BOTANY -NEET XI OPT-111-12-02-2023 –MD SHOAIB

1. How does pruning help in making the hedge dense

(a) The apical shoot grows faster after pruning
(b) It releases wound hormones
(c) It induces the differentiation of new shoots from the rootstock
(d) It frees axillary buds from apical dominance
2. Parthenocarpic tomato fruits can be produced by?
(a) Raising the plants from vernalized seeds
(b) Treating the plants with phenylmercuric acetate
(c) Removing androecium of flowers before pollen grains are released
(d) Treating the plants with low concentrations of gibberellic acid and auxins
3. Which of the following is chief ingredients for malting in brewing industries.
(a) Gram seeds and gibberellic acids
(b) Millets and Auxin
(c) Cereals and Gibberellin
(d) Cashew nuts and Gibberellin
4. Which one of the following pairs, is not correctly matched ?
(a) IAA - Cell wall elongation
(b) Abscisic acid -- Stomatal closure
(c) Gibberellic acid –Prolonging leaf life
(d) Cytokinin--Karyokinesis
5. A farmer can increase number of pumpkins by treating the plant with ?
(a) Ethylene (b) Gibberellin
(c) GA3 (d) Indole acetic acid
6. Study of "Foolish seeding" disease of rice led to the discovery of :-
(a) GA produced by rice plants (b) GA produced by the fungus that infected the rice plants
(c) ABA produced by rice plants (d) Zeatin produced by the fungus infected rice plants
7. Senescence as an active developmental cellularprocess in the growth and functioning of a floweringplant, is
indicated in :-
(a)Annual plants
(b) Floral parts
(c) Vessels and tracheid differentiation
(d) Leaf abscission
8. Importance of day length in flowering of plants was first shown in:-
(a) Cotton (b) Petunina
(c) Lemna (d) Tobacco
9. Which one of the following ac is not a function of carotenoids derivatives?
(a) Dormancy of seed (b) Inhibit transpiration
(c) Leaf abscission (d) Inhibit metabolic activity
10. Phototropic curvature is the result of unevendistribution of :
(a)Gibberellin (b) Phytochrome
(c) Cytokinins (d) Auxin
11. Peculiar shoot formation is found in inter nodal pints of a plant like Begonia phyllomaniaca. As you have studied
the functions of various PGR which one would have had responsible for such shoot formation at abnormal
places?
(a) Cytokinin (b) Gibberellin
(c) Ethylene (d) Synthetic auxins
12. Which one of the following generally acts as anantagonist to gibberellins ?
(a) ABA (b) IAA
(c) Zeatin (d) Ethylene
13. Through their effect on plant growth regulators, whatdo the temperature and light control in the plants?
(a) Closure of stomata (b) Fruit elongation
(c) Apical dominance (d) Flowering
14. Dr. F. Went noted that if coleoptile tips wereremoved and placed on agar for one hour, the agarwould produce a
bending when placed on one sideof freshly-cut coleoptile stumps. Of what significanceis this experiment ?
(a) It made possible the isolation and exactidentification of auxin.
(b) It is the basis for quantitative determination ofsmall amounts of growth-promoting substances.
(c) It supports the hypothesis that IAA is auxin.
(d) It demonstrated polar movement of auxins.
15. A mass of undifferentiated cells collected from tobacco callus proliferate only when ?
(a) Auxin is added to the culture medium
(b) Auxin is added to the culture medium provided with Gibberellin.
(c) Auxin is added to the culture medium provided with cytokinin.
(d) Cytokinin is added to the culture medium along with Ethylene.
16. Which of the following PGR most likely to be deficient in rosette plants?
(a) Gibberellin (b) Zeatin,
(c) Ethylene (d) IAA
17. What causes a green plant exposed to the light ononly one side, to bend toward the source of light asit grows ?
(a) Green plants seek light because they arephototropic
(b) Light stimulates plant cells on the lighted side togrow faster
(c) Auxin accumulates on the shaded side stimulating greater cell elongation there.
(d) Green plants need light to perform photosynthesis
18. Which of the following process breaks physiological seed dormancy :-
(a) Scarification (b) Vernalisation
(c) Malting (d) Stratification
19. Auxin can be bioassayed by :
(a) Lettuce hypocotyl elongation
(b) Avena coleoptile curvature
(c) Hydroponics
(d) Potometer
20. Vernalisation:
(a) Hastens maturation of a plant for early flowering
(b) Induce floating in matured plants
(c) Protect the plants being killed by extreme low temperature during severe winter
(d) Hastens senescence in annual plants
21. You are given a tissue with its potential fordifferentiation in an artificial culture. Which of thefollowing pairs of
hormones would you add to themedium to secure shoots as well as roots ?
(a) Auxin and abscisic acid
(b) Gibberellin and abscisic acid
(c) IAA and gibberellin
(d) Auxin and cytokinin
22. Phytochrome is a :-
(a) Modified plastid (b) Chromoprotein
(c) Flavoprotein (d) Glycoprotein
23. The wavelength of light absorbed Pr form of phytochrome is :-
(a) 380 nm (b) 660 nm
 (c) 600 nm (d) 730 nm

