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The document lists important questions for a botany examination, covering various chapters including topics such as living world, biological classifications, morphology of flowering plants, taxonomy, cell biology, biomolecules, cell cycle, and plant ecology. Each chapter contains multiple questions that test knowledge on definitions, classifications, and specific plant-related concepts. The questions are designed to assess understanding of fundamental botanical principles and terminology.

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The document lists important questions for a botany examination, covering various chapters including topics such as living world, biological classifications, morphology of flowering plants, taxonomy, cell biology, biomolecules, cell cycle, and plant ecology. Each chapter contains multiple questions that test knowledge on definitions, classifications, and specific plant-related concepts. The questions are designed to assess understanding of fundamental botanical principles and terminology.

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INTER BOTANY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS


VSAQS [8 MARKS QUESTIONS]
CHAP-1 LIVING WORLD
1. What does ICBN stands for.
2. Define flora.
3. Define the term couplet and lead in taxonomic key
4. What is the basic unit of classification define it
5. Give the scientific name of mango. Identify the generic name and
specific epithet.
6. What is systematics?
CHAP-2 BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS
7. How are viroids different from viruses?
8. What do the term phycobiont and mycobiont?
9. What do the term algal blooms and red tides? Signify.
10.State two economically important uses of heterotrophic bacteria.
11.What is the principle underlaying the use of cyanobacteria in agriculture
field for crop improvement?
12.Who proposed five kingdom classification? How many kingdoms of these
classification contain eukaryotes?
13.Give the main criteria use for classification by Whittaker.
14.Name two disease caused by mycoplasma.
CHAP-3 SCIENCE OF PLANTS.
15.Exaplain how the term botany has emerged.
16.Name the book written by Parasara and mention the importance aspects
discuss in those books.
17.Who is popularly known as father of botany? What was the book written
by him?
18.Why is Mendel consider as father of genetics?
19.Who discovered the cell and what was the book written by him?
20.What is paleobotany? What is its use?
21.Which group of plants are called vascular cryptogams? Name the branch
of botany which deals with them.
CHAP-4 MORPHOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANT
22.What type of specialised root are found in epiphytic plant? What is there
function?
23.What is meant by pulvinus leaf base? In members of which angiospermis
family do you find them?
24.Define venation. How do dicot differ from monocot with the respesct
venation?
25.Which organ is modified to trap insect in insectivorous plant? Give two
examples.
26.Differentiate between racemose and cymose inflorescences.
27.What is the morphology of cup like structure in cyanthium? In which
family it is found?
28.What is the type of inflorescens is found in fig trees? Why does the
insect blastophaga visit the inflorescence of fig tree?
29.Differentiate between actinomorphic and zygomorphic flower.
30.What is meant by epipetalous conditiom? Give an example.
31.Differentiate between apocarpous and syncarpous.
32.Define placentation. What type of placentation is found in Dianthus?
33.What is meant by parthenocarpic fruit? How is it useful?
34.Define mericarp. In which plant you find it?
CHAP-8 TAXONOMY OF ANGIOSPERMS.
35.What is omega taxonomy?
36.What is natural system of plant classification? Name the scientist who
followed it.
37.What is geocarpic? Name the plant which exhibits this phenomenon.
38.Name the type of pollination mechanism found in members of fabaceae.
39.Write the floral formula of solanum plant.
40.Give the technical description of anther of alium cepa.
41.Explain the scope and significance of numerical taxonomy.
CHAP-9 THE CELL: UNIT OF LIFE.
42.What is the significance of vacuole in a plant cell?
43.What does ‘S’ refers in 70s and 80s ribosome?
44.Mention a single membrane bound organelle which is rich in hydrolytic
enzyme.
45.What is the function of polysome?
46.What is the feature of metacentric chromosome?
47.What is refered to as satellite chromosome?
48.What is the middle lamellae made up of? What is its functional
significance?
49.Which part of the bacterial cell is target in gram staining?
50.What is osmosis?
CHAP-10 BIOMOLECULE.
51. Select an appropriate chemical bond among ester bond, Glycosidic bond,
peptide bond and hydrogen bond and write against each of the following
[a] Plysaccharide [b] Proteins [c] Fats [d] water
52. Give one example for each amino acids, sugars,nucleotides and fatty acids.
53. Explain zwitterionic form of an amino acid.
54. What constituents of DNA are linked by glycosidic bond?
55. Glycine and alanine are different with respect to one substituent on the
alpha-carbon. What are the other common substituent group?
56. Starch, Cellulose, Glycogen, Chitin are polysaccharide found among the
following choose the one appropriate and write against each.
[a] Cotton fibre_______ [b] Exo skeleton of cochroach______
[c]Liver_____ [d] Peel of potato_______

CHAP-11 CELL CYCLE AND CELL DIVISION


57. Which of the phases of cell cycle is of longest duration?
58. Which tissue of animal and plant exhibit meiosis?
59. Give that the average duplication time of E.coli is 20 mins. How much time
will two E.coli cells take to become a 32 cells?
60. Which of the four chromatids of bivalent at prophase-1 of meiosis can
involve in crossing over?
61. If a tissue has at given time 1024 cells. How many cycles of mitosis had the
original parental single cell undergone?
62. An anther has 1200 pollen grain how many pollen mother cells must have
been their to produce them?
63. At what stage of cell cycle does DNA synthesis takes place.

CHAP-13 PLANT ECOLOGY.


64. Climax stage is achieved quickly in secondary succession as compared to
primary succession.Why?
65. Name the type of land plants that can tolerate salinity of sea.
66. Define heliophytes and sciophyte. Name a plant from your locality that is
either heliophytes or sciophyte.
67. Define population community.
68. Define community? Who classified plant community into hydrophytes,
mesophytes, xerophytes?
69. Hydrophytes shows reduce xylem. Why?
70. Name any two examples of xerarch succession.

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