Multiple Choice Questions

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In barley stem, vascular bundles are

  • open and scattered

  • closed and scattered

  • open and in a ring

  • open and in a ring


B.

closed and scattered

The vascular bundles in Hordeum vulgare (barley) plant are scattered in ground tissue, many in number and vary in size-smaller towards the periphery and bigger towards the centre of the ground tissue, oval or rounded in outline, conjoint, collateral and closed.

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Vascular tissue in flowering plants develop from

  • phellogen

  • plerome

  • periblem

  • periblem

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Casparian strips occur in

  • Epidermis

  • Pericycle

  • Endodermis

  • Cortex


A common structural feature of vessel elements and sieve tube elements is

  • thick secondary walls

  • pores on lateral walls

  • presence of P-protein

  • presence of P-protein

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Plants which produce characterstic pneumatophores and show vivipary belong to

  • Mesophytes

  • Halophytes

  • Psammophytes

  • Psammophytes

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The annular and spirally thickened conducting elements generally develop in the protoxylem when the root or stem is

  • maturing

  • elongating

  • widening

  • widening

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Identify the wrong statement in context of heartwood.

  • Organic compounds are deposited in it

  • It is highly durable

  • It conducts water and minerals efficiently

  • It conducts water and minerals efficiently

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The vascular cambium normally gives rise to

  • Phelloderm

  • Primary phloem

  • Secondary xylem

  • Secondary xylem

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Root hairs develop from the region of

  • Maturation

  • Elongation

  • Root cap

  • Root cap

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For a critical study of secondary growth in plants. which one of the following pairs is suitable?

  • Sugarcane and sunflower

  • Teak and pine

  • Deodar and fern

  • Deodar and fern

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