Chapter – 15
Plant Growth & Development
1. Development is
A) Growth
B) Differentiation
C) Growth + differentiation
D) Growth – differentiation
Paragraph 15.1
Growth
2. Growth is
A) Irreversible
B) Increase in size
C) Increase in weight
D) All of these
3. Swelling of piece of wood when placed
inn water is
A) Growth but not development
B) Development but not growth
C) Not growth/development
D) Both growth & development
Paragraph 15.1.1
Plant Growth Generally is
Indeterminate
4. Plant grows
A) For a limited time in life
B) For a very long time in life
C) For a very short time in a life
D) For unlimited time throughout life
5. The given figure shows-
DPP
A) Germination & development in
bean
B) Germination & development in
maize
C) Germination & development in pea
D) Germination & development in
green
6. Plant grows throughout the life due
to-
A) Meristematic tissue
B) Parenchyma tissue
C) Epidermal tissue
D) More than one option is correct
7. Open form of growth involves
A) Continuous division in all cells
forming new set of cells which
divide further necessarily.
B) Division in some cells forming new
set of cells which do not divide
further necessarily
C) No division at all
D) Division in some cells at the time
of injury which forms new set of
cells to heal the injury
8. Secondary growth does occur in-
A) All angiosperms and no
gymnosperms
B) Some angiosperm and all
gymnosperms
C) No angiosperm and only
gymnosperms
D) All angiosperm and all
gymnosperms
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9. Secondary growth does not mean- B) Dry weight

A) Increase in length of plant C) Cell number
B) Increase in girth of plant D) Both B & C
C) Increase in diameter in plant 12. Match the column in respect with the
D) Both A & C measurement growth-
10. Column I Column II
a Maize i Length
b Watermelon ii Surface area
c Pollen tube iii Cell number
d Dorsiventral iv Cell size
leaf
A) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
B) a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv
C) a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii
D) a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii

Choose the correct label- Paragraph 15.1.3

(i) (ii) (iii)
A Shoot Root Vascular Phases of Growth
apical apical cambium
13. The three phases of growth in correct
meristem meristem
order is-
B Root Shoot Vascular
A) Meristematic, maturation,
apical apical cambium
elongation
meristem meristem
B) Elongation, meristematic,
C Shoot Root Vascular
maturation
parenchy parenchy bundle
C) Meristematic, elongation,
ma ma
maturation
D Root Shoot Vascular
D) Elongation, maturation,
parenchy parenchy bundle
meristematic
ma ma
14. Cells in meristematic phase of growth-
A) Have small nuclei
Paragraph 15.1.2 B) Have low plasmodesmatal
connections
Growth is Measurable C) Have thick cell wall
D) Are rich in protoplasm
11. Growth can be measured by
measuring increase in –
A) Amount of protoplasm
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15. The phase of maturation lies-
A) Proximal to cells undergoing
elongation, towards the tip
B) Proximal to cells undergoing
elongation, away from the tip
C) Proximal to cells of meristematic zone,
away from the tip
D) Proximal to cells of meristematic zone,
towards the tip
A) Figure (i) shows geometric growth
with formula Lt = Lo + rt
B) Figure (i) shows geometric growth
with formula Wt = Wo ert
C) Figure (i) shows arithematic
growth with formula Lt = Lo + rt
D) Figure (i) shows arithematic
growth with formula Wt = Wo ert

16. Increase vacuolation is a 20. Identify the given figures

characteristics of –
A) Meristematic phase
B) Maturation phase
C) Elongation phase
D) All of these
17. Thickest cell wall present in –
A) Figure (i) shows geometric growth
A) Meristematic phase
with formula Lt = Lo + rt
B) Maturation phase
B) Figure (i) shows geometric growth
C) Elongation phase
with formula Wt = Wo ert
D) Both B & C
C) Figure (i) shows arithematic
Paragraph 15.1.4 growth with formula Lt = Lo + rt
D) Figure (i) shows arithematic
Growth rates
growth with formula Wt = Wo ert
21. Choose the correct option with respect
18. Increased growth per unit time is
to given figures of stages of embryo
called
development
A) Growth index
B) Growth rate
C) Growth efficiency index
D) Both A & C
19. Identify the given figure

