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Questions Related to reproduction in angiospermic plants

Match column I with column II and select the correct option from the codes given.

Column I Column II
A. Planaria (i) Binary fission
B. Fungi (ii) Asexual spores
C. Yeast (iii) Budding
D. Amoeba (iv) True regeneration
(v) Fragmentation
  1. $A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iii), D-(iv)$

  2. $A-(iv), B-(ii), (v), C-(iii), D-(i)$

  3. $A-(ii), B-(v), C-(i), D-(iv)$

  4. $A-(v), B-(ii), (i), C-(iii), D-(iv)$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
 Column I  Column II
 A. Planaria  (iv) True regeneration
B.  Fungi  (ii) Asexual spores (v) Fragmentation
C. Yeast  (iii) Budding
 D. Amoeba  (I) Binary fission
   

Correct match following are given in table.

So the correct option is "A-(iv), B-(ii),(v), C-(iii), D-(i)".

The phenomenon observed in some plants where in parts of the sexual apparatus is used for forming embryos without fertilisation is called.

  1. Parthenocarpy

  2. Apomixis

  3. Vegetative propagation

  4. Sexual reproduction


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Apomixis is the term given to any phenomenon that leads to formation of embryo wherein parts of the sexual apparatus are used, but without fertilisation. Fertilisation is also absent in vegetative propagation, but parts of sexual apparatus are not involved. An example of apomixis is Citrus.

Cup-shaped chloroplast is present in

  1. Spirogyra

  2. Chlamydomonas

  3. Ulothrix

  4. Chara


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A single cup-shaped chloroplast is characteristic of Chlamydomonas. It occupies the major portion of cell and is thick at the base while its sides are relatively thin and projected upward.