Multiple Choice Questions

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Lenticels are involved in

  • Transpiration

  • Gaseous exchange

  • Food transport

  • Food transport


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Gaseous exchange

Plants have stomata and Lenticles involved in gaseous exchange. In stems, the living cells are organised in thin layers inside and beneath the bark. They have openings called Lenticles.

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Interfascicular cambium develops from the cells of

  • medullary rays

  • xylem parenchyma

  • endodermis

  • endodermis

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Companion cells are closely associated with 

  • sieve elements

  • vessel elements

  • trichomes

  • trichomes

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Closed vascular bundles lack

  • ground tissue

  • conjunctive tissue

  • cambium

  • cambium

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Water containing cavities in vascular bundles are found in 

  • sunflower

  • maize

  • Cycas

  • Cycas

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To obtain virus - free healthy plants from a diseased one by tissue culture technique, which part/parts of the diseased plant will be taken?

  • Apical meristem only

  • Palisade parenchyma

  • Both apical and axillary meristems

  • Both apical and axillary meristems

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As compared to a dicot root, a monocot root has

  • more abundant secondary xylem

  • many xylem bundles

  • inconspicuous annual rings

  • inconspicuous annual rings

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You are given a fairly old piece of dicot stem and a dicot root. Which of the following anatomical structure will you use to distinguish between the two?

  • Secondary xylem

  • Secondary phloem

  • Protoxylem

  • Protoxylem

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Vascular bundles in monocotyledons are considered closed because

  • a bundle sheath surrounds each bundle

  • cambium is absent

  • there are no vessels with perforations

  • there are no vessels with perforations

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A major characteristic of the monocot root is the presence of

  • Open vascular bundles

  • Scattered vascular bundles

  • Vasculature without cambium

  • Vasculature without cambium

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