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Serial No. 191998

SCREENING TEST - 2009

SUBJECT : BOTANY
Time Allowed : Two Hours Maximum Marks : 120

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 Screening Test-2009
SUBJECT : BOTANY
Time Allowed : Two Hours ] [Max. Marks : 120
5. The ovules are generally unitegmic or
1. How many biogeographical realms
exist on the earth ?
bitegmic. However, in which of the
following the ovules lack an
(a) 4 integument ?
(b) 5 (a) Liriosoma
(b) Olax imbricata
(c) 6
(c) Ptychopetalum
(d) 7
(d) All of the above
2. Tendrils of Lathyrus, Vitis and Smilex 6. The hypodermal female archesporial
represent : cell divides transversely cutting off
(a) Convergent evolution
parietal cell and an inner sporogenous
cell. The parietal cell may undergo a
(b) Divergent evolution few periclinal divisions so that the
(c) Adaptive radiation sporogenous cell becomes embedded
in massive nucellus. Such an ovule is
(d) None of the above
called as :
3. Closely related species cannot occupy (a) Tenuinucellate
same ecological niche for indefinite (b) Pseudocrassinucellate
time is : (c) Crassinucellate
(d) Pseudotenuinucellate
(a) Allen's rule
(b) Bergman's principle 7. In majority of the angiosperms meiosis
is of successive type. However, in
(c) Gause's principle
some angiosperms the first meiotic
(d) Stauger's rule
division in megaspore mother cell is
followed by cytokinesis, whereas the
4. What is correct ?
second meiotic division is not followed
(a) Angiosperms appeared first and
by cytokinesis. Thus the micropylar
birds later
and chalazal dyad cells formed are
(b) Angiosperms appeared binucleate. If the embryo sac develops
simultaneously with man from the chalazal dyad cell the embryo
(c) Angiosperms appeared alongwith sac development would conform to :
first mammals (a) Allium type
(b) Endymion'type
(d) Angiosperms appeared
(c) Adoxa type
simultaneously with birds (d) Peperomia type
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8. The somatic cells in the nucellus 11. Trachoma an ophthalamic disease is

directly form an unreduced embryo caused by :
sac and the diploid egg (a) Chlamydea
parthenogenetically develops in an (b) Rickettsia
embryo. This type of Agamospermy is
(c) Actinomycetes
known as :
(a) Adventive embryony
(d) Mycoplasma
(b) Diplospory
12. Sydney Fox coined the term :
(c) Apospory
(d) All of the above (a) Biosphere

9. In Vallisneria spiralis, which is (b) Microsphere

submerged dioecious plant, the (c) Rhizosphere
flowers arc borne under water. Upon
(d) Phyllosphere
attaining maturity the male flowers get
detached from the parent plant and 13. Oxygen became the part of earths
float on the surface of water. ITie atmosphere around :
female flowers also develop under
(a) 3,600 Million years ago
water. At the time of pollination they
are brought to the surface of water and (b) 3,600 Billion years ago
pollination is done. This type of (c) 3,600 Trillion years ago
pollination is known as :
(a) Anemophily (d) 36,000 Million years ago
(b) Hydrophily
(c) Epihydrogamy 14. Binomial nomenclature was first
(d) Hvpohydrogamy introduced in :
(a) Genera plantarum
10. The embryological data has played
important role in determining (b) Systema naturca
taxonomic position of the taxa whose (c) Species plantarum
systematic position was under dispute. (d) 1 lortus uplandicus
Which of the following genus wrongly
placed in the family Onagraceae by 15. Which is the only possible placentation
Bentham and Hooker was removed if the gynoecium is multilocular ?
from Onagraceae on the basis of
(a) Marginal
embryological data :
(a) Trapa (b) Free centred
0?) Pantaphragma (c) Parietal
(c) Paeonia
(d) Axile
(d) None of the above
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16. Lodicules are present in the flower of : 20. Taxonomically unrelated taxa
occupying same ecological niche
(a) Sunflower
represent :
(b) Wheat
(a) Convergent evolution
(c) Datura
(b) Divergent evolution
(d) Pea
(c) Micro evolution
17. Twisting of Ovary (resipination) is a (d) Adaptive radiation
distinctive feature of :
(a) Poaceae 21. Which of the following gymnosperm
of Bennettitales (Cycadeodales) was
(b) Liliaceae recovered from Rajmahal hilts by Prof.
(c) Solanaceae Birbal Sahni ?

