According to Wareing and Foda, which of the following causes the oxidation of an inhibitor present in the upper seed of the cocklebur plant, thus allowing germination?
A. Quantity of water
B. High oxygen tension
C. High concentration of inhibitors
D. All of the above
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The formation of glucose or glycogen from non-carbohydrate precursors is known as
A. Glycogenolysis
B. Glycogenesis
C. Gluconeogenesis
D. Pentose phosphate pathway
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A sterile flower without androecium and gynoecium is known as
A. Hermaphrodite
B. Incomplete
C. Neuter
D. Imperfect
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C4 cycle is energy expensive and requires
A. 18 ATP for synthesis of one glucose molecule
B. 20 ATP for synthesis of one glucose molecule
C. 30 ATP for synthesis of one glucose molecule
D. 40 ATP for synthesis of one glucose molecule
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Which of the following are used to prepare the main storage (starch) form of food in plants?
A. Water and oxygen
B. Carbon dioxide and water
C. Carbon dioxide and nitrogen
D. Carbon dioxide and oxygen
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Calvin and co-workers selected which of the following plants for the study of the process of photosynthesis ?
A. Nostoc and Tradescantia
B. Chlorella and Scenedesmus
C. Nostoc and Ulothrix
D. Chlorella and Oedogonium
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Raising of more than one crop from the same seed stock of crops is known as
A. Crop rotation
B. Pureline selection
C. Ratooning
D. None of the above
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When a plant of one genotype is altered phenotypically by chemical or physical treatment to mimic the phenotype of another plant of different genotype, it is referred to as
A. Phenotype
B. Karyotype
C. Hybrid
D. Phenocopy
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Which of the following plant types is an intermediate group between the aquatic and land plants?
A. Hydrophytes
B. Xerophytes
C. Mesophytes
D. Helophytes
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The special type of fleshy buds that develop in aquatic plants like Potamogeton and Utricularia for vegetative propagation are known as
A. Stolons
B. Turions
C. Bulbils
D. Corms
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Nuts, vegetable oil and fish are rich sources of
A. Omega-3
B. carbohydrates
C. minerals
D. vitamins
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The chromophore moiety of the biliprotein is known as
A. Phycoerythrin
B. Phycocyanin
C. Phycobilin
D. None of the above
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The method by which embryo sac is formed from archesporium without meiosis is called
A. Adventive embryony
B. Diplospory
C. Somatic apospory
D. Generative apospory
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Match the structures given in
column (A) with the functions given in
column (B) .
Column A
Column B
a. Stomata
1. Absorption of water
b. Xylem
2. Transpiration
c. Root hairs
3. Transport of food
d. Phloem
4. Transportion of water
A. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3
C. a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3
D. a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
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Match
List-I with
List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I
List-II
a. Exclusive species
1. Species occurring frequently in one kind of community and sometimes also in others
b. Selective species
2. Species which occur in any community without showing preference to any particular kind of community
c. Preferential species
3. Species which occur in several kinds of communities but more abundantly in some
d. Indifferent species
4. Species completely restricted to one kind of community
A. a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1
B. a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1
C. a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2
D. a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
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The first clearly stated hypothesis on photoperiodism was given in 1920 by
A. Garner and Allard
B. Mitchell and Munch
C. Hamner and Mutt
D. Knott and Borthwicks
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Which of the following is an accessory pigment?
A. Chlorophyll-a
B. Chlorophyll-c
C. Grana
D. Hemozoin
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The minimum number of pigment molecules capable of acting cooperatively in a photochemical act to evolve one molecule of O2 or to reduce one molecule of CO2 is known as
A. Quantum unit
B. Quantasome unit
C. Photosynthetic unit
D. Photochemical unit
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When the long-day plant Sedum spectabile was grafted to the short-day plant Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, it
A. Flowered under short-day conditions
B. Flowered under long-day conditions
C. Flowered under day-neutral conditions
D. All of the above
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The rate of photosynthesis is
A. Independent of the concentration of the end products
B. Directly proportional to the concentration of the end products
C. Inversely proportional to the concentration of the end products
D. Always equal to the concentration of the end products
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