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Pentamerous, actinomorphic flowers, bicarpillary ovary with oblique septa, and fruit a capsule or berry, are characteristic features of

  • Asteraceae

  • Brassicaceae

  • Solanaceae

  • Solanaceae


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Solanaceae

Family Solanaceae possesses pentamerous, actinomorphic, hypogynous, hermaphrodite, complete flowers, bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, bilocular ovary with axile placentation and oblique septa. The fruit is a berry or septicidal capsule.
In Asteraceae, ovary is bicarpellary, suncarpous, inferior, unilocular and fruit is cypsela.
In Brassicaceae, ovary is bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, unilocular but later becomes bilocular due to false septum, fruit is siliqua or silicula.
In Liliaceae, flowers are usually trimerous, ovary is tricarpellary, syncarpous, superior, tricolour and fruit is fleshy berry or capsule.

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Opening of floral buds into flowers, is a type of

  • autonomic movement of locomotion

  • autonomic movement of variation

  • paratonic movement of growth

  • paratonic movement of growth

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Life cycle of Ectocarpus and Fucus respectively are

  • Haplontic, Diplontic

  • Diplontic, Haplodiplontic

  • Haplodiplontic, Diplontic

  • Haplodiplontic, Diplontic

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In Bougainvillea thorns are the modifications of

  • Stipules

  • Adventitious root

  • Stem

  • Stem

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In which of the following fruits is the edible part the aril?

  • Custard apple

  • Pomegranate

  • Orange

  • Orange

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The morphological nature of the edible part of coconut is

  • Perisperm

  • Cotyledon

  • Endosperm

  • Endosperm

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What type of placentation is seen in sweet pea?

  • Basal

  • Axile

  • Free central

  • Free central

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Select the mismatch

  • Pinus – Dioecious

  • Cycas – Dioecious

  • Salvinia – Heterosporous

  • Salvinia – Heterosporous

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The fruit is chambered, developed from inferior ovary and has seeds with succulent testa in 

  • pomegranate

  • orange

  • guava

  • guava

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Which one of the following groups of three animals each is correctly matched with their one characteristic morphological feature? 

  • Liver fluke, Sea anemone, Sea cucumber - Bilateral symmetry

  • Centipede, prawn, sea urchin - Jointed appendages

  • Scorpion, spider, cockroach - Ventral solid central nervous system

  • Scorpion, spider, cockroach - Ventral solid central nervous system

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