(d) Brassicaceae (a) Heterangium

(b) Pentoxylon
18. The idea of spontaneous generation
was abondoned by : (c) Williumsania

(a) Fredi (d) Sahnia

(b) S. L. Miller 22. Which class of Pteridophyte comprise

only fossils ?
(c) Louis Pasteur
(a) Sphenopsida
(d) Lazzaro Spallanzani (b) Psilopsida
(c) Lycopsida
19. Which of the following mixture was (d) Psilophytopsida
used by Miller in his famous
experiment on origin of life ? 23. Which of the following kinds of
bryophytes exhibit simplest
(a) Methane - Ammonia - Hydrogen gametophyte but complex and much
- Water advanced sporophyte ?
(b) Methane - Ammonia - Oxygen - (a) Sphagnum
Water
(b) Riccia
(c) Methane - Ammonia - Nitrogen -
Water (c) Anthoceros

(d) Ethane - Ammonia - Hydrogen- (d) Pellia

Water
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24. Development of buds for leafy 28. Anthrax causing bacteria is infamous
gametophores from protonema is as a bio-war agent due to :
induced by : (a) Easy availability
(a) Gibberellin (b) Gram positive nature
(b) Phytokinin (c) Ability to produce endospores
(c) Auxin (d) Ability to produce cxospores

(d) Bryokinin 29. A vaccine against AIDS could not be

produced because :
(a) HIV is a retrovirus
25. Mark out the mismatched pair :
(b) HIV virion is enveloped
(a) Apple scale - Trichothecium (c) High mutability of "Env" gene
roseum
(d) High mutability of "pol" gene
(b) Downy mildew of - Plasmopera
grape viticola 30. T2 bacteriophage drill bacterial cell
wall by piercing its :
(c) Blast of rice - Pilicularia orhizae
(a) Double stranded DNA
(d) Bunt of wheat - Tilletia caries (b) Amino terminus of tale fibres
26. Which of the following alga has been (c) Tail pins of lysozyme
utilized as a tool for understanding (d) Head
impact of nucleus on morphogenesis ?
(a) Chlorella
31. What is not correct about Funaria ?

(b) Anteromorpha (a) It is acrocarpous

(c) Ulva (b) It is cleistocarpous

(d) Acetabularia (c) It is diplolapidous
(d) It is autoceous
27. Which algal group is specialised to
produce auxospores ? 32. The antherozoids of fem are :
(a) Dinoflagellates (a) bicilliate and curved

(b) Diatoms (b) multicilliate and straight

(c) multicilliate and spirally coiled

(c) Chrysophytes
(d) bicilliate and spirally coiled
(d) Sea weeds

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 33. Virus spreads in plant body via : 37. Which of the following exhibits false
indusium ?
(a) Shoot apices
(a) Dryopteris
(b) Intercellular spaces
(b) Cleichinia
(c) Xylem
(c) Adiantum
(d) Phloem
(d) Azola
34. What most
is unfortunate about
gymnosperms ? 38. If an aposporous gametophyte of fem
undergoes apogamous development of
(a) Anemophilly
sporophyte then what will be the
(b) Pollen chamber in ovules ploidy status of newly formed
sporophyte :
(c) Endosperm in prefertilization
(a) Haploid
tissue
(b) Diploid
(d) Neither chemotactic nor
chemotropic advantage (c) Tetrapioid

(d) Octaploid
35. In Pteridophytes :
on 39. An anticancer drug "Taxol" has been
(a) Sporophyte is dependant
obtained from :
gametophyte
(a) Taxus
(b) Gametophyte is dependant on
sporophyte (b) Cephalotaxus

(c) Both are interdependent (c) Taxodiuni

(d) None of the above (d) Ginkgo

36. Which of the following is not 40. Which gymnosperm inhabits typical
heterosporous ? desert ?

(a) Isoetes (a) Microcycas

(b) Cupressus
(b) Selaginella
(c) Gnetum
(c) Marselia
(d) Welwitschia
(d) Pteris

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41. Which of the following fraction is 44. India represents 2.4 percent of total
responsible for shifting sand dunes in land area of the world. How much
deserts ? percentage of world's biodiversity it
comprise :
(a) Suspension
(a) 2.8 per cent
(b) Ground draft (b) 8.1 per cent

(c) Saltation (c) 11.2 per cent

(d) 4.4 per cent
(d) Siltation
45. Which alga produces a protonema
42. Arrange the following-break throughs similar to mosses ?
in chronological order :
(a) Protosiphon
(i) Discovery of reverse transcription
(b) Protococcus
(ii) Noble prize for discovery of ozone
(c) Chara
hole
(d) Zygnema
(iii) Discovery of P. C. R.
(iv ) One gene one enzyme hypothesis

