Chapter 5: Morphology of Flowering Plants

Chapter-5: Morphology of Flowering Plants

1. Which one of the following plants dose not have root – pockets

  • Pistia
  • Lemna
  • Ficus
  • Eichhornia

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Ficus [/su_spoiler]

2. In Lathyrus, the leaves are modified into

  • thorns
  • cladodes
  • tendrils
  • spines

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] tendrils [/su_spoiler]

3. Floating roots are characteristic of

  • Tinospora
  • Jussiaea
  • Viscum
  • Vanda

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Jussiaea [/su_spoiler]

4. The largest petal overlaps the lateral ones in _________ aestivation.

  • Papilionaceous
  • Valvate
  • Twisted
  • Imbricate

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Papilionaceous [/su_spoiler]

5. The coloured part of a Bougainuillea flower is the

  • corolla
  • calyx
  • bracts
  • androecium

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] bracts [/su_spoiler]

6. In which of the following plants stems do not store the food material

  • potato
  • ginger
  • onion
  • colocasia

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] onion [/su_spoiler]

7. In tamarind, the pinnate leaf is

  • bipinnate
  • tripinnate
  • paripinnate
  • imparipinnate

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] bipinnate [/su_spoiler]

8. Potato tuber is an underground stem because

  • it lacks chlorophyll
  • it is swollen
  • it possesses axillary buds
  • it stores starch as reserve food material

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] it possesses axillary buds [/su_spoiler]

9. The petiole is swollen and spongy in

  • Nepenthes
  • Trapa
  • Clematis
  • all of the above

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Trapa [/su_spoiler]

10. Thors and spines are

  • homologous organs
  • analogous organs
  • thron is homologous while spine is analogous
  • spine is homologous while is analogous

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] spine is homologous while is analogous [/su_spoiler]

11. In banana, the stem is

  • underground only
  • both underground and aerial
  • absent
  • aerial only

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] underground only [/su_spoiler]

12. Artabotrys is a hook climber in which the hooks are modified

  • inflorescence axis
  • petiole
  • roots
  • stipules

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] inflorescence axis [/su_spoiler]

13. The arrangement of sepals or petals in floral bud is called

  • Placentation
  • Aestivation
  • Bracteate
  • Phyllotaxy

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] Aestivation [/su_spoiler]

14. The coloured part of a Bougainuillea flower is the

  • corolla
  • calyx
  • bracts
  • androecium

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] bracts [/su_spoiler]

15. Exceptional roots of Cuscuta are

  • haustorial
  • coralloid
  • mucorhizal
  • all of the above

[su_spoiler title=”Answer ” style=”fancy”] haustorial [/su_spoiler]