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Assexual Practise Answer
Assexual Practise Answer
(a) leaf
(b) flower
(c) fruit
(d) stem
ANSWER:
(b) flower
Flowers are the reproductive parts of a plant. Leaf and stem are vegetative parts of a plant. The fruit is
the ripened ovary.
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Question 1:
Reproduction is the process of producing young ones of their own kind. It is important because life
continues from generation to generation through reproduction.
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Question 2:
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Question 3:
Yeast reproduces by
(a) budding
(b) spore formation
(c) vegetative reproduction
(d) sexual reproduction
ANSWER:
(a) budding
Yeast reproduces by budding. A bud is a small bulb-like projection coming out from yeast cell. The bud
gradually grows and gets detached from the parent cell and forms a new yeast cell.
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Question 4:
(a) budding
(b) sexual reproduction
(c) spore formation
(d) vegetative reproduction
ANSWER:
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Question 5:
(a) pistil
(b) pollen grain
(c) stamen
(d) ovule
ANSWER:
(c) stamen
Stamens are the male reproductive part of a flower.
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Question 6:
(a) anther
(b) stigma
(c) pollen grain
(d) ovule
ANSWER:
(d) ovule
A pistil of a flower has three parts: stigma, style and ovary. The ovary contains one or more ovules.
The egg is formed in an ovule.
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Question 7:
(c) ovule
After fertilisation in plants, ovary grows into a fruit while the seeds develop from the ovules.
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Question 8:
A plant was found to have seeds with hooks. By which method is it most likely to be dispersed?
ANSWER:
(c) animals
Seeds with hooks are dispersed by animals. These seeds get attached to the bodies of animals and
are carried to distant places.
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Question 9:
(a) lotus
(b) dandelion
(c) pea
(d) xanthium
ANSWER:
(a) lotus
Lotus plant grows near water. Its fruit can float on water. When the fruits of lotus fall in the water,
currents carry them too far away to land areas.
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Question 10:
(a) rose
(b) apple
(c) sweet pea
(d) papaya
ANSWER:
(d) papaya
A flower having all the four types of floral organs—that is, sepals, petals, stamens and pistils—is
termed as complete flower. The absence of any one or more of the floral organs makes the flower
incomplete.
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Question 1:
The method of reproduction that involves only one parent is called ___________
ANSWER:
The method of reproduction that involves only one parent is called asexual reproduction.
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Question 2:
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Question 3:
Question 4:
False.
Potato reproduces by vegetative propagation.
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Question 5:
The process of growing new plants using artificial methods is called _________
ANSWER:
The process of growing new plants using artificial methods is called artificial propagation.
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Question 6:
What is the process of fusion of male cell and egg cell called?
ANSWER:
The process of fusion of male cell and egg cell is called fertilisation.
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Question 7:
The fusion product of male cell and egg cell known as ____________
ANSWER:
The fusion product of male cell and egg cell is known as zygote.
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Question 8:
True.
Complete flowers have all the four floral organs; that is, sepals, petals, stamens and pistils.
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Question 9:
Name one seed that is dispersed by:
(a) wind
(b) explosion of fruit
ANSWER:
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Question 10:
True.
The seed must get moisture and oxygen for germination. The enzymes in the seed function only when
they get water.
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Question 3:
Yeast reproduces by budding. In yeast, a small amount of cytoplasm accumulates at one end of the
cell and a bud is formed. The nucleus divides into two. One of them enters the bud. The bud grows
and gets detached from the parent cell to form a new cell.
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Question 4:
Plants of lower order such as mosses, ferns and moulds reproduce by spore formation. A spore is
protected by a thick wall and grows into a new plant under favourable conditions.
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Question 5:
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Question 6:
List the different kinds of asexual reproduction in plants, giving one example of each.
ANSWER:
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Question 7:
The method of producing new plants from the vegetative parts of the mother plant, such as root, stem
and leaves, without the assistance of any reproductive organ is called vegetative propagation.
