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3(Sem-5/ CBCS) BOT HE2

2021 h 4 O D
(Held in 2022)
BOTANY
3(Honours Elective )
Paper : BOT-HE-5026

(Horticulture Practices and Post-Harvest

Technology)
(DSE (H)-2)
Full Marks : 60

Time : Three hours

The figures in the margin indicate

full marks for the questions.
GROUP-A

Marks : 30

1. Answer the following questions in brief :

1x7=7

(a) What is Hydroponics' ?

Contd.
 (b) Define 'ecotourism'.
name of "Gulmohar.
(c) Write the botanical
involved in regulating
(d) Which PGR is
dormancy in seeds ?
What is 'starter culture' ?
(e)
?
( What is 'crop sanitation'
What is the origin of banana crop ?
(g)
2x4=8
2. Answer the following questions :
Management
(a) What is Integrated Pest
(IPM) ?
plant
(b) What is micropropagation in
tissue culture ?

(c) Differences between furrow and border

irrigation.
(d) What is cryópreservation

3. Write short notes on : (any three)

5x3=15

(a) Importance of food security in society

(b) Bonsai
(c) Mughal garden

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 fd) Prospects of Floriculture in India
mohar'.
(e) Quarantine practices.
ulating
GROUp-B

Marks:30

4. Answer the following : (any three)

10x3=30

x4=8 (a) Discuss the role of horticulture in rural

ment economy and employment generation
in Assam. 5+5=10

lant (b) Describe the advantages and

disadvantages of food irradiation. What
are the new regulations on food
rder
irradiation processing in India ?
4+4+2=10
(c) Discuss the management and
marketing approaches of vegetable and
15
fruit crops. 5+5-10

(a) What is IPR (Intellectual Property

ety Rights) ? Mention how IPR is helpful
in safeguarding the conservation and
management of horticultural cropswith
reference to India. 2+8=10

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 (e) Describe the importance of different
post-harvest technologies in
10
horticultural crops.
Discuss the important methods of
Germplasm conservation. State the
important features of plant genetic
resources. 6+4=10

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3 (Sem-5/CBCS) BOT HC 1

2021
(Held in 2022)
BOTANY

(Honours )
Paper : BOT-HC-5016
ieproductive Biology of Angiosperms)
Full Marks : 60

Time:Three hours

The figures in the margin indicate

full marks for the questions.

1. Answer the following questions : 1x7=7

(a) What type of pollinium are produced

by most of the orchids and milkweeds?

(b) What is parasexual hybridization ?

(c) What are the ruminate endosperm ?

Contd.
 (d) What is callose deposition during
microsporogenesis ?
(e) What is pollen viability?
i What is endothelium ?
(g) What are hypostases ?

2. Answer the following in brief : 2x4=8

(a) What do you mean by Gametophytic

self-sterility and Sporophytic-self
sterility ?
(b) What are cybrids ?
(c) What do you mean by double
fertilization in angiosperms ?
(d) Distinguish between self-incompatibility
and male sterility.

3. Answer the following questions briefly : (any

three) 5x3=15

(a) Write a note on NPC system of pollen

classification.

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during (b) Describe the causes of polyembryony.
(c) Write the differences between dicot and
monocot embryo development.
(d) Write the adaptations of hydrophilous
flowers.
x4=8 (e) Write a note on storage and germination
of pollen grains.
self
4. Answer the following questions
(a) Describe the microsporogenesis and
microgametogenesis process with
ble
suitable diagram. 10

Or
lity
Draw and describe the dicotyledonous
embryo and its development. 10
ny
(b) What are the different types of
15
endosperms ? Describe the endosperm
haustoria found in different
angiosperms with suitable diagram.
2+8=10

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 Or

What is self-incompatibility ? Describe

the different methods to overcome self
incompatibility in plants. 10

(c) Elaborate the causes and applications

of apomixis in plants. 10

Or

Describe the fertilization process

starting from the entry of pollen tube
into the ovule. 10

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3(Sem-5/CBCS) B0T HC2

2021
(Held in 2022)
BOTANY
(Honours)
Paper : BOT-HC-5026
(Plant Physiology)
Full Marks : 60
Time : Three hours

The figures in the margin indicate

full marks for the questions.

