Quiz on Plant Science

1. Name the scientists who discovered restriction enzymes
Watson and
Jacob and Monad
Nathan, Arber and Smith
Boyer and Cohen
2. Asexual, hollow fungal fruiting body lined inside with conidiophores is called
Conidium
Basidium
Peridium
Pycnidium
3. The modern bread wheat Triticum aestivum is
Diploid
Triploid
Hexaploid
Tetraploid
4. The composite transposons(Tn10) characteristically contain copies of
Introns
Insertion sequence
Ac element
Genes that encode sigma factor
5.Select the alga with unbranched thallus
Ectocarpus
Zygnema
Polysiphonia
Batrachospermum
6.From the following statements find out the one which is not an objective of plant embryo culture
Clonal propagation of an elite mother plant
Overcoming seed dormancy
Overcoming embryo abortion due to incompatibility factors
7. Which of the following is not an objective of vegetative propagation
Multiplication of an elite variety
Production of plants which are resistant to pests
Cost effective multiplication of plants
Production of plants which are resistant to pests
8.Which of the following is a rootless pteridophytes
Lycopodium
Isoetes
Ophioglossum
Salvinia
9. Which of the following is the only living fossil representative of Gymnosperm
Ginkgo bioloba
Cupressus sempervirens
Pinus sylvestris
Glossopteris browniana
10. Choose the species of Gnetum which is a woody climber
Gnetum gnemon
Gnetum ula
Gnetum trinerve
Gnetum contractum
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