Practice Test


Q1) The most significant value of vegetative propagation is that: Show Answer


Q2) When mature anthers of Datura inxonia are cultured in a culture medium supplemented with phytohormone named kinetin, coconut milk and plum juice, several embryos can be obtained floating inside the microsporangia. These embryos can develop into plants that are: Show Answer


Q3) Use of stem cutting is common method of vegetative propagation. Juvenile wood grows roots more readily than mature wood. The superior rooting of juvenile cutting may be due to: Show Answer


Q4) Grafting is used to propagate plants because: Show Answer


Q5) Vegetative type of reproduction means: Show Answer


Q6) Micropropagation is based on: Show Answer


Q7) Grafting is attempted in those plants which show: Show Answer


Q8) Improved method of grafting is: Show Answer


Q9) The separation of single cell from the rest of the callus is: Show Answer


Q10) Konar and Nataraja demonstrated callus i.e., embryoids in buttercup also develops from: Show Answer


Q11) Gall knot or Gall nuts on plants is produced by: Show Answer


Q12) Witches broom on woody plants in caused by: Show Answer


Q13) Mistletoes, Viscum album plants having yellowish flowers and white berries is: Show Answer


Q14) Any cell, tissue, or an organ removed from a plant for the purpose of culturing is called: Show Answer


Q15) An alkaloid which can be utilized to transform haploid plant into homozygous diploid plant is: Show Answer


Q16) The two enzymes utilized to isolate protoplasts from tissues or organs are: Show Answer


Q17) Fusion product of protoplast from the differect plants is termed: Show Answer


Q18) Potentiality of vegetative cells other than zygote to give rise to an independent plant is known as: Show Answer


Q19) First androgenic haploid was raised by: Show Answer


Q20) Microbes in the culture chamber are killed most suitably by: Show Answer


Q21) Non-pathological erratic growth of a plant tissue involving uncontrolled cell divisions is designated as: Show Answer


Q22) Even after killing the generative cell with a laser beam, the pollen grains of tobacco germinate and issue a normal pollen tube because: Show Answer


Q23) The entry of pollen tube into embryo sac through the integuments is termed as: Show Answer


Q24) 512 microspores will be formed following meiosis of how many spores? Show Answer


Q25) An example of triploid tissue is: Show Answer


Q26) Triploid plants can be obtained from the culture of: Show Answer


Q27) After fertilization synergids and antipodal cells form: Show Answer


Q28) Pollen grain in angiosperm develops from: Show Answer


Q29) The nucellus of the ovule is: Show Answer


Q30) In case of angiosperms, embryo sac represents: Show Answer


Q31) The anther wall consists of four wall layers where: Show Answer


Q32) How many pollen grain mother cells should undergo meiotic division to produce 64 pollen grains? Show Answer


Q33) Emasculation is achieved by: Show Answer


Q34) Pollen is produced in the: Show Answer


Q35) A flower part whose primary role is protection, is the: Show Answer


Q36) In a fully developed male gametophyte the number of nuclei is: Show Answer


Q37) The mature anther wall comprises an epidermis followed by a layer of radially elongated cells with fibrous bands of callose called endothecium whose function is: Show Answer


Q38) The innermost layer of anther is tapetum whose function is: Show Answer


Q39) Ovule represents: Show Answer


Q40) Stalk of the ovule is called as: Show Answer


Q41) Mature ovules are classified based on the funiculus. If micropyle comes to lie close to the funiculus the ovule is termed as: Show Answer


Q42) In a bisexual flower when the gynoecium matures earlier than anther, it is called as: Show Answer


Q43) Plants which flower only once in the life are termed as: Show Answer


Q44) Translators are found in: Show Answer


Q45) Simultaneous meiotic division of microspore mother cells leads to: Show Answer


Q46) When micropyle, chalaza and hilum lie in a straight line, the ovule is said to be: Show Answer


Q47) Double fertilization was first described by: Show Answer


Q48) Secondary nucleus after fusing with one of the male gametes develops into: Show Answer


Q49) The fusion of male gamete with secondary nucleus of embryo sac is process of: Show Answer


Q50) The fertilization occurs in the: Show Answer


Q51) Study of formation, growth and development of a new individual generally from an oospore is known as: Show Answer


Q52) If an endosperm cell of an angiosperm contains 24 chromosomes, the number of chromosome in each cell of the root will be: Show Answer


Q53) In ovule meiosis occurs in: Show Answer


Q54) The female gametophyte of a typical dicot at the time of fertilization is: Show Answer


Q55) Development of embryo sac from any cell of nucellus is called: Show Answer


Q56) The method of fertilization (in an angiosperm) in which the pollen tube enters the ovule by way of micropyle is known as: Show Answer


Q57) Simple fruit develops from: Show Answer


Q58) Parthenocarpic fruit is: Show Answer


Q59) After fertilization ovary is converted into: Show Answer


Q60) Perisperm in angiospermic seed is derived from: Show Answer


Q61) The entry of pollen tube into the embryo sacs through the chalaza is called: Show Answer


Q62) Ovule is ategenic in: Show Answer


Q63) Vivipary is of common occurrence in: Show Answer


Q64) Polyembryony commonly occurs in: Show Answer


Q65) The main embryo develops from the structure formed as a result of fusion of: Show Answer


Q66) Function of obturator for any ovular structure is to: Show Answer


Q67) The term xenia denotes the effect of the: Show Answer


Q68) Polygonum type of embryo sac is: Show Answer


Q69) 256 microspores will be formed as a result of reduction division in how many microspore mother cells: Show Answer


Q70) Perisperm is: Show Answer


Q71) Which of the following statement is true for the pollen tube: Show Answer


Q72) In Angiosperms free nuclear division occurs during: Show Answer


Q73) In Albuminous seeds, food is stored in: Show Answer


Q74) The seed coat develops from the: Show Answer


Q75) Which of the following is required for germination of seeds? Show Answer


Q76) Fusion of egg with male gamete is called: Show Answer


Q77) In angiosperms the oospore on development produces: Show Answer


Q78) For the formation of 50 zygotes in a tobacco plant, the minimal number of meiosis involved would be: Show Answer


Q79) A female gametophyte would be found in the: Show Answer


Q80) Pollen grain gets nutrition from: Show Answer


Q81) In case of angiosperms, pollen grain produces: Show Answer


Q82) Sexual reproduction in which morphologically and physiologically similar gametes fuse is termed as: Show Answer


Q83) A normal plant suddenly started reproducing parthenogenetically. The number of chromosomes of the second generation as compared to parent plant will be: Show Answer


Q84) If cotyledons remains below soil during germination, it is: Show Answer


Q85) Seed are dispersed by: Show Answer


Q86) Micropyle of ovule allows entry of: Show Answer


Q87) Cotyledons form the first pair of leaves in: Show Answer


Q88) Protective covering of seeds is called: Show Answer


Q89) The number of germ pores in dicot plants is generally: Show Answer


Q90) When seeds develop without meiosis and syngamy, the phenomenon is: Show Answer


Q91) The inner integument of majority of the dicot seed is: Show Answer


Q92) Epigeal seed germination is found in: Show Answer


Q93) Which of the following statements is correct? Show Answer


Q94) Monosporic, 8 nucleate embryo sac is called: Show Answer


Q95) An example of triploid tissue is: Show Answer


Q96) If soaked pea seeds are kept in four separate flasks, best germination will be in the flask having: Show Answer


