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Yakeen NEET (2024)

DPP-01
Morphology of Flowering Plants
1. Primary root is the direct elongation of the 8. The region or part of root that increases the surface
(1) Pedicel (2) Radicle area for water absorption is
(3) Plumule (4) Stamen (1) Root cap
(2) Zone of elongation
2. The type of roots present in mustard plant is (3) Meristematic zone
(1) Fibrous roots (4) Root hair
(2) Adventitious roots
(3) Tap roots 9. The tap roots of _______ gets modified to store food.
(4) Nodulated roots (1) Carrot (2) Onion
(3) Ginger (4) Sweet potato
3. Which of the following is not the lateral branches of
the roots? 10. Adventitious roots of _____ get swollen and store
(1) Tertiary roots food.
(2) Secondary roots (1) Carrot (2) Turnip
(3) Primary root (3) Radish (4) Sweet potato
(4) More than one option is correct
11. Supporting roots coming out of the lower nodes of
4. In which type of root system is present in Wheat Plant
the sugarcane stem are called
(1) Nodulated (2) Tap
(1) Prop roots (2) Stilt roots
(3) Fibrous (4) Prop
(3) Pneumatophores (4) Fusiform roots
5. Which of the following is not the main function of the
12. In Rhizophora, roots are modified to form
root system?
(1) Tuberous roots (2) Pneumatophores
(1) Provide anchorage to the plant parts
(3) Stilt roots (4) Storage roots
(2) Synthesis of PGRs
(3) Absorption of water and minerals from soil
(4) Photosynthesis 13. The hanging structures that support banyan tree are
called
6. A root grows in length, which region of the root is (1) Prop roots (2) Stilt roots
responsible for this growth? (3) Pneumatophores (4) Root hair
(1) Root cap
(2) Region of meristematic activity 14. Which of the following gives rise to primary root
(3) Region of elongation (1) Plumule (2) Epicotyl
(4) Region of maturation (3) Hypocotyl (4) Radicle

7. Root hairs are present in/on 15. Find out the odd one w.r.t root
(1) Region of elongation (1) Presence of endogenous branching
(2) Region of maturation (2) Positively geotropic
(3) Region of meristematic activity (3) Negatively phototropic
(4) Root cap (4) Presence of Nodes
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16. Which of the following plant have stilt root? (1) This type of root system develops from radical
(1) Banyan (2) Peepal of embryo.
(3) Hydrilla (4) Sugarcane (2) Lateral roots arising from the main root are
exogenous in origin.
17. Which of the following has root as modified organ to (3) Rootlets are the ultimate root branches that bear
store food root hair for absorption.
(1) Carrot (2) Potato (4) Secondary and tertiary roots are borne in
(3) Raddish (4) More than one acropetal succession.

18. Which of the following protects root tip? 23. Which of the following is incorrect about A, B, C and
(1) Root hair D
(2) Root cap
(3) Thimble like structure
(4) More than one

19. Which of the following is present at the proximal part

of root
(1) Root cap
(2) Zone of meristem
(3) Zone of elongation (1) Tap roots of carrot, turnip and adventitious root
(4) Zone of maturation of sweet potato, get swollen and store food
(2) Pneumatophores help to get oxygen for
20. The pores present at the tips of respiratory root are respiration
called (3) Pneumatophore is found in the plants that grow
(1) Pneumatophore (2) Pneumatothode in sandy soil.
(3) Lenticel (4) Stomata (4) A, B and C are underground roots but D grows
vertically upwards
21. Find out the correct statement about fibrous root
system 24. The below figure is related to the root-tip. Identify
(1) Primary root is persistent zones A, B and C.
(2) Fibrous roots develop from base of stem
(3) Found in monocots
(4) More than one

22. Refer to the given figure and select the incorrect

statement regarding this.

(1) A-zone of elongation, B-zone of meiosis, C-

zone of mitosis.
(2) A-zone of maturation, B-zone of meristematic
activity, C-zone of elongation.
(3) A-zone of mitosis, B-zone of elongation, C-zone
of root cap.
(4) A-region of maturation, B-region of elongation,
C-meristematic activity
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Answer Key
1. (2) 13. (1)
2. (3) 14. (4)
3. (3) 15. (4)
4. (3) 16. (4)
5. (4) 17. (4)
6. (3) 18. (4)
7. (2) 19. (4)
8. (4) 20. (2)
9. (1) 21. (4)
10. (4) 22. (2)
11. (2) 23. (3)
12. (2) 24. (4)

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