Free Horticulture MCQs with Answers
286 Horticulture MCQs from Agriculture, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.
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- A. Mango
- B. Litchi
- C. Apple
- D. All the above
Explanation: Apple is a temperate fruit tree with a chilling requirement for satisfactory bud break and flowering.
Correct answer: Apple- A. Evergreen
- B. Deciduous
- C. Binuiatis
- D. Perininals
Explanation: Evergreen plants retain their leaves for several seasons, whereas deciduous plants shed them periodically.
Correct answer: Evergreen- A. Shurbs
- B. Herbs
- C. Off shoots
- D. Succulents
Explanation: Herbs are generally small, self-supporting plants with soft, succulent stems.
Correct answer: Herbs- A. Train farming
- B. Distant farming
- C. Truck farming
- D. Intensive farming
Explanation: Truck farming means growing vegetables commercially for transport and sale in distant markets.
Correct answer: Truck farming- A. Tuber
- B. Fruit
- C. Leaf
- D. Fruit
Explanation: Lettuce is grown for its edible leaves, unlike potato, which is a modified stem tuber. The duplicate fruit options are clearly incorrect.
Correct answer: Leaf- A. Tuber
- B. Rhizome
- C. Fruit
- D. Sucker
Explanation: A potato is a stem tuber formed from the end of an underground stolon; its eyes are buds that can produce new shoots.
Correct answer: Tuber- A. Pomology
- B. Orchading
- C. Horticulture
- D. Olericulture
Explanation: Orcharding means the commercial cultivation and production of fruit trees in orchards.
Correct answer: Orchading- A. Viticulture
- B. Pomology
- C. Olericulture
- D. Sericulture
Explanation: Olericulture is the branch of horticulture concerned with the production and marketing of vegetables.
Correct answer: Olericulture- A. Jasmine
- B. Chrysanthemum
- C. Petunia
- D. Rose
Explanation: Gulkand is a sweet preserve prepared mainly from fresh rose petals, traditionally using fragrant damask roses.
Correct answer: Rose- A. Per carp of fruit
- B. Endosperm
- C. Leaf
- D. Inflorescence
Explanation: Coir is obtained from the tough fibrous mesocarp, or outer pericarp, of the coconut fruit.
Correct answer: Per carp of fruit- A. juicy hairs
- B. juicy epicure
- C. juicy test
- D. Monocarp
Explanation: The edible portion of a pomegranate is the juicy testa, also called the aril, surrounding each seed.
Correct answer: juicy test- A. Tomato
- B. Bitter gourd
- C. Muskmelon
- D. Potato
Explanation: Tomato, muskmelon and bitter gourd are botanical fruits because they develop from the ovary after fertilisation.
Correct answer: Potato- A. Shoot
- B. Root
- C. Leaves
- D. Flowers
Explanation: A potato tuber is a swollen underground stem, as shown by its buds or eyes.
Correct answer: Shoot- A. Solanaceae
- B. Cucurbitaceae
- C. Cruciferae
- D. Legumunaceae
Explanation: Cucurbitaceae includes a large group of vegetable crops such as cucumber, pumpkin, squash, gourds, muskmelon and watermelon.
Correct answer: Cucurbitaceae- A. Flower
- B. Fruit
- C. Bud
- D. Inflorescence
Explanation: The edible cauliflower curd is a compact, immature inflorescence made up of undeveloped flower branches and buds.
Correct answer: Inflorescence- A. Multicelled endocarpic hair
- B. Unicelled placenta hairs
- C. Unexcelled endocarp hair
- D. Multicelled placental hairs
Explanation: The juicy edible segments of an orange are multicellular juice hairs, also called vesicles, that arise from the endocarp.
Correct answer: Multicelled endocarpic hair- A. Pollen tube
- B. Ovule
- C. Style
- D. Anther
Explanation: After the pollen tube reaches the ovary, the male gametes are released into the ovule, specifically the embryo sac, where fertilization…
Correct answer: Ovule- A. Fruit without pollination
- B. Seed without fertilization
- C. fruit without fertilization
- D. Only seed and no fruit
Explanation: Parthenocarpy is the development of a fruit without fertilization, commonly producing seedless fruits.
Correct answer: fruit without fertilization- A. 7.00 am
- B. 10.00 am
- C. 3.00 pm
- D. 5.00 pm
Explanation: Onion flowers begin opening and shedding pollen in the morning, with anthesis starting around 7:00 a.m.
Correct answer: 7.00 am- A. Grafting
- B. All the above
- C. Layering
- D. Budding
Explanation: Grafting, budding, and layering are all artificial vegetative propagation methods because they produce new plants from vegetative parts…
Correct answer: All the above