Q97) Which of the following plants are likely to have wider range of distribution? Show Answer


Q98) During seed germination: Show Answer


Q99) In albuminous seeds the food is stored mostly in: Show Answer


Q100) Wind dispersed seeds have: Show Answer


Q101) Seed germination is hypogeal in: Show Answer


Q102) In angiosperms normally after fertilization: Show Answer


Q103) The bisporic type of embryo sac development is characterised by the: Show Answer


Q104) Grafting is not possible in monocots as they: Show Answer


Q105) Inflorescence with flattened axis, sessile flowers and involucre is: Show Answer


Q106) Hypanthodium occurs in: Show Answer


Q107) An edible inflorescence is: Show Answer


Q108) Umbel inflorescence is found in: Show Answer


Q109) A plant with both male and female flowers is: Show Answer


Q110) Cruciform corolla occurs in: Show Answer


Q111) Thalamus is: Show Answer


Q112) Heaping of earth around base of stem in Potato is meant for: Show Answer


Q113) Bulbils occur in: Show Answer


Q114) Embryo sac is: Show Answer


Q115) 8-nucleate embryo sac is: Show Answer


Q116) A mature male gametophyte is formed from pollen mother cell by: Show Answer


Q117) Passage of pollen tube through micropyle while reaching the embryo sac is: Show Answer


Q118) Tapetum occurs in: Show Answer


Q119) Which one is produced as a result of double fertilization? Show Answer


Q120) A component of female reproductive system is: Show Answer


Q121) Mango and Guava are propagated through: Show Answer


Q122) In a grafted plant, stock has 48 chromosomes while scion has 24 chromosomes. The chromosomes number for root cells and eggs are: Show Answer


Q123) Pollen grains are non-green due to: Show Answer


Q124) Pollen grain of tetraploid plant brings about fertilization in a diploid plant. The endosperm of seed will be: Show Answer


Q125) Multinucleate condition is present in: Show Answer


Q126) If meiosis occurs inside pollen grain and egg nuclei, it will be: Show Answer


Q127) Formation of embryo from vegetative cells derived from zygote is called: Show Answer


Q128) Formation of an organisation from a single, male gamete without fusion with egg is an example of: Show Answer


Q129) Adventive embryony in Citrus is due to: Show Answer


Q130) In grasses what happens in microspore mother cell for the formation of mature pollen grains: Show Answer


Q131) Which of the following statements is wrong: Show Answer


Q132) Double fertilization was given by: Show Answer


Q133) Hydroponics is: Show Answer


Q134) Number of nuclei present in common embryo sac are: Show Answer


Q135) In a flowering plant, archesporium gives rise to: Show Answer


Q136) Pollen grains are able to tolerate extremes of temperature and desiccation because their exine consists of: Show Answer


Q137) Plant part having two generations, one within the other is: Show Answer


Q138) Pollen tube usually enters the embryo sac: Show Answer


Q139) A plant root has 16 cells thus: Show Answer


Q140) Anthesis is a phenomenon which refers to: Show Answer


Q141) A diploid female plant is crossed with tetraploid male. The ploidy of endosperm will be: Show Answer


Q142) Which of the following represents the edible part of the fruit of Litchi? Show Answer


Q143) Which one of the following represents an ovule, where the embryo sac becomes horse-shoe shaped and the funiculus and mircopyle are close to each other? Show Answer


Q144) Why is vivipary an undesirable character for annual crop plants? Show Answer


Q145) In which one pair both the plants can be vegetatively propagated by leaf pieces? Show Answer


Q146) In a type of apomixis known as adventive embryony, embryos develop directly from the: Show Answer


Q147) Double fertilization involves: Show Answer


Q148) In some plants anthers and stigma grow and mature at same time. This phenomenon is called: Show Answer


Q149) Pollen sac in Cycas is called: Show Answer


Q150) In the angiosperm ovule central cell of the embryo sac, prior to the entry of pollen tube, contains: Show Answer


Q151) Xenia refer to: Show Answer


Q152) Pollination by snail and slug is known as: Show Answer


Q153) Male gemetes in angiosperms are formed by the division of: Show Answer


Q154) Eight nucleate embryo sacs are: Show Answer


Q155) Double fertilization (or triple fusion) leading to initiation of endosperm in angiosperms, requires: Show Answer


Q156) Many scientists consider viruses as living entities because these: Show Answer


Q157) The mode of asexual reproduction in bacteria are: Show Answer


Q158) Study of pollen grain is called: Show Answer


Q159) Filiform apparatus is a characterisitic feature of: Show Answer


Q160) What would be the number of chromosomes of aleurone cells of a plant with 42 chromosomes in its root tip cells? Show Answer


Q161) Which is the only method for compensation of loss of life due to death? Show Answer


Q162) Which of the following is not involved in development? Show Answer


Q163) In plants, special modes of propagation is/are: Show Answer


Q164) Any detached portion of plant can form a new plant called natural method of propagation. In which of following underground stem is used for propagation? Show Answer


Q165) Applying special technique plants can be artificially cultured. The method, gootee is involved in the propagation of: Show Answer


Q166) The mature anther dehisces by means of slits. The pollen grain is: Show Answer


Q167) Which of the following is first cell of male gametophyte? Show Answer


Q168) Inside the ovary there is one or more: Show Answer


Q169) Suspensor helps in pushing the embryo deep into endosperm. Suspensor formation in Sagittatia occurs at celled stage: Show Answer


Q170) Xenia is due to the effect of second male gamete fusing with secondary nucleus. Term 'Xenia was coined by: Show Answer


Q171) Microscopic structure in a flower that contains the polar nuclei is: Show Answer


Q172) Embryo sac is: Show Answer


Q173) Sporophytic budding occurs in orange, mango, opuntia and onion. It occura in: Show Answer


Q174) The epibasal cell divides repeatedly to produce a row of ... cell durying development in a dicot plant: Show Answer


Q175) Incompatibility is the inability of certain gametes, even from genetically similar plant species, to fuse with each other. If it is due to genotype of pollen termed: Show Answer


Q176) Double fertilization is: Show Answer


Q177) Which of the following statements is correct? Show Answer


Q178) How many divisions of functional megaspore undergo to form mature embryo sac? Show Answer


Q179) What you think is the correct sequence of the development of the embryo sac? Show Answer


Q180) Diversity of structures of the inflorescences, flower and floral parts - Show Answer


Q181) Which of the following is false ? Show Answer


Q182) The proximal part of filament of stamen is attached to - Show Answer


Q183) Microsoparangium is generally surrounded by 4 wall layers. Which of the following 3 wall layers perform the function of protection and help the dehiscence of anther to release the pollen ? Show Answer


Q184) Each cell of sporogenous tissue in anther is - Show Answer


Q185) Which of the following sequences is correct for microsporogenesis ? Show Answer


Q186) As the anthers mature and dehydrate, the ___ separate dissociate from each other and develop into Show Answer


Q187) Pollen grains of different species show characteristic difference in - Show Answer


Q188) Pollen grain ___ has prominent apertures called ___ where sporopollenin is ___. Show Answer


