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Botany and Plant Science

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Botany and plant science delve into the biological study of plant life, covering structural anatomy, physiological processes, and reproductive mechanisms. Key topics include inflorescence patterns, root modifications, and seed development, which are vital for biology sections in medical entrance exams. This collection of practice questions helps solidify understanding of complex plant functions.

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Botany and Plant Science Questions

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Which of the following is not an example of adaption in Xerophyte:

  1. CAM pathway

  2. Thick cuticle

  3. Absence of stomata

  4. Leaves reduces to spine
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A xerophyte is the species of plants, that has the special characters to adapt in the environment with little water. Xerophytes plant have a thick waxy cuticle on the stem and leaves. This waxy cuticle reduces the water evaporation. In xerophytic plants, sunken stomata are present. which open during the night to prevent the water loss. To adapt in this environment, xerophytic plants leaves reduces into spines, which reduces the surface area of the leaf and reduces the amount of transpiration. The xerophytic plant makes their food through the CAM pathway.

So, the option is ' Absence of stomata '

Multiple choice biology adapting to a habit extreme adaptations adaptive features adaptations of organisms

During adverse season, 'therophytes' survive by

  1. Bulbs

  2. Tubers

  3. Rhizomes

  4. Seeds
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
A. Bulbs are the modification of underground stems. They consist of a reduced discoid stem and several fleshy scales.
B. Tubers are the swollen underground stem developed at the growing tip of a branch.
C. Rhizomes are perennial, fleshy, dorsiventral and horizontal underground stem growing beneath the surface of the soil.
D. Seeds are small embryonic plants enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. Therophytes are the plants that can survive unfavorable conditions as seeds and germinate when conditions are favorable.
So, the correct answer is 'Seeds'.
Multiple choice botany asexual and sexual reproduction in plants structure of male and female reproductive structures structure of ovule gynoecium

Micropyle occurs in 

  1. Seeds

  2. Ovule

  3. Ovary

  4. Stigma
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A small opening formed by inner/both/outer integument and enclosed by ovule integument/s is called as micropyle. It serves as entry point of pollen tube into ovule. Option B is correct. Seed is a small embryonic plant that develops from fertilised ovule. A typical seed has seed coat, endosperm and embryo. Option A is incorrect. The basal swollen part of pistil represents ovary. It has ovarian cavity with one/more locules and a parenchymatous cushion, i.e., placenta that bear ovule. Option C is incorrect. The terminal receptive part of pistil is termed as stigma that serves as landing platform for pollens during pollination. Option D is incorrect. 

Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice botany asexual and sexual reproduction in plants structure of male and female reproductive structures structure of ovule gynoecium

Observe the example given in the box and find out how many of them possess single ovule in each ovary?


Papaya, water melon, wheat, paddy, orchids, and mango 

  1. Three

  2. Four

  3. Five

  4. Six
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

paddy, mango and wheat possess single ovule in each ovary whereas papaya, watermelon and orchids contain many

Multiple choice botany asexual and sexual reproduction in plants structure of male and female reproductive structures structure of ovule gynoecium

A non-nutritive structure is

  1. Tapetum

  2. Endosperm

  3. Integument

  4. Palisade parenchyma
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
• Tapetum is the innermost layer and completely surrounds the sporogenous tissue. The cells of tapetum have dense cytoplasm and generally more than one nuclei. It nourishes the developing pollen grains.
• Endosperm is the nutritive tissue that nourishes the developing embryo. It is formed from the fusion of male gamete with the diploid secondary nucleus resulting in the formation of a triploid primary endosperm mother cell which then develops into endosperm.
• Integuments are the protective coverings of the megasporangium. 
• Palisade parenchyma is present in the leaves and is the primary site of photosynthesis in plants. Thus, palisade parenchyma has nutritive function.
Hence, among all the options given in the question, integuments is the non-nutritive structure. So, the correct answer is C.
Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Y- shaped arrangement of xylem vessles is found in

  1. monocot stem

  2. dicotstem

  3. monocot root

  4. dicot root
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Xylem comprises of vessels, tracheids, xylem parenchyma, and restricted xylem strands.  the vessel is Y-molded with bigger two round set metaxylem vessels shaping the arms and littler yearly or winding protoxylem vessels, framing the base.

So, the correct option is 'monocot stem'.

Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

In a monocot stem, the vascular bundles are?

  1. Arranged in a ring

  2. Arranged alternatively

  3. Present inside endodermis

  4. Scattered in ground tissue
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
In a monocot stem, a large number of vascular bundles lie scattered throughout the ground tissue and peripheral bundles are generally smaller than the centrally located ones. The vascular bundles are conjoint, collateral but closed.