-
(a) (iv) (i) - (iii) - (ii) 46. Mark out the odd-one :
- -
(b) (i) - (ii) (iv) (iii) (a) Chantansia - Batrachospermum
(c) (iii) - (i) - (ii) - (iv) (b) Algaozonia - Cutleria
(d) (iv) - (iii) - (i) - (ii) (c) Palmella - Volvox
43. What is not correct ?
(d) Gongrosira - Vaucheria
(a) Term gene and genetics could be 47. If a Spirogyra filament collected from a
coined after forty years of the pond exhibits zygospore like
proposal of Mendelism structures in all of its cells then it
(b) While in 1809 Lamarck proposed suggests that they are :
inheritance of acquired characters,
(a) Product of Scalariform conjugation
Charles Darwin was bom
(c) While Mendel died in 1882, (b) Product of Lateral conjugation
Charles Darwin died two years
later (c) Product of Parthenogenesis

(d) While in 1935 Stanley crystallized (d) Product of Vegetative

TMV, Tansley coined the term reproduction showing akinetes
ecosystem
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48. Which statement is correct 1 52. Mark out the incorrect statement :
(a) Red algae exhibit maximum (a) Predation is always in lopg term
variations in types of sexual benefit for prey population
reproduction (b) Graph of population growth is
(b) Green algae exhibit maximum sigmoid for r-species
variations in flagellation
(c) Two closely related species can
(c) Yellow green algae exhibit not occupy same ecological niche
maximum variation in type of for indefinite time
food reserve (d) All kinds of adaptive radiations
(d) Brown algae exhibit maximum illustrate divergent evolution
variations in types of Life Cycles a
53. Which of the following is latest
49. Which of the following enjoy benthic, discovery' for Indian Biodiversity ?
lotic habitat of pools ? (a) New species of Bush Frogs at

(a) Phytoplanktons and Zooplanktons Western Ghat

(b) Magnolia found growing in
(b) Rock weeds
Western Himalayas
(c) Pond silk (c) Ginkgo biloba growing in

(d) Stone worts Darjeeling

(d) Lemur pollinating Ravenela at
50. Plectenchyma is edible false tissue in : Lucknow

(a) Yeast 54. Data for world climate change comes

(b) Mushroom from observatory at :
(a) Mauna Loa
(c) Jack fruit
(b) Pune
(d) Litchi (c) Rio de Janeiro

51. Which one of the following became (d) Stockholm

popular as molecule of 1989 ?
55. World Ozone (Layer protection) day Is
(a) Small Nuclear RNA observed on :
(a) 16th September
(b) Taq polymerase
(b) 16th October
(c) Reverse transcriptase (c) 16th November

(dj p-BR-322 (d) 16th December

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 56. How many hot spots have been 60. Which of the following is most
recognized in the world ? detrimental S. P. M. for human health ?
(a) 25
(a) 1.5 nm in Diameter
(b) 34
(c) 10 (b) 1.5 pm in Diameter
(d) 6
(c) 2.5 nm in Diameter
57. Berberis nilghiriensis, Bentinckia
nicobarica, Cupressus cashmeriana are : (d) 2.5 pm in Diameter

(a) Critically endangered, 61. In a fully plasmolysed cell space

Endangered and Vulnerable between shrunken protoplasm and cell
respectively wall is occupied by :
(b) Endangered, Vulnerable and
(a) Hypotonic solution
Critically endangered respectively
(c) Vulnerable, Critically endangered (b) Hypertonic solution
and Endangered respectively
(c) Isotonic solution
(d) Endangered, Vulnerable and Rare
respectively (d) Gaseous mixture
58
Blue-Baby syndrome is due to which 62. Ilie shock stimulus movement in
pollutant : "Touch me not" involves :
(a) Carbon monooxide in air
(a) K + expulsion in pulvinus
(b) Sulphur dioxide in air
(b) Differential loss of water
(c) Nitrates in water

(d) (c) Unequal distribution of auxins

NO2 in air
59. Mark out the odd one : (d) (a) and (b) both

(a) Arsenic - Black Foot 63. Sucrose transport in plant body is

facilitated by :
(b) Mercury - Minimata
(a) Boron
(c) Cadmium - Itai-Itai (b) Calcium

(d) Lead - Methamoglobinemia (c) Molybdenum

(d) Zinc

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80. Photorespiration loss of carbon 84. What is not correct about '-bio¬
•

dioxide takes place in : membranes ?