Q189) Which of the following points is incorrect about sporopollenin ? Show Answer


Q190) The inner wall of pollen grain - Show Answer


Q191) The first division in a pollen grain results in formation of - Show Answer


Q192) In angiosperms pollination occurs when pollen grains are in - Show Answer


Q193) Which of the following statements is false ?
(I) Pollen grains represents immatured male gametophyte
(II) In angiosperms partially developed male gametophytes are pollinated
(III) Generative cell is siponogenous while vegetative cell is spermatogenous
(IV) Formation and differentiation of pollen grains is called microsporogenesis
(V) Hay fever is a pollen allergy
(VI) Pollen grains of some plants produce severe allergy and respiratory or bronchial diseases
(VII) Pollen grains are poor in nutrients. Show Answer


Q194) Which of the following is correct about Parthenium (Carrot grass) ? Show Answer


Q195) It has become a fashion in recent years to use ___ tablets as food supplements. In western countries, a large number of ___ products in the form of tablets and syrups are available in the market. ___ consumption has been claimed to increase the performance of athletes and race horses - Show Answer


Q196) Pollen grains can be stored in liquid nitrogen at - Show Answer


Q197) The viability of pollen grains depends upon - Show Answer


Q198) Which of the following has the least pollen viability ? Show Answer


Q199) Micropyle is found in - Show Answer


Q200) Which of the following sequences of development of embryo sac / female gametophyte is correct ? Show Answer


Q201) An ovule has generally how many embryo sac ? Show Answer


Q202) For the formation of embryo sac, the megaspore mother cell undergoes - Show Answer


Q203) In typical embryo sac, the nuclei are arranged as - Show Answer


Q204) The female gametophyte / embryo sac of typical dicot (Polygonum) or monosporic embryo sac is - Show Answer


Q205) Embryo sac is monosporic when it develops from - Show Answer


Q206) Egg apparatus of an embryo sac consists of - Show Answer


Q207) The largest cell in an embryo sac is - Show Answer


Q208) During the formation of embryo sac from megaspore miotic divisions occurs. These divisions are - Show Answer


Q209) Which of the following statements is false about filiform apparatus ? Show Answer


Q210) The ploidy levels of the cells of the nucellus, MMC, the functional megaspore and female gametophyte - Show Answer


Q211) The term pollination signifies - Show Answer


Q212) Autogamy is - Show Answer


Q213) Contrivance for self-pollination / autogamy is - Show Answer


Q214) Cleistogamous flowers produce assured seed-set even in the absence of pollinator - why ? Show Answer


Q215) Which of the following plants produce(s) chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers ? Show Answer


Q216) Chasmogamy is pollination in - Show Answer


Q217) Which of the following devices is not used by plants to prevent autogamy - Show Answer


Q218) Subterranean cleistogamous and geophilous flowers occur in - Show Answer


Q219) Pollination occuring in closed flowers is - Show Answer


Q220) Cleistogamous flowers are - Show Answer


Q221) The process whereby a perfect flower is pollinated by its pollen is called - Show Answer


Q222) The term used when anthers and stigma of an intersexual or perfect flower ripen before the opening of buds as in wheat and pea is - Show Answer


Q223) Transfer of pollen grains from anther to the stigma of another flower of same plant is - Show Answer


Q224) Geitonogamy is - Show Answer


Q225) Which of the following is false about xenogamy ? Show Answer


Q226) In nature, allogamy is met within ___ surely - Show Answer


Q227) Go through the following statements -
(I) Flowers are bisexual and homogamous maturing anther and sigma of a flower at the same time
(II) Mechanical devices bringing anthers and stigma close together in a bisexual chasmogamous flower
(III) Cleistogamy (bisexual flowers remain closed)
(IV) Anther and sigma of an intersexual flower mature in bud condition.
The above contrivances favour - Show Answer


Q228) Go through the following points.
(I) Dicliny (Unisexuality of flower)
(II) Dichogamy (Protoandry or protogyny)
(III) Self sterility / self incompatibility
(IV) Heterosyly
(V) Herkogamy (Barrier between anther and stigma of a bisexual homogamous flower)
The above contrivances prevent - Show Answer


Q229) Which of the following statements is correct ? Show Answer


Q230) Go through the following statements -
I. Flowers are smail. They are often packed in inflorescence
II. Flowers are colourless, nectarless and odourless
III. Well exposed stamens
IV. Pollen grains - produced in large number, light, non-sticky
V. Flowers often have a single ovule in each ovary
VI. Stigma - large, often feathery.
The above contrivances favour - Show Answer


Q231) Which of the following is false? Show Answer


Q232) Long silky hair coming out of the cob maize are - Show Answer


Q233) Which of the following statement is false ?
I. Vallisneria and Hydrilla are fresh water plants while sea-grasses (e.g. Zostera) are marine plant
II. Vallisneria is epihydrophilous while zostera is hypohydrophilous.
III. Pollination in water lily/Lotus (Nymphea) and Eichhornia (water hyacinth) takes place by insects
IV. In majority of aquatic plants flowers emerge above the level of water and are pollinated by insects or wind
V. In most of the water pollinated species, pollen grains are protected from wetting due to absence of mucilaginous covering
VI. In hydrophilous plants pollen grains are spherical. Show Answer


Q234) In Tapegrass (Vallisneria) - Show Answer


Q235) The most common type of pollination is - Show Answer


Q236) Find out the correct option - Show Answer


Q237) Moth (Pronuba / Tegaticula) passes its larval stage in plant pollinated by it. The plant is Show Answer


Q238) An obligate association between flower and pollinating agent is found in - Show Answer


Q239) Which of the following plants provide floral rewards to their pollinating agents - Show Answer


Q240) Which of the following are usual floral rewards to pollinating animals ? Show Answer


Q241) I. Flowers are usually large, colorful, fragrant
II. Pollen grains are produced in large number
III. Pollen grains are light in weight and non-sticky
IV. Sticky pollen grains
V. Stigma inserted and sticky
VI. Stigma is feathery
VII. Edible pollen grains and nectar.
Which of the above characters favour entomophily? Show Answer


Q242) Which of the following is the tallest flower? Show Answer


Q243) In castor and maize autogamy is prevented but geitonogamy occurs because - Show Answer


Q244) All of the following include outbreeding devices except - Show Answer


Q245) Repeated self pollination over the generation produces - Show Answer


Q246) Unisexuality of flower prevents - Show Answer


Q247) What is the genetic importance of outcrossing ? Show Answer


Q248) Which of the following would not have an effect on flowering of a particular plant species ? Show Answer


Q249) Majority of flowering plants - Show Answer


Q250) Self-incompatibility -
(I) is a device to prevent inbreeding
(II) Provides a biochemical block to self-fertilization
(III) Ensures cross-fertilization
(IV) is governed by pollen-pistil interaction
(V) is governed by series of multiple alleles
(VI) Prevents self pollen (From the same flower or other flower of the same plant) from fertilizing the ovules by inhibiting pollen germination or pollen tube growth in the pistil. Show Answer


Q251) In which part of a flower do both meiosis and fertilization occur ? Show Answer


