Anatomy of Flowering Plants - Quiz 9

Intercalary meristem is related to all, except

• Present between permanent cells

• Primary meristem

• Increasing the girth of axis

• Regenerates parts of grasses removed by grazing herbivores

Choose odd one out w.r.t origin

• Interfasicular cambium

• Intercalary meristem

• Apical meristem

• Intrafasicular cambium

Sclereids posses

• Tapering ends

• Highly thickened walls

• Hemicellulosic wall

• Broad lumen

Major xylary element in wood of a gymnospermic plant is

• Vessel

• Tracheid

• Xylem fibre

• Xylem parenchyma

Which component is not found in phloem of angiosperms?

• Albuminous cell

• Sieve tube

• Companion cell

• Wood fibre

Dicot root is similar in all the given characters to monocot root, except

• Radial, exarch vascular bundles

• Unicelled root hairs

• Pericycle forms the lateral roots

• Well developed pith

What is true about a monocot leaf?

• Presence of reticulate venation

• absence of bulliform cells

• Absence of vascular bundles

• Absence of differentiated mesophyll

Green cells of epidermis are

• Bulliform cells

• Subsidiary cells

• Motor cells

• Guard cells

Casparian strips are found on radial and inner walls of

• Stem endodermis

• Root endodermis

• Pericycle

• Outer cortex

The annual rings are formed due to

• Uniform environmental conditions

• Non-uniform environmental conditions

• Absence of secondary growth

• Absence of primary growth