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Flowering Plants Morphology-Data Intensity 1 Multiple Questions and Answers.
Exercise Questions ::
Flowering Plants Morphology
| 11. | Which among the following is not correct about modifications of roots to facilitate respiration? |
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| A. | In some plants that grow in marshy areas, roots are modified to facilitate respiration |
| B. | Pneumatophores are specialized breathing roots that help in respiration of plant that grows in marshy areas |
| C. | Breathing roots are present in mango |
| D. | Exchange of gases occur through lenticels in pneumatophores |
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| 12. | Which among the following is incorrect about modification in roots for mechanical support? |
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| A. | Prop roots are those that originate from aerial branches |
| B. | Prop roots are also called hanging roots |
| C. | Stilt roots are present in beetle |
| D. | Those roots that originate from stem base that grow obliquely and penetrate into the soil are called stilt roots |
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| 13. | Which among the following statements is incorrect? |
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| A. | In trapa, roots help in performing photosynthesis |
| B. | In few aquatic plants, roots are modified into spongy structure help in floating by maintaining buoyancy |
| C. | In parasitic plants, haustorial roots penetrate into host to derive nutrition |
| D. | Floating roots are present in cuscuta |
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| 14. | Which among the following is incorrect about importance of root system? |
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| A. | Root system helps in absorption of water and minerals from soil |
| B. | In plants like mangroves, breathing roots called pneumatophores are present |
| C. | Pneumatophores grow vertically upwards and exchange gases through lenticels |
| D. | Plants that grow tall derive their additional mechanical support by sending pillar like woody roots called stilt roots |
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| 15. | Which among the following is incorrect about roots in banyan tree? |
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| A. | Banyan roots have adventitious roots called prop roots that provide them with additional support |
| B. | Prop roots are also called as climbing roots |
| C. | Prop roots on meeting the soil form secondary and tertiary roots |
| D. | Initially these start as tiny outgrowth on the branches and become woody and large |
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