A) (i) is arithmetic growth phase

B) (i) is geometric growth phase
C) (ii) is arithmetic growth phase
D) (ii) is geometric growth phase
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22. Choose the option with correct match C) Relative growth rate of A is more
(i) Wt = Wo ert than that of B
(ii) Lt = Lo + rt D) Relative growth rate of B is more
(iii) Linear growth plant
than that of A
(iv) Sigmoid growth plant
(v) Arithmetic growth
(vi) Geometric growth Paragraph 15.1.5
A) (i), (iii), (iv)
B) (ii), (iii), (vi) Conditions growth
C) (i), (iv), (vi)
D) (ii), (iv), (v) 26. The factors affecting growth can be –
23. The three phases of sigmoid growth A) Water, temperature, light, gravity
occur in order are – B) Water, temperature, light but not
A) Log, lag, stationary gravity
B) Log, stationary, lag C) Water, light but not temperature &
C) Lag, log, stationary gravity
D) Lag, stationary, log D) Water, light, gravity but not
24. In the formula Wt = Wo ert , r is – temperature
A) Relative growth rate
B) Efficiency index
Paragraph 15.2
C) Ability of plant to produce new
Differentiation, Dedifferentiation
plant material
D) All of these
and Redifferentiation
25. choose the correct option –
27. During differentiation
A) Structural changes occur in
nucleus and cytoplasm
B) Functional changes occur in
nucleus and cytoplasm
C) Structural changes occur in cell
wall and protoplasm
D) All of these
28. Dedifferentiation can be seen in
formation of–
A) Absolute growth rate of A is more A) Intrafascicular parenchyma
than that of B B) Intrafascicular cambium only
B) Absolute growth rate of B is more C) Interfascicular cambium only
than that of A D) Entire vascular cambium
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29. Read the following statements – B) Coriander

(i) Cork cambium is a layer of C) Buttercup
meristem formed from D) All of these
parenchyma cells 32. Environmental heterophylly can be
(ii) Intrafascicular cambium is a layer
seen in –
of parenchyma cells formed from
A) Larkspur
meristem
B) Cotton
(iii) Vascular cambium divide and
C) Coriander
produce cell that differentiate
again D) Buttercup
(iv) Plant growth can be determinate 33. The given figure show –
or indeterminate
(v) Final structure of cells is never
determined by location of cells
(vi) The differentiation in plant cells is
closed and dependent on position

How many of the above statements

are correct?

A) 3
B) 4 A) Developmental heterophylly in
C) 5 buttercups
D) 6
B) Environmental heterophylly in
Paragraph 15.3 larkspur
C) Environmental heterophylly in
Development buttercup
D) Developmental heterophylly in
30. identify the correct labels –
larkspur
34. The figure shows sequence of the
development process in

A) (i)-Expansion, (ii)-Plasmatic
growth, (iii)-Maturation
B) (ii)-Elongation, (i)-Plasmatic
growth, (iii)-Maturation
A) A plant cell
C) (iii)- Elongation, (ii)-Plasmatic
B) Plant tissue
growth, (i)-Maturation
C) Plant organs
D) (iii)-Expansion, (i)-Plasmatic
D) All of these
growth, (ii)-Maturation
31. Plasticity can be seen in –
A) Cotton
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35. The given figure show – A) IAA

B) Kinetin
C) ABA
D) Gibberellic acid
39. Gibberellic acid is –
A) Indole compound
B) Adenine compound
A) Developmental heterophylly in
buttercups C) Carotenoid derivative
D) Terpene derivative
B) Environmental heterophylly in
40. Abscisic acid is –
larkspur
A) Indole compound
C) Environmental heterophylly in
B) Adenine compound
buttercup
C) Carotenoid derivative
D) Developmental heterophylly in
D) Terpene derivative
larkspur
41. Kinetin is –
36. Intrinsic factors responsible for
A) Indole compound
growth & development include –
B) Adenine compound
A) Intracellular (plant growth
regulators) C) Carotenoid derivative
D) Terpene derivative
B) Intercellular (genetic)
42. A gaseous PGR is
C) Intercellular (plant growth
A) ABA
regulators)
B) Ethylene
D) More than one option is correct
C) GA3
Paragraph 15.4 D) IAA
Plant Growth Regulation 43. The PGRs that play important role in
plant responses to wounds are –
Paragraph 15.4.1
A) Auxin
Characteristics B) Cytokinin