(a) Chloroplast (a) The proportion of lipids to

proteins varies from 1 : 0.8 to 1 : 4
(b) Mitochondria
(b) Quasifluid nature of membrane
(c) Peroxysome
lipids is due to temperature
(d) Cytoplasm sensitive motion of fatty acid tdils

81. What will be the number of (c) Cholesterol is present only in the
chromosomes at mitotic anaphase of membranes of animal cells
shoot tip if the sporophytic number is
2n = 14 ? (d) Glycocalyx is present on both
surfaces of the membrane
(a) 7
85. Middle lamella is absent between :
(b) 14
(a) Sieve tubes and companion cells
(c) 28 (b) Guard cells and subsidiary ceUtj

(d) None of the above (c) Guard cells of stomata

(d) None of the above

82. In meiosis separation of daughter
chromatids takes place at : 86. What is not correct about Mendelism ?

(a) Zygotene (a) Incomplete dominance further

strengthened Mendelism
(b) Anaphase 1
(b) Mendel postulated that every
(c) Anaphase II character is governed by one pair
of factors
(d) Diakinesis
(c) Law of independent assortment is
83. Bacterial membranes possess : based upon the result of
(a) Cholesterol rnonohybrid cross

(b) Hopanoids (d) Independent assortment is based

upon segregation of maternal and
(c) Ergasterols paternal factors
(d) Stigmasterols

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87. The seven characters studied by 91. The first family in Engler and Prantl
Mendel are present : system of classification is :
(a) separately on 7 chromosomes as (a) Salicaceae
1?x discovered by Hugo de Vries
(b) Magnoliaceae
(b) on 4 chromosomes as discovered
by Blixt
(c) Casuarinaceae
(c) on 5 chromosomes as discovered
by Carl Correns (d) Typhaceae •

(d) on 6 chromosomes as discovered 92. "Vrikshaywiveda" was compiled by :

by Morgan (a) Vnkshadas
88. B. T. cotton is : (b) Tulsidas

(a) G. M. food (c) Prasara

(b) Britisch cotton (d) Bulsara

' (c) Transgenic crop for resistance 93. Binomial system of nomenclature was
against insect pest introduced by :
(d) Transgenic cotton resistant against (a) John Ray
Bacillus thuringiensis
(b) Carolus Linnaeus
89. If a homozygous dominant sex is (c) Charles Darwin
crossed to a hemizygous recessive sex,
(d) Julian Huxley
then the inheritance pattern in F,
progeny for a sex linked trait will be : 94. 'Dre peculiar internal organisation of
(a) 1:1 C4plants is termed "Kranz anatomy "
(b) 3:1 because :
(a) It is named after its German
(c) 1:2:1
discoverer
(d) 15:1
(b) Its bundle sheath resembles a
90. Which is not quantitative trait ? garland
(a) I. Q. in man (c) Its mesophyll and bundle sheath
(b) Human height cells have different ultrastructure
(c) I luman eye colour (d) None of the above
(d) Human skin colour

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95. The elongated axis of a flower between 99. What is not correct ?
the androecium and gynoecium is (a) Old world deserts are populated
called : with Euphorbias while new world
(a) Anthrophore deserts are populated with cacti
(b) Gynophore (b) Metallicolous plants represents
natural selection
(c) Androphore
(c) Resistance in mosquitoes for
(d) Gynandrophore
D.D.T. represent natural selection
96. The phenomenon of geocarpy is (d) Cauliflower, cabbage, knol-khol
common in : and Brussel's sprout are outcome
of artificial selection
(a) Arachis hypogea
100. Which of the following is
(b) Glycine max Endosymbiont organelle ?
(a) Nucleolus in nucleus
(c) Artocarpous integrifolia (b) Ribosome in the mitochondria and
(d) All of the above plastids
(c) Mitochondria in a Eukaryotic cell
97. The classification of plants based on (d) Chromosome in the nucleus
chromosome number is known as :
(a) Cytotaxonomy 101. In vivo occurrence of androgenic
haploids has been reported in :
(b) Numerical taxonomy
(a) Solanum nigrum
(c) Biochemical taxonomy (b) Tectona grandis
(d) Karyotaxonomy (c) Datura innoxa
(d) Nicotiana
98. The stem having several nodes and
internodes modified into a flat, fleshy 102. Interspecific crosses are generally
and green leaf like structure, which successful, whereas intergeneric
carries out photosynthesis and stores crosses are rarely successful. Which of
food is called as : the following methods would you
(a) Cladode suggest to obtain intergeneric hybrids ?
(a) Grafting
(b) Bulbil
(b) Recombinant DNA technology
(c) Phylloclade
(c) Tissue culture
(d) Sucker (d) Protoplast fusion

