Free Horticulture MCQs with Answers

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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