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Chapter Plant tissue culture

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

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Class
Date
1.

Define plant tissue culture?

a)

Tissue taken from its original site and transferred to an artificial medium for growth or maintenance

b)

The growing of plant cells, tissues, organs, seeds or other plant parts on a nutrient medium under sterile condition

c)

Culturing non-human animals through socially transmitted behaviors

d)

Farming systems which include the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and other continual inputs, genetically modified organisms

2.

Any part of the plant can give rise to a entire new plant given the right conditions

a)

Micropropagation

b)

Totipotency

c)

Callus

d)

Plantlet

3.

Ability of a plant to endure extreme conditions by changing growth and development of plant organs

a)

Petiole

b)

Micropropagation

c)

Pathogenic

d)

Plasticity

4.

Which of the following is one of Auxin?

a)

1-napthaleneacetic acid (NAA)

b)

Kinetin

c)

6-benzylaminopurine

d)

Abscisic acid

5.

Plant tissue culture is a practice used to propagate plants under sterile conditions, often to produce ________ of a plant.

a)

DNA

b)

gene

c)

clone

d)

chromosome

6.

In Plant Tissue Culture, Totipotency means

a)

Flowering in culture medium

b)

Development of Organ from Tissue under medium

c)

Development of fruit

d)

None

7.

In Plant Tissue Culture, the callus is grown in plantlet by altering the concentration of _______

a)

Amino acid

b)

Glucose

c)

Hormone

d)

Al of the above

8.

Full form of PTC:

a)

Plant tech culture

b)

Plant tissue culture

c)

Parasite tissue culture

9.

Plant tissue culture can be used to grow variety of plants.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Culture means to maintain something in a condition suitable for its growth.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Murashige and Skoog formulated plant tissue culture media known as ____.

a)

NN medium

b)

MS medium

c)

LS medium

d)

B5 medium

12.

The pair of hormones required for a callus to differentiate are________.

a)

Ethylene and Auxin

b)

Auxin and cytokinin

c)

Auxin and Abscisic acid

d)

Cytokinin and gibberellin

13.

What is Callus?

a)

Tissues that grow to form an embryoid

b)

An unorganised actively dividing the mass of cells maintained in a culture

c)

An insoluble carbohydrate

d)

A tissue that grows from an embryo

14.

In which of the following conditions do the somaclonal variations appear?

a)

Plants transferred by a recombinant DNA technology.

b)

Plants growing in polluted soil or water.

c)

Plants exposed to gamma rays.

d)

Plants raised in tissue culture.

15.

Which of the following vectors is used in plant tissue culture for crop improvement?

a)

Phasmid

b)

Cosmid

c)

Plastid

d)

Agrobacterium