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LEA 2022
1. I. The rate of transpiration is increased when 8. Which of the following is an example of a short
temperature in the environment increases. distance transport?
II. When the air surrounding the plant is humid, a. Translocation
transpiration rate speeds up. b. Transpiration
c. Diffusion
a. Both the statements are true d. Ascent of sap
b. Both the statements are false.
c. Statement I is true, statement II is false. 9. The form of carbohydrate being stored in storage
d. Statement I is false, statement II is true. organs like tubers
e. Not enough information is provided A. Starch
B. Glucose
2. Layer of plant tissue covered with cuticle to C. Sucrose
prevent water loss D. Fructose
a. Lower epidermis
b. Upper epidermis 10. Enzyme that aids in CO2 fixation in C3
c. Mesophyll layer pathway
d. Petiole A. RuBP oxygenase
B. Decarboxylase
3. Color mostly absorbed to the least absorbed by C. Lipase
green plants D. RuBP carboxylase
a. Red, blue, green
b. Blue, green, yellow 11. In this process, ADP and NADP returns to the
c. Blue, red, green thylakoid to be used again during light-dependent
d. Violet, blue, red reaction
A. Hatch-slack cycle
4. Which of the following step is not involved in B. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism pathway
the ascent of sap in the xylem? C. Calvin cycle
a. Due to the constant entry of water to the roots, D. Krebs cycle
root pressure is created
b. Transpiration pull creates a suction pulling the 12. The outermost layer of plant cells with high
solution up from the root system hemicellulose content
c. The combined actions of adhesive, cohesive, and a. secondary cell wall
capillary force pushes the water molecules up b. tertiary cell wall
whenever transpiration pull is created. c. schlerynchyma cells
d. Water moves into each cells thru a passage point d. primary cell wall
5. The ending of vascular tissues where liquid 13. Site of dark reaction in plant leaves
water can escape when the stomata are closed A. Chloroplast
a. Hydathodes B. Stroma
b. Guttation C. Stroma lamella
c. Guard cells D. Thylakoids
d. Scotoactive stomata
14. The first product of Calvin cycle in carbon
6. The reaction center of photosynthesis thus the fixation phase
most important pigment A. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate
a. Ch b B. Oxaloacetate
b. Ch d C. Bicarbonate
c. Ch a D. Phosphoglycerate
d. Carotenoids
7. The first stable product in a C4 pathway 15. All of the following exhibit Hatch-Slack
a. Malic acid Pathway except:
b. Oxaloacetic acid A. Rice
c. Phosphoglycerate B. Sorghum
d. Pyruvic acid C. Pearl millet
D. Euphorbia
34. All of the following are recalcitrant seeds 42. It is the crossing of genetically different or
EXCEPT: genetically unique individuals
A. Rice A. Hybridization
B. Mangosteen B. Top crossing
C. Avocado C. Inbreeding
D. Rambutan D. Back crossing
35. The downward bending of leaves in plants 43. The superiority of first generation offspring to
subjected to water-logged soils the both parents is called
A. Photonasty A. Hybrids
B. Geotropic B. Heterosis
C. Epinasty C. Dominance heterosis
D. Geonasty D. Heterobiltiosis
36. Plant hormone that promotes seed dormancy 44. The removal of immature androecium from a
especially when seeds are not in optimum hermaphroditic flower prior to artificial pollination
conditions A. Deandroecium
A. IAA B. Male sterile technique
B. ABA C. Artificial fertilization
C. Ethylene D. Emasculation
D. Auxin
45. Desirable heritable change in an organism
37. A vegetative structure which is the swollen base A. Chimera
of a stem covered in dry- leaf scales B. Hybridization
A. Tunic C. Mutation
B. Corm D. Heteromorphy
C. Bulb
D. Rhizome 46. Change in gene frequencies from one
generation to another because of differences in
38. Which of the following is not reproduced survival and reproductive abilities of parental
through cuttings? genotypes in natural populations
A. Rose A. Natural selection
B. Malunggay B. Artificial selection
C. Grape C. Mutation
D. Guava D. Breeding
39. Involves joining two plant parts such that the 47. Effect of the environment on the phenotype and
size of the scion is reduced to only one bud and a estimated by measuring variation in a genotypically
small section of bark, with or without wood uniform population grown in certain location
A. Grafting A. Selection intensity
B. Budding B. Environmental variation
C. Chip budding C. GxE interaction
D. Cleft grafting D. Selection differential
