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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


Correct Option: A

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


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Vegetative propagation is a form of asexual reproduction of a plant. Only one plant is involved and the offspring is the result of one parent. The new plant is genetically identical to the parent. The offspring of the plants are clones of the original plant since no mixing of DNA occurs. The most common forms of vegetative propagation are grafting, cutting, layering, tuber, bulb or stolon formation, suckering and tissue culture.

So, the correct option is, 'it is a means of producing a large population of individuals genetically identical to the parent'.

Offspring produced by vegetative propagation are

  1. haploid

  2. triploid

  3. genetically identical

  4. superior to offspring produced by sexual reproduction


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Asexual reproduction or vegetative reproduction is when offspring are genetically identical to the parent. The offspring of the plants are clones of the original plant since no mixing of DNA occurs. The most common forms of vegetative propagation are graftingcutting, layering, tuber, bulb or stolon formation, suckering and tissue culture.

So, the correct option is, 'genetically identical'.

Which of the following are the characteristics

of vegetative reproduction?

X Involves two individuals

Y Daughter cells are genetically identical to the parent

Z The cell divisions are only mitotic


  1. X and Y only

  2. X and Z only

  3. Y and Z only

  4. X, Y and Z


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Vegetative reproduction is a type of reproduction in which a single parent is involved. In this there is no formation or fusion of gametes. 
In cloning method of  vegetative reproduction the offspring produced are genetically identical to the parent cell. They are exact copies of the parent and thus are called clones.
Mitosis is a process in which a cell divides into two daughter cells. In this there is distribution of the cytoplasm and genetic material equally into both cells. This is a method of vegetative reproduction in some lower organisms.
Thus the correct answer is option C.

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

  1. Carpel

  2. Thalamus

  3. Stipules

  4. Calyx


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

  • In plants, receptacle or thalamus is a thick part of the stem from which the flower organs grow. Stipule is a small leafy outgrowth at the base of the leaf. The sepals of a flower that form a whorl enclosing the petals and forms a protective layer around the flowers.
  • Carpels, on the other hand, is the female reproductive organ in a flower consisting an ovary, a stigma and probably a style. It produces egg cells and protects a developing baby plant.
So the carpels are not vegetative part of the plant. Hence the correct answer is option A

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.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Organisms reproduce for perpetuation of species because individuals have a limited life span. Organisms may reproduce sexually as well as asexually. The sexual reproduction involves formation of haploid gametes through the process of reduction division or meiosis. The haploid gametes fuse during fertilization to form diploid zygote. Thus, restoring the normal ploidy. The asexual reproduction does not involves gamete formation through meiosis or their fertilization. The vegetative propagation in plants is a type of asexual reproduction in which plant body is propagated directly from some vegetative part of adult plant.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Growing two or more crops in definite row patterns is known as 

  1. crop rotation

  2. inter-cropping

  3. mixed cropping

  4. organic cropping


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Intercropping involves growing two or more crops simultaneously on same field but they are not mixed with each other. They are grown in set pattern. They are grown in alternating rows. This pattern prevents pests and diseases to spread in all the plants of one crops in the field. 

Which of the following is the vegetative part of Jasmine plant?

  1. Stem

  2. Root

  3. Flower

  4. Leaf


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Jasmine grows from their branches cut and planted by the branch touching the soil developing roots and growing into a separate plant independent of the mother plant.

So the correct option is 'Stem'.

Asexual reproduction is related to

  1. Amphimixis

  2. Agamospermy

  3. Vegetative propagation

  4. Both B and C


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
There are two modes of reproduction in plants: Sexual reproduction and Asexual reproduction. 
In sexual reproduction, there is the fusion of gametes of two different parents (called as syngamy) whereas, in sexual reproduction, offspring is formed from a single parent without the formation of gametes. Amphimixis is a kind of sexual reproduction which involves the meiosis and syngamy. A special type of asexual reproduction is there which is known as Apomixis in which there is seed formation without the fusion of gametes. Apomixis is further divided into two categories: Vegetative propagation and agamospermy. In vegetative propagation, any part of the plant may develop into a new plant. In agamospermy, plant propagation occurs by means of apomictic seeds or asexual seeds. 
Therefore, both vegetative propagation and agamospermy are types of asexual reproduction.
So, the correct answer is D.

Flowering plants are called as

  1. Angiosperms

  2. Gymnosperms

  3. Ferns

  4. Mosses


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Usually, angiosperms have flowers and bear fruits hence they are called flowering plants.

So, the correct answer is 'Angiosperms'.