Q252) Self-incompatibility - Show Answer


Q253) Which of the following options is correct ? Show Answer


Q254) The ability of the pistil to recognise the pollen followed by its acceptance or rejection is the result of a continuous dialogue between pollen grain and the pistil.
This dialogue is mediated by chemical components of the pollen interacting with those of the pistil. Which of the following chemicals mainly takes part in the interaction - Show Answer


Q255) Which of the following is correct ? Show Answer


Q256) Fertilization is depicted by the condition - Show Answer


Q257) Pollen tube enters the embryo sac usually - Show Answer


Q258) In double fertilization total number of male nuclei and total number of female nuclei involved are - Show Answer


Q259) One meiosis produces how many male gametes - Show Answer


Q260) Following components are haploid, diploid or triploid
A = Oosphere
B = Microspore
C = Synergids
D = Antipodal cell
E = Oospore
F = Nucellus
G = Placenta
H = Chalaza
I = Endosperm
J = Tapetum
Which of following groups show the correct sequence of the ascending order of ploidy in ovule /seed ? Show Answer


Q261) The number of chromosomes in radicle is 16.What will be the number of chromosomes in tube nucleus, antipodal cells,definitive nucleus and endosperm respectively ? Show Answer


Q262) Female plant is diploid and male plant is tetraploid. Find out the correct match. Show Answer


Q263) A homogamous tall pistillate plant (TT) is crossed with homogamous dwarf st. What is the genotype of endosperm ? Show Answer


Q264) The cells of endosperm have 24 chromosomes. What will be the number of chromosomes in the gametes - Show Answer


Q265) The male gamete is x and egg is 3x. The ploidy level in embryo and endosperm will be - Show Answer


Q266) For artificial hybridisation experiment in bisexual flower, which of the sequences is correct ? Show Answer


Q267) Which of the following is false about emasculation ? Show Answer


Q268) Emasculation is not required when flowers are - Show Answer


Q269) The purpose of bagging an emasculated flower in artificial hybridisation programme is Show Answer


Q270) After triple fusion central cell changes into - Show Answer


Q271) The study of formation, growth and development of new individual from an egg is called - Show Answer


Q272) Father of Indian embryology is - Show Answer


Q273) Endosperm in angiosperm is formed from secondary nucleus- Show Answer


Q274) Which of the following is false ?
(I) Endosperm formation starts prior to first division of zygote
(II) Angiospermic endosperm is mostly 3N while gymnospermic one is N
(III) The most common type of endosperm is nuclear.
(IV) Coconut has both liquid nuclear (multinucleate) and cellular endosperm
(V) Milky water of green tender coconut is liquid female gametophyte. Show Answer


Q275) In a fertilized ovule, n, 2n and 3n conditions occur respectively in - Show Answer


Q276) In coconut liquid nuclear endosperm is surrounded by white kernel which is - Show Answer


Q277) Nuclear or cellular nature of endosperm can be known at a - Show Answer


Q278) Endosperm is completely consumed by developing embryo before seed maturation or exalbuminous / non-endospermic seeds are found in - Show Answer


Q279) Albuminous / endospermic seeds are - Show Answer


Q280) Which of the sequences is correct for embryogenesis in dicots? Show Answer


Q281) Embryos of monocotyledons possess only one __(A)__. In the grass family the cotyledon is called __(B)__ that is situated towards one side (lateral) of the embroynal axis. At its lower end, the embryonal axis has the radical and root cap enclosed in an undifferentiated sheath called __(C)__.
The portion of the embryonal axis above the level of attachment of scutellum is the __(D)__ which has a shoot and apex enclosed in a foilar structure called __(E)__. Show Answer


Q282) (I) No endosperm
(II) Endosperm present
(III) Cotyledons - thin
(IV) Cotyledons - thick
(V) Food is stored in cotyledons
(VI) Food is stored in endosperms
Sort out correct points (from I to VI) for (A) - Albuminous and (B) - Exalbuminous seeds. Show Answer


Q283) In some seeds like black pepper and beet, remnants of nucellus are present. This residual, persistent nucellus is called - Show Answer


Q284) Aleurone layer takes part in - Show Answer


Q285) During germination, micropyle of seed takes part in - Show Answer


Q286) Which are the external conditions required for seed germination - Show Answer


Q287) Seed dormancy allows the plants to - Show Answer


Q288) An example of a seed with endosperm, perisperm and caruncle is - Show Answer


Q289) Study of pollen grains is - Show Answer


Q290) Secondary nucleus is formed by - Show Answer


Q291) Which plant part has two generations, one within the other - Show Answer


Q292) Which of the following is false ? Show Answer


Q293) Which of the following is not correct ? Show Answer


Q294) Which of the following will lost its economic value if fruits are produced through parthenocarphy. Show Answer


Q295) In most plants; the fruit develops from the ovary, other parts degenerate and fall off such fruits are called - Show Answer


Q296) False fruits (thalamus also contributes to fruit formation) are found in - Show Answer


Q297) Which of the following statements is correct ? Show Answer


Q298) Which of the following is crucial for storage of seeds to be used as food throughout the year and to raise crops in the next season ? Show Answer


Q299) The cause of dormancy for sometime in fertilized ovule is - Show Answer


Q300) The role of tapetum in the formation of pollen grain wall includes all except - Show Answer


Q301) Seeds are adaptively important because - Show Answer


Q302) The world's oldest viable seed, excavated from Arotic Tundra is of - Show Answer


Q303) Which of the following statements is false ? Show Answer


Q304) Which of the following statements is false ? Show Answer


Q305) Hybrid seeds have to be produced every year because - Show Answer


Q306) Active research is going on in many laborateries around the world to understand the genetics of apomixis.
What is the purpose of such active research ? Show Answer


Q307) In citrus, a seed has 10 embryos. Out of 10 embryos - Show Answer


Q308) Wind pollination is common in Show Answer


Q309) What would be number of chromosomes of aleurone cells of plant with 42 chrosome in its root tip cells ? Show Answer


Q310) What is common between vegetative reproduction and Apomixis ? Show Answer


Q311) What is the function of germ pore ? Show Answer


Q312) Which one of the following statements is wrong ? Show Answer


Q313) Plants with ovaries having only one or a few ovules, are generally pollinated by : Show Answer


Q314) Both, autogamy and geitonogamy are prevented in - Show Answer


Q315) An organic substance that can withstand environmental extremes and cannot be degraded by any enzyme is : Show Answer


Q316) The gynoecium consists of many free pistils in flowers of Show Answer


Q317) Even in absence of pollinating agents seed setting is assured in Show Answer


Q318) Megasporangium is equivalent to : Show Answer


Q319) Which one of the following statements is correct ? Show Answer


Q320) Product of sexual reproduction generally generates : Show Answer


Q321) Advantage of cleistogamy is Show Answer


Q322) Perisperm differs from endosperm in Show Answer


Q323) The innermost wall layer of microsporangium nourishing the developing pollen grains is known as Show Answer


Q324) Number of male gamete formed by 16 microspore mother cell is Show Answer


Q325) Pollen tablets are available in the market for : Show Answer


Q326) An immature male gametophyte differs from a mature male gametophyte in that it Show Answer


Q327) Which of the following finds application in hybrid seed industry ? Show Answer


Q328) How many and which type of male gametes are produced by the male gametophyte of angiosperm ? Show Answer


