Plant Physiology Important MCQs

1 - ______ is obviously useful to a plant as the excitaion by an insect of one or more sensory hairs of the venus's flytrap (Dionea muscipula):






Chemical potential

2 - A bulk of nitrogen in nature is fixed by:






Symbiotic bacteria

3 - A characteristic feature of ripening of some fruits (like banana) is a sudden increase in respiration, which is known as:






Climacteric

4 - A final component of thylakoid necessary for photophos-phorylation is a complex protein called:






ATPase/coupling factor

5 - A free-living anaerobic bacterium capable of N2 fixation in soil is:






Clostridium

6 - A maize plant to produce one kg of grain (dry) transpires _____ kg of water:






600

7 - A micro-essential element is one which:






Is needed in very small amounts but is as important as a major essential element

8 - A natural growth regulator (hormone) is:






Ethylene

9 - A plant is kept in 30 ppm. of CO2 concentration what will happen to it?






Plant will die soon

10 - A plant, which needs not less than 10 hours of light to flower, is:






Short day plant

11 - A thoroughly cleaned goat bladder if filled with syrup, tightly tied immersed in a vessel of water:






The volume of liquid within the bladder will increase

12 - A trace element essential for plant grwoth and radio-isotope which is used in cancer therapy is known is:






Cobalt

13 - A trace element is:






Required in very minute amounts

14 - ABA (abscic acid) appears to be universal among:






Vascular plants

15 - ABA has the following effects depending upon the tissue involved:






Inhibition of protein synthesis (translocation)

16 - According to the fluid mosaic model the correct sequence of plasmalemma is:






P,-L,-L,P

17 - According to the mosaic model (proposed by Singer and Nicholoson) plasma membrance is composed of:






Phospholipids, extrinsic proteins, intrinsic proteins

18 - Aerobic respiration is more advantageous to a large organism than anaerobic respiration because aerobic respiration:






Releases more energy from an equal amount of nutrients

19 - Alcohol is produced during the process of:






Anaerobic respiration

20 - Algae float in water during daytime and sink during nighttime because:






They become buoyant in light due to accumulation of oxygen bubbles released in photosynthesis

21 - All the membrane bounded cell organelles except:






Ribosomes

22 - An apparatus for measuring transpiration in plants is called:






Potometer

23 - Anaerobic respiration is also known as:






Intra-molecular respirtion

24 - Anaerobic respiration was first of all reported by:






Kostychev

25 - At equilibrium, the vapour density or pressure about pure water in a closed container is:






1

26 - Atmospheric nitrogen in the soil is fixed by:






Pulses

27 - Auxim promote growth:






Mostly

28 - Bacteria that change proteins to ammonia in nitrogen cycle are:






Decay bacteria (ammonifying bacteria)

29 - Bacterioids are:






Enlarged non-mobile cellular bacteria-Rhizobium legumino-sarum in root nodules of legumes

30 - Basic structure of all chlorophylls comprises:






Poryhyrin system

31 - Before opening of stomata, accumulation of one of the ion is guard cell:






K

32 - Blue green algae are:






Prokaryotes

33 - Both respiration and photosynthesis require:






Cytochromes

34 - Brassins, recently discovered steroid growth promoters were first isolated from pollen grains of rape plants, but now known to be present in ______ also:






In all of these

35 - Breeder seed is _____ % pure:






100

36 - Breeder seed production units of ICAR producing ______ tonnes of breeder seed:






3700

37 - By hormone application it is possible to obtain seedless fruits. In which of the following it is desirable to obtain seedless fruits?






Pomegranate

38 - Carbohydrates are present in the plasmalemma in the form of:






Phospholipids (glycolipids) and phosphoproteins (glycoproteins)

39 - Carbon becomes available to crop plants in the form of:






Carbon dioxide

40 - Carbon dioxide is liberated during:






Respiration

41 - Cell membrane consist of:






Both Phospholipids and proteins

42 - Cell organelle found only in plants is:






Plastids

43 - Cellulosic cell wall can be specifically stained by:






Zinc chloride

44 - Chemical phase in photosynthesis was discovered for the first time by:






Blackman

45 - Chlorophyll 'b' is present in:






Eukaryotes

46 - Chlorophyll contains:






