A few normal seedlings of tomato were kept in a dark room. After a few days they were

found to have become white-coloured like albinos. Which of the following terms will you

use to describe them?

1. Mutated

2. Embolised

3. Etiolated

4. Defoliated

During seed germination its stored food is mobilised by.

1. ethylene
2. cytokinin
3. ABA
4. gibberellin

Phototropic curvature is the result of uneven distribution of.

1. gibberellin

2. phytochrome

3. cytokinins

4. auxin

Photoperiodism was first characterised in :-

1. tobacco

2. potato

3. tomato 

4. cotton

Coiling of garden pea tendrils around any support is an example of 
1. thigmotaxis
2. thigmonasty 
3. thigmotropism
4. thermotaxis

One of the synthetic auxin is 

1. NAA

2. IAA

3. GA

4. IBA

Senescence as an active developmental cellular process in the growth and functioning of a flowering plant, is indicated in

1. vessels and tracheid differentiation

2. leaf abscission

3. annual plants

4. floral parts
 

Importance of day length in flowering of plants was first shown in 

1. Lemna

2. tobacco

3. cotton

4. Petunia

Opening of floral buds into flowers, is a type of:-

1. autonomic movement of locomotion

2. autonomic movement of variation

3. paratonic movement of growth

4. autonomic movement of growth

“Foolish seedling" disease of rice led to the discovery of:-

1. GA

2. ABA

3. 2,4-D

4. IAA