Tag: nutrition and its types

Questions Related to nutrition and its types

Cuscuta is

  1. Total root parasites

  2. Total stem parasites

  3. Partial stem parasites

  4. Epiphytes


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cuscuta (Doddar) plant is obligate or total stem parasite. It completely lacks chlorophyll and has no connection with the soil after the seeding stage. Therefore it is totally dependent on the host for organic food materials and supply of water and minerals salts.

______________ is a parasitic plant.

  1. Mushroom

  2. Mucor

  3. Cuscuta

  4. Yeast


Correct Option: C

Animals living and subsisting on other animals are studied under

  1. Pathology

  2. Parasitology

  3. Parazoology

  4. Protozoology


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

a) Pathology deals with the study of the nature and causes of diseases. 

b) Parasitology deals with the study of parasitic organism.
c) Parazoology deals with the study of animals known as parazoa.
d) Protozoology deals with the study of protozoa.
So, the correct answer is 'Parasitology'.

A fungus which grows on a host but can also subsist on organic matter is

  1. Obligate parasite

  2. Obligate saprophyte

  3. Facultative saprophyte

  4. Facultative parasite


Correct Option: C

To digest the food that lies in external medium, a saprophyte secretes

  1. Enzymes

  2. Hormones

  3. Sugar

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

The bacteria and fungi which feed on dead organic matter are called

  1. Parasites

  2. Saprophytes

  3. Lithophytes

  4. Dimorphic


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following is a partial root parasite?

  1. Balanophora

  2. Santalum

  3. Viscum

  4. Cuscuta


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Santalum album is a partial root parasite because it photosynthesizes its own food, but taps the roots of other species for water and inorganic nutrients. so it depends only partially on the host. It grows on the roots of Dalbergia, Eucalyptus, and Albizzia.
So, the correct option is 'Santalum'.

A partial parasite is?

  1. Cuscuta

  2. Cassytha

  3. Arceuthobium

  4. Viscum


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Viscum is a partial stem parasite among the following because it depends on its host for only water and minerals. It can prepare its own food through photosynthesis as it is chlorophyllous.

So the correct option is 'Viscum'.

Monotropa is a

  1. Saprophyte

  2. Symbiont

  3. Parasite

  4. Insectivorous plant


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Monotropa is a Saprophyte.

Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe) is a small, low-lying wild flower. It lacks chlorophyll accounting for its translucent white colour. Because it cannot synthesise its own energy, this plant is saprophyte.

Insectivorous plant with rosette of spiny margined bilobed hinged and winged leaves for catching the prey is?

  1. Nepenthes

  2. Drosera

  3. Dionaea

  4. Utricularia


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Dionaea, also called as venus fly trap has modified itself in order to meet the requirements of nitrogen. Its leaves are turned into bilobed flap-like structures or winged structures surrounded by spines on the margins so that they can trap the insects laying on them.

So the correct answer is 'Dionaea'.