Morphology in flowering plants

Solutions

NEST previous year questions

1.B.mustard
Mustard seeds are reproductive tissues that contain the genetic information of the parent plant
and can transfer that information to their offspring. The "eyes" of potato tubers, rhizomes of
ginger, and leaf buds of Bryophyllum are also vegetative tissues that have the ability to
regenerate into new plants, but they may not introduce new genetic variability unless there are
mutations or genetic changes during the regeneration process.

2. A,C
Chloroplasts move towards weak light to capture light efficiently and escape from strong light
and move to a position where light absorption is minimized. In figure 1, there is exposure of
leaf to weak light and figure 2, there is exposure of leaf to strong light. When the leaf is
exposed to strong light, there is photo-oxidation which can damage the leaf. So, the chloroplast
relocate to escape photo-oxidation.
Thus, the correct answers are options A and C

KVPY previous year questions

1.C
Onion is a bulb which is formed by the overlapping of many nodes in the condensed stem.
There are fleshy and scaly leaves which are attached to the thickened base. Sweet potato and
carrot are the modified form of root. Ginger is the rhizome which is a modified stem.

2. C
Red and blue lights favor photosynthesis because they have the exact amount of energy
required to excite electrons located in chlorophyll and move them to a higher energy level
during photosynthesis. Chlorophyll reflects green light as plants are mostly green in color.
Hence green light cannot be used in the photosynthetic process and is the least effective color
driving photosynthesis.

3. C

1
Plants require an adequate amount of water, nutrients and sunlight for their proper growth and
development. When plants do not enough sunlight or are grown in areas of darkness, their
branches and stems tend to bend towards the source of light. This is one of the tropic
movements of plants. Because of this curvature and bending, it appears that plants that grow in
darkness are taller.

4. A.
Tendrils are sensitive to touch when they come in contact with the object does not grow
rapidly as the part of the tendril away from the object.

5. A
An example of nastic movement in plants is folding up of the leaves of Mimosa pudica. Nastic
movements in plants are reversible and repeatable movements in response to a stimulus whose
direction is determined by the anatomy of the plant. The leaves of the Mimosa pudica fold up
when touched and returns to full leaf in a few minutes. The leaves of the Mimosa achieve this
rapid folding by a change in turgor pressure.

6. B
In plant tendril is a modification of stem leaves or petiole with a thread like coiled shape.
Function of tendril is for support climbing attachment cellular invasion by parasitic plant.
Example : Leaves modified into tendril in pea for climbing. Stem tendril which develop from
axillary bud in cucumber pumpkins watermelon and grapevines for climbing.

IAT previous year questions

1.A