Multiple Choice Questions

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The year 1900 AD is highly significant for geneticists due to

  • Discovery of genes

  • Principle of linkage

  • Chromosome theory of heredity

  • Rediscovery of Mendelism


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Rediscovery of Mendelism

In the year 1900 Hugo de Vries, Karl Correns and Erich Tschermark independently rediscovered the research carried out by Mendel, his experiment on heredity and variations and laid the basis of modern genetics.


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Which of the following cross will produce terminal flower in garden pea?

  • AA x Aa

  • AA x aa

  • Aa x Aa

  • Aa x AA


Which one of the following pairs of plants are not seed producers?

  • Funaria and Ficus

  • Fern and Funaria

  • Funada and Pinus

  • Ficus and Chlamydomonas


Which of the following is an epidermal cell containing chloroplast?

  • Stomata

  • Hydathode

  • Guard cell

  • None of these


Which one of the following is heterosporous?

  • Equisetum

  • Dryopteris

  • Salvinia

  • Adianturn


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 Match the following with correct combination.

Column I Column II
A. Cuscuta 1. Saprophyte
B. Eichhornia 2. Pneumatophare
C. Monotropa 3. Insectivorous plant
D. Rhizophora 4. Parasite
E. Utricularia 5. Root pocket


  • A
    B C D E
    3 1 5 4 2
  • A B C D E
    2 3 1 5 4
  • A B C D E
    4 3 1 5 2
  • A B C D E
    4 5 1 2 3

Diatomaceous earth is obtained from

  • Bacillarophyceae

  • Xanthophyceae

  • Rhodophyceae

  • Chrysophyceae


First vascular plant is

  • Thallophyta

  • Pteridophyta

  • Bryophyta

  • Spermatophyta


F1-generation means

  • First filial generation

  • First seed generation

  •  First flowering generation

  • First fertile generation


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The structures present in the roots to absorb water and minerals is

  • Epidermal extensions

  • Hypodermis

  • Endodermis

  • Epidermal appendages