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This section includes 26 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Life Sciences knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
Which of the following is not an application of tissue culture? |
A. | Rapid Clonal Propagation |
B. | Somaclonal Variations |
C. | Embryo rescue |
D. | Transgenic plants |
Answer» D. Transgenic plants | |
2. |
Which of the following is not related to embryo culture? |
A. | Growth of embryos on culture medium |
B. | Developing seedlings |
C. | Multiplication of rare plants |
D. | Making virus-free plants |
Answer» E. | |
3. |
What are somatic hybrids? |
A. | Hybrid protoplasts |
B. | Protoplasts |
C. | Fused plasmids |
D. | Fused Chloroplast |
Answer» B. Protoplasts | |
4. |
Pomato is a somatic hybrid. |
A. | True |
B. | False |
Answer» B. False | |
5. |
What is protoplast? |
A. | Cell wall + Plasma membrane |
B. | Plant cell – cell wall |
C. | Cytoplasm + cell wall |
D. | Plasma membrane – cytoplasm |
Answer» C. Cytoplasm + cell wall | |
6. |
Which of the following plant’s meristem has not been successfully cultured? |
A. | Banana |
B. | Apple |
C. | Sugarcane |
D. | Potato |
Answer» C. Sugarcane | |
7. |
Which of the following plant part is free from the attack of the virus? |
A. | Stem |
B. | Root |
C. | Meristem |
D. | Leaves |
Answer» D. Leaves | |
8. |
What are somaclones? |
A. | Plants chemically identical to the original plant |
B. | Plants morphologically identical to the original plant |
C. | Plants anatomically identical to the original plant |
D. | Plants genetically identical to the original plant |
Answer» E. | |
9. |
Essential requirement of an artificial medium in which explant is being regenerated is __________ |
A. | the medium should have a sulphur source |
B. | the medium should have very low carbon concentration |
C. | the medium must provide a carbon source |
D. | the medium must provide a nitrogen donor |
Answer» D. the medium must provide a nitrogen donor | |
10. |
The capacity to generate a whole new plant from any cell is known as micropropagation. |
A. | False |
B. | True |
Answer» B. True | |
11. |
What is an explant? |
A. | A part of plant grown under soil |
B. | Any part of a plant taken out and grown in a test tube |
C. | A specific part of a plant grown in a test tube |
D. | Leaves grew under test tube |
Answer» C. A specific part of a plant grown in a test tube | |
12. |
Which of the following scientist was not responsible for developing somatic hybrids? |
A. | Steward |
B. | Halperin |
C. | Wetherell |
D. | Skoog |
Answer» E. | |
13. |
Tissue culture technique was first practised by _____________ |
A. | White |
B. | Haberlandt |
C. | Halperin |
D. | Skoog |
Answer» C. Halperin | |
14. |
What is plant tissue culture? |
A. | The technique of in vitro maintaining and growing cells |
B. | The technique of in vivo growing cells |
C. | The technique of growing plants in gardens |
D. | The technique of cutting plants |
Answer» B. The technique of in vivo growing cells | |
15. |
Which of the following plant hormone control fruit ripening? |
A. | Ethylene |
B. | Auxin |
C. | Gibbrellins |
D. | Abscisis acid |
Answer» B. Auxin | |
16. |
Which one of them is NOT the main effect of polyamines in the tissue culture system? |
A. | Promotion of tuber and bulb formation |
B. | Adventitious root formation |
C. | Promotion of shoot formation |
D. | Somatic embryogenesis |
Answer» B. Adventitious root formation | |
17. |
WHICH_ONE_OF_THEM_IS_NOT_THE_MAIN_EFFECT_OF_POLYAMINES_IN_THE_TISSUE_CULTURE_SYSTEM??$ |
A. | Promotion of tuber and bulb formation |
B. | Adventitious root formation |
C. | Promotion of shoot formation |
D. | Somatic embryogenesis |
Answer» B. Adventitious root formation | |
18. |
Which_of_the_following_plant_hormone_control_fruit_ripening?$ |
A. | Ethylene |
B. | Auxin |
C. | Gibbrellins |
D. | Abscisis acid |
Answer» B. Auxin | |
19. |
Which of the following is the main effect of cytokines in the tissue culture system? |
A. | Adventitious shoot formation |
B. | Induction of somatic embryos |
C. | Adventitious root formation |
D. | Shoot elongation |
Answer» B. Induction of somatic embryos | |
20. |
Which of the following is NOT a plant growth regulator? |
A. | Auxin |
B. | Cytokinins |
C. | Abcisic acid |
D. | Polyphenols |
Answer» E. | |
21. |
Mark the INCORRECT statement about agar, a gelling agent in plant tissue culture medium? |
A. | Not digested by plant enzymes |
B. | It does not use in microprapogation work |
C. | It does not react with media constituents |
D. | Remain stable at incubation temperature |
Answer» C. It does not react with media constituents | |
22. |
Out of the following, which one is NOT the basic component of culture media used for plant cultivation? |
A. | Complex mixture of salts |
B. | Amino acids |
C. | Serum albumin |
D. | Sugar/ sucrose |
Answer» D. Sugar/ sucrose | |
23. |
Name the term given to the ability of single cells to divide and produce all the differentiated cell in the organism? |
A. | Unipotent |
B. | Pluripotent |
C. | Multipotent |
D. | Totipotency |
Answer» E. | |
24. |
Which of the following is NOT the feature of plant cells? |
A. | Presence of centrioles |
B. | The cell wall outside the cell membrane |
C. | Cell-cell communication through plasmodesmata |
D. | Consists of plastids |
Answer» B. The cell wall outside the cell membrane | |
25. |
A plant cell is a prokaryotic cell. |
A. | True |
B. | False |
Answer» C. | |
26. |
The growth of plant tissues in artificial media is called___________ |
A. | Gene expression |
B. | Transgenesis |
C. | Plant tissue culture |
D. | Cell hybridization |
Answer» D. Cell hybridization | |