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101.

Assertion: Photosynthetically C4 plants are less efficient than C3 plants.

Reason: The operation of C4 pathway requires the involvement of only bundle-sheath cells.

  • 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 falsen

  • If both assertion and reason are false.


D.

If both assertion and reason are false.

C4 plants are those plants that produce Ccompound like malic acid or aspartic acid as the first stable compound of CO, fixation cycle, eg. maize. sugar cane etc. These plants can grow in dense tropical, forests where there is poor supply of CO2 because there is internal supply of CO2 Also photorespiration is negligible or absent in these plants. So, they are photosynthetically more efficient than C3 plants. These plants show a special type of leaf anatomy called Kranz anatomy. C4 plants uses mesophyll cells and bundle sheath cells in the outer part of their leaves. The Cpathway shows 2 carboxylation reactions one in mesophyll chloroplast and the other in bundle sheath. Chloroplasts- CO2 acceptor is PEP and not RuBP and PEP carboxylase is the key enzyme.


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102.

The sugarcane plant has

  • dumb-bell shaped guard cells

  • pentamerous flowers

  • reticulate venation

  • capsular fruits.


103.

Assertion : C4 photosynthetic pathway is more efficient than the C3 pathway.

Reason : Photorespiration is suppressed in Cplants.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion

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

  • If Assertion is true but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false


104.

Assertion : The atmospheric concentration of CO2 at which photosynthesis just compensates for respiration is referred to as CO2 compensation point. 

Reason : The CO2 compensation point is reached when the amount of CO2 uptake is less than that generated through respiration because the level of CO, in the atmosphere is more than that required for achieving CO2 compensation point.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion

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

  • If Assertion is true but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false


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105.

Photorespiration in C3 plants starts from:

  • phosphoglycerate

  • phosphoglycolate

  • glycerate

  • glycine


106.

Hill reaction occurs in:

  • high altitude plants

  • total darkness

  • absence of water

  • presence of ferricyanide


107.

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

  • Rhizobium - Parasite in the roots of leguminous plants

  • Mycorrhizae - Mineral uptake from soil

  • Yeast - Production of biogas

  • Myxomycetes - The disease ring worm


108.

Assertion : Rhoeo leaves contain anthocyanin pigments in epidermal cells.

Reason : Anthocyanins photosynthetic pigments.

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

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

  • If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false

  • If both Assertion and Reason are false statements


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109.

Stomata open at night and closes during day in

  • xerophytes

  • gametophytes

  • mesophytes

  • mesophytes


110.

During photosynthesis

  • both CO2 and water get oxidized

  • both CO2 and water get reduced

  • water is reduced and CO2 is oxidized

  • CO2 gets reduced and water gets oxidized


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