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  • A. 11:00 hours
  • B. 15:00 hours
  • C. 11 ½ Hours
  • D. 15 ½ hours

Explanation: Critical day length is the length of the light period in a 24-hour cycle required to inhibit the flowering of short-day plants.

Correct answer: 15 ½ hours
  • A. Abscisic acid
  • B. Cytokinin
  • C. Seisomonasty
  • D. Demonasty

Explanation: Senescence is the aging of individual cells within an organism. The organism itself is still alive and metabolizing energy, but its cells…

Correct answer: Cytokinin
  • A. Shoot
  • B. Flowers
  • C. Leaves
  • D. Base of the plant

Explanation: Auxin is a plant hormone that is primarily produced in the shoot tips and young leaves.

Correct answer: Base of the plant
  • A. Chlamydemonas
  • B. Mimesa pudica
  • C. Oxalis
  • D. Crocus

Explanation: The locomotary movement of free swimming organisms or their organs in response to one-sided illumination is called phototaxis.

Correct answer: Chlamydemonas
  • A. Auxins
  • B. Gibberellins
  • C. Cytokinis
  • D. Ethylene

Explanation: Ethylene is a gaseous plant hormone that helps regulate various processes in plants.

Correct answer: Ethylene
  • A. Cellulose
  • B. Cuticle
  • C. Chitin
  • D. Lignin

Explanation: Cellulose is a tough, fibrous, and water-insoluble polysaccharide that plays an integral role in keeping the structure of plant cell walls…

Correct answer: Cuticle
  • A. Red light
  • B. Blue light
  • C. Sunlight
  • D. Green light

Explanation: Greenlight range spectrum is considered as least effective for the process of photosynthesis: The wavelength of green light is thought to…

Correct answer: Green light
  • A. corymbs
  • B. umbel
  • C. catkin
  • D. panicle

Explanation: The pedicel is a stalk or stem that supports a single flower. It connects the single flower to the inflorescence.

Correct answer: umbel
  • A. Xylem
  • B. Collenchyma
  • C. Sclerenchyma
  • D. Parenchyma

Explanation: Collenchyma is living tissue that provides support to the plant as it has extra cellulose deposited in its cell wall the cell wall is…

Correct answer: Collenchyma
  • A. Stomata are opened
  • B. Day is humid
  • C. Concentration of CO2 inside the leaf is high
  • D. Concentration of O2 inside leaf is high

Explanation: Photorespiration occurs when Rubisco, an enzyme involved in photosynthesis, binds with O2 instead of CO2.

Correct answer: Concentration of O2 inside leaf is high
  • A. Nepenthes
  • B. Utricularia
  • C. Dionea
  • D. Sundew

Explanation: Drosera or sundew is a carnivorous plant found in moist, acidic, and nutrient-deficient soils.

Correct answer: Utricularia
  • A. Sugar
  • B. pH
  • C. Potassium
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: The opening and closing of stomata are primarily controlled by the conversion of starch to sugar and vice versa in guard cells.

Correct answer: Sugar

19673. Mangroves are:

  • A. Xerophytes
  • B. Mesophytes
  • C. Halophytes
  • D. Hydrophytes

Explanation: Mangroves are tropical plants that are adapted to lose, wet soils, salt water and being periodically submerged by tides

Correct answer: Halophytes
  • A. Stoma of chloroplasts
  • B. Granum of the chloroplast
  • C. Cytoplasm of the cell
  • D. ....

Explanation: Unlike the light reactions, which take place in the thylakoid membrane, the reactions of the Calvin cycle take place in the stroma, the…

Correct answer: Stoma of chloroplasts
  • A. Lateral meristem
  • B. Apical meristem
  • C. Intercalary
  • D. None

Explanation: The meristem responsible for wood formation in plants is the lateral meristem, specifically the vascular cambium and the cork cambium.

Correct answer: Lateral meristem
  • A. Capillary rise of water
  • B. Root pressure
  • C. Tensile strength
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Guttation is the process by which plants excrete excess water in the form of droplets through specialized structures called hydathodes.

Correct answer: Root pressure
  • A. Increase in the soil nutrient
  • B. More aeration of soil
  • C. Soil fertility
  • D. ....

Explanation: Crop rotation helps return nutrients to the soil without synthetic inputs.

Correct answer: Increase in the soil nutrient
  • A. 3
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 7

Explanation: The ion crosses three main structures when moving from one cell to an adjacent cell in a woody plant:Middle Lamella: This is the…

Correct answer: 3
  • A. C55H70O6N4Mg
  • B. C70H55O11N5Mg4
  • C. C14H55O6N5Mg3
  • D. C55H76O5N6Mg2

Explanation: The correct molecular formula of chlorophyll b is C55H70O6N4Mg. This formula indicates the presence of 55 carbon atoms, 70 hydrogen atoms…

Correct answer: C55H70O6N4Mg
  • A. 6C14
  • B. 1H2
  • C. 2He4
  • D. 6O16

Explanation: Oxygen-16 is the ideal isotope for studying photosynthesis because it allows for precise measurements of oxygen uptake and flow during the…

Correct answer: 6O16