52. The most important and foremost decision prior 60. The wavelength where most plants can perform
to planting that takes into consideration the possible optimum photosynthesis
maximum yield, height, pest resistance and market A. Yellow and green
acceptability of the crop B. Blue and red
A. Varietal choice C. Blue and yellow
B. Land preparation D. Red and far red
C. Material procurement
D. Phenotypic choice 61. These plants do not flower when exposed to
dark periods that exceed the critical length
53. Which of the following is NOT an edaphic A. Long-day plants
factor in crop production? B. Short- day plants
A. Topography C. Day neutral plants
B. Climate D. Short- neutral
C. Bulk density
D. Soil structure 62. When the air is humid, plants are more prone to
pests like fungi and evapotranspiration is decreased
54. I. The slope of the land can hugely determine A. The statement is true
the distribution of irrigation. B. The statement is false
II. Humidity in high altitudes is higher compared to C. The statement is partly true
lower altitudes. D. Not enough information is provided
A. Both statements are true
B. Both statements are false. 63. First commercial food product derived from a
C. Statement I is true, statement II is false transgenic crop variety
D. Statement I is false, statement II Is true A. Golden rice
B. Bt eggplant
55. I. In high temperatures, enzymes in plants are C. Roundup ready soybean
denatured thus useless in plants. D. Flavr savr tomato
II. Low temperature does not affect enzyme activity
if it is not freezing.
Prepared by: RDMBaterna, Lic.Agr
64. The collection or number of individuals 72. A system of classification that uses one or two
belonging to the same species in a defined morphological characteristics for grouping
geographical area organisms.
A. Population A. Phylogenetic classification
B. Species B. Artificial classification
C. Community C. Taxonomic classification
D. Biome D. Systematics
65. The overproduction or excessive amount of 73. Modification in epiphythic plants that enables
nitrogen and other important nutrients in bodies of them to absorb moisture in the atmosphere
water causing the growth of algae A. Kranz anatomy
A. Algal bloom B. Bundle sheath cells
B. Pollution C. Veloman tissue
C. Eutrophication D. Ground tissue
D. Poisoning
74. Modified stem of cactuses that performs the
66. Encompasses many different crop production photosynthetic functions
methods, systems, and approaches that aim to meet A. Cladode
the goals of profitability, stewardship, and quality B. Phylloclad
of life. C. Thorns
A. Sustainable agriculture D. Tendrils
B. Agroforestry
C. Agroecology 75. Which of the following is a type of indehiscent
D. Agriculture fruit?
A. Follicles
67. The planting of a crop in an area when another B. Capsules
crop is about to be harvested C. Legumes
A. Polyculture D. Nuts
B. Monocropping
C. Relay cropping 76. Which of the following is parthenocarpic?
D. Mixed cropping A. Pineapple
B. Coffee
68. It is the mechanical manipulation of soil to C. Rambutan
break clods, to improve soil structure and to D. Mangosteen
provide a weed control
A. Plowing 77. All of the following are events in the
B. Tillage germination of dicots except:
C. Maximum tillage A. GA stimulates enzym synthesis
D. Harrowing B. Radicle appears from the ruptured seed coat
C. Hypocotyl and epicotyl elongation
69. Tissue that translocates food around the plant in D. Rudimentary shoot and leaves appear
multiple directions
A. Phloem 78. The type of tissue found surrounding the
B. Xylem vascular bundles, also known as the cortex
C. Parenchyma A. Parenchyma
D. Vascular bundle B. Sclerenchyma
C. Collenchyma
70. The father of green revolution D. Vascular tissue
A. Carolus Linnaeaus
B. Paul Muller 79. A high cytokinin to auxin ratio can cause the
C. Norman Borlaug ______ formation in callus
D. Fritz Haber A. Root formation
B. Root and shoot formation
71. Which of the following crops have adventitious C. Cell division
root system? D. Shoot formation
A. Coffee
B. Beans
C. Rice
D. Groundnut
82. Which of the following is not a function of 90. Change in gene frequencies brought about by
auxin? man as is done in plant breeding where certain
A. Promotes cell division individuals or genotypes are not used as parent of
B. Promotes elongation of internodes the next generation
C. Apical dominance A. Natural selection
D. Lateral root growth B. Artificial selection
C. Mass selection
83. Heme-containing protein in legumes that D. Genetic erosion
decreases the amount of oxygen in roots
a. phytoglobin
b. hemoglobin
c. hemolymph
d. Leghemoglobin