What causes a green plant exposed to the light on only one side, to bend toward the
source of light as it grows?
1. Green plants need light to perform photosynthesis
2. Green plants seek light because they are phototropic
3. Light stimulates plant cells on the lighted side to grow faster
4. Auxin accumulates on the shaded side, stimulating greater cell elongation there
A few normal seedlings of tomato were kept in a dark room. After a few days they were
found to have become white-coloured like albinos. Which of the following terms will you
use to describe them?
1. Mutated
2. Embolised
3. Etiolated
4. Defoliated
Which one of the following growth regulators is known as "stress hormone" ?
1. abscisic acid
2. Ethylene
3. GA3
4. lndole acetic acid
During seed germination its stored food is mobilised by.
1. ethylene
2. cytokinin
3. ABA
4. gibberellin
Which one of the following is correctly matched?
1. Passive transport of nutrients - ATP
2. Apoplast - Plasmodesmata
3. Potassium - Readily mobilized
4. Bakane of rice seedlings - F Skoog
Phototropic curvature is the result of uneven distribution of.
1. gibberellin
2. phytochrome
3. cytokinins
4. auxin
Photoperiodism was first characterised in :-
1. tobacco
2. potato
3. tomato
4. cotton
Coiling of garden pea tendrils around any support is an example of
1. thigmotaxis
2. thigmonasty
3. thigmotropism
4. thermotaxis
One of the synthetic auxin is
1. NAA
2. IAA
3. GA
4. IBA
Which one of the following acids is a derivative of carotenoids?
1. Indole-butyric acid
2. Indole-3-acetic acid
3. Gibberellic acid
4. Abscisic acid