Multiple Choice Quiz on Plant Morphology

This quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in ‘plant morphology’. Questions come under ‘medium’ category. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Floral features are chiefly used in angiosperms identification because
flowers can be safely pressed
flowers are of various colours
flowers are nice to work with
reproductive parts are more stable and conservative than vegetative parts
2. Edible part of banana
epicarp
epicarp and mesocarp
mesocarp and less developed endocarp
endocarp and less developed mesocarp
3. Tegmen develops from
funiculus
inner integument
outer integument
chalaza
4. Vivipary is characteristic of
mesophytes
hydrophytes
xerophytes
halophyes
5. Vegetative reproduction of Agave occurs through
rhizome
stolon
sucker
bulbils
6. Hypanthodium is a specialized type of
fruit
ovary
thalamus
inflorescence
7. Juicy hair like structures observed in the lemon fruit develop from
exocarp
endocarp
mesocarp
mesocarp and endocarp
8. Long filamentous threads protruding at the end of a young cob of maize are
hairs
styles
anthers
ovaries
9. Pneumatophores are found in
xerophytes
epiphytes
the vegetative which is found in marshy and saline lake
the vegetation which found in acidic soil
10. Angiosperm, to which the largest flowers belong, is
total root parasite
total stem parasite
partial root parasite
partial stem parasite
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