Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one gives the most valid and recent explanation for stomatal movements?

  • Transpiration

  • Potassium influx and efflux

  • Starch hydrolysis

  • Starch hydrolysis


B.

Potassium influx and efflux

Levitt in 1954 proposed active potassium transport theory, which is the most valid and recent explanation for stomatal movements. It is explained below as:

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In a ring girdled plant

  • the shoot dies first

  • the root dies first

  • the shoot and root die together

  • the shoot and root die together

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Which one gives the most valid and recent explanation for stomatal movements?

  • Transpiration

  • Potassium influx and efflux

  • Starch hydrolysis

  • Starch hydrolysis

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The movement of a gene from one linkage group to another is called

  • inversion

  • duplication

  • translocation

  • translocation

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The function of leghemoglobin in the root nodules of legumes is 

  • oxygen removal 

  • nodule differentiation

  • expression of nif gene

  • expression of nif gene

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Guttation is the result of 

  • diffusion

  • transpiration

  • osmosis 

  • osmosis 

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Carrier ions like Na+ facilitate the absorption of substance like

  • amino acids and glucose

  • glucose and fatty acids

  • fatty acids and glycerol

  • fatty acids and glycerol

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Guard cell help in

  • protection against grazing

  • transpiration

  • guttation

  • guttation

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The rupture and fractionation do not usually occur in the water column in vessel/tracheids during the ascent of sap because of 

  • lignified thick walls

  • cohesion and adhesion

  • weak gravitational pull

  • weak gravitational pull

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Passage cells are thin-walled cells found in

  • endodermis of roots facilitating rapid transport of water from cortex to pericycle

  • phloem elements that serve as entry points for substance for transport to other plant parts

  • testa of seeds to enable emergence of growing embryonic axis during seed germination

  • testa of seeds to enable emergence of growing embryonic axis during seed germination

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