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Importance of day length in flowering of plants was first shown in 

  • Lemna

  • tobacco

  • Cotton 

  • Cotton 


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tobacco

The phenomenon of photoperiodism was first discovered by Garner and Allard (1920, a mammoth variety of tobacco could be made to flower only by reducing the light hours with artificial darkening. On the basis of photoperiodic response to flowering, plants (tobacco), long day plant (eg, wheat, hanbane), short - long day plant (eg Campanula), long short day plants, (eg, wild kidney bean) and day neutral plants (eg, cotton).

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What does the filiform apparatus do at the entrance into ovule?

  • It helps in the entry of pollen tube into a synergid

  • It prevents entry of more than one pollen tube into the embryo sac

  • It brings about opening of the pollen tube

  • It brings about opening of the pollen tube


Unisexuality of flowers prevents

  • autogamy, but not geitonogamy

  • Both geitonogamy and xenogamy

  • geitonogamy, but not xenogamy

  • geitonogamy, but not xenogamy


Which one of the flowing pairs of plants structures has haploid number of chromosomes?

  • Megaspore mother cell and antipodal cells

  • Egg cell and antipodal cells

  • Nucellus and antipodal cells

  • Nucellus and antipodal cells


Male gametes in angiosperms are formed by the division of

  • microspore

  • generative cell

  • vegetative cell

  • vegetative cell


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