Free Horticulture MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Ghooti
  • B. Budding
  • C. Rooting
  • D. Grafting

Explanation: Grafting joins a scion to a rootstock so that their cambia meet and produce connecting vascular tissue.

Correct answer: Grafting
  • A. Ground layering
  • B. Serpentine layering
  • C. Stool layering
  • D. Air layeringHorticulture

Explanation: Serpentine layering uses a long, flexible shoot that is alternately covered and exposed, allowing roots to form at several nodes.

Correct answer: Serpentine layering
  • A. Cross match
  • B. Marcpottage
  • C. Ghooti
  • D. All the above

Explanation: Air layering is also called marcottage or gootee, in which roots are induced on an elevated stem portion before it is detached.

Correct answer: Ghooti
  • A. Inducing fruit maturity
  • B. Initiating flowers
  • C. Changing the green color of fruits
  • D. All the above

Explanation: Ethylene promotes fruit ripening, induces flowering in crops such as pineapple, and removes green colour during fruit degreening.

Correct answer: All the above
  • A. All the above
  • B. Delaying senescence
  • C. Accelerating bud growth
  • D. To stimulate shoot development

Explanation: Cytokinins promote cell division and shoot or bud growth, and they delay senescence by maintaining tissue activity and chlorophyll.

Correct answer: All the above
  • A. Corolla
  • B. Calyx
  • C. Flower
  • D. All the above

Explanation: The flower is the reproductive structure of an angiosperm and develops into fruits and seeds after fertilization.

Correct answer: Flower
  • A. Mesocarp
  • B. Sycoms
  • C. Drup
  • D. Berry

Explanation: Botanically, banana is a berry because it develops from a single ovary and generally lacks a hard stone.

Correct answer: Berry
  • A. Perianth
  • B. Sepals
  • C. Petals
  • D. Epidermus

Explanation: The calyx and corolla together form the perianth, the non-reproductive floral envelope.

Correct answer: Perianth
  • A. 3%
  • B. 10%
  • C. 6%
  • D. 25%

Explanation: About 6% of Pakistan’s cultivated area is generally reported as being under horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables and…

Correct answer: 6%
  • A. Middle east
  • B. Africa
  • C. South America
  • D. Indo- Chinese region

Explanation: Citrus originated in the Indo-Chinese and adjoining Southeast Asian region, from which its major cultivated forms spread.

Correct answer: Indo- Chinese region
  • A. Vitamin C
  • B. Vitamin B
  • C. Vitamin A
  • D. Vitamin D

Explanation: Guava, tomato, ber and melons are notable sources of vitamin C, which supports collagen formation and immune function.

Correct answer: Vitamin C
  • A. Aggregate fruit
  • B. Pome
  • C. Soft fruits
  • D. Berries

Explanation: In pome fruits such as apple and pear, the fleshy edible part develops mainly from the thalamus or floral receptacle.

Correct answer: Pome
  • A. Monoecious
  • B. deciduous
  • C. Evergreen
  • D. annuals

Explanation: Deciduous plants shed their leaves during an unfavorable season, commonly winter, and produce new foliage later.

Correct answer: deciduous
  • A. Truck gardening
  • B. Olericulture
  • C. Home gardening
  • D. Market gardening

Explanation: Market gardening produces vegetables mainly for nearby local markets and urban consumers.

Correct answer: Market gardening
  • A. Root
  • B. Fruit
  • C. Tuber
  • D. Rhizome

Explanation: Sweet potato is a modified adventitious storage root, not a stem tuber.

Correct answer: Root
  • A. Orcharding
  • B. Viticulture
  • C. Ciltriculture
  • D. Pomology

Explanation: Viticulture is the specialized cultivation and production of grapes. Pomology covers fruit crops more broadly, whereas orcharding refers…

Correct answer: Viticulture
  • A. Olericulture
  • B. Sericulture
  • C. Pomology
  • D. Citricultire

Explanation: Pomology is the branch of horticulture concerned with fruit crops, including their production and handling.

Correct answer: Pomology
  • A. Pomology and floriculture
  • B. Floriculture and landscape
  • C. Viticulture and landscape
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Ornamental horticulture combines floriculture, which deals with ornamental flowers and plants, with landscape horticulture, which deals…

Correct answer: Floriculture and landscape
  • A. Suckers
  • B. Offset
  • C. Division
  • D. Seeding

Explanation: An offset is a small lateral plant arising from the parent plant that can be detached and grown independently.

Correct answer: Offset
  • A. Water
  • B. Birds
  • C. Wind
  • D. Hybridization

Explanation: Spinach is predominantly wind-pollinated because its small, inconspicuous flowers release and receive pollen through air movement.

Correct answer: Wind