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Multiple choice botany identifying the plants habit of plants plant classifications type of plants

Find the wrong statement in the following.

  1. Animal fibres are proteins

  2. Plant fibres are fats

  3. Rearing of silk worms is called Sericulture

  4. Separation of silk fibre from cocoon is called Reeling
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

All statements are truly given below

1) Animal fibers consist largely of particular proteins.
2) Rearing of silkworms is called Sericulture.

3) Separation of silk fiber from the cocoon is called Reeling.
So, the correct option is 'Plant fibers are fats'.


Multiple choice botany stem - external morphology habit of plants plant classifications type of plants

A plant has weak stem which can coil around an upright support. It is a

  1. Liane

  2. Twiner

  3. Climber

  4. Creeper
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
A plant with a weak stem which can coil around an upright support is a twiner because as the name implies the weak stem twines or coils around the support for its growth.
So the correct option is Twiner. 
Multiple choice botany stem - external morphology habit of plants plant classifications type of plants

Which of the following can be related to the creepers?

  1. The stem is fragile

  2. They creep on the ground

  3. They have floating roots

  4. Both A and B
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D Correct answer
Explanation

  • Creeper is the type of plant that grows completely on the ground.
  • There stem is completely fragile and that is unable to stand erect and does not support the weight of the plant.
So the correct option is 'Both A and B'.

Multiple choice botany stem - external morphology habit of plants plant classifications type of plants

Climbers are advanced than creepers. 

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Climbers are meant to be more advance than creepers as unlike them creepers evolve themselves and modify their parts to form special structure known as tendrils and climb up but creepers grow on ground and are not able to support their weight .

So the statement is True.

Multiple choice botany stem - external morphology habit of plants plant classifications type of plants

Read the following matches.

(i) Lily Compound tunicated bulb
(ii) Potato Tuber
(iii) Allium cepa Simple tunicated bulb
(iv) Allium sativum Scaly bulb

Which of these are correct?

  1. (i), (ii) and (iii)

  2. (ii), (iii) and (iv)

  3. (ii) and (iii)

  4. (iii) and (iv)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
 Lily  Scaly bulb (in which tunic cover is absent)
 Potato  Tuber
 Allium cepa (Onion)  Simple tunicated bulb
Allium sativum (Garlic)   Compound tunicated bulb

The bulb is a modification of underground stem. The bulb is divided into two categories: 1) Tunicated 2) Scaly/Imbricate. 

Tunicated is further divided into 1) Simple tunicated Bulb and 2) Compound Tunicated Bulb. 

So the correct option is "ii, iii ".