24. Match the column and select the correct option:-

Column-I Column-II
(Hormone) (Function)
A -Cytokinin I- Senescence
B -Ethylene II -Seed dormancy
C -ABA III -Cell growth
D -Auxin IV- Helpful in shoot androot formation
(a) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV b) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(c) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV (d)A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
25. A farmer want to postpone plucking of fruits and keep fruits on the tree longer. The farmer should use?
(a) Auxin (b) Cytokinin
(c) Gibberellin (d) ABA
26. Acetyl Coenzyme A is a precursor for biosynthesis of:
(a) Ethylene (b) Gibberellin.
(c) Auxin (d) Cytokinins
27. Richmond lang effect due to cytokinins pertains to-
(a) Root formation
(b) Apical dominance
(c) Delay of senescence
(d) Leaf formation
28. Which among the following is not related to ABA?
(a) Induces shoot growth
(b) Stress hormone
(c) Induces seed dormancy
(d) Acts as a general plant growth inhibitor andinhibitor of plant metabolism
29. Which of the following is not true for ABA ?
(a) Seed dormancy and maturation
(b) Induce shoot formation
(c) Stress hormone
(d) Antagonist to GA
30. Assertion:- Gibberellin promotes bolting in plants with rosette habit
Reason:- Gibberellin elongates internodes of plants after flowering
(a) Assertion is correct and reason is false
(b) Both Assertion and Reason are false
(c) Assertion is false and Reason is correct
(d) Both assertion and Reason are not only true but also the reason is an correct explanation of Assertion.
31. The naturally occurring cytokinin is:-
(a) Kinetin (b) Zeatin
(c) Both Zeatin and Kinetin (d) Methionine
32. Which of the following RGR promotes rapid internode/petiole elongation in deep water rice plants ?
(a) Ethylene (b) GA
(c) Auxin (d) Cytokinin
33. Which of the following is not correct for ethylene?
(a) Responsible for senescence and absicission offlowers.
(b) It increases the rate of respiration during fruitripening
(c) Internode elongation in deep water riceseedlings
(d) Induce parthenogenesis in grapes
34. Which of the following is not the function of Auxin ?
(a) Control xylem differentiation and induce celldivision
(b) 2-4-D is used as herbicide for dicot weeds
(c) Promote fruit ripening
(d) Induce parthenocarpy
35. Match the following columns :-
Column-I Column-II
A- ABA i-Bolting of rosette
B- Auxin ii -Parthenocarpy in tomato
C- Ethephone iii- Ripening of fruits
D- GA iv- Stress hormone
A B B D
(a) iv ii iii i
(b) iv iii ii i
(c) iii ii I iv
(d) ii I iii iv
36. Which one of the following PGR hastens abscission of older mature leaves and fruits?
(a) ABA (b) Cytokinin
(c) Auxin (d) None of these
37. Which of the following is a growth regulatory pigment?
(a) Xanthophyll (b) Chlorophyll
(c) Carotene (d) Phytochrome
38. Which of the following PGR promote rapid elongation of internodes in rice plants growing in deep water?
(a) Gibberellin (b) Cytokinin
(c) Ethylene (d) Auxin
39. Hormone which is sprayed on young conifers tohasten the maturity period and early seed productionis .
(a) Ethylene (b) ABA
(c) Gibberellins (d) Cytokinin
40. Ethylene is used to initiate flowering and for synchronizing fruit set in which of the following plant? .
(a) Rice (b) Potato
(c) Pineapple (d) Cherry
41. Gibberellins can promote seed germination because of their influence on :
(a) Rate of cell division
(b) Production of hydrolyzing enzymes
(c) Synthesis of abscisic acid
(d) Absorption of water through hard seed coat.
42. In the following which is not synthesized naturally in plants?
(a) Auxin (b) Gibberellin
(c) Kinetin (d) Zeatin
43. In the following which is not a function of ethylene?
(a) Breaks bud and seed dormancy
(b) Promotes root growth
(c) Delay senescence
(d) Initiate flowering
44. Which causes fruits like apple to elongate &improve its shape ?
(a) Ethylene (b) Gibberellins
(c) Auxin (d) ABA
45. A set of PGR regulate seed germination is :-
(a) Gibberellin, Ethylene and Abscissic Acid
 (b) Auxin, Ethylene and Abscissic Acid
(c) Gibberellin, Ethylene and Cytokinin
(d) Gibberellin, Cytokininand Abscissic Acid
46. Which of the following increases the tolerance ofplants to various kind of stresses?
(a)ABA (b) Ethylene
(c) Auxin (d) None
47. Which of the following is not correct for ethylene?
(a) Promotes horizontal growth in seedlings
(b) Synchronize fruit set in pineapple
(c) Does not help to increase absorption surface of plant root hairs.
(d) Break seed and bud dormancy
48. The gaseous plant growth regulator ethylene couldfit in the group of :-
(a) Plant growth inhibitors (b) Plant growth promoters
(c) Both (a)and (2) (d) Neither inhibitors nor promoters
49. Which of the following physiological effects, iscommon to both Auxins and Ethylene?
(a) Sprouting of potato tuber
(b) Petiole elongation in deep water rice plants
(c) Flowering in pineapple
(d) Weed killing
50. PGR of which of the following chemical nature,is helpful in wine production?
(a) Carotenoid derivative (b) Adenine derivative
(c) Indole compound (d) Terpenes

BOTANY -NEET XI OPT-111-12-02-2023

ANSWER KEY
1. D 11. A 21. D 31. A 41. B
2. D 12. A 22. B 32. A 42. C
3. C 13. D 23. B 33. D 43. C
4. D 14. B 24. A 34. C 44. B
5. A 15. C 25. C 35. A 45. A
6. B 16. A 26. B 36. D 46. A
7. D 17. C 27. C 37. D 47. C
8. D 18. D 28. A 38. C 48. C
9. C 19. B 29. B 39. C 49. C
10. D 20. A 30. A 40. C 50. D