Q329) 'Seeds are the basis of our agriculture and offer several advantages to angiosperms'. Find the odd statement among the following ? Show Answer


Q330) Pollen tube, after reaching the ovary, does not show following event. Show Answer


Q331) Find odd one with the respect to the stage which occurs after most vital event of sexual life cycle of angiosperms. Show Answer


Q332) Pollen tube releases the two male gamete into the Show Answer


Q333) In a majority of flowering plants : Show Answer


Q334) Find one word for the following statements and choose the correct option.
(I) Residual, persistent nucellus in seed - A
(II) Microspores arranged in a cluster of four cells - B
(III) Special cellular thickening at the micropylar end of embryo sac - C
(IV) Development of seeds without fertilisation - D Show Answer


Q335) Consider the following statements with respect to flowering plants.
A : The pollen grains represent the male gametes.
B : The functional megaspore develops into the embryo sac represent the female gamete
C : Transfer of pollen grains from anther to the stigma of different plant is known as Xenogamy
D : Transfer of pollen grains from anther to the stigma of another flower of the same plant is known as geitonogamy.
Of the above statements
Show Answer


Q336) Which of the following is false in angiosperms ? Show Answer


Q337) Consider the following statements and choose the correct option.
A : The ovule is attached to the placenta by means of a stalk called filament.
B : The ovule fuses with the stalk in the region called hilum.
C : The two protective envelopes of ovule are called integuments.
D : The small opening in the tip of ovule is called germ pore.
Of the above statements Show Answer


Q338) If there are 1280 microspores in a tetralocular anther, how many microspore mother cells will be there in its each pollen chamber ? Show Answer


Q339) Large stout, nocturnal flowers producing copious nectar and emitting fermenting fruity odour, are the adaptations for Show Answer


Q340) What is not true about emasculation of a flower while performing an artificial cross ? Show Answer


Q341) Papaya is a dioecious plant. This condition prevents Show Answer


Q342) Egg in female gametophyte is accompanied by Show Answer


Q343) The hilum is a scar on the Show Answer


Q344) Which one of the following statements is not true ? Show Answer


Q345) Which one of the following may require pollinators, but is genetically similar to autogamy ? Show Answer


Q346) Which of the following are the important floral rewards to the animal pollinators ? Show Answer


Q347) The wheat grain has an embryo with one large, shield shaped cotyledon known as Show Answer


Q348) In angiosperms, microsporogenesis and megasporogenesis Show Answer


Q349) Male gametophyte in angiosperms produces Show Answer


Q350) Coconut water from a tender coconut is Show Answer


Q351) In the given list how many plants have unisexual flowers on the same plant.
Cucurbits, Papaya, Castor, Coconut, Date palm, Maize Show Answer


Q352) Wind pollination is quite common in - Show Answer


Q353) In which of following for artificial hybridisation there is no need for emasculat - Show Answer


Q354) In the given list of plants how many have albuminous seeds ?
Pea, Wheat, Groundnut, Maize, Barley, Castor Show Answer


Q355) The coconut water from tender coconut represents - Show Answer


Q356) Proximal end of the filament of stamen is attached to the Show Answer


Q357) Which of the following statements is not correct ? Show Answer


Q358) Seed formation without fertilizaton in flowering plants involves the process of - Show Answer


Q359) Cotyledon of maize grain is called - Show Answer


Q360) Which one of the following statements is not true ? Show Answer


Q361) In majority of angiosperms : Show Answer


Q362) Pollination in water hyacinth and water lily is brought about by the agency of : Show Answer


Q363) The ovule of an angiosperm is technically equivalent to : Show Answer


Q364) In embryo sac double fertilization means :
(I) Formation of double zygote.
(II) Fusion between egg and male gamete.
(III) Formation of perisperm
(IV) Fusion between secondary nucleus and male gamete. Show Answer


Q365) Parthenocarpic fruit Show Answer


Q366) Seed is Show Answer


Q367) Find out the correct statement Show Answer


Q368) Vegetative fertilization leading to the formation of endosperm refers to Show Answer


Q369) Which of the following is the result of double fertilization? Show Answer


Q370) Perisprem is found in Show Answer


Q371) The ‘eyes’ of the potato tuber are Show Answer


Q372) True fruit is directly derived from Show Answer


Q373) Intine is made up of Show Answer


Q374) The arrangement of the nuclei in a normal embryo sac in the dicot plants, is Show Answer


Q375) Pericarp is Show Answer


Q376) The function innermost layer of pollen sac, tapetum is Show Answer


Q377) The movement of pollen tube is called Show Answer


Q378) Which of the following statements is wrong?
Show Answer


Q379) Triple fusion in angiosperm is the fusion of second sperm with Show Answer


Q380) ‘Mircrospores arranged in a cluster of four cells called megaspore tetrad’.
The above statement is Show Answer


Q381) Insect pollinated flowers are Show Answer


Q382) The fusion of male and female pronuclei of the gametes is called Show Answer


Q383) A scion is grafted to a stock. The quality of fruits produced will be determined by the genotype of Show Answer


Q384) When pollen is transferred from anther of a flower to stigma of the another of the another flower of the same plant, it is referred to as Show Answer


Q385) False fruit is a fruit in which Show Answer


Q386) Synergid’s filiform apparatus Show Answer


Q387) Double fertilization occurs among Show Answer


Q388) Scutellum is Show Answer


Q389) Sporopollenin is chemically Show Answer


Q390) Which one of the following is not a correct explanation of cross-pollination? Show Answer


Q391) How many cells are found in female gametophyte? Show Answer


Q392) Identify the wrong statements regarding post-fertilization development. Show Answer


Q393) Two nuclei with one cell are found in Show Answer


Q394) 8-nucleated embryo sac are Show Answer


Q395) Microspore develops into ova. This sentence is Show Answer


Q396) During the formation of embryo sac, the functional megaspore undergoes Show Answer


Q397) What would be the number of chromosomes in the cells of the aleurone layer in a plant species with 8 chromosomes in its synergids? Show Answer


Q398) In a type of apomixes known as adventive embryony, embryos develop directly from the Show Answer


Q399) Male gametes wheather 2 celled or 3-celled are identical in genetic make up because Show Answer


Q400) Apomixis arises due to Show Answer


Q401) Endosperm is consumed by developing embryo in the seed of Show Answer


Q402) Haploid plants derived from microspore culture are preferred over diploids for mutation studies, because in haploids Show Answer


Q403) The number of female nuclei involved in double fertilization is Show Answer


Q404) A micropyle is a Show Answer


Q405) PEC (Primary Endosperm Cell) is formed Show Answer


Q406) In ovule protective covering (integuments) are generally _______ in number Show Answer


Q407) These processes are necessary for the complete development of male gametophyte from pollen mother cell. Show Answer


Q408) Majority of plants are Show Answer


Q409) Individual part or segment of calyx is called Show Answer


Q410) Pollination by insect is Show Answer


Q411) Sexual reproduction leads to Show Answer


Q412) A bisexual flower which never open, is known as Show Answer


Q413) Fruit and seed develops Show Answer


Q414) Characteristics of wind pollinated pollens is, they are Show Answer


Q415) In chasmogamy pollination takes place in Show Answer


Q416) Which is most crucial for seed storage? Show Answer


Q417) Entry of pollen tube with two male gametes and tube nucleus through micropyle, is Show Answer