Mg

47 - Chlorophyll is present:






In the grana of chloroplasts

48 - Chloroplast contains maximum quantity of:






RUDP carboxylase

49 - Chloroplasts fix:






CO2

50 - Chlorosis occur in plants growth in:






Iron free medium

51 - CO2 is necessary for photosynthesis; the chemical used to remove this gas most effectively from entering a control apparatus is:






Potassium hydroxide solution

52 - Commonest free ion in the cell is of:






Potassium

53 - Contamination permitted in maize is:






0.01

54 - Cylokinins have the ability to:






Cause morphogenesis

55 - Cytochrome oxidase contains:






Fe

56 - Cytoklnins were first discovered in 1913 by Gottlieb Haberlandt in:






Austria

57 - Cytology, and genetics were merged into ""Cytogenetics"by one of the following:






T.H.Morgan

58 - D.P.D. stands for:






Diffusion pressure deficit

59 - Deficiency of iron causes:






Interveinal chlorosis first on young leaves

60 - Deficiency of Mo causes:






Mottling and necrosis of leaves

61 - Die-back' of citrus is caused due to the deficiency of:






Copper

62 - Double membrane is absent in:






Lysosomes

63 - DPD is equal to:






OP - TP

64 - During 24 hours there is a time when plants neither give O2 nor CO2. This is the time of:






Twilight

65 - During aerobic respiration oxidation of glucose results in the formation of:






CO2 and water

66 - During the photosynthesis the oxygen in glucose comes from:






Carbon dioxide

67 - Enzymes are basically:






Protein

68 - Enzymes, vitamins and hormones can be classified into a single category of biological chemicals because all of them:






Aid in regulating metabolism

69 - Etherel (trade name) of ethephone (common name) is used in various aspects of:






Horticulture

70 - Ethylene especially in tomato plants has the following effects:






Causes leaf senescence

71 - Ethylene is a:






Gaseous hormone

72 - Etiolated plants are formed due to lack of:






Light

73 - Every living cell has a:






Membrane

74 - Except which one, all other processes help in adding nitrogen to soil:






Addition of lime in soil

75 - Excessive use of fertilizer causes death of plants due to:






Exosmosis

76 - Exogenous application of Gibberellins induces male flowers formation on genetically female plants in:






Cucumis

77 - Fermentation is conducted by:






Some fungi and some bacteria

78 - Fermentation is:






Incomplete oxidation of carbohydrate

79 - Fertilizers have formula consisting of three figures such as 8-10-10. These figures stand for percentage of:






Nitrogen, phosphorous, Potassium

80 - Foliar application of colloidal suspensions of triacontanol (30-carbon saturated primary alcohol isolated first from alfalfa shoots) enhanced the growth of seedlings of ______ and also maize.






Rice

81 - For photosynthesis (i.e. for the synthesis of organic matter) the green plants need only:






All of these

82 - For the purpose of photosynthesis all except one of the following items are essential, point out the exception:






Oxygen, sucrose

83 - Functions and vital activities of the plants are studied under:






Physiology

84 - Gibberellic acid has been successfully employed to induce flowering:






In long day points under short day conditions

85 - Gibberellins are now commercially used ______ into increase sugarcane growth and sugar yields:






Hawaii

86 - Gibberellins differ from auxins since they produce:






Stem elongation

87 - Gibberellins were first discovered in ______ in studies with diseased rice plants that grew excessively tall:






Japan

88 - Growth is primarily affected by two climatic factors, which are:






Light and temperature

89 - Guard cells are found in:






Stomata

90 - H+ tons in thylaoid channels arise from oxidation of H2O and PQH2 cause H+ ions concentration in channels becomes; about ______ times as great as in the stroma when photosynthesis occurs:






1000

91 - High concentration of synthetic auxins would:






Kills weeds

92 - High energy compounds:






Are compounds, which link, exergonic to endergonic process

93 - How do most of the plants obtain air?






Through opening in the leaves

94 - Hydroponics is:






Growing of plants in water culture

95 - If a cell is placed in a solution and the cell shrinks, the solution is:






Hypertonic

96 - If a plant cell is immersed in water, the water continues to enter the cell until the:






Diffusion pressure is the same inside the cell as outside

97 - If cell A with OP = 5 and TP - 4 is surrounded by the cells with OP = 3 and TP = 1 what will be direction of water movement?






