DAILY PRACTICE TEST-16(BOTANY)

TOPIC: PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

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1. Characteristics of plant growth includes which of the following

(a) It is localised and generally determinate (b) It is localised and generally indeterminate
(c) It is non-measurable (d) It is diffused determinate and non measurable
2. Under certain conditions regaining the lost capacity of division by living cells is called
(a) Differentiation (b) Redifferentiation (c) Dedifferentiation (d) Efficiency
3. Environmental hetrophylly is seen in
(a) Ranunculus (Butter cup) (b) Cotton
(c) Coriander (d) Larkspur
4. The historical experiment on canary grass coleoptiles as a first step in the discovery of auxin was conducted by
(a) Darwin (b) Went (c) Kogl (d) Kurosawa
5. The hormone responsible for phototropism is
(a) Auxin (b) C2H4 (c) ABA (d) GA
6. Lateral branching is inhibited by _________ from the tip of growing shoot, but this effect is _______ by ______
(a) Auxin, GA (b) ABA, GA (c) Auxin, Cytolkinin (d) Auxin, Ethylene
7. Which one of the following is not an effect of giberallin in plants?
(a) Bolting (b) Internodal elongation
(c) Increase the grapes stalk (d) Enhances dormancy
8. Bolting is
(a) Nodal elongation in certain plants
(b) A type of grafting
(c) Internodal elongation just prior to flowering in rosette plants
(d) Inhibition of lateral growth of branches
9. Match the plant hormones listed in column. A with their major role listed in column B and selected the correct
option from the codes given below
Column –A Column-B
(a) Auxin (i) Fruit ripening
(b) Cytokinins (ii) Phototropism
(c) Absisic acid (iii) Increase cell division
(d) Ethylene (iv) Stomatal opening and closing
(a) a-(iv), b(v), c(iii), d(i) (b) a-(ii), b(iv), c(iii), d(i)
(c) a-(i), b(v), c(iii), d(iv) (d) a-(ii), b(iii), c(iv), d(i)
10. Mark the wrong match:
(a) Auxin  Indole-3-acetic acid (b) Cytokine  Adenine derivatives
(c) ABA  Terpenes (d) Ethylene  C2H4
11. The giberallin which is the first to be discovered and the most intensively studied is
(a) GA (b) GA 2 (c) GA3 (d) GA 4
12. Mark the incorrect options
(a) Eukurosawa reported appearances of Bakane disease in rice seedlings.
(b) F skoog isolated zeatin from maize
(c) Cousin confirmed the release of a volatile substance from ripened oranges
(d) FW ukent isolated auxin from tips of coleptiles of oat seeding

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13. Mark the incorrect option w.r.t GA

(a) All GAs are acidic
(b) They cause fruits like apple to elongate and improve its shape
(c) Slows down the malting process
(d) Hastens the maturity period in gymnosperms
14. Which hormone can be used to increase the yield of sugarcane as much as 20 tonnes per acre.
(a) Auxin (b) GA (c) ABA (d) Ethylene
15. Auxin and cytokinin are antagonist in which of the following functions?
(a) Cell division (b) Phototropism (c) Apical dominance (d) Geotropism
16. The most widely used substance as a source of C2H4 is
(a) Kinetin (b) 2-4-D (c) IBA (d) Ethaphon
17. During ripening of the fruits, rate of respiration is increased under the influence of hormones . It is called
climacteric respiration. The hormone is
(a) ABA (b) Auxin (c) C2H4 (d) GA
18. Which one is also known as stress hormone
(a) ABA (b) C2H4 (c) GA (d) I AA
19. Pineapple can be made to flower in off reason by
(a) Zeatin (b) Ethylene (c) Temperature (d) Short days
20. Which hormone is used to initiate flowering and synchronising fruit set in pineapple
(a) C2H2 (b) C2H4 (c) GA (d) IAA
21. Cytokinins help to produce all except
(a) New leaves (b) Chloroplast in leaves
(c) Lateral shoot growth and adventitious shoot formation
(d) Rooting on stem cutting
22. ABA is known as stress hormone because:
(a) It cause senescence (b) It regulates stomata opening and closing
(c) Plays important role in seed development, maturation and dormancy
(d) It helps seeds to withstand desiccation and other factors include dormancy
23. Mark the incorrect statement w.r.t vernalistion
(a) Subjecting the growing biennial plant to a cold treatment stimulates flowering
(b) It stimulates precocious reproduction development, late in the growing season.
(c) Sugarbeet, cabbage , carrots are some of the common biennials which undergo winter treatment.
(d) It promotes flowering by a period of low temperature
24. Which is the function of ethylene
(a) It initiates germination in peanut seeds
(b) It promotes rapid internodal /petiole elongation in deep water rice plants.
(c) It increases the growth of root and root hair
(d) It promotes seed and bud dormancy
25. Which hormone promotes horizontal growth of seedlings, swelling of the axis and apical hook formation in
dicot seedling
(a) ABA (b) IAA (c) Ethylene (d) Auxin