37. PGRs are – C) Gibberellin

A) Small, simple, molecules of diverse D) Abscisic acid

chemical composition 44. PGR Ethylene can fit into –

B) Large, simple molecules of diverse A) Group of plant growth promotes

chemical composition B) Group of plant growth inhibitors

C) Small, complex molecules of C) Both the groups but mostly

diverse chemical composition inhibitor

D) Large, complex molecules of D) Both the groups but mostly

diverse chemical composition promoter

38. An example of adenine derivative PGR

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Paragraph 15.4.2 A) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv

B) a-iv, b-ii, c-i, d-iii
The Discovery of PGR C) a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii
D) a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i
45. Discovery of how many out of 5 major 49. Abscisic acid was independent
PGRs was accidental? discovered by three different
A) 2 researchers and named as –
B) 1 A) Inhibitor-A, abscission-III, dormin
C) 3 B) Inhibitor-C, abscission-II, dormane
D) 5 C) Inhibitor-B, abscission-II, dormin
46. Match the scientist with the plant D) Inhibitor-B, abscission-II, dormane
they worked on – 50. The term kinetin was given by –
Column I Column II
A) Muller et al
a F.W.Went i Canary grass
B) Kurosawa et al
b E. Kurosawa ii Avena(oat) C) Cousins et al
c Charles & iii Tobacco D) None of these
Francis Darwin
d F.S koog iv Rice 51. The foolish seedling disease of rice is
caused by –
A) a-iv, b-ii, c-iii, d-i A) Nematode
B) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv B) Bacteria
C) a-ii, b-iv, c-i, d-iii
C) Fungus
D) a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii
D) Virus
47. Cousins confirmed the release of a
52. Auxin was isolated by _(i)_ from _(ii)_
volatile substance _(i)_, from ripened
(i) (ii)
_(ii)_ that hastened the ripening of
A Francis Wleoptile of oat
stored unripe _(iii)_.
Darwin seedling
A) (i)-ABA, (ii)-banana, (iii)-orange
B Francis Coleoptile of canary
B) (i)-ABA, (ii)-orange, (iii)-banana
Darwin grass
C) (i)-C2H4, (ii)-banana, (iii)-orange
C F.W. Coleoptile of oat
D) (i)- C2H4, (ii)- orange, (iii)-banana
Went seedling
48. Match the PGR with the plants which
D F.W. Coleoptile of canary
played role in their discovery –
Went grass
Column I Column II
a Auxin i Tobacco
b Gibberellin ii Rice
c Cytokinin iii Orange
d Ethylene iv Avena
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53. The figure shows –
A) Experiment to show that tip of
coleoptile produces gibberelin
B) Experiment to show that tip of
coleorhiza produces gibberelin
C) Experiment to show that tip of
coleorhiza produces auxin
D) Experiment to show that tip of
coleoptile produces auxin
Paragraph 15.4.3.1
Auxin
58. (S) Auxin is used in plant propagation
widely.
(R) Auxin initiate rooting.
Choose the correct option -
A) Both S and R are correct, and R is
correct
B) Both S and R are correct, but R
doesn’t explain A
C) S is correct but R is wrong
D) Both S and R are incorrect
59. Auxin promote –
A) Rooting in stem cutting
B) Flowering in pineapple
C) Bolting in beet
D) Both A & B
60. Assertion: Auxin prevent fruit and leaf
drop at early stage

54. Auxin was first isolated from – Reason: Auxin promote abscission of

A) Xylem sap older mature leaves & fruits

B) Phloem sap Choose the appropriate option –
C) Human urine A) Assertion is correct and Reason is
D) Root exudates
incorrect
55. Synthetic auxins –
B) Assertion is incorrect and Reason
A) IAA
is correct
B) IBA
C) Both Assertion & Reason are
C) NAA
correct
D) Both A & B
D) Both Assertion & Reason are
56. Auxin isolated from plant –
incorrect
A) NAA
61. Auxin –
B) IAA
A) Promotes apical dominance
C) 2, 4-D
B) Prevent apical dominance
D) Both A & B
C) Both promote & prevent apical
57. Auxins are generally produced by –
dominance based on condition
A) Growing apex of root & shoot
D) Can’t say
B) Epidermal tissue of shoots only
C) Xylem secondary cells
D) Endodermal cells of roots & shoot
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62. In tea plantation and hedge -making 68. Gibberellins –

