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Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Ephemeral xerophytes grow during 

  1. Winter

  2. Spring

  3. Rainy season

  4. All the seasons
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Ephemeral xerophytes are drought escapers that complete their entire life cycle very quickly during the short rainy season, remaining as seeds during the dry periods.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Lamina is reduced in

  1. Xerophytes

  2. Mesophytes

  3. Hydrophytes

  4. Climbers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Lamina is reduced in xerophytic plants. In xerophytes, the petiole is modified into expanded green structure which carries out photosynthesis in case of reduced lamina.  For example, in Australian acacia.

Thus, the correct answer is 'Xerophytes.'

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Which one is a exclusive xerophytic adaptation?

  1. Absence of stomata

  2. Long tap root system

  3. Stipular leaves

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

While many plants have spines or stipular leaves, a long tap root system is a classic, primary adaptation in many xerophytes to reach deep groundwater sources in arid environments.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

A physiological xerophyte is

  1. Salicornia

  2. Euphorbia

  3. Salvia

  4. Agave
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Physiological xerophytes are plants that grow in saline soils (halophytes) where water is present but physiologically unavailable due to high osmotic pressure, making them appear xerophytic. Salicornia is a classic example.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Which of the following is not a character of xerophytes?

  1. Thick cuticle

  2. Well developed mechanical tissue

  3. Well developed conducting tissues

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

Xerophytes are the plants that survive in an environment having little supply of water or moisture. To survive with limited water supply they have anatomical modifications such as-

1) The epidermis is covered with thick cuticle to prevent water loss by transpiration.
2) Waxy coating is present on leaves and stem to prevent transpiration losses and stomata are generally confined on the lower surface of the epidermis of leaves.
3) Mechanical and vascular tissues are well developed.
4) The xerophytes have abundant palisade parenchyma and limited spongy parenchyma.
So, the correct answer is 'Spongy parenchyma'.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Deep roots occur in

  1. Perennial nonsucculent xerophytes

  2. Perennial succulent xerophytes

  3. Annual xerophytes

  4. Ephemeral xerophytes
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In non-succulent Perennial have extensive root systems, roots penetrate deep into the soil and establish contact with sub-soil water. 

  • Some trees have deep, extensive root systems that anchor them to hillsides. Shrubs service berry is a deep-rooted deciduous shrub or small tree that grows best in well-drained, slightly acidic, moist soil. Ground covers, Vetiver Grass.
So, the correct option is 'Perennial non succulent xerophytes'

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Xerophytes possess

  1. Sunken stomata

  2. Deep roots

  3. Thick cuticle

  4. All the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Xerophytes employ multiple strategies to conserve water, including sunken stomata to reduce transpiration, deep root systems to access water, and a thick waxy cuticle to prevent water loss.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

Ephemerals are a type of xerophytes ______________.

  1. Drought escaping

  2. Drought resisting

  3. Drought enduring

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Ephemerals are classified as drought escaping plants because they avoid the drought period entirely by existing as dormant seeds.

Multiple choice botany ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services extreme adaptations adapting to a habit adaptive features aquatic plant adaptations pollination through water

What is wrong about xerophytes?

  1. Sunken stomata

  2. Small spiny leaves

  3. Thick cuticle

  4. Larger number of stomata
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Xerophytes minimize water loss by reducing the number of stomata or having them sunken. A larger number of stomata would increase transpiration, which is detrimental to a plant in a dry habitat.