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26. Mark the correct option w.r.t Giberallin

(a) It causes fruits like apple to elongate and maintain its shape
(b) Speeds up the malting process
(c) All GAs are acidic
(d) It decrease the length of grapes stallks to increase the bunch size
27. Which one of the following is incorrect?
(a) Movement through the apoplast does not involve crossing the membrane
(b) Water is absorbed along with mineral solutes by the root hairs, purely by diffusion.
(c) Apoplastic movement is dependent on the conceutration gradient
(d) Symplast is the system of adjacent cell wall
28. Which of the following fungus is associated with discovery of Gibberellins
(a) Fusarium moniliformae (b) Fusatium solani
(c) Fusarium auxysporum (d) Fusarium longipes
29. Which of the following is natural auxin?
(a) I AA (b) NAA (c) 2, 4, D (d) IBA
30. Induction of formation of interfascicular cambium is by
(a) Kinetin (b) Gibberellin (c) Auxin (d) Ethylene
31. In drought which hormone plays a protective role?
(a) Abscisc acid (b) Gibberellin (c) Auxin (d) Cytokinin
32. When the dark period of short day plant is interrupted by a brief exposure of light then the plants:
(a) Flowers immediately (b) Turns into a long day plant
(c) Will not flower at all (d) Gives more flower
33. In short day plants (SDP) flowering is induced by
(a) Long night (b) Photoperiod than 12 hrs
(c) Photoperiod shorter than initial value and uninterrupted long night
(d) Short photoperiod and interrupted long right
34. The chemical nature of kinetin is
(a) Butyric acid (b) Indole butyric acid
(c) 6-furfuryl aminopurine (d) Indole acetic acid
35. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Tomato  day neutral plant (b) Radish  short day plant
(c) Dahlia  long day plant (d) Gulmohar  day neutral plant
36. To remove seed dormancy by mechanical removal of seed coat is called
(a) Stratification (b) Scarification (c) Visualization (d) Photoperiodism
37. Exponential growth in plants can be expressed as
(a) Lt  L0  rt (b) Le  Lrrt (c) w1  w0ert (d) w1  w0ert
38. Which one of the following generally acts as an antagonist to Giberallins
(a) Zeatin (b) Ethylene (c) ABA (d) IAA
39. Short day plant is
(a) Xanthium (b) Passim (c) Curcumas (d) Arena
40. The maximum absorption of visible light in the red region of the spectrum by phytochromes takes place at:
(a) 600 nm (b) 650 nm (c) 660 nm (d) 730 nm
41. Garner and Allard are related with
(a) Photolysis (b) Photophosphorylation
(c) Phototropism (d) Photoperiodism
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42. What is the effect on the flowering of a plant if a flash of red light is followed flash of far-red light
(a) Flowering is increased (b) Flowering is decreased
(c) Flowering is stopped (d) Effect of red flash is
43. Which of the following combinations induces shoot differentiation in tobacco callus?
(a) High cytokine in and low auxin (b) High auxin and low cytokinin
(c) Equal proportion of auxin and cytokinin (d) Only auxin and no cytokinin
44. Mark the incorrect option w.r.t auxins
(a) It inhibits lateral growth (b) It promotes stem elongation
(c) It promotes cell division (d) It contributes in senescence
45. Sprouting of potato during storage is due to
(a) Abscisin (b) Auxin (c) Cytokinin (d) Gibberellins
46. Which is the receptor of photoperiodic stimulus?
(a) Steam (b) Shoot apex (c) Leaves (d) Roots
47. Who crystallised and isolated giberalic acid first.
(a) Sawada (b) Kurosawa (c) Yabuta and Schumiki (d) Tanson
48. What is the site of vermalisation?
(a) Stem (b) Leaves (c) Roots (d) Apical meristem
49. Femaleness in plants is caused by:
(a) Auxins (b) Cytokinins (c) Ethylene (d) All of these
50. Which growth hormone causes mobilization of food materials?
(a) GA (b) Cytokinins (c) Auxins (d) Ethylene
51. Flowering in SDP in promoted by:
(a) Auxin (b) Gibberellins (c) Ethylene (d) Cytokinins
52. Stomata closure in response to leaf strum is mediated by
(a) IAA (b) 1BA (c) ABA (d) 2- 4- D

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