From cell A to other cells

98 - If cells are broken up and sedimented by centrifugation the new structure formed in one of the fractions is:






Mecrosome

99 - If CO2 content of the atmosphere is as high as 300 part per million:






The plants would thrive well

100 - If CO2 is given off in respirtion, why does the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere remain relatively constant?






CO2 is converted in photosynthesis to carbohydrates

101 - If fermentation is allowed to proceed in a closed vessel:






Gas pressure will develop because of excess of carbon dioxide

102 - If naked pea seeds were kept in four respiratory flasks, they would germinate best if flask contains:






Oxygen

103 - If we separate the cell organelles of a living cell which part should be alive?






Chloroplast

104 - If you place a piece of tomato in concentrated solution:






It would become limp due to loss of water from its cells

105 - In 1948, V.S. Chardakov who devised a simple and efficient method to determine the test solution in which no change in concentration occurs was:






Russian Scientist

106 - In a fully turgid cell the values (arbitrary values are shown) of DPD. OP and TP will show the tendency:






DPD 00 atm; OP 15;TP 05 atm

107 - In an E. coli cell according to operon theory an operator gene combines with:






Regulator protein to ""switch off"structural gene transcription

108 - In an experiment a plant is dried, placed in a crucible and strongly heated air for a long time. The residue is composed of:






The oxides or carbonates of about ten element

109 - In anaerobic respiration in plants:






Carbon dioxide is given out

110 - In anaerobic respiration the end product is:






Ethyl alcohol

111 - In both transpirtions and evaporation water is lost in the form of vapour yet they differ because:






Transpiration is a physiological process and evaporation is physical process

112 - In fermentation:






Energy is liberated

113 - In flowering plants a second seed coat is known as:






Tegamen

114 - In land plants the gaseous exchange takes place through the open stomata, in submerged hydrophytes it takes place/through:






By general surface of the cells by diffusion

115 - In many plants the changes over from vegetative to reproductive phase take place in response to:






The length of the day

116 - In nature, the main organisms, which take part in nitrogen cycle, are:






Bacteria plants

117 - In nitrogen cycle which of the following plays an important role?






Nitrobacter

118 - In submerged leaves respiration takes place through:






General surface of the leaf

119 - In terms of permeability the cell wall and plasmalemma are:






Permeable and differentially permeable

120 - In the mechanism of opening of stomata the important factor is the:






Chlorophyll content of the cells

121 - In the nodules of roots in leguminous plants we find:






N2 fixing bacteria

122 - In the process of respiration in plants 180 gms. of sugar plus 192 gms. of oxygen produce:






264 gms. of CO2, 108 gms. of water and 674 kilo cals. of energy

123 - In unisexual plants sex can be changed by application of:






Auxins

124 - In water molecule, line-segments connecting the centres of the two hydrogen atoms with the centre of oxygen atoms form an angle of about:






105

125 - In which of the following plants would metabolism be hindered if the leaves were coated with wax on their upper surface?






Lotus

126 - Increase in temperature and velocity of wind cause an increase in transpiration initially but later it slows down because:






Of closure of stomata

127 - Instantaneous source of energy is:






Glucose

128 - It hypothetical chemical involved in the flowering of plant is:






Florigen

129 - It is advantageous to the Hydrilla to demonstrate photosynthesis than land plant because:






Oxygen bubbles can be collected over water

130 - Leaves with yellow or colourless patches are termed as:






Variegated

131 - Light harvesting complexes surrounded by both photosystems (I and II) and _____ light energy to them.






