Morphology Of Flowering Plants

Question 1

In monocotyledonous plants which root system is present?

Answer 1

Fibrous root system

Question 2

In mustard plant which root system is present ?

Answer 2

Tap root system

Question 3

In a dicotyledonous plant which root system is present?

Answer 3

Tap root system

Question 4

Is mustard a monocot or dicot?

Answer 4

Dicotyledon

Question 5

In wheat which root system is present?

Answer 5

Fibrous root system.

Question 6

Is wheat monocot or dicot?

Answer 6

Monocotyledon

Question 7

Adventitious root system is present in?

Answer 7

Maize, Sugar cane, Sweet potato, Grass, Monstera and Banyan tree.

Question 8

Due to storage of food the fibrous roots of which plant became tuberous?

Answer 8

Asparagus

Question 9

Prop roots are found in?

Answer 9

Banyan tree

Question 10

Prop roots are also called ?

Answer 10

Pillar roots

Question 11

Prop roots arise from?

Answer 11

Branches of banyan tree.

Question 12

Stilt roots are found in?

Answer 12

Maize and Sugarcane.

Question 13

Stilt roots are also called ?

Answer 13

Brace roots.

Question 14

Brace roots arise from?

Answer 14

Basal nodes of the stem.

Question 15

Respiratory roots are also called?

Answer 15

Pneumatophores

Question 16

Pneumatophores are found in?

Answer 16

Avicenna and Rhizophora

Question 17

Leafless wiry stem parasite is?

Answer 17

Cuscuta

Question 18

Root pockets are found in?

Answer 18

Balancing roots of Eichornia

Question 19

Asparagus is which type of plant?

Answer 19

Asparagus is Xerophyte with fibrous roots storing food

Question 20

Roots hair characteristics are ?

Answer 20

Unicellular and short lived.

Question 21

Assimilatory roots are seen in?

Answer 21

Taeniophyllum

Question 22

Plants which grow on other plants are called?

Answer 22

Epiphytes.

Question 23

Example of epiphytes are?

Answer 23

Vanda.

Question 24

Which roots are specialised to absorb moisture?

Answer 24

Velamen roots.

Question 25

Velamen roots arise from which tissue?

Answer 25

Dead spongy tissue.

Question 26

Partial parasites are?

Answer 26

Viscum and Striga.

Question 27

Comlplete parasites are?

Answer 27

Cuscuta and Rafflesia.

Question 28

Nodular roots are observed in the family?

Answer 28

Fabacae.(rhizobium)

Question 29

Assimilatory roots are found in?

Answer 29

Taeniophyllum

Question 30

Assimilatory roots are also called?

Answer 30

Photosynthetic roots

Question 31

The origin of leaves and branches is?

Answer 31

Exogenous.

Question 32

The modification of stem which take part in vegetative propagation and perennation is?

Answer 32

Underground stem.

Question 33

Examples of stem modifications is?

Answer 33

Rhizome of ginger (Zingiber) and Turmeric (curcuma) Stem tuber of Potato Corm of Zaminkhand (Amorphophallus) and Colacasia Bulb of Onion and Garlic

Question 34

How is the stem in bulb modification?

Answer 34

The stem is reduced and discoid.

Question 35

The food is stored in bulb in?

Answer 35

Scales.

Question 36

The fleshy scales in bulb modification represent the?

Answer 36

Leaf bases.

Question 37

The dry membranous scales in bulb modification are called?

Answer 37

Tunics.

Question 38

Name all the aerial stem modifications?

Answer 38

1) Stem tendrils 2) Thorns 3) Phylloclades 4) Cladophylls 5) Bulbils

Question 39

Name all the sub aerial stem modifications?

Answer 39

1) Runners 2) Suckers 3) Stolons 4) Offsets

Question 40

Stem tendrils develop from?

Answer 40

Auxillary buds.

Question 41

Stem tendrils are found in?

Answer 41

Cucumber, Pumpkin, Watermelon, Grape wine, Plassifora , Vitis, Cissus

Question 42

Thorns are of which origin?

Answer 42

Axillary stem origin.

Question 43

Axillary stem thorns are found in?

Answer 43

Bougainvillea and Citrus

Question 44

Flattened phylloclades are found in?

Answer 44

Opuntia

Question 45

Cylindrical fleshy phylloclades are found in?

Answer 45

Euphorbia

Question 46

Needle like phylloclades are found in?

Answer 46

Casuarina

Question 47

In which aerial stem modifications the leaves are modified into scales and spines? And why?

Answer 47

In phylloclades and to reduce water loss due to transpiration

Question 48

Leaf like cladophylls are found in?

Answer 48

Ruscus

Question 49

Give characteristics of cladophylls ?

Answer 49

They are branches of limited growth modified to perform photosynthesis.

Question 50

Cladophylls are found in?

Answer 50

Asparagus and Ruscus

Question 51

Bulbils help in?

Answer 51

Vegetative propagation.

Question 52

In which plant vegetative buds are modified into bulbils?

Answer 52

Dioscorea.

Question 53

In which plant floral buds are modified into bulbils?

Answer 53

Agave.

Question 54

In dinner adventitious roots develop at?

Answer 54

Nodes.

Question 55

Examples of runners?

Answer 55

Underground stems of Grasses and Strawberry. | Sub aerial stems of Oxalis.

Question 56

Examples of Suckers?

Answer 56

Banana, Pineapple and Chrysanthemum.

Question 57

Example of Stolon?

Answer 57

Jasmine , Nerium and Mint.

Question 58

What is a offset?

Answer 58

It is a short horizontal branch of one internodal length.

Question 59

Offset is found in what kind of plants?

Answer 59

Hydrophytes.

Question 60

Examples of offsets?

Answer 60

Pistil and Eichornia

Question 61

The Largest vegetative bud in the plant kingdom is?

Answer 61

Cabbage.

Question 62

Woody thinners are called?

Answer 62

Lianes.

Question 63

Fleshy scale leaves of garlic are called?

Answer 63

Cloves.

Question 64

Stem tubers of helianthus tuberoses store ?

Answer 64

Inulin

Question 65

Common name of helianthus tuberosus is ?

Answer 65

Sunflower.

Question 66

The origin of leaf is ?

Answer 66

Exogenous.

Question 67

Leaves originate from which meristem?

Answer 67

Shoot apical meristem.

Question 68

Leaves are arranged in which manner?

Answer 68

Acropetally

Question 69

What are stipules?

Answer 69

The two lateral small leaf like structures.

Question 70

In legumes how is leaf base and what is it called?

Answer 70

Leaf base is swollen and it is called pulvinus

Question 71

Swollen petioles are found in?

Answer 71

Eichhornia and Trapa.

Question 72

In dicots which Venation is observed?

Answer 72

Reticulate Venation.

Question 73

In monocots which Venation is observed?

Answer 73

Parallel Venation.

Question 74

Monocots with reticulate Venation are ?

Answer 74

Smilax and Dioscorea.

Question 75

Dicots with parallel Venation are?

Answer 75

Caulophyllum and Eryngium.