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Photosynthesis

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When the light intensity increases, which of the following becomes the limiting factor?

  1. Oxygen

  2. Sulphur dioxide

  3. Carbon dioxide

  4. Water


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

When light intensity increases, water content decreases due to high temperature. Hence, it becomes the limiting factor.

The non-polar part of chlorophyll is_____________.

  1. phytol

  2. pyrrol

  3. porphyrin

  4. CH bridges


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Phytol chain of chlorophyll is lipophilic. Hence, it is a non-polar part of the chlorophyll molecule.

While conversion of phosphoglyceric acid into phosphoglyceraldehyde during photosynthesis, which of the following reactions occurs?

  1. Oxidation

  2. Reduction

  3. Electrolysis

  4. Hydrolysis


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

It is the addition of electrons. In the conversion of phosphoglyceric acid to phosphoglyceralaldehyde, acid is converted to aldehyde, which is a reduction reaction.

Stomata of CAM (crassulacean acid metabolism) plants are___________.

  1. open during the night and close during the day

  2. always remain open

  3. open during the day and close at night

  4. never open


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

CAM plants are the succulents found in deserts, where carbon dioxide fixation occurs during night. Hence, their stomata remain open during the night.

Kranz anatomy is the characteristic of ________________.

  1. all C3 plants

  2. all C4 plants

  3. only maize

  4. only sunflower


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Kranz anatomy (mesophyll is divided into spongy parenchyma and bundle sheath cells) is the characteristic of C4 plants.

Which of the following statements is not true?

  1. C3 plants lack hatch slack pathway.

  2. C4 plants exhibit calvin cycle.

  3. C3 plants respire in the presence of light.

  4. C4 plants also show C2 cycle.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

No, C4 plants show C2 cycle as in C2 cycle, photorespiration occurs and the first stable compound formed is a two carbon compound, i.e. phosphoglycolate.

DCMU is a herbicide, which can kill plants by_________________.

  1. inhibiting photolysis of water as it inhibits PS1

  2. inhibiting photosynthesis as it inhibits PS2

  3. inhibiting photosynthesis as it inhibits PS1

  4. checking respiration as it produces inhibitory effect on dehydrogenase


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

DCMU  3-(4-chlorophenyl-1,1-dimethylurea} inhibits PS2 phase of phtosynthesis.

If plant is first exposed to light of 730 nm wavelength and then to 660 nm wavelength, the plant will ___________.

  1. resume normal growth

  2. show inhibited growth

  3. not grow at all

  4. die immediately


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Normally photosynthesis stops at larger wavelength but when it is supplemented by the light of shorter wavelength, the normal  growth is resumed.

Which of the following is a co-factor in the evolution of oxygen?

  1. Copper

  2. Magnesium

  3. Iron

  4. Manganese


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Manganese complex is required for the evolution of oxygen during non-photophosphorylation part of the light reaction.

Which cycle occurs in sugarcane?

  1. Hatch slack

  2. Calvin cycle

  3. Photorespiration

  4. C2 cycle


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

It is a C4 plant. Hence, it follows the 'hatch slack' pathway.

Photorespiration is favoured by

  1. high oxygen and low carbon dioxide

  2. low temperature

  3. low light intensity

  4. low oxygen and high carbon dioxide


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

High concentration of oxygen and low carbon dioxide favour photorespiration.

At which step does carbon dioxide come into play during photosynthesis?

  1. First step of the light reaction

  2. Last step of photosynthesis

  3. First step of photophosphorylation

  4. Dark phase


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In this step, carbon dioxide enters and is reduced to form starch.

If photosynthesis proceeds for an hour in atmosphere with radioactive carbon dioxide, then the labelled carbon will be mostly found in

  1. sugar

  2. starch

  3. both sugar and starch

  4. phosphoglyceralaldehyde


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Exclusive photosynthesis for about an hour will lead to the formation of both sugar and starch. Hence, labelled carbon will be found in these forms together.

Light trapping reaction takes place in

  1. chloroplast

  2. grana

  3. lamella

  4. stroma


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Light reaction occurs exclusively in grana.

Which of the following statements is correct regarding C3 plants?

  1. Bundle sheath cells are granal and mesophyll cells are agranal.

  2. Bundle sheath cells are agranal and mesophyll cells are granal.

  3. Both bundle sheath cells and mesophyll cells are agranal.

  4. Both bundle sheath cells and mesophyll cells are granal.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the true characteristic of C4 plants.

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