Q.1
Excessive supply of chemical fertilizers often causes wilting/death of crop plants due to ... ....
  • a) Exosmosis
  • b) Endosmosis
  • c) Imbibition
  • d) Turgidity
Q.2
Energy source responsible for upward flow of water is .... ...
  • a) ATP
  • b) Sucrose
  • c) Solar heat
  • d) Light
Q.3
Transpiration is mainly a process of .... ... [ Odisha 2005]
  • a) Imbibition
  • b) Respiration
  • c) Osmotic pressure
  • d) Diffusion
Q.4
Water potential in closely placed cell (p, q, r) is given below. Find out correct direction of water movement a) p → q b) q → r c) r - p d) r - q
Cell Osmotic Potential
(MPa)
Pressure Potential
(MPa)
p -0.21 0.05
q -0.22 0.02
r -0.23 0.05
  • a) a, b
  • b) b, c
  • c) a, d
  • d) b, d
Q.5
Which one is correct? ... ...[ Manipal 2000 ]
  • a) ψm = ψp +ψs + ψw
  • b) ψw = ψp + ψs + ψm
  • c) ψp = ψw + ψm + ψs
  • d) ψw = ψw + ψp + ψp + ψs
Q.6
Whose water potential is less than water potential of root hair during water absorption (by root hair) ... .... [ Guj CET 2011]
  • a) Gravitational water
  • b) Pure water
  • c) Vacuolar sap
  • d) Soil solution
Q.7
"Osmosis is flow of solution from higher concentration to solution of lower concentration to solution of lower concentration through semi-permeable membrane". Which is incorrect in the statement? ... ..... [ AFMC 1997]
  • a) Exact concentration of solution is not given
  • b) Character of semipermeable membrane is not given
  • c) Flow of solution is not possible through semipermeable membrane
  • d) All the above
Q.8
Enzyme connected with stomatal opening is ... ....
  • a) Pyruvic kinase
  • b) Cytochrome oxidase
  • c) PEP carboxylase
  • d) RuBISCO
Q.9
Apoplast is the system of adjacent cell walls that is continuous throughout the plant except at the ... ...[ HPPMT 2010]
  • a) Plasmodesmata
  • b) Vessel elements
  • c) Casparian strips of endodermis
  • d) Tracheid
Q.10
What is true? ... ... [ Har PMT 2005]
  • a) ABA opens stoma
  • b) ABA opens stomata while cytokinin closes stomata
  • c) ABA closes while cytokinin opens stomata
  • d) ABA and cytokinin do not affect stomata
Q.11
In biological system, the terms osmosis involves the diffusion of ... ..... [ Odisha 2008]
  • a) Water
  • b) Solutes
  • c) Energy
  • d) Both a and b
Q.12
Turgor pressure develops in epiblema cells of root due to ... ..[ Tamilnadu 2002]
  • a) High water potential of cortical cells
  • b) Entry of water into root hairs and increase in volume of cell sap
  • c) Filling of large vacuole in root hair with cell sap
  • d) Osmotic diffusion of water into pericycle through passage cells
Q.13
A cell kept in a solution increases in volume. The solution is ... ..[ Pb. PMT 2001]
  • a) Hypotonic
  • b) Isotonic
  • c) Hypertonic
  • d) Either a or b
Q.14
Osmotic potential and pressure potential of three cells a, b, c located in different parts of an actively transpiring plant are .... [ EAMCET 2009] Which ones are root hair, root cortical and mesophyll cells respectively
Cell O.P. (MPa) P.P.(MPa)
a -0.87 0.44
b -0.92 0.34
c -0.68 0.27
  • a) a, b, c
  • b) a, c, b
  • c) c, a, b
  • d) b, c, a
Q.15
Osmotic potential is depicted as ... ... [ RPMT 1998]
  • a) (-)
  • b) (+)
  • c) X
  • d) (+)
Q.16
Phloem sap is mainly made of ... ... [ AMU 2012]
  • a) Water, minerals and sucrose
  • b) Water and minerals
  • c) Oligosaccharides and hormones
  • d) None of the above
Q.17
Stomata generally open during the day because the guard cells have ... ... [ MPPMT 1993]
  • a) Outer thin wall
  • b) Chlorophyll
  • c) Kidney-shape
  • d) Larger nuclei
Q.18
Who is related to ascent of sap ... ... [ CET Chd. 2006]
  • a) McClung
  • b) J.C. Bose
  • c) A. Fleming
  • d) J. Lederberg
Q.19
Transpiration is high in ... ...[ MPPMT 1993]
  • a) Rainy season/high humidity
  • b) winter
  • c) High temperature
  • d) Low wind velocity
Q.20
A cell when dipped in 0.5M sucrose solution has no effect but when the same cell is dipped in 0.5 M NaCl solution, it will ... .... [ AFMC 2005]
  • a) Increase in size
  • b) Decrease in size
  • c) Becomes turgid
  • d) Gets plasmolysed
Q.21
When a cell is fully turgid, which of the following will be zero ... .... [ BHU 1991]
  • a) Turgor pressure/pressure potential
  • b) Wall pressure
  • c) Suction pressure/DPD/water potential
  • d) Osmotic pressure ( solute pressure)
Q.22
Amount by which water potential is reduced due to presence of solute is called .... ...[ AMU 2002]
  • a) Pressure potential
  • b) Solute potential
  • c) Matric potential
  • d) None of the above
Q.23
In root hair, water enters due to .... .... [ RPMT 2000 ]
  • a) Diffusion
  • b) W.P.
  • c) T.P.
  • d) O.P.
Q.24
Ionic flux of guard cells directly connected with expenditure of energy is ... ...[ EAMCET 2008]
  • a) Outward movement of protons
  • b) Outward movement of malate
  • c) Inward movement of K+
  • d) Inward movement of Cl
Q.25
Root pressure is maximum at the time of ... ... [ JIPMER 2002]
  • a) Water absorption as well as transpiration are low
  • b) Both water absorption and transpiration are high
  • c) Absorption is low and transpiration is high
  • d) Absorption is high and transpiration is low
Q.26
Water absorbed by root in order to meet the requirement of transpiration is due to ... ...[ JIPMER 2003]
  • a) Transpiration pull
  • b) Osmosis
  • c) Imbibition
  • d) Plasmolysis
Q.27
The relation πν = nRT is not obeyed by ... .... [ W.B. 2012]
  • a) Concentrated solution
  • b) Dilute solution
  • c) Extremely dilute solution
  • d) All the above
Q.28
The term water potential was coined by ... ..
  • a) Sayre
  • b) Von Mohl
  • c) Lloyed
  • d) Slatyer and Taylor
Q.29
Assertion: In angiosperms, the conduction of water is more efficient because their xylem has vessels Reason: Conduction of water by vessel elements is an active process with energy supplied by xylem parenchyma rich in mitochondria .... ..[ AIIMS 2006]
  • a) If both the assertion and reason are true and reason explains the assertion
  • b) If both the assertion and reason are true but reason does not explain the assertion.
  • c) If assertion is true but reason is false
  • d) If both are wrong
Q.30
Root hairs occur in the zone of ... ... [ kerala 2003]
  • a) Cell division
  • b) Cell elongation
  • c) Cell maturation
  • d) Mature cells
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