February 15, 2025
Welcome to your test Anatomy of Flowering Plants
The total number of Questions is 90
Each Question carries 4 marks
There is a 25% negative marking, i.e., -1 mark for every wrong answer
The total time for the test is 60 minutes
All the best!
1.
Both apical meristems and intercalary meristems:
I. are primary meristems
II. appear early in plant life
III. contribute to the formation of the primary plant bodyDeselect Answer
2.
Root branches arise from
3.
Identify the correct statement regarding collenchyma in plants:
4.
What is the number of correct statements amongst the following regarding phloem tissue of plants?
I. Gymnosperms lack albuminous cells and sieve cells.
II. The companion cells are specialized parenchymatous cells.
III. Phloem parenchyma is absent in most of the monocotyledons.
IV. Phloem fibres are generally absent in the primary phloem.Deselect Answer
5.
Stomata in grass leaf are
6.
In dicot stem, the vascular bundle is:
8.
Endodermis of dicot stem is also called
9.
Vascular bundles are arranged in a ring in the stem of
10.
Trichome takes part in
11.
Parts of grasses removed by the grazing herbivores are regenerated due to the activity of
12.
In a dorsiventral leaf, the stomata occur
13.
Lignin is a component of the secondary walls of
14.
In cucurbits, hypodermis is formed of
15.
Which of the following is made up of dead cells?
16.
Protoxylem is towards the pith and metaxylem towards the periphery. The xylem is
17.
A major characteristic of the monocot root is the presence of
18.
Radial vascular bundles occur in
19.
Meristematic cells are characterised by
21.
Water containing cavities in vascular bundles are found in
22.
In land plants, the guard cells differ from other epidermis cells in having
23.
The chief water conducting elements of xylem in gymnosperms are
24.
Passage cells are thin-walled cells found in
25.
Fascicular cambium separates the xylem and phloem in
26.
The quiscent centre in root meristem serves as
27.
Tissue taking part in transporting organic nutrients from storage region is
28.
Select the correct option:
Statement I: Endodermis forms the innermost layer of cortex.
Statement II: Endodermis comprises of barrel-shaped cells.Deselect Answer
29.
A living mechanical tissue having cellulosic thickenings is
30.
Which is true about a monocot leaf?
31.
Collateral open vascular bundles and eustele is found in
32.
Epiblema of roots is same as
33.
Which of the following statements are correct:
I. Uneven thickening of the cell wall is characteristic of sclerenchyma.
II. Periblem forms cortex of stem and root.
III. Tracheids are chief water conducting elements in gymnosperms.
IV. Companion cell is devoid of a nucleus at maturity.Deselect Answer
34.
The axillary and terminal buds are derived from
35.
Which of the following is not true about sclereids?
36.
During the formation of leaves and elongation of stem, some cells left behind from shoot apical meristem constitute ____________.
37.
Which of the following options contains only living cells?
38.
Growth is always restricted to the specialised regions in plants because
39.
Lateral meristems include
40.
How many of the following are the components of the Ground Tissue System?
Epidermis, Hypodermis, General Cortex, Endodermis, Pericycle, Medullary Rays, Vascular Bundle, Pith, Leaf MesophyllDeselect Answer
41.
Radial arrangement of vascular bundles is most common in
42.
In conjoint type of vascular bundle, xylem and phloem are present on ________ radii and phloem is located on the ________ side of the xylem.
43.
Conjoint vascular bundles are most common in
44.
Root hairs arise from __________.
45.
Endodermis comprises of ___________ layer of __________ shaped cells.
46.
How many of the following constitute the stele?
Vascular bundles, pericycle, endodermis, pith, cortex, epidermisDeselect Answer
47.
In dicot root, the pith present is
48.
In dicot stem, hypodermis is made up of __________ cells while general cortex is made up of _________.
49.
Which among the following is referred to as 'starch sheath'?
50.
The 'ring' arrangement of vascular bundle is characteristic of
51.
The hypodermis of the monocot stem is made up of
52.
Vascular bundles are _________ and surrounded by _________ bundle sheath in monocot stem.
53.
Resin, latex, and mucilage are found in
54.
Bast fibres are made up of
55.
Which component of jute, flax and hemp are commonly used?
56.
Epidermal cells are parenchymatous with ___________ amount of cytoplasm lining the cell wall and __________ vacuole.
57.
The companion cells help in maintaining the ___________ in the sieve tube.
58.
Cuticle is not found in
59.
In dicot leaves, the __________ epidermis generally bears more stomata than the ___________ epidermis.
60.
Which of the following is not a part of epidermal tissue system?
61.
Quiescent centre shows
62.
Meristematic tissues in plants
63.
A dicotyledonous leaf is also known as
64.
Which one is true for dicot leaf?
65.
Sunken stomata occur in
66.
The function of medullary rays in a dicot root is
67.
Waxy coating on the surface of a young stem is
68.
Hypodermis in monocotyledonous stem is
69.
Vascular bundles surrounded by sclerenchymatous sheath occur in
70.
Which one is incorrect statement?
71.
Plants having little or no secondary growth are
72.
The transverse section of a plant shows following anatomical features:
(a) A large number of scattered vascular bundles surrounded by bundle sheath.
(b) Large conspicuous parenchymatous ground tissue.
(c) Vascular bundles conjoint and closed
(d) Phloem parenchyma absent
Identify the category of plant and its part:Deselect Answer
73.
Monocot root differs from a dicot root in having
75.
The given figure shows apical meristem of root apex with few parts marked as 1, 2, and 3. Identify the correct labelling of 1, 2, and 3.
76.
A boy standing behind a tree carved his name on the tree. After twenty years
77.
Find the incorrect statement:
78.
Bamboo and grasses elongate by the activity of
79.
Meristematic tissues are composed of
80.
Largest number of chloroplast is found in
81.
Vascular bundles occur in a leaf in
82.
Read the following statements and select the correct one(s) from the options:
(i) In flowering plants, tracheids and vessels are the main water transporting elements.
(ii) The presence of vessels is a characteristic feature of angiosperms.
(iii) Xylem fibres have highly thickened walls and their walls are made up of cellulose.
(iv) Xylem parenchyma stores food materials in the form of starch or fat and other substances like tannins.Deselect Answer
83.
Active divisions occur in the cells of
84.
Well developed pith is found in
85.
Which of the following figure is a type of permanent tissue having many different types of cells?
86.
Which of the following statements are correct?
(i) Uneven thickening of the cell wall is characteristic of sclerenchyma.
(ii) Periblem forms the cortex of the stem and the root.
(iii) Tracheids are the chief water transporting elements in gymnosperms.
(iv) Companion cell is devoid of a nucleus at maturity.
(v) The commercial cork is obtained from Quercus suber.Deselect Answer
87.
In monocots, root cap is formed by
88.
Parenchymatous tissue is characterised by
89.
Which of the following tissues is least differentiated?
90.
Identify 1, 2, and 3 in the given figure of shoot apical meristem.