Q418) Syngamy is the process in which Show Answer


Q419) Pollen grains of different plants, differ in Show Answer


Q420) Which one of the following is a reference to xenogamy ? Show Answer


Q421) Selaginella and Salvinia considered to represent a significant step towards evolution of seed habit because Show Answer


Q422) Zygote is always Show Answer


Q423) Occurrence of more than four spores from a spore mother cell is called Show Answer


Q424) Type of pollination in commelina is Show Answer


Q425) Pollens have two prominent walls which are … A … and … B …. Here A and B refers to Show Answer


Q426) If there are four cells in a anther, what will be the number of pollen grains? Show Answer


Q427) Xenogamy or cross-pollination is performed by
I. Abiotic agencies
II.Biotic agencies
III.Insects only
Select the correct option for the given question Show Answer


Q428) In wind pollination the pollens are feathery, whether it is Show Answer


Q429) Identify the characters with reference to the plant in which eight nucleated embryo sac was first studied by strasburger.
I.Micropyle, chalaza and funiculus are arranged in the same vertical line In the ovule.
II. presence of both unisexual and bisexual flowers in the same plant.
III.Filiform apparatus helps in conduction of food materials from Endosperm to egg apparatus.
IV. Long funiculus coils like a watch spring around the ovule.
Show Answer


Q430) Devices for self-pollination are Show Answer


Q431) Chalazal pole is present Show Answer


Q432) Vegetative fertilization is also called Show Answer


Q433) Vegetative/Asexual reproduction and apomixis are common in Show Answer


Q434) Xenia refers to Show Answer


Q435) Long silky hairs on cob of maize are Show Answer


Q436) The endosperm in angiosperm develops from Show Answer


Q437) What is pollen grain? Show Answer


Q438) Type of cell division takes place in apomixes is Show Answer


Q439) Out of the following choose the post-fertilisation events Show Answer


Q440) Apomixis is like Show Answer


Q441) Parthenium or carrot grass is imported with Show Answer


Q442) Pollination by snail and slug is called Show Answer


Q443) Some plant have a habit of harbouring ants to save the plants from damage by other animals which is known as Show Answer


Q444) The wall of pollen tube is made of Show Answer


Q445) One advantage of cleistogamy is Show Answer


Q446) Flower is a Show Answer


Q447) Cleistogamous flowers are trictly autogamous because they remain Show Answer


Q448) Wind pollinated flowers often have Show Answer


Q449) Continued self-pollination results in Show Answer


Q450) Wind pollinated flowers are Show Answer


Q451) ‘Cells at the chalazal end are called synergid cells’. The above statement is Show Answer


Q452) Orthotropous ovule belongs to Show Answer


Q453) Center of each microsporangium is occupied by Show Answer


Q454) Which of the following plant products is the hardest? Show Answer


Q455) Functional megaspore develops into …A… also called …B… A and B in the above sentence is Show Answer


Q456) Syngamy and triple fusion is called …A… . The central cell becomes …B… develops into …C… and zygote develops into …D…
A, B, C, D in the above statement are Show Answer


Q457) Dicot embryo consists of Show Answer


Q458) First three layers of microsporangium which does the function of protection are Show Answer


Q459) Nucellar polyembryony is reported in species of Show Answer


Q460) Nucellus forms which of the following parts of fruit? Show Answer


Q461) Mesogamy is Show Answer


Q462) Identify the correct statement. Show Answer


Q463) Which of the following perform microsporogenesis? Show Answer


Q464) Tapetum is found in Show Answer


Q465) Double fertilization was discovered by Show Answer


Q466) Microsporangium produces Show Answer


Q467) Grafting is successful in dicots but not in monocots because the dicots have Show Answer


Q468) Megaspore mother cell is found near the region of Show Answer


Q469) Ovule integument gets transformed into Show Answer


Q470) Which one of the following pairs of plants structures has haploid number of chromosomes? Show Answer


Q471) Self-incompatibility is a device for
I. Ensuring cross-pollination
II. Preventing self-pollination
III. Ensuring self-fertilisation
IV. Genetic control for self-fertilisation
Choose the correct statements from those given above Show Answer


Q472) How many number of nuclei are involved in fertilization? Show Answer


Q473) Ovules contain many embryo in Show Answer


Q474) Maximum viability of rice and wheat is Show Answer


Q475) For a gene if AA = male plant, BB = female plant. Find out the genotype of endosperm and embryo Show Answer


Q476) Micropyle helps in Show Answer


Q477) The ovary after fertilization is converted into Show Answer


Q478) Which of these is not essential for allogamy? Show Answer


Q479) ‘In coconut the cellular endosperm surrounds the nuclear endosperm’.
The above statement is Show Answer


Q480) Hermaphrodite flower have Show Answer


Q481) Unisexuality of flowers prevents Show Answer


Q482) Stalk with which ovules attached to the placenta is called Show Answer


Q483) Self-pollination means Show Answer


Q484) Meiotic cell division takes place during Show Answer


Q485) The outermost layer of maize endosperm is known as Show Answer


Q486) Why sometimes, even diploid offspring is produced through parthenogenesis? Show Answer


Q487) The process in which haploid embryo is formed from haploid egg without fertilization is called Show Answer


Q488) Which of the following floral parts forms pericarp after fertilization? Show Answer


Q489) Tapetal cells are characterized by Show Answer


Q490) Pollen grains can cause Show Answer


Q491) Non-albuminous seed Show Answer


Q492) Development of an embryo without fertilization Is called as Show Answer


Q493) Non-endospermic seeds are seen in Show Answer


Q494) The cylindrical portion below the cotyledons is …A… that terminates to …B… and tip called …C… A, B and C here refers to Show Answer


Q495) The type of pollination adaptation found in calotropis is Show Answer


Q496) Fertilization of egg takes place inside Show Answer


Q497) If the number of chromosomes in egg cell is 8, then what is the number of chromosomes on endosperm? Show Answer


Q498) Find out right statement (s)
I. Most common endosperm is of nuclear type
II. Coconut water is male gametophyte
III. Coconut has both nucellar and cellular type of endosperm Show Answer


Q499) Number of seeds is equals to the Show Answer


Q500) Nuclear polyembryony is reported in Show Answer


Q501) The process of transfer of pollen grains from anther to stigmatic surface with the help of water is called Show Answer


Q502) Anemophily is a type of pollination found in Show Answer


Q503) I. Antipodal cell
II. Egg cell
III. Synergid cell
IV. Polar nuclei
V. Male gamete
VI. Nuclear cell
IV. Chalazal cell
Out of the seven names given above, find out haploid cells
Show Answer


Q504) There are 10 flowers in one individual plant of crotalaria. In each microsporangium of every stamen of all the flowers, there are 30 microspore mother cells. How many pollen grains are formed from that plant? Show Answer


Q505) Apomictic embryos in Citrus arise from Show Answer


Q506) Chances of pollination in air and water are increased by increasing number of pollens. This statement is Show Answer


Q507) Micropyle is formed by Show Answer


Q508) In a flowering plants, megaspore develops into an embryo sac, which contains Show Answer


Q509) What does the filiform apparatus do at the entrance into ovule? Show Answer


