Biology

Plant Propagation Techniques

660 Questions

Plant propagation techniques cover both natural and artificial methods of cultivating plants, including micropropagation, tissue culture, and layering. These botanical concepts evaluate how desirable characteristics are multiplied and transferred into new plants. Questions on this topic routinely feature in the biology segment of various state and central competitive exams.

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Plant Propagation Techniques Questions

Multiple choice

Phytotron is a

  1. controlled condition chamber for tissues

  2. leaf culture process

  3. special culture of plants

  4. root culture process

  5. -
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Phytotron is a laboratory with facilities for growing plants under various combinations of strictly controlled environmental conditions.

Multiple choice

Ginger multiplies vegetatively by

  1. bud

  2. tuber

  3. stem

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

Ginger rhizome is a short and dorsoventrally flattened underground stem which creeps horizontally beneath the surface of the ground. It is fleshy due to storage material.

Multiple choice

Most of the plants can be grown from their vegetative parts. What is the main advantage of vegetative propagation?

  1. It is quite easy.

  2. It is reliable.

  3. It produces genetically uniform progeny.

  4. It produces healthy, disease-resistant plants.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The main advantage of vegetative propagation is that all plants produced by this method are genetically similar enough to the parent plant to have all its characteristics.