-1. Answer as directed: 1x7=7

(a). Which one of the following is having
highest osmotic pressure ?
) Xerophytes
(i) Halophytes

Contd.
 (i) Lithophytes
(iv) Mesophytes
(Choose the correct option)
(b) Swelling of wooden doors during rainy
season is due to
() endosmosis
(i) imbibition
(i) capillarity
(iv) deplasmolysis
(Choose the correct option)

(c) The amount of soil water available to

plant absorption is called
(Fll in the blank)

(a) Which of the following statements is

wrong ?
Guttation takes place at night.
(ü) Guttation takes place through
hydathodes.
(üi) Guttation is a regulated
mechanism.
fiu) Guttation takes place in grasses.
(Choose the correct option)

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 le) Due todeficiency of which element the
grey speck disease of oats occur ?

(0. Auxin-B was first isolated by

) Yabuta and Sumiki

fü) Miller and Skoog

(üi) Kogl and Thimann

(iv) Kogl, Erxleben and Haagen-Smit

(Choose the correct option)

(g) Flowering induced by cold treatment is

known as

() vernalization

ü) photoperiodism
(ui) scenescence

(iv) cryobiology
(Choose the correct option)

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 2.
Write briefly on the following : 2x4=8

(a) Osmotic theories of active absorption

of water

(0) Deficiency symptoms due to lack of

molybdenum
( Ethylene on fruit ripening
(d) Apoplast.

3. Write briefly on the following: (any three)

5x3=15
(a) Method of breaking of seed dormancy
(b) Role of
phytochrome pigment in
photomorphogenesis
(c)
Cohesion-tension theory of ascent of
sap

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 (d) Criteria for essentiality of mineral

elements

(e) Brassinosteroids.

4. Answer the following questions : 10x3=30

(a) Describe the theory of proton-transport

and hormonal regulation on opening
and closing of stomata. Describe the

role of antitranspirants. 7+3=10

Or

Who proposed the term photo

periodism'? What do you mean by long

day and short-day plants ? Write

descriptive note on florigen concept.

1+(2+2)+5=10

3 (Sem-5/CBCS)BOT HC 2/G 5 Contd.

 (b) How are mineral salts available for
plant absorption ? Describe the
cytochrome pump hypothesis (with
diagram) for mineral salt absorption.
What are the major demerits in the
theory ? 3+5+2=10

Or

3 What are the experimental evidences

you suggest in support of the fact that
the translocation of sugar takes place
through phloem tissue. Explain the
Munch hypothesis with diagram.

3+7=10
(c) Describe the physiological role of auxin
and gibberellins. 5+5=10

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-5/CBCS)BOT HC 2/G 6
 Or

Name two naturally occuring

cytokinins, Describe the role of
cytokinin On cell division,

morphogenesis, retention of chlorophyll

pigments and nucleic acid metabolism.
2+8=10
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3 (Sem-5/CBCS)BOT HE 1

2021
91e# (Held in 2022)
BOTANY
(Honours Elective)
Paper : BOT-HE-5016

( Natural Resource Management)

(DSE (H)-1)
Full Marks: 60
Time : Three hours

The figures in the margin indicate

full marks for the questions.

1. Answer the following : 1x7=7

(a) What are natural resources ?

the term
(b) Who first coined
Biodiversity ?
(c) What are the five Fs of Chipko
Movement ?

Contd.
 (d) Name the two types of soil
erosion.
(e) What is
Bioprospecting ?
Give two examples of inexhaustible
resources.
What is hotspot of surface water ?
2. Answer the following questions : 2x4=8
(a) What is Green economy ?
(b) Write about desertification.
(c) Silviculture
(d) Which is the largest wetland in India?

3 Answer any three of the following

questions :
5x3=15
(a) Write in brief about National
Biodiversity Action Plan.
(b) Write about Geographic
System (GIS).
Information
(c) Write a note on non-renewable and
renewable sources of energy.
(d) Write about the practice of Jhum
cultivation in North-East India.

3(Sem-5/CBCS) BOT HE 1/G 2

 sustainable
fe) What are the principles of
development ?

10x3=30
4. Answer the following questions :
schemes of social
(a) Discuss the various 10
forestry in India.
Or
Discuss the role of governmental
organisation in the field of EIA
(Environmental Imapct Assessment) in
10
India.
Discuss the
(b) What are wastelands ? reference
wasteland management with
to North-East India. 2+8=10

Or
Enumerate the wetland conservation
stratagies in India. 10

(c) Define conservation. Describe different

methods of soil conservation. 10

Or
What is the role of international
agencies for conservation of natural
resources ? Point out the important
reasons as tO why natural resources
should be preserved. 5+5-10

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