Botany

Question 1

It is a small stalk bearing an individual flower in an inflorescence

Answer 1

Pedicel

Question 2

In the female part of the plant, the sticky tip where pollen grains land is called

Answer 2

Stigma

Question 3

After fertilization, this part of the plant eventually becomes the fruit

Answer 3

Ovary

Question 4

It is the first structure that develops from the embryo during germination

Answer 4

Radicle

Question 5

The part of the plant that houses the ovules or eggs is called

Answer 5

Ovary

Question 6

What term is used to describe a plant that has male and female gametophytes on separate plants?

Answer 6

Dioecious

Question 7

A flower cluster in which stalks of nearly equal length spring from a common centre and form a flat or curved surface is called

Answer 7

Umbel

Question 8

Monocot flowers generally tend to have a number of petals that is divisible by

Answer 8

3

Question 9

It is a term used to describe the process of the transfer of pollen from one individual plant to another, whereby the pollen is carried by insects

Answer 9

Entomophily

Question 10

When the ovary is placed above the rest of the floral segments , where the ovary is free from the hypanthium

Answer 10

Superior/ Hypogynous

Question 11

The edible fleshy part of the mango is called

Answer 11

Mesocarp

Question 12

The seed coat is formed from

Answer 12

Integuments

Question 13

When flowers receive pollen from another plant of the same species

Answer 13

Cross-pollination

Question 14

What is the method of dehiscence of Iris sp?

Answer 14

Loculicidal

Question 15

It is the stalk by which an ovule or seed is connected to the placenta in the ovary

Answer 15

Funnicle

Question 16

How do blackberry seeds most likely spread to a new location

Answer 16

Being digested by animals

Question 17

All of the following are not nuts except

Answer 17

Walnut

Question 18

All of the following are characteristics of wind-pollinated flowers except

Answer 18

Stigma is foud inside the flower

Question 19

All are dicotyledonous seeds except

Answer 19

Rice

Question 20

In chronological order, the processes are

Answer 20

Germination, Pollination, Fertilization, Seed Dispersal

Question 21

It is a transfer of pollen from one place to another

Answer 21

Pollination

Question 22

What is the leaf-like structure that protects the budding flower called?

Answer 22

Sepal

Question 23

Flat-topped inflorescence in which the central flowers open first, followed by the peripheral flower

Answer 23

Cyme/ Cymose

Question 24

These seeds have food stored that remains persistent until maturity

Answer 24

Albuminous/ Endospermic

Question 25

These are fruits derived from the multiple ovaries of a single flower

Answer 25

Aggregate

Question 26

It is the tissue that surrounds and nourishes the embryo in the seeds of angiosperm

Answer 26

Endosperm

Question 27

The process of fusion of one male gamete with an egg and that of another male gamete with a secondary nucleus is called

Answer 27

Double Fertilization

Question 28

Vesicular juice

Answer 28

Pulp sac

Question 29

It is a part of the flower of an orchid that attracts insects

Answer 29

Lip/Labellum

Question 30

It is the category of inflorescence where the youngest flowers are at the top

Answer 30

Indeterminate Inflorescence

Question 31

It is the type of inflorescence of Acalypha hispida

Answer 31

Catkin

Question 32

The ovary wall gives rise to

Answer 32

Pericarp

Question 33

What form of developmental fusion of organs does morning glory possess?

Answer 33

Connation

Question 34

It is a spongy, whitish wart-like outgrowth of the outer seed coat surrounding the micropyle of the castor bean.

Answer 34

Caruncle

Question 35

The two specialized eggs that lies adjacent to the egg cell

Answer 35

Synergid Cells

Question 36

All of the following are used in fruit classification except

Answer 36

Nature of seed coat and its layers

Question 37

Acts as the nutritive tissue for the developing embryo

Answer 37

Nucellus

Question 38

A fruit is considered a true fruit if all of its floral whorls develop into a fruit

Answer 38

False

Question 39

All are simple dry dehiscent except

Answer 39

Samara

Question 40

What type of placentation does kundol or winter melon have?

Answer 40

Parietal- the placentae are found on the wall of a compound ovary