Q510) Function of aleurone layer is to Show Answer


Q511) Pollination by bats is called Show Answer


Q512) Which one of the following is not a device to promote cross-pollination? Show Answer


Q513) Which cell is bigger and have abundant food reserve material during microsporogenesis? Show Answer


Q514) In artificial hybridization the steps involved are
I. Bagging
II. Emasculation
III. Rebagging
Their right arrangement is Show Answer


Q515) In some plants, anthers and stigmas grow and mature at same time. This phenomenon is called Show Answer


Q516) Double fertilization is fusion of Show Answer


Q517) How many nuclei are found in female gametophyte? Show Answer


Q518) An ovule is a Show Answer


Q519) Nuclear endosperm has Show Answer


Q520) A typical angiosperm embryo sac at maturity, is Show Answer


Q521) Device to discourage self-pollination or increase cross-pollination is Show Answer


Q522) Occurrence of more than one embryo is called Show Answer


Q523) Grass family (Poaceae) contains Show Answer


Q524) What is the ratio of equational divisions that take place in Cycas and angiosperms respectively leading to the formation to male gametes from pollen grains? Show Answer


Q525) Pollen grains are shed at Show Answer


Q526) Which of these cells is the largest cell of the ovule? Show Answer


Q527) In orthotropous ovule, the micropyle and chalaza are Show Answer


Q528) Pick out the wrong statement. Show Answer


Q529) The onagrad type embroyo, development is found in Show Answer


Q530) Male gametes in angiosperms are formed by the division of Show Answer


Q531) In the fully organized Polygonum type of embryo sac, what is the ratio of haploid, diploid and triploid nuclei? Show Answer


Q532) Megasporogenesis is Show Answer


Q533) Fibrous thickenings of hygroscopic nature are found in which part of the anther wall? Show Answer


Q534) Which one of following represents an ovule, where the embryo sac becomes horse-shoe shaped and the funiculus and micropyle are close to each other Show Answer


Q535) In angiosperm functional megaspore develops into Show Answer


Q536) Ornithophily refers to the pollination by which of the following? Show Answer


Q537) Raphe is Show Answer


Q538) The pollens are liberated in cassytha by Show Answer


Q539) Pollen kit material is secreted by Show Answer


Q540) Wind pollinated flower have long well exposed stigma. This statement is Show Answer


Q541) Microsporangia develops in to Show Answer


Q542) Pollen grains have ability to tolerate extreme temperatures because of the presence of Show Answer


Q543) An interesting modification of flower shape for insect pollination occurs in some orchids in which a male insect mistakes the pattern on the orchid flower for the female of his species and tries to copulate with it, thereby pollinating the flower. This phenomenon is called Show Answer


Q544) Petals together form Show Answer


Q545) Cleistogamous flowers Show Answer


Q546) Autogamy stands for Show Answer


Q547) Pollens outer layer is called …A… . This is made up of …B… . This is absent on the …C… . Fill in the blanks A,B and C Show Answer


Q548) “In Western countries a large number of …… Product in the form of tablets and ……. are available in market. Pollen consumption claimed to increase the …… of athelete”. The words to fill blanks in sequential order are Show Answer


Q549) Tapetum is Show Answer


Q550) Formation of diploid embryo sac from diploid vegetative structure, eg, nucellus or integument, etc, without meiosis is called Show Answer


Q551) The terminal structure of stamen is called Show Answer


Q552) Generally pollen tube enters through Show Answer


Q553) Water pollinated plant is Show Answer


Q554) Endospermic seeds are seen in Show Answer


Q555) Parthenogenesis is a type of Show Answer


Q556) Banana fruits are seedless, because Show Answer


Q557) Which of the following is not true for double fertilization? Show Answer


Q558) Mature male gametophyte is derived from a ‘pollen mother cell’ by Show Answer


Q559) Embryo sac is also known as Show Answer


Q560) Albuminous seed Show Answer


Q561) How many nuclei take part in double fertilization of flowering plants? Show Answer


Q562) A typical dicotyledonous embryo consist of an …A… axis and …B… cotyledons.
The portion of embryonal axis above the level of cotyledons is …C… which terminates with the …D… or stem tip.
A, B, C, D in the above statement are Show Answer


Q563) Transfer of pollen grains from one flower to another flower of same plant is Show Answer


Q564) Which one of the following statements is not true? Show Answer


Q565) In embryo sac the number of → synergid → egg cell → central cell → antipodal cell follows the order Show Answer


Q566) Choose the mis –matched option. Show Answer


Q567) Which one of the following would not lead to formation of clones? Show Answer


Q568) Apomixis is seen in Show Answer


Q569) Ovary develops into Show Answer


Q570) Pollination is Show Answer


Q571) Approximate diameter of pollen grain is Show Answer


Q572) In porogamy, pollen tube enters the ovule through the Show Answer


Q573) A seed matures if water content is reduced to …’A’ ….. . If the general metabolism …B…. . The embryo enter a state called … C … .
Choose correct option for A,B and C Show Answer


Q574) What will be the gametic chromosome number of a cell, if somatic cell have 40 chromosomes? Show Answer


Q575) Stem cutting are commonly used for the propagation of Show Answer


Q576) The fertilization in which male gametes are carried through pollen tube, is known as Show Answer


Q577) If endosperm has 36 number of chromosomes then find out the chromosome number of male and female gamete Show Answer


Q578) For the formation of tetrasporic embryo sac, how many megaspore mother cells are required? Show Answer


Q579) The phenomenon in which, anther and stigma grow and mature at same time is called Show Answer


Q580) Emasculation is not required in Show Answer


Q581) Testa of a seed is produced from Show Answer


Q582) Thalamus contributes in the fruit formation in Show Answer


Q583) Most oldest viable seed is of Show Answer


Q584) Which one of the following was observed for the first time by Trenb? Show Answer


Q585) Self incompatibility is Show Answer


Q586) In embryo sac, n, 2n, 3n, conditions are found respectively in Show Answer


Q587) Which one of the following is resistant to enzyme action? Show Answer


Q588) Pollens are considered as well preserved fossils due to the presence of Show Answer


Q589) Double fertilization involves Show Answer


Q590) Seed germination requires
I. Ligh
II. Temp suitable
III. Moisture
IV. Oxygen
Select correct option Show Answer


Q591) In which one pair, both the plants can be vegetatively propagated by leaf pieces? Show Answer


Q592) Larger nucleus in a pollen grain is Show Answer


Q593) Tallest flower is Amorphophallus. It is Show Answer


Q594) Anthesis is Show Answer


Q595) Single megasporic development is called Show Answer


Q596) Consider the following statements and choose the correct option.
I. The genetic constitution of a plant is unaffected in vegetative propagation.
II. Rhizome in ginger serves as an organ of vegetative reproduction.
III. Totipotency of cells enables us to micropropagate plants. Show Answer


Q597) Micropyle exists in Show Answer


Q598) Which one of the following is surrounded by a callose wall? Show Answer


Q599) In Amorphophyllus and Yucca, the moth lay egg into the Show Answer


Q600) Which of the following is incorrect in angiosperm? Show Answer


Q601) Aleurone layer is found in Show Answer


Q602) Advantage of seed is/are Show Answer


Q603) Epicotyle is the upper part of embryonal axis in Show Answer


Q604) Ruminate endosperm is found in the seeds of family Show Answer


Q605) The process of embryo formation without fertilization, is known as Show Answer


