Multiple Choice Questions

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Nucellus forms which of the following part of fruit?

  • Seed coat

  • Perisperm

  • Seed

  • Raphe


B.

Perisperm

The post fertilization changes in the seeds are as follows-

(i) Ovule - Seed

(ii) Ovary - Fruit

(iii) Nucellus - Perisperm (a nutritive tissue)

(iv) Integument - Seed coat


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Growth of pollen tube towards embryo sac is

  • geotropism

  • thigmotaxis

  • chemotaxis

  • All of these


Perisperm is

  • degenerate part of synergids

  • peripheral part of endosperm

  • degenerate part of secondary nucleus

  • remnant of nucellus


Cleavage polyembryony occurs in

  • Pinus

  • Mini Cycas

  • Cycas

  • Ephedra


In Cycas, pollination takes place in

  • 3- celled stage

  • 4- celled stage

  • 2- celled stage

  • 1- celled stage


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In gymnosperms, the pollen chamber represents

  • A cell in the pollen grain in which the sperms are formed

  • A cavity in the ovule in which pollen grains are stored after pollination

  • An opening in the megagametophyte through which the pollen tube approaches the egg

  • The microsporangium in which pollen grains develop


Double fertilization occurs in

  • Riccia

  • Pteridium

  • Cycas

  • Capsella


In Pinus, male cone bears a large number of

  • ligules

  • anthers

  • micro- sporophylls

  • mega- sporophylls


Ubisch bodies are present in

  • pollen tube

  • pollen grain

  • microspore

  • tapetum


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In Cycas, pollination takes place in

  • 3- celled stage

  • 4- celled stage

  • 2- celled stage

  • 1- celled stage


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