plants show Kranz anatomy. In the leaves of C4- Plants the vascular bundles are surrounded by bundle sheath of parenchymatous cells, which in turn are surrounded by mesophyll cells. In C4 -plants and Hatch and Stack pathway involve two carboxylation reaction one taking place in the chloroplast of mesophyll cells and other in the chloroplast of bundle sheath cells. 

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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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The wavelength of light absorbed by Pr form of phytochrome is

  • 640 nm

  • 680 nm

  • 720 nm

  • 720 nm

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

  • Cytokinins

  • Ethylene

  • Auxins

  • Auxins

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In germinating seeds fatty acids are degraded exclusively in the

  • proplastid

  • glyoxisomes

  • peroxisomes

  • peroxisomes

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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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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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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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The Golgi complex participates in

  • Fatty acid breakdown

  • Formation of secretory vesicles

  • Activation of amino acid

  • Respiration in bacteria


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