Vegetative reproduction - class-VIII

Covers vegetative propagation methods in plants including layering, budding, and characteristics of asexual reproduction without seeds

17 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Select the mismatched pair of organism and its mode of multiplication.

  1. Organism - Agave, Oxalis; Mode of multiplication - Bulbils
  2. Organism - Amoeba, Paramecium; Mode of multiplication - Binary fission
  3. Organism - Chlamydomonas, Ulothrix; Mode of multiplication - Sporangiospores
  4. Organism - Adiantum ; Mode of multiplication - Adventitious buds present at leaf tips
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Vegetative propagation is the term used for

  1. Sexual reproduction in animals
  2. Sexual reproduction in plants
  3. Asexual reproduction in animals
  4. Asexual reproduction in plants
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not used for vegetative propagation?

  1. Bud
  2. Bulbil
  3. Turion
  4. Antherozoid
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A process of multiplication in which a portion of fragment of plant body function as propagule and develops into new individual is called 

  1. vegetative propagation
  2. sexual propagation
  3. regeneration
  4. metamorphosis
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Vegetative reproduction by layering is found in:

  1. jasmine
  2. mango
  3. rose
  4. All of these
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following involves the formation of new plants from roots, stems, and leaves?

  1. Sexual reproduction
  2. Vegetative reproduction
  3. Layering
  4. None of the above
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which is not a method of vegetative propagation?

  1. Micropropagation
  2. Budding
  3. Sowing
  4. Layering
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Vegetative propagation does not involve the formation of new plants from old 

  1. Roots
  2. Stems
  3. Leaves
  4. Flowers
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Plants have lost their capacity to produce seeds, reproduce by

  1. Spores
  2. Vegetative propagation
  3. Fission
  4. Regeneration
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Clone is

  1. Descendants of a single parent
  2. Vegetatively produced descendants of a single parent
  3. Sexually produced descendants of a single couple
  4. All the above
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Clones are individuals obtained through

  1. Self pollination
  2. Cross pollination
  3. Vegetative propagation
  4. Hybridisation
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following statements is not correct regarding vegetative propagation?

  1. Vegetative propagation produces clonal population
  2. Micro propagation is the fastest technique of vegetative propagation
  3. Vegetative propagation can go on round the year
  4. Vegetative propagation helps to eliminate the vrius
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The most significant feature of vegetative propagation is that

  1. It enables rapid production of genetic variation
  2. It is a means of producing a large population of individuals genetically identical to the parent
  3. It ensures that the progeny are safe from attack of diseases and pests
  4. It is an ancient practice
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Offspring produced by vegetative propagation are

  1. haploid
  2. triploid
  3. genetically identical
  4. superior to offspring produced by sexual reproduction
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a vegetative part of plant?

  1. Carpel
  2. Thalamus
  3. Stipules
  4. Calyx
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Read the assertion (A) and reason (R) carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:
A
. There are some plants which have in their life-cycles neither the process of fertilization nor they have meiosis.
R. In these plants, the vegetative or somatic plant body helps in the propagation of the plant.

  1. Both the Assertion and the Reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion.
  2. Both the Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion.
  3. The Assertion is true but the Reason false.
  4. Both the Assertion and Reason are false.
  5. The assertion is false but reason is true.