GENERAL SCIENCE - BOTANY - 7

116. Entomophily is the pollination through:

(a) Birds (b) Animals

(c) Insects (d) Wind

Answer: (c)

117. The tissues that provides support to growing shoots and leaves of plant body:

(a) Parenchyma (b) Schlerenchyma

(c) Collenchyma (d) Phloem

Answer: (c)

118. The tendency of plants to grow in response to the influence of chemicals:

(a) Geotropism (b) Phototropism

(c) Chemotropism (d) None of these

Answer: (c)

119. The pigment imparts purple/blue colour to flowers:

(a) Xanthophyll (b) Anthocyanin

(c) Betacyanin (d) Haemoglobin

Answer: (b)

120. Ornithophily is the pollination through:

(a) Birds (b) Animals

(c) Insects (d) Wind

Answer: (a)

121. Zoophily is the pollination through:

(a) Insects (b) Wind

(c) Animals (d) Birds

Answer: (c)

122. The hard parts of the plant body is made up of the tissues:

(a) Collenchyma (b) Parenchyma

(c) Schlerenchyma (d) Phloem

Answer: (c)

123. Japanese art of flower arrangement:

(a) Origami (b) Ikebana

(c) Harakiri (d) Sudoku

Answer: (b)

124. The food materials from leaf are carried to various parts of the plant body by:

(a) Phloem (b) Xylem

(c) Meristem (d) None of these

Answer: (a)

125. The tissues mainly responsible for food storage and conduction of substances:

 (a) Schlerenchyma (b) Parenchyma

(c) Collenchyma (d) None of these

Answer: (b)

126. The plant used in space vehicles to maintain the level of oxygen:

(a) Chlorella (b) Azolla

(c) Cactus (d) Porella

Answer: (a)

127. Which is regarded as the basis of life?

(a) Cytoplasm (b) Protoplasm

(c) Chromosome (d) Gene

Answer: (b)

128. Penicellin was discovered in:

(a) 1908 (b) 1910

(c) 1915 (d) 1928

Answer: (d)

129. Xylology is the study of:

(a) Fruits (b) Wood

(c) Seed (d) Flower

Answer: (b)

130. Xerophytes are plants in:

(a) Deserts (b) Oceans

(c) Ponds (d) Rivers

Answer: (a)

131. The study of trees:

(a) Dendrology (b) Pomology

(c) Xylology (d) Oenology

Answer: (a)

132. Who is the father of the Theory of the Inheretance of Acquired Charecters?

(a) Lamarch (b) De Vries

(c) Darwin (d) Johanson

Answer: (a)

133. Who is the father of Mutation theory?

(a) Darwin (b) Lamarch

(c) De Vries (d) Mendel

Answer: (c)

134. Who coined the word ‘Gene’?

(a) Gregor Mendel (b) Lamarch

(c) Johanson (d) Bateson

Answer: (c)

135. Stratosphere Giant, the tallest tree in the world, is in:

(a) USA (b) Russia

(c) China (d) France

Answer: (a)

136. Annual rings are  helpful to determine the .......of trees?

(a) height (b) Genus

(c) Yield (d) age

Answer: (d)

137. The study of fruits:

(a) Sitology (b) Dendrology

(c) Trichology (d) Pomology

Answer: (d)

138. Sericulture is the cultivation of:

(a) Silkworm (b) Honey bee

(c) Garden plants (d) Prawn

Answer: (a)

139. Yellow revolution is related to the increased production of:

(a) Oil seeds (b) Pharmaceuticals

(c) Wheat (d) Cement

Answer: (a)

140. Black soil is most suitable for the cultivation of:

(a) Jute (b) Wheat

(c) Rice (d) Cotton

Answer: (d)
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