NCERT textbook says that plant growth is unique. What is the character of plant growth being referred to?
1. Plants have a closed growth
2. Capacity of unlimited growth throughout life
3. Complete absence of growth after a certain age
4. Growth without development
All the following contribute to an increase in girth of dicots and gymnosperms except:
1. | Apical meristem | 2. | Lateral meristems |
3. | Vascular cambium | 4. | Cork-cambium |
Match Column I [phase of growth] and Column II [cell characteristics] and choose the correct answer from the codes given:
Column I | Column II | ||
A. | Meristematic | a. | Increased vacuolation, new cell wall deposition |
B. | Elongation | b. | Thin cellulosic wall with abundant plasmodesmatal connections |
C. | Maturation | c. | Maximal wall thickening |
Codes
A | B | C | |
1. | a | b | c |
2. | b | c | a |
3. | b | a | c |
4. | c | b | a |
Identify the incorrect statement regarding the arithmetic growth?
1. | Following mitosis, both daughter cells continue to divide |
2. | Can be exemplified by root elongating at a constant rate |
3. | On plotting the length of the organ against time, a linear curve is obtained |
4. | Mathematically it is expressed as |
Plant growth and further development is intimately linked to water status of the plant because:
A. Turgidity of cells helps in extension growth
B. It provides medium for enzymatic activity
1. Both A and B are correct
2. Only A is correct
3. Only B is correct
4. Both A and B are incorrect
Consider the given diagram and select the correct inference:
1. | Both leaves have shown different absolute growths |
2. | First leaf has exhibited growth but second leaf has not as it is already senescent |
3. | The relative growth of first leaf is more than that of the second leaf |
4. | Both leaves have exhibited equal relative growths |
The growth in plants can be best expressed as [refer Section 15.2]:
1. Open | 2. Determinate |
3. Closed | 4. Redundant |
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): | Plants retain the capacity for unlimited growth throughout their life. |
Reason (R): | Plants have meristems at certain locations in their body. |
In the light of the above statements choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
3. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are False. |