A) Lateral buds are removed A) Promotes senescence
B) Shoot tips are removed B) Delay senescence
C) Root tips are removed C) Neither promote not delay
D) None of these senescence
63. Auxin – D) Both promote & delay senescence
A) Induces parthenocarpy based on situation
B) Act as herbicide 69. Assertion: Spraying gibberellins on
C) Help in cell division fruits extend its market period
D) All of these Reason: Gibberellins delays
64. 2, 4-D is used to – senescence
A) Kill gymnosperms Choose the best option –
B) Kill dicot A) Both are true and Reason is
C) Kill monocot correct explanation of Assertion
D) Both A & B B) Both are true and Assertion is
correct explanation of Reason
Paragraph 15.4.3.2
C) Assertion is true but Reason is
Gibberellins false
D) Both Assertion and Reason are
65. Gibberellins are
false
A) Promotory PGR
70. Which of these are correct –
B) Inhibitory PGR
A) ABA shows the malting process in
C) Neither promotory nor inhibitory
brewing industry
PGR
B) ABA speeds the malting process in
D) Both promotory and inhibitory
brewing industry
PGR
C) GA3 slows the malting process in
66. Which of the following statements are
brewing industry
incorrect –
A) There are more than 100 gibberellins D) GA3 speeds the malting process in

reported brewing industry

B) GA3 was one of the gibberellins to be 71. Gibberellins is used to improve yields
discovered of –
C) All GA are basic A) Apple
D) GAs are also reported in fungi B) Grape
67. Gibberellins is used in grapes for – C) Sugarcane
A) Increase in length of stalk D) All of these
B) Increase in girth of stalk
C) Decrease in length of stalk
D) Decrease in girth of stalk
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72. Assertion: Juvenile conifers are 76. Kinetin is a modified form of –

sprayed with GA
Reason: GA delays senescence and
malting period
Which of the given options are
correct?
A) Both are true and Reason is
correct explanation of Assertion
B) Both are true and Assertion is
correct explanation of Reason
C) Assertion is true but Reason is
false
D) Both Assertion and Reason are
false
73. Bolting is –
A) Yellowing of leaves
B) Node elongation prior to flowering
C) Early maturing and seed
production
D) Noen of these
74. GA promote bolting in –
A) Beet
B) Cabbage
A) Purine – guanine
B) Pyrimidine – cytosin
C) Purine – adenine
D) Pyrimidine – thymine
77. Kinetin was discovered from –
A) Autoclaved herring egg DNA
B) Human urine
C) Corn kernel
D) None of these
78. Read the following statements
regarding cytokinin –
i) Kinetin occurs naturally in plants
ii) Kinetin was discovered from
coconut milk
iii) Zeatin does not occur naturally in
plants
iv) Zeatin was isolated from human
DNA
How many of the statements are
incorrect –
A) 1

C) Plants with rosetle habit B) 2

D) All of these C) 3
D) 4
Paragraph 15.4.3.3 79. Natural cytokinin may be synthesized
in –
Cytokinins
A) Root apex
B) Developing shoot buds
75. Cytokinins were discovered as –
C) Young fruits
A) Kinin
D) More than one option is correct
B) Kinetin
80. Cytokinin helps to produce –
C) Kinesin
A) Chloroplast in leaves
D) Zentin
B) Elongation in sugarcane
C) Synchronized fruit set in pineapple
D) Flowering in pineapple
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Paragraph 15.4.3.4
85. Ethylene –
Ethylene A) Promotes seed and bud dormancy
B) Promotes only seed dormancy
81. Ethylene is synthesized in large C) Promotes only bud dormancy
amounts by – D) None of these
A) Npening fruit 86. (S) Ethylene promotes
B) Tissues undergoing senescence internode/petiole elongation in deep
C) Newly developed leaves water rice plants
D) More than one option is correct (R) ethylene helps upper part of shoot
82. Ethylene causes to remain above water.
_(i)_ Growth of seedling, swelling of Choose the appropriate option –
axis and apical hook formation in A) S is correct and R is incorrect
_(ii)_ seedling B) S is incorrect and R is correct
(i) (ii) C) S and R are correct
A) Horizontal Monocot D) S and R are incorrect
B) Vertical Dicot 87. Ethylene –
C) Horizontal Dicot A) Promotes root hair formation and
D) Vertical Monocot increase in absorption surface
B) Demotes root hair formation and
83. Ethylene promotes – increase in absorption surface
A) Senescence and abscission of C) Promotes root hair formation and
flowers decrease in absorption surface
B) Senescence but not abscission of D) Demotes root hair formation and
flowers decrease in absorption surface
C) Abscission of flowers but not 88. Ethylene initiates –
senescence A) Flowering in pineapple
D) Neither senescence nor abscission B) Flowering in mango
of flowers C) Synchronizing fruit-set in
84. Ethylene in fruits causes – pineapple
A) Rise in rate of respiration called D) All of these
respiratory anti-climactic 89. Most widely used source of ethylene –
B) Rise in rate of respiration called A) Is ethepene
respiratory climactic B) Hasters fruit ripening in tomato
C) Fall in rate of respiration called and apple
respiratory anti-climactic C) In aqueous solution is absorbed on
D) Fall in rate of respiration called the plant roots
respiratory climactic D) More than one option is correct
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90. Ethylene promotes – C) Stomata opening to cause