Q606) Micropyle is useful for the entry of Show Answer


Q607) Cleistogamous flower is found in Show Answer


Q608) Find out the odd one. Show Answer


Q609) The outermost and inner most wall layers of microporangium in anther are (respectively) Show Answer


Q610) Microsporogenesis is Show Answer


Q611) Function of micropyle is Show Answer


Q612) Bright colouration of flowers is an adaptation for Show Answer


Q613) If root of flowering plant has 24 chromosomes then its gamete has how many chromosomes? Show Answer


Q614) If stock contains 58 chromosomes and scion contains 30 chromosomes,Then how many chromosomes are present in root and egg cell of resultant plant respectively? Show Answer


Q615) In some organisms, karyokinesis is not followed by cytokinesis as a result of which, multinucleate condition arises leading to the formation of syncytium. The perfect example for this is Show Answer


Q616) The process of formation of microspore from the microspore mother cell is called megasporogenesis. The above statement is Show Answer


Q617) From which cells of embryo, plumule is produced? Show Answer


Q618) Triploid tissue in angiosperms, is Show Answer


Q619) … A… egg cell, …B… zygote, …C… endosperm. Find out the correct ploidy nature of A, B and C Show Answer


Q620) The ovule attached to the placenta of ovary wall by Show Answer


Q621) Apomixis is the development of Show Answer


Q622) The plant part which consists of two generations one within the other, is Show Answer


Q623) Find out right statement (s)
I. Endosperm formation is the prior event than zyote formation.
II. Angiospermic endosperm is 3n.
III. Gymnospermic endosperm is n.
Show Answer


Q624) Transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of another flower of the same plants is called Show Answer


Q625) After fertilization, the outer integument forms Show Answer


Q626) Water pollination Show Answer


Q627) Plants of which one of the following groups of genera are pollinated by the same agency? Show Answer


Q628) Pollens are be stored at which temperature Show Answer


Q629) The total number of nuclei involved in double fertilization in angiosperms are Show Answer


Q630) In a flowering plant, the pollen tube first arrives in Show Answer


Q631) Filiform apparatus are Show Answer


Q632) What would be the number of chromosomes of the aleurone cell of a plant with 42 chromosomes in its root tip cells? Show Answer


Q633) Filiform apparatus is a characteristic feature of Show Answer


Q634) An angiospermic leaf carries 16 chromosomes. The number of chromosomes in its endosperm will be Show Answer


Q635) Embryo developed from the somatic cells are called Show Answer


Q636) Wind pollinated and water pollinated plants Show Answer


Q637) The endosperm in angiosperms develops from Show Answer


Q638) ‘Cells in the micropylar region are called antipodal cell’ Show Answer


Q639) Sporopollenin is made up of organic material’. The above statement is Show Answer


Q640) Viability of date palm seed is Show Answer


Q641) Coleorhiza is Show Answer


Q642) Sugarcane is cultivated through Show Answer


Q643) ‘Sporopollenin is absent at the germpore’. The above statement is Show Answer


Q644) Why seed dormancy takes place? Show Answer


Q645) One of the most resistant known biological material is Show Answer


Q646) It is process of embryo sac formation from cell of nucellus, without undergoing meiosis. Show Answer


Q647) Study the following statements and choose the correct option.
I – Tapetum nourishes the developing pollen grains.
II- Hilum represents the junction between ovule and funicle
III– In aquatic plants such as water hyacinth and water lily, pollination is by water. IV- The primary endosperm nucleus is tripoid. Show Answer


Q648) Mass of cells enclosed by integuments is called Show Answer


Q649) Which of the following statements about sporopollenin is false? Show Answer


Q650) Genotype of endosperm is ZZA, find out the genotype of male and female plant respectively Show Answer


Q651) An ovule which becomes curved so that the nucellus and embryo sac lie at right angles to the funicle is Show Answer


Q652) Polar nuclei are located in Show Answer


Q653) A typical angiosperm anther is Show Answer


Q654) Wind pollination is common in grassess. This statement is Show Answer


Q655) Study the following and find correct option
I. Tapetum nurishes the developing pollen grain
II. Hilum represents the junction between ovule and funicle
III. In aquatic plants such as water hyacinth and lilly pollination is by water
IV. The primary endosperm nucleus is triploid Show Answer


Q656) Apogamy is Show Answer


Q657) Number of microsporangia in an angiospermic anther is Show Answer


Q658) Which of the following statement is/are true
I. Endothecium lies behind epidermis
II. Fusion of egg with male gamete is called apogamy.
III. Synergids are haploid
IV. The point at which funicle touches the ovule is raphe. Show Answer


Q659) Egg apparatus of angiosperms consist of Show Answer


Q660) Pollen tube enters through Show Answer


Q661) Aquatic plant like water-hyacinth and water lily are pollinated by Show Answer


Q662) Function of tapetum is to provide Show Answer


Q663) Root has 42 chromosome then find out the chromosomal number of synergid Show Answer


Q664) In nature, cleistogamous flowers are Show Answer


Q665) Among the sets of terms given below, identify those that are associated with gynoecium Show Answer


Q666) The nutritive layer of microsporangia of cypsella Show Answer


Q667) A longitudinal groove runs lengthwise separating the theca. This groove is called line of dehiscence. The above sentence is Show Answer


Q668) For good growth of pollen tube, necessary element is Show Answer


Q669) In the angiosperm ovule, central cell of the embryo sac, prior to the entry of pollen tube, contains Show Answer


Q670) Anemophily is pollination by Show Answer


Q671) Polyembryony is a type of Show Answer


Q672) Viability of lupine seed is Show Answer


Q673) Perisprem is Show Answer


Q674) Which of the following statement is true with reference to cross pollination in angiosperms? Show Answer


Q675) In which one of the following pollination is autogamous? Show Answer


Q676) In an angiosperm, male plant is diploid and female plant is tetraploid then endosperm will be Show Answer


Q677) Through which cell of the embryo sac, does the pollen tube enter the embryo sac? Show Answer


Q678) Milky water of tender coconut is Show Answer


Q679) The ovule in which the funicle, chalaza and micropyle lie in one vertical plane, is called Show Answer


Q680) Pericarp is formed of Show Answer


Q681) Which of the following is pollinated by water? Show Answer


Q682) Ubisch bodies are secreted by Show Answer


Q683) Which of the following parts in angiosperms are diploid and triploid, respectively? Show Answer


Q684) Which type of pollen grains are found in insect pollinated flowers? Show Answer


Q685) Male gamete in angiosperm is produced by Show Answer


Q686) Synergids are Show Answer


Q687) Exine of pollen grain is made up of Show Answer


Q688) The process of formation of microspores
I. From pollen mother cell through …A… formed …B…
II. Microspore are arranged in …C…
III. Microspore changes into the …D…
A to D in the above statements are Show Answer


Q689) Viability of pollen grains depends on Show Answer


Q690) 60% of the angiosperms shed their pollens at the Show Answer


Q691) The inner most layer of microsporangium is Show Answer


Q692) Male gametophyte of angiosperms is reduced to Show Answer


Q693) Long , ribbon-like pollen grains are seen in some Show Answer