Transfer

132 - Members of bean family are of particular importance in crop rotation programmes primarily because:






They have nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated in their roots

133 - Mg for Fe are needed by plants for:






Synthesis of chlorophyll

134 - Mineral salts, which are absorbed by the roots for the soil, are in the form of:






Concentrated solution

135 - Minerals absorbed by roots move to the leaf through:






Xylem

136 - More energy is released by the process of aerobic respiration than by fermentation because fermentation:






Causes incomplete oxidation of organic food

137 - Most of the ______ flowers contain carotenoid especially xanthophyll type and it is believed that they benefit certain plants by attracting pollinating insects:






Yellow

138 - Most plants obtain their nitrogen from the soil in the form of:






Nitrate

139 - Nitrogen is essential component of:






Protein

140 - Non-essential element for the proper growth of plant is:






Cobalt

141 - Non-living substances of the protoplasm are collectively known as:






Deutoplasm

142 - On the basis of symptoms of chlorosis in leaves a student inferred that this was due to deficiency of nitorgen. This inference could be correct only if we assume that yellowing of leaves appeared first in:






Old leaves

143 - One of the alkaloids listed below is found in cocoa beans:






Theobromina

144 - One of the following causes rootings in cuttings:






IBA

145 - One of the following is a precursor of auxin:






Tryptophan

146 - One of the following is a water-soluble pigment:






Anthocyanin

147 - One of the following is needed in the reduction of nitrate to nitrite:






Mo

148 - One of the following is not found in intact cells:






Microsomes

149 - One of the following is present outside the plasma membrane but inside the cell wall:






Lomasome

150 - One of the following is sulphur containing amino add:






Methionine

151 - One the following micronutrient for plants:






Manganese

152 - Organisms, which fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil, are found among:






Bacteria

153 - Osmosis means:






Flow of solvent from low concentration to high concentration

154 - Out of the following, which one is the most common type of transpiration?






Stomatal

155 - Oxygen evolved in photosynthesis is:






Equal to CO2 consumed

156 - Peptide linkages are formed among:






Amino acid

157 - Photochemical reactions of photosynthesis take place in:






Thylakoids

158 - Photosynthesis is a:






Reductive, endergonic, anabolic process

159 - Photosynthesis is:






Anabolic process

160 - Phytochrome is found in:






Angiosperms

161 - Phytochrome is used in:






All physiological processes exhibited by the plants such as seed germination, flowering stem elongation and transpiration

162 - Pigment system is concerned with:






Photolysis of water

163 - Pineapple can be made to flower in off-season by:






Ethylene

164 - Plant cells do not burst in distilled water because:






Cell wall is elastic, rigid and get stretched

165 - Plants absorb nitrogen in the form of:






Nitrate

166 - Plants hormone, which is translocated to other parts for growth of the plant as:






Indole acetic acid

167 - Plants synthesis protein from:






Amino acids

168 - Plasma membrane is:






A selective barrier

169 - Plasmagel is the name of:






Ectoplasm

170 - Plasmolysis will occur when the cell is placed in a:






Hypertonic solution

171 - Position and frequency of stomata can be determined by:






Cobalt chloride paper method

172 - Potometer is used to measure:






Rate of respiration

173 - Probably the most useful measurable property in the soil-plnt-air system is:






Water potential

174 - Process of endosmosis stop:






When solution become isotonic

175 - Process of transpiration in plants helps in:






Upward conduction

176 - Prokaryota means:






A cell with diffused nucleus

177 - Proteins are made up of:






Amino acid

178 - Proteins are synthesized on:






Ribosomes

179 - Protoplasm is:






Polyphasic colloidal system

180 - Pure Live Seed (PLS) is related to:






Germination percentage

181 - Respiration is:






Exothermic process

182 - Ripening of banana is accompanied with:






Sudden rise in ethylene

183 - Root pressure is maximum when:






Transpirtion is very low and absorption is high

184 - Rotation of crops is practised in plants because:






It increases the nitrogen content of the soil

185 - Seeds swell when placed in water due to:






Imbibitions

186 - Seeds when soaked in water imbibe it because of:






The process of absorption works

187 - Semi-permeability is the property of:






Plasma membrane

188 - Sialic acid is a constituent of:






Cell membrane

189 - Simplest amino acid is:






Glycine

190 - Standards of germination for seed certification in chillies:






0.6

191 - Stomata are bound by a pair of guard cells and open guard cells are:






Turgid

192 - Stomata open because of:






Increased turgidity of the guard cells brought about by exposure to light

193 - Supra-optimal concentration of auxins:






Kills the plants

194 - Swilling of wooden door during rainy season is due to:






Imbibitions

195 - Symbiotic nitorgen fixing bacteria occur in the genus:






Xanthomonas

196 - The action of ethylene is effectively inhibited by ______ ion.






