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Multiple choice botany mineral nutrition in plants deficiency diseases and symptoms deficiency symptoms macronutrients and micronutrients

Chlorosis is caused by the deficiency of.

  1. Chlorine and boron

  2. Nitrogen and calcium

  3. Magnesium and iron

  4. Potassium and phosphorus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Chlorosis is the loss of chlorophyll leading to yellowing of leaves. It is typically caused by deficiencies in essential mineral elements required for chlorophyll synthesis or maintenance, notably magnesium, iron, nitrogen, and potassium, with magnesium and iron being classic primary examples.

Multiple choice botany mineral nutrition in plants deficiency diseases and symptoms deficiency symptoms macronutrients and micronutrients

Apoptosis is programmed cell death characterised by the formation of apoptotic bodies whereas necrosis characterised by bursting of cells. Which of the following condition/s lead/s to necrosis ?
i) Gaps and nicks formed in DNA during replication cannot be repaired.
(ii) Developing neurons fail to make synapses with neighbouring cells.
(iii) Heart muscle cells damaged by oxygen depletion followed by cardiac infarction. 

  1. (i) and (ii)

  2. (ii) and (iii)

  3. (i) only

  4. (iii) only
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Necrosis is accidental cell death resulting from acute injury, trauma, or severe cellular damage, such as oxygen deprivation during a myocardial infarction. In contrast, options (i) and (ii) describe controlled or unaddressed signaling issues typically associated with programmed cell death or apoptosis.

Multiple choice botany mineral nutrition in plants deficiency diseases and symptoms deficiency symptoms macronutrients and micronutrients

Ribulose phosphate is a ____________.

  1. Aldose sugar

  2. Ketose sugar

  3. Disaccharide

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

Ribulose phosphate is a 5-carbon sugar (pentose) containing a ketone group at the carbon-2 position. Therefore, it is classified as a ketose sugar, playing a key role in the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin cycle.

Multiple choice botany mineral nutrition in plants deficiency diseases and symptoms deficiency symptoms macronutrients and micronutrients

Which one of the following statements can best explain the term critical concentration of an essential element? 

  1. Essential element concentration below which plant growth is retarded

  2. Essential element concentration below which plant growth becomes enhanced

  3. Essential element concentration below which plant remains in the vegetative phase

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Critical Concentration is the term which is used to define the concentration of essential elements below which the growth of plant is Retarded or Reduced. Also, if the concentration of essential elements rise above the critical concentrations.  it leads to Toxicity. So, the correct answer is "Essential elements concentration below which plant growth is retarded."
Multiple choice botany mineral nutrition in plants deficiency diseases and symptoms deficiency symptoms macronutrients and micronutrients

You observed that a plant's younger leaves, not the older ones, are yellowing. You recall that the cause of plant sickness can be diagnosed by which leaves are yellowing.
What is the most likely cause of your plant's blight?

  1. Too much shade

  2. Lack of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria

  3. A deficiency in a mobile mineral nutrient.

  4. A deficiency in a non-mobile mineral nutrient.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

If there is a deficiency of mobile nutrients, the symptoms are first seen in the leaves. Mobile and immobile nutrients refer to the transportability of these (K), (Mg), (Cl), (Zn) and (Mo).

So, the correct option is 'A deficiency in a non-mobile mineral nutrient'.