STEM MODIFICATION

Primary function of stem is to

• Bear and hold out leaves

• Absorb water and minerals

• Fixation of plant

• Help in vegetative propagation

Which is not a stem modification

• Rhizome of Ginger

• Corm of Colocasia

• Pitcher of Nepenthes

• Tuber of Potato

Potato tuber is modified /Edible part of potato is

• Stem

• Bulb

• Stolon

• Root

In Opuntia, the function of phyotosynthesis is carried out by

• Cladode

• Phylloclade

• Phyllode

• Bulb

An underground specialised shoot with reduced disc like stem covered by fleshy leaves is

• Bulb

• Bulbil

• Rhizome

• Rhizophore

New Banana plants develop from

• Rhizome

• Sucker

• Stolon

• Seed

Mentha (Mint) has one of the following

• Sucker

• Offset

• Stolon

• Rhizome

Thorns, spines and prickles are

• Organs of defence

• Organs of offence

• Organs of clinging

• Specialised for gaseous exchange

Offset occurs in

• Strawberry

• Colocasia

• Pistia

• Chrysanthemum

Stolon is found in

• Colocasia

• Jasmine

• Strawberry

• All of these