Silver

197 - The acutal pressure with which water enters into the cell is called:






D.P.D

198 - The apparatus generally used for studying the rate of transpiration stream is:






Potometer

199 - The atmosphere has less carbon than other reservoirs but, it still contains about 700 billion tones and roughly percent is annually used in photosynthesis:






10

200 - The attraction of like molecules for each other (because of hydrogen bonds) is called:






None of these

201 - The condition under which transpiration would be lowest






When there is high humidity in the atmosphere

202 - The conditions under which transpiration would be most rapid is:






Low humidity, high temperature guard cells are turgid and moist soil

203 - The dry weight of a green leaf will be:






Greater in the afternoon

204 - The efforts to enhance partition of assimilates to storage organs of interest to farmers have quite successful due to:






Better breeding techniques

205 - The element, which is required in largest quantities by plant of water?






Nitrogen

206 - The end product of fermentation is:






C2H5OH and CO2

207 - The end products of respiration in plants are:






CO2, H2O and energy

208 - The figures of cork cells as seen by Robert Hooke were published in this book:






Micrographia

209 - The first event in photosynthesis is:






Photolysis

210 - The first symbolic Importance of seed started after the report of Famine Commission in:






1881

211 - The first visible product of photosynthesis is:






Starch

212 - The following is a naturally occurring growth inhibitor:






ABA

213 - The following percentage of water absorbed by herbaceous plants is lost in transpiration:






99

214 - The framework elements of plants are:






Copper, Carbon and Oxygen

215 - The incomplete breakdown of sugar in anaerobic respiration result in the formation of:






Alcohol and carbon dioxide

216 - The isolation of individual organelle from cell homogenates is achieved through:






Chromatography

217 - The loss of water in the form of vapour from aerial plant parts is known as:






Transpiration

218 - The most effective wavelength of visible light in photosynthesis is in the region of which of the following?






Red

219 - The normal form of a plant is maintained by the presence of:






Water

220 - The nucleoplasm and the cytoplasm are continuous with one another through the nuclear pores in:






Eukaryotic cells

221 - The optically hyaline portion of the protoplasm is called as:






Hyaloplasm

222 - The oxygen produced during photosynthesis comes from water was proved by:






Ruben

223 - The pH gradient across the cell membrane provides a powerful form of _____ potential energy largely responsible for driving phosphorylation:






Chermical

224 - The process by which proteins are synthesized in a cell is called:






Translation

225 - The process of photophos-phorylation was discovered by:






Arnon

226 - The production of nitrates from Ammonia through Nitrosomonas is called:






Nitrification

227 - The prokaryota are a group of organisms:






In which nuclear membrance, nucleolus and chromosomal matrix are lacking

228 - The protoplasm theory was established in plant cell by:






De Bary

229 - The provision of light of shorter wavelength at the same time, as longer red wavelength photosynthesis.






Enhances

230 - The rate of transpiration will greatly depend upon:






Position of stomata

231 - The real force causing entry of water into a cell from other cell is:






Diffusion pressure deficit

232 - The removal of apical buds and young leaves _____ branching:






Increases

233 - The researches on photosynthesis started:






In the 18th century

234 - The role of molybdenum is:






Nitrogen fixation

235 - The Singer and Nicholson model of plasma membrance differs from Robertson's model in the:






Arrangement of proteins

236 - The solute transport into the cells is strongly dependent on _____ and ability of cells to respire aerobically and to produce it:






ATP

237 - The total volume of water on melting:






Decreases

238 - The transpiration is regulated by the movements of:






Guard cells of the stomata

239 - The ultra-structure of cell can be best studied by:






None of these

240 - Tick-out the correct statement:






The cell wall is permeable

241 - Tonoplast is a differentially permeable membrane surrounding the:






Vacuole

242 - Transpiration is minimized by the deposition of:






Cutin

243 - Transpiration occurs through:






All the above

244 - Turgidity of a cell is maintained by:






Turgor pressure

245 - Two chief functions of leaves are:






Photosynthesis and transpiration

246 - Under which conditions the transpiration rate will be maximum?






