Explore topic-wise MCQs in Life Sciences.

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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