A) Female flowers in cucumber, transpiration & calling effect
D) Both A & C
increasing the yield
95. In most situation, ABA acts as an
B) Female flowers in cucumber,
antagonist to-
decreasing the yield
A) Auxin
C) male flowers in cucumber,
B) GA
increasing the yield
C) Cytokinin
D) male flowers in cucumber,
D) Ethylene
decreasing the yield
Paragraph 15.5
Paragraph 15.4.3.5
Photoperiodism
Abscisic Acid
96. Identify the correct labels –
91. ABA is –
A) Inhibitor of plant growth and
metabolism
B) Inhibitor of plant growth but not
metabolism
C) Inhibitor of plant metabolism but
not growth
D) Inhibitor of neither plant growth
nor metabolism
92. ABA – (i) (ii) (iii)
A) Inhibit seed germination A) Long day Day Short
B) Promote seed dormancy plant neutral day
C) Inhibit seed dormancy plant plant
D) Both A & B B) Short Day Long
93. ABA is called stress hormone because day neutral day
A) It causes stress to plant plant plant plant
B) It is released during stress in plant C) Long day Short day Day
C) It helps plant to fight stress plant plant neutral
conditions plant
D) More than one option is correct D) Short Long day Day
94. ABA stimulates – day plant neutral
A) Stomata opening for more CO2 plant plant
exchange
B) Stomata closure to decrease
transpiration
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97. Rea the given statements – Paragraph 15.6

(S) some plants require a periodic
exposure to light to include flowering Vernalization
(R) some plants are able to measure
the duration of exposure to light 101. Vernalization is –

Choose the correct statements – A) Quantitative dependence of

A) Both statements are correct and is flowering on low temperature

about photoperiodism B) Qualitative dependence of

B) One of the statements is correct flowering on low temperature

about photoperiodism C) Quantitative dependence of

C) Both statements are correct and is flowering on high temperature

about vernalization D) More than one option is correct

D) One of the statements is correct 102. Vernalization can be seen in –

about vernalization A) Spring varieties of rice

98. For day neutral plants, there is B) Spring varieties of wheat

A) No correlation between light C) Winter varieties of rice

duration and flowering D) Winter varieties of wheat

B) Direct correlation between light 103. Vernalization is also seen in –

duration and flowering A) Biennials like – sugarbeet

C) Indirect correlation between light B) Biennials like maize

duration and flowering C) Perennials like sugarbeet

D) Direct correlation between light D) Perennials like maize

intensity and flowering

Paragraph 15.7
99. In photoperiodism –
A) Duration of light period matters Seed Dormancy
only
B) Duration of dark period matters 104. Some seeds which do not
only germinate even when external
C) Duration of light and dark period conditions are favourable, are
matters understood to be going through –
D) Duration of light or dark period A) Dormancy controlled by external
doesn’t matter environment
100. Photoperiods are perceived by – B) Dormancy controlled endogewusly
A) Shoot apices C) Dormancy controlled by conditions
B) Flowering apices within the seed
C) Nodal buds D) More than one option is correct
D) Leaves
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105. Chemical inhibitions of

germination are –
A) Abscisic acid
B) Phenolic acid
C) Para-ascorbic acid
D) All of these
106. Germination may not occur
due to –
i) Hard seed wat
ii) Immature embryo
iii) Chemical inhibitors
iv) Harsh environment

How many of above are correct?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 4
D) 3
107. Seed wat dormancy is broken
by –
A) Mechanical abrasions
B) Microbial actions in gut of animals
C) Certain chemicals
D) More than one option is correct
108. Effects of inhibitory substances
on dormancy is removed by
application of certain chemicals are –
A) Auxin
B) Gibberellic acid
C) Cytokinin
D) ABA
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ANSWER KEY

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Ans C D C D A A B B A B
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Ans D A C D B C B B C B
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