Soil is wet and atmosphere is dry

247 - Unit membrane or (Plasma membrane) is made of:






Lipoproteins

248 - Water potential concept was formulated by:






Otto Renner, 1915

249 - Water, which is an essential part of protoplasm, may constitute:






More than three quarters of it

250 - What determines the diffusion of water accumulation of sugars?






None of the above

251 - When a cell is fully turgid its:






DPD = Zero

252 - When a cell is fully turgid, which of the following will be zero?






Suction pressure (D.P.D)

253 - When a piece of potato tuber is placed in concentrated salt solution:






It would become limp (shrink) due to loss of water from its solution

254 - When a plant cell is placed in a solution, which is hypotonic to the cell sap, which of the following conditions will not apply?






The wall pressure of the cell will fall

255 - When a seed is placed in a suitable medium for germination, by which of the following first process water enter into the seed coat?






Imbibition

256 - When chlorophyll is burnt which one is obtained?






Mg

257 - When the dark period of shoft day plant is interrupted by a brief exposure of light then the plant:






Will not flower at all

258 - When yeast and certain bacteria carry on anaerobic respiration they produce:






Carbon dioxide

259 - Which among the following is the most appropriate reason for storing green coloured apples at low temperatures:






The rate of respiration is reduced

260 - Which is a micronutrient?






Zn

261 - Which is not essential micronutrient?






Ni

262 - Which level of protein structure is affected by DNA (or for which level of protein structure DNA carries information)?






Primary structure

263 - Which of the following are photosynthetic units?






Quantasomes

264 - Which of the following are short day plants?






Maize

265 - Which of the following can fix atmospheric nitrogen?






Anabacena

266 - Which of the following effects of auxins on plants is the basis for commercial application?






All of the above

267 - Which of the following element is concerned with the photolysis of water?






Manganese

268 - Which of the following element is involved in nitrogen metabolism in reduction of nitrates?






Molybdenum

269 - Which of the following elements can land plants, normally obtain directly from the air?






Carbon

270 - Which of the following elements has not been proved to be essential for plants?






Sodium

271 - Which of the following elements is involved in nitrogen metabolism in reduction of nitrates?






Molybdenum

272 - Which of the following is a micronutrient?






Copper

273 - Which of the following is a weed killer?






2,4-D

274 - Which of the following is an essential part of photosynthesis?






Photolysis

275 - Which of the following is capable of delaying yellowing of leaves?






Cytokinins

276 - Which of the following is indispensable in cell culture?






Kinetin

277 - Which of the following is not a part of chlorophyll?






Iron

278 - Which of the following is not naturally occurring plant hormone?






2, 4-D

279 - Which of the following is the site of respiration within the cell?






Mitochondrion

280 - Which of the following is the source of respiration?






Stored food

281 - Which of the following leaves would dry up last?






Both surface greased

282 - Which of the following parts of a cell is non-living?






Vacuole

283 - Which of the following plants cannot fix atmosphere nitrogen directly?






Castor

284 - Which of the following structures controls the transport of the material into and out of living cell?






Cell membrane

285 - Which one is the precursor of chlorophyll?






Protochlorophyll or chlorophyllides

286 - Which one of the following elements is not required by plants for their normal healthy growth?






Lead

287 - Which one of the following factors causes an increase in transpiration rate?






A hot dry windy day

288 - Which one of the following is a long day plant?






Wheat

289 - Which one of the following is a prokaryote?






Salmonella

290 - Which one of the following is most limiting factor for nitrification in the soil?






Soil reaction (pH)

291 - Which one of the following will reduce the rate of transpiration?






Decrease in light intensity

292 - Which pair of structures is usually found in both plant and animal cell:






Cell membrane and nucleolus

293 - Which pigment is essential for nitrogen fixation by leguminous plants?






Leghaemoglobin

294 - Which pigment is is absent in chloroplast?






Anthocyanin

295 - Who proposed the concept of unit membrane for tripartite structure of lipoproteins?






Robertson

296 - Whose technique is employed for the extraction and elimination of hormones?






Garner

297 - Wilting of leaves in hot weather is due to:






Iron and calcium

298 - Wilting of plant results from excessive:






Transpiration

299 - Without adding nitrogenous manures good yield or rice crop can be obtained because:






There are nitrogen fixing algae in rice fields

300 - Zeatin has been isolated and identified from the milky endosperm of:






Maize

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