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MORPHOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANTS
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MORPHOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANTS
Very Short Answer Questions
Q1. Differentiate fibrous roots from adventitious roots.
Q2. Define modification. Mention how root is modified in banyan tree and mangrove plants?
Q3. What type of specialized roots are found in epiphytic plants? What is their function?
Q4. How does the sucker of Chrysanthemum differ from the stolon of jasmine?
Q5. What is meant by pulvinus leaf base? In members of which angiospermic family do you find them?
Q6. Define venation. How do dicots differ from monocots with respect to venation?
Q7. How is a pinnately compound leaf is different from a palmately compound leaf? Explain with one example each.
Q8. Which organ is modified to trap Insects in insectivorous plants? Give two examples.
Q9. Differentiate between Racemose and Cymose inflorescenes.
Q10. What is the morphology of cup like structure in Cyathium? In which family it is found?
Q11. What type of inflorescence is found in fig trees? Why does the insect Blastophaga visits the inflorescence of fig tree?
Q12. Differentiate actinomorhic from zygomorphic flower.
Q13. How do the petals in pea plant are arranged? What is such type of arrangement called?
Q14. What is meant by epipetalous condition? Give an example.
Q15. Differentiate between apocarpous and syncarpous ovary.
Q16. Define placentation. What type of placentation is found in Dianthus?
Q17. What is meant by parthenocarpic fruit? How is it useful?
Q18. What is the type of fruit found in mango? How does it differ from that of coconut?
Q19. Why certain fruits are called false fruits? Name two examples of plants having false fruits.
Q20. Name any two plants having single seeded dry fruits.
Q21. Define schizocarpic dry fruits. Give an example.
Q22. Define mericarp. In which plant you find it?
Q23. What are aggregate fruits? Give two examples.
Q24. Name a plant that has single fruit developing from the entire inflorescence. What is such a fruit called?
Q1. Explain different regions of root with neat labeled diagram.
Q2. Justify the statement: Underground parts of plants are not always roots.
Q3. Explain with examples different types of phyllotaxy.
Q4. How do leaf modifications help plants?
Q5. Describe any two special types of inflorescences.
Q6. Describe the arrangement of floral members in relation to their insertion on thalamus.
Q7. The flowers of many angiospermic plants which show sepals and petals. differ with respect to the arrangement of sepals and petals in respective whorls'. Explain.
Q8. Describe any four types of placentations found in flowering plants.
Q9. Describe in brief fleshy fruits studied by you.
Q10. Describe with examples the various dry fruits studied by you.
Q1. Define root modification. Explain how root is modified to perform different functions.
Q2. Explain how stem is modified variously to perform different functions.
Q3. Explain different types of racemose inflorescences.
Q1. In which plant, the underground stem grows horizontally in soil and helps in perennation?
Q2. Needle like phylloclades are found in which plant?
Q3. Why do plants like Nepenthes trap Insects?
Q4. What is the characteristic Inflorescence found in members of Asteraceae?
Q5. Can you name a plant that has least number of flowers in Its inflorescence?
Q6. Which family shows naked flowers?
Q7. In which flowers of the fig trees does the insect Blastophaga lay its eggs?
Q8. What type of symmetry is shown by the flowers of Canna?
Q9. On which side of the flower do the flowers of pea have the keel petals?
Q10. What is the ratio of overlapping margins of petals to overlapped ones in imbricate aestivation?
Q11. How many ovules are found attached in basal placentation?
Q12. Which part of the flower in cashew plant forms the false fruit?
Q13. Which plant has hard, stony endocarp and fleshy edible mesocarp?
Q14. What is the morphology of 'spathe' in Spadix inflorescence?
Q15. What is the type of fruit known as if it develops from apocarpus ovary of a single flower?