Q. No.
Which one of the following pairs, is not correctly matched?
1. Abscisic acid - Stomatal closure
2. Gibberellic acid - Leaf fall
3. Cytokinin - Cell division
4. IAA - Cell wall elongation
How does pruning help in making the hedge dense?
| 1. | It induces the differentiation of new shoots from the rootstock |
| 2. | It frees axillary buds from apical dominance |
| 3. | The apical shoots grow faster after pruning |
| 4. | It releases wound hormones |
Treatment of seed at low temperature under moist conditions to break its dormancy is called
1. scarification
2. vernalization
3. chelation
4. stratification
An enzyme that can stimulate germination of barley seeds is:-
1. α-amylase
2. lipase
3. protease
4. invertase
One set of a plant was grown at 12 hours a day and 12 hours night period cycles and it flowered while in the other set, night phase was interrupted by a flash of light and it did not produce a flower. Under which one of the following categories will you place this plant?
1. Darkness neutral
2. Day neutral
3. Short day
4. Long day
NCERT textbook says that plant growth is unique. What is the character of plant growth being referred to?
1. Plants have a closed growth
2. Capacity of unlimited growth throughout life
3. Complete absence of growth after a certain age
4. Growth without development
All the following contribute to an increase in girth of dicots and gymnosperms except:
| 1. | Apical meristem | 2. | Lateral meristems |
| 3. | Vascular cambium | 4. | Cork-cambium |
Match Column I [phase of growth] and Column II [cell characteristics] and choose the correct answer from the codes given:
| Column I | Column II | ||
| A. | Meristematic | a. | Increased vacuolation, new cell wall deposition |
| B. | Elongation | b. | Thin cellulosic wall with abundant plasmodesmatal connections |
| C. | Maturation | c. | Maximal wall thickening |
Codes
| A | B | C | |
| 1. | a | b | c |
| 2. | b | c | a |
| 3. | b | a | c |
| 4. | c | b | a |
Identify the incorrect statement regarding the arithmetic growth?
| 1. | Following mitosis, both daughter cells continue to divide |
| 2. | Can be exemplified by root elongating at a constant rate |
| 3. | On plotting the length of the organ against time, a linear curve is obtained |
| 4. | Mathematically it is expressed as |
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