In China rose the flowers are

  • actinomorphic, hypogynous with twisted aestivation

  • actinomorphic, epigynous with valvate aestivation

  • zygomorphic, hypogynous wit imbricate aestivation

  • zygomorphic, epigynous with twisted aestivation

Placentation in tomato and lemon is 

  • parietal

  • free central

  • marginal

  • axile

Cymose inflorescence is present in

  • Solanum

  • Sesbania

  •  Trifolium

  • Brassica

Phyllode is present in

  • Asparagus

  • Euphorbia

  • Australian Acacia

  • Opuntia

Pneumatophores are

  • A type of plant growing in swampy area

  • A type of plant growing in marshy area

  • A type of root for respiration

  • A type of aperture for gaseous exchange

How many plants in the list given below have composite fruits that develop from an inflorescence?

Walnut, poppy, radish, fig, pineapple, apple, tomato, mulberry

  • Four

  • Five

  • Two

  • Three

The correct floral formula of chilli is

Flowers are zygomorphic in

  • Gulmohar

  • tomato

  • datura

  • mustard

A drupe develope in

  • wheat

  • pea

  • tomato

  • mango

The ovary is half inferior in flowers of

  • cucumber

  • cotton

  • guava

  • peach

In unilocular ovary with a single ovule, the placentation is

  • marginal

  • basal

  • free central

  • axile

Keel is characteristic of the flowers of

  • gulmohur

  • Cassia

  • Calotropis

  • bean

The technical term used for the androecium in a flower of China rose (Hibiscus rosa sinensis) is

  • monoadelphous

  • diadelphous

  • polyandrous

  • polyadelphous

The scutellum observed in a grain of wheat or maize is comparable to which part of the seed in other monocotyledons?

  • Cotyledon

  • Endosperm

  • Aleurone layer

  • Plumule

The floral formula   is that of

  • tulip

  • soybean

  • sunn hemp

  • tobacco

Vegetative propagation in mint occurs by

  • runner

  • offset

  • rhizome

  • sucker

Cotyledons and testa are edible parts of

  • groundnut and pomegranate

  • walnut and tamarind

  • french bean and coconut

  • cashew nut and litchi

A fruit developed from hypanthodium inflorescence is called

  •  hesperidium

  •  sorosis 

  • syconus 

  • caryopsis

An example of a seed with endosperm, perisperm and caruncle is

  •  cotton

  • coffee

  • lily

The fleshy receptacle of synconous of fig encloses a number of

  • achenes

  • samaras

  • berries

  • mericarps

The length of different internodes in a culm of sugarcane is variable because of

 

  • shoot apical meristem

  • position of axillary buds

  • size of leaf lamina at the node below each internode

  • intercalary meristem

Replum is present in the ovary of flower of

  • lemon

  • mustard

  • sunflower

  • pea

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

  • pomegranate

  • orange

  • guava

  • cucumber

Pineapple (annanas) fruit develops from:

  • a unilocular polycarpillary flower

  • a multipistillate syncarpous flower

  • a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

  • a multilocular monocarpillary flower

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

  • Custard apple

  • pomegranate

  • Orange

  • Litchi

What type of placentation is seen in sweet pea?

  • Basal

  • Axile

  • Free central

  • Marginal

The examples (s) of modified leaves are

  • all of the above.

  • tendrils of pea

  • spines of cacti

  • pitcher of the pitcher plant

Oil is the prefer energy storing molecule in seeds of several plants, while excess energy in other parts of the plant is stored as starch. This is related to

  • the requirement of concentrated form of energy in seeds in order to make them light in weight and facilitate their dispersal.

  • dependence of the seeds totally on the stored fat for germination

  • protective role of the oil against insect pests

  • the antioxidant role of the soils

The quiescent centre of growing angiospermic roots of comprises of 

  • slow dividing cells

  • fast dividing cells

  • non-dividing cells

  • dead cells.

Which of these is a true nut?

  • Walnut

  • Areca nut

  • Cashew nut

  • Ground nut

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