So, the correct answer is 'Scattered in ground tissue'.
Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

In monocot stem


(a) Vascular bundles are scattered.
(b) Hypodermis is sclerenchymatous.
(c) Endodermis is well developed.
(d) Stele is atactostele.

  1. Only (a) and (b), (d) are correct

  2. Only (c) and (d) are correct

  3. Only (b) is incorrect

  4. All (a),(b),(c) and (d) are correct
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Vascular tissue system composed of vascular bundles and they are scattered. So, the steles are called atactostele. Hypodermis is multilayered and sclerenchymatous. Endodermis is not developed.

So, the correct option is 'a, b, d are correct'.

Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Select the mismatched pair.

  1. Collateral and open vascular bundles- Sunflower stem

  2. Bicollateral vascular bundles - Maize stem

  3. Concentric vascular bundles - Ferns

  4. Radial vascular bundle - Maize root
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
A. Collateral open vascular bundles- Xylem is present in the inner side and phloem to the outside and cambium ring is present in between them.
Eg- in dicot stems as in sunflower stem.
B. Bicollateral vascular bundles- one patch of xylem and two patches of cambium are present.
Eg- plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, Solanaceae etc
Mazie belongs to the family Gramineae.
C. Concentric vascular bundles- in which either the xylem or phloem surrounds each other.
Eg- ferns.
D. Radial vascular bundle- Xylem and phloem occupy different radii and alternate each other.
Eg- Dicot and monocot roots (as in maize root).
So, the correct answer is 'Bicollateral vascular bundles - Maize stem'.
Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Read the following features and choose the correct option about anatomy of dicot and monocot stem.
(i) Collenchymatous hypodermis.
(ii) Vascular bundles are scattered.
(iii) Eustele.
(iv) Ground tissue is not differentiated.
(v) Pericycle absent

  1. Dicot stem i,ii,iii ; Monocot stem iv,v

  2. Dicot stem i,ii,v ; Monocot stem iii,iv

  3. Dicot stem iii, v; Monocot stem i,ii,iv

  4. Dicot stem i,iii ; Monocot stem ii, iv, v
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Dicot stem has collenchymatous hypodermis, monocots have sclerenchymatous hypodermis.  In each vascular bundle, the xylem and phloem are separated by a substance called vascular cambium. Eustele is similar to the dictyostele except that the bundles lack an endodermis and are collateral. 
Monocots have vascular bundles throughout their ground tissue, their stems do not have a discernible pith; the parenchyma cells in monocot stems are referred to simply as ground tissue. In monocot roots, the pericycle present only produces the lateral roots. 
So the correct option is 'Dicot stem i,ii,iii ; Monocot stem iv,v'.
Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Conjoint, collateral, closed and endarch vascular bundles scattered in the ground tissue are found in

  1. Dicot root

  2. Monocot root

  3. Dicot stem

  4. Monocot stem
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Conjoint, collateral, closed and endarch vascular bundles scattered in the ground tissue are found in monocot stem. In a monocotyledenous stem the vascular bundles are not arranged in a circle but are usually scattered throughout the ground tissue. There is no clearly defined pith as there is in many dicotyledonous species. The vascular bundles of monocotylenous plants do not contain a layer of meristematic tissue.  

Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Cortex and pith remain indistinguishable in

  1. Monocot stem

  2. Monocot root

  3. Periderm

  4. Dicot stem
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cortex and pith remain indistinguishable in a monocot stem. The epidermis is a layer of cells that cover the plant body, including the stems, leaves, flowers and fruits, that protects the plant from the outside world. In old stems the epidermal layer, cortex and primary phloem become separated from the inner tissues by thicker formations of cork. But in the monocots the cortex and pith are indistinguishable.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Identify the incorrect statement with respect to monocot stem.
(a) Hypodermis is made up of sclerenchyma
(b) Ground tissue is differentiated
(c) Vascular bundles which are situated towards the centre are larger in size and less in number
(d) Each vascular bundle is conjoint, collateral and closed and xylem is endarch.

  1. a, b and c

  2. b, c and d

  3. only b

  4. b and c
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Multiple choice botany internal structure of root, stem and leaf internal structure of monocot stem internal structure of monocots internal structure of stem(dicot and monocot)

Monocot stem are characterized by

  1. Conjoint collateral and open vascular bundle

  2. Conjoint collateral and closed vascular bundle

  3. Radial

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Anatomy of the monocot stem shows that while the vascular bundles are oval in shape, numerous and scattered, it is by nature, conjoint, collateral, closed and endarch without any lysigenous activity.

Therefore, the correct answer is option B.