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103, The first synthetic seed was produced 107. The stomata remain surrounded by a
in vitro by : limited number of cells which cannot
be distinguished from other epidermal
' ': ,i' (a) Kitto and Janick, 1982
•i celLs. Thus the subsidiary cells arc
(b) Kitto and Janick, 1981 absent. This type of stomata are called
as :
(c) Kitto and Janick, 1983

(d) Kitto and Janick, 1985 (a) Anisocytic

104. In a concentric vascular bundle if the (b) Paracytic

xylem is surrounded by phloem the
vascular bundle is known as : (c) Anomocytic
(a) Leptocentric
(d) Mesoperigenous
i‘.'.Uk(b) Bicollateral
(c) Amphivasal 108. During seed germination the
hypocotyl grows first and pushes the
(d) Amphicribral cotyledonary node and all other parts
of seed out of the soil. This mode of
105. The roots of epiphytic orchids possess
germination is known as :
an outer spongy tissue for absorbing
moisture from the atmosphere. This
(a) Hypogeal
tissue is known as :
(a) Mesophyll (b) Epigeal

(b) Tylose
(c) Geocarpy
(c) Velamen
(d) Lenticel (d) Vivipary

106. In a stele when phloem occurs on the 109. Higher concentration of auxins
outer and inner side of the xylem, the favours :
stele is known as :
(a) Photosynthesis
(a) Solenostele
(b) Sporogenesis
(b) Endophloic
(c) Xylogenesis
(c) Ectophloic siphonostele

(d) Amphiphloic siphonostele (d) Leptogenesis

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110. The association of an organism with 113. If the cell Ca of 2-celled proembryo
another organism where both the divides vertically and cell Cb plays
organisms are neither benefitted nor minor role or none in the subsequent
harmed is called as : development of embryo proper, the
embryo development would conform
(a) Commensalism to :

(b) Neutralism (a) Solanad type

(b) Chenopodiad type
(c) Parasitism .**01
(c) Caryophyllad type
(d) Ammensalism (d) Onagrad type

111. Normally in nuclear type of 114. The remnant of nucellus which has not
endosperm development wall been completely consumed during
formation is centripetal and the whole seed development is known as :
endosperm cavity gets filled with cells. (a) Endosperm
However, the degree of cellularization
(b) Perisperm
varies. In which of the following the
cellularization is confined to (c) Raphe
micropylar region only and chalazal (d) None of the above
4< j
part remains nuclear :
115. How many meiotic divisions are
(a) Phaseolus
required to produce 121 female
(b) Crotollaria
gametophytes in an angiosperm ?
(c) Grevillea
(a) 31
(d) All of the above
(b) 32
112. During the development of anther (c) 30
wall layers the outer and inner
secondary parietal layers divide (d) 121
periclinally producing middle layers.
116. In a bisexual flower self pollination is
This type of anther wall development
prevented through which of the
conforms to :
following ?
(a) Monocot type
(a) Self sterility
(b) Dicot type
(b) Herkogamy
(c) Basic type
(c) Dichogamy
(d) Reduced type
(d) All of the above

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117. The uninucleate pollen grains seem to 119. Haploid plants may be produced in
have the potential of adopting any vitro through :
one of the following modes of
development depending upon the (a) Anther and pollen culture
temperature :
(b) Culture of ovules from
(a) Under normal conditions they unfertilized ovaries
would form male gametes
(c) Culture of unpollinated ovaries
(b) Under special conditions they
may form female gametophyte (d) AU of the above

(c) In in vitro conditions on 120. The most popular auxin for the
appropriate nutrient medium they induction of somatic embryogenesis is
may form apogamous (a) 2, 4 -dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
sporophytes
(b) 2,4, 5 -trichlorophenoxy acetic acid
(d) All of the above
(c) Naphthalene acetic acid
118. The most popular and commonly used
nutrient medium in plant tissue (d) Decamba
culture was proposed by :

(a) Nitsch and Nitsch, 1956

(b) P. R. White, 1963

(c) Murashige and Skoog, 1962

(d) Lloyd and McCown, 1980

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