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Question 8:
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Question 9:
The process of fertilisation consists of the fusion of male cell, carried by the pollen tube, with the egg in
the ovule. Zygote is formed as a result of fertilisation.
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Question 10:
A seed germinates when it gets proper moisture and oxygen. Most seeds also require warmth for their
germination.
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Question 3:
(a) cutting
(b) layering
(c) grafting
ANSWER:
(a) Cutting: It is an artificial method of vegetative propagation in which a healthy young branch of a
plant with leaf buds is cut off and planted in moist soil. The cutting develops roots and grows into a
new plant. This method is used to propagate plants such as rose, sugarcane and bougainvillaea.
(b) Layering: It is an artificial method of vegetative propagation in which a young branch is bent
towards the ground and covered with moist soil. After some time, roots develop from the covered part.
This is called a layer. The branch can now be cut and made to grow into a new plant. This method is
used to propagate plants such as rose, jasmine and bougainvillaea.
(c) Grafting: It is an artificial method of vegetative propagation. It consists of keeping a twig or bud of
one plant (called the scion) over the cut stem of another plant (called the stock) and tying them up
together. The tissues of the stock and scion join together to form one plant. This method is used to
develop new varieties of fruit plants such as mango.
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Question 4:
What is pollination? How does it lead to fertilization? Explain with the help of a diagram.
ANSWER:
Pollination is the process of transfer of pollen grains from the anthers to the stigma. After reaching the
stigma, pollen grain starts to grow. A thin tube called the pollen tube grows down from the pollen grain
through the pistil. The pollen tube carries the male cell. It grows and enters the ovule. The male cell
moves into the ovule and fuses with the egg to form zygote. The fusion of male cell with the egg is
called fertilisation.
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Question 5:
Why is dispersal of seeds necessary? Name the agents of dispersal giving one example each of a
seed that is dispersed by them.
ANSWER:
Dispersal of seeds is necessary so that seeds of a plant get scattered over a large area. If all the
seeds of a plant fall at one place, they will not have enough space, water, minerals and the sunlight.
Thus, they will not develop into healthy plants.
Following are the different agents of dispersal:
(a) Wind (e.g. cotton and maple seeds)
(b) Water (e.g. lotus seeds)
(c) Animals (Xanthium seeds)
(d) Explosion of fruit (e.g. geranium and balsam seeds)
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Question 6:
After fertilisation, the petals, sepals and stamens wither away and fall off. Sometimes, style and stigma
also fall off. Only the ovary remains. The ovules in the ovary contain a supply of food which is taken by
the developing zygote. The zygote begins to grow by cell division and, after some time, becomes an
embryo. The walls of the ovules develop hard layers and form seeds. Thus, seeds consist of a young
plant, with stored food, sealed within a hard layer.
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Question 7:
Tissue culture is an artificial method of vegetative reproduction. In this method, a piece of tissue is cut
off from the growing tip of a plant. The cells are separated and kept in a nutrient medium under
controlled conditions. The nutrient medium contains hormones that make the cells divide and form
groups of cells. Roots also develop. These are then kept in a different nutrient medium containing
hormones that enables shoot to develop. The different plantlets can now be grown in pots of soil.
Orchids, chrysanthemum and many other plants are grown by this method.
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Question 1:
Improper working of the reproductive organs can lead to death. True or false? Give reasons.
ANSWER:
False.
Reproductive organs are not needed for the organism to stay alive. However, the organism cannot
produce offspring without it and therefore cannot continue its species.
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Question 2:
What kind of flowers do you expect to be attractive-insect pollinated flowers or wind pollinated flowers?
Why?
ANSWER:
Insect-pollinated flowers are expected to be more attractive because petals of insect-pollinated flowers
are scented and coloured. Wind-pollinated flowers have very small petals or no petals at all. This is
because they are pollinated by wind and not by insects.
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Question 3:
Insect-pollinated flowers cannot be pollinated by wind because the anthers and pistils remain covered
by petals.