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Parts of flower and its functions - class-VIII

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The reproductive part of a plant is:

  1. Leaf

  2. Stem

  3. Root

  4. Flower


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Flower is the reproductive part of the plant. Pistil, stamens, petals and sepals are the four main parts of the flower. Among this, pistil is the female reproductive part and it is made up of stigma, style and ovary. Stamen is the male reproductive part and it consists of filament and anther. 

So, the correct answer is 'Flower'.

National flower of India is

  1. Rafflesia

  2. Lotus

  3. Rose

  4. Wolffia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Lotus, (Nelumbo nucifera) is the national flower of India. The lotus flower symbolizes divinity, fertility, wealth, knowledge and enlightenment. It is also regarded as a symbol of triumph as it can survive to regerminate for thousands of years. 

In Clerodendron _________ flower opens first.

  1. Peripheral

  2. Younger

  3. Terminal

  4. Lower


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Clerodendron shows cymose inflorescence so younger flowers are present at the base of the inflorescence, while older flowers are present at the top. Such an arrangement is called basipetal succession. The peripheral flowers open first.

So, the correct option is 'Peripheral'.

The major role of flower in the life of plant is to?

  1. Produce offspring's

  2. Synthesize enzymes and hormones

  3. Secrete honey and scent

  4. Attract insects for pollination


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The primary role of a flower is reproduction. They are the reproductive organs of a plant and they help in the joining of the pollen and the ovules to produce an offspring.

So, the correct answer is Option A.

Which of the following represent zygomorphic symmetry?

  1. Canna, Mustard, Chilly, Datura

  2. Mustard, Canna, Pea, Datura

  3. Pea, Bean, Cassia, Gulmohar

  4. Pea, Bean, Canna, Chilly


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

  • Zygomorphic symmetry, also known as bilateral symmetry occurs in a flower through which it can pass only one plane of symmetry that will divide it into two parts.
  • The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family are a large and economically important family of flowering plants which has a zygomorphic flower.
  • Pea, bean, Cassia and Gulmohar belong to Fabaceae.
So, the correct answer is 'Pea, bean, Cassia, Gulmohar'.

Which one of the following statements is correct ? 

  1. In tomato, fruit is a capsule

  2. Seeds of orchids have oil-rich endosperm

  3. Placentation in primose is basal

  4. Flower of tulip is a modified shoot


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The bulb is the modified underground stem surrounded by the fleshy leaves. It usually contains stored food like the tulip bulb. Also, a capsule is a type of simple but mostly dry and dehiscent fruit. Some examples are Cotton, Eucalyptus, Datura, Witch Hazel. Orchid seeds don’t have endosperm. Primrose is having free central placentation.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

Identify the wrong statement.

  1. A plant that bears male, female and bisexual flowers is polygamous

  2. Actinomorphic flower can be dissected into two equal halves from any plane

  3. Superior ovary is found in hypogynous flowers

  4. Side of the flower towards the bract is called posterior side


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The wrong statement is " the side of the flower towards the bract is called posterior side"

The correct statement is the side of the flower towards the bract is called the anterior side. 
So, the correct answer is 'Side of the flower towards the bract is called posterior side'

In Hibiscus, plants grow from 

  1. Seeds

  2. Flowers

  3. Roots

  4. Branches


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Both hardy and tropical hibiscus are propagated from cuttings. Hibiscus cuttings are normally the preferred way of propagating hibiscus because a cutting will grow to be an exact copy of the parent plant. When using hibiscus cuttings to propagate hibiscus, start by taking the cutting. The cutting should be taken from new growth or softwood. Softwood is branches on the hibiscus that have not yet matured. Softwood will be pliable and often has a greenish cast. You will mostly find softwood on a hibiscus in spring or early summer. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

The botanical name of boat lily is

  1. Tradescantia

  2. Syzygium aromaticum

  3. Calotropis

  4. Homo sapien


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Tradescantia spathacea is boat lily. Calotropis is milkweed. Homo sapien is human. Syzygium aromaticum is cloves. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Reproduction in rose plant is through

  1. Stem

  2. Flowers

  3. Roots

  4. Seeds


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A small part of a plant which is removed by making a cut with a sharp knife is called a 'cutting'. A cutting may be a piece of stem, root or even a leaf. While making a cut, care should be taken to see that there are some buds on it. Cutting is a part of artificial reproduction. In this method, a cutting of the parent plant (say, of stem or shoot) having some buds on it is taken and its lower part is buried in the moist soil. After a few days, the cutting develops roots, shoot and grows into a new plant. Cuttings are a means of asexual reproduction in plants. The new plant formed from a cutting is exactly similar to the parent plant. The plants like rose, Bougainvillea, Chrysanthemum, grapes, sugarcane, bananas, and cactus, etc., can be grown by means of cuttings. For example, rose plant and Chrysanthemum are propagated (or reproduced) by means cuttings from stems (or shoots) as follows. A piece of stem (or side shoot) having bud is cut from an existing rose plant with the help of a knife. The lower part of this gutting is buried in moist soil. After a few days, the end of cutting buried in soil develops roots and later on grows to become a new rose plant. An advantage of cuttings method is that by using this method we can produce many new plants from just one plant quickly, without waiting for flowers and sexual reproduction. 

So, the correct answer is 'Stem'

Trees without flowers 

  1. Mustards

  2. Palm trees

  3. Pine trees

  4. Pomegrenedes


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Conifers belong to gymnosperm. These have seeds in the cones. These are non-flowering plants. Cones are the reproductive organs. These are characterized by needle-shaped leaf.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

Calotropis is the botanical name for

  1. Lotus

  2. Jasmine

  3. Milkweed

  4. Oleander


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Calotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to southern Asia and North Africa. They are commonly known as milkweeds because of the latex they produce. Calotropis species are considered common weeds in some parts of the world. The flowers are fragrant and are often used in making floral tassels in some mainland Southeast Asian cultures. Fibers of these plants are called as madar or mader. Calotropis species are usually found in abandoned farmland. Lotus is Nelumbo nucifera. Jasmine is Jasminum sp. Oleander is Nerium sp. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

The plant which opens during nights and closes in daytime is 

  1. Night queen

  2. Touch-me-not

  3. Vallisneria

  4. Jasmine


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The plant which opens during nights and closes in daytime is night queen. It is called as raat ki rani in India. It is an evergreen woody shrub growing to 4 metres (13 ft) tall. The leaves are simple, narrow lanceolate, 6–20 centimetres (2.4–7.9 in) long and 2–4.5 centimetres (0.79–1.77 in) broad, smooth and glossy, with an entire margin.

The flowers are greenish-white, with a slender tubular corolla 2–2.5 centimetres (0.79–0.98 in) long with five acute lobes, 10–13 millimetres (0.39–0.51 in) diameter when open at night, and are produced in cymose inflorescences. A powerful, sweet perfume is released at night.
The fruit is a berry 10 millimetres (0.39 in) long by 5 millimetres (0.20 in) diameter, the colour of an aubergine. There is also a variety with yellowish flowers.
Night-blooming jasmine blooms when the weather is warm, and its narrow, tubular, greenish-white blossoms only open at night. The flowers produce a strong, sweet fragrance that attracts moths and butterflies. Glossy white berries follow the flowers. It works well as a specimen plant or as a border shrub, or as a fragrant addition to a butterfly garden. 
Touch-me-not is a creeping annual or perennial herb of the pea family.
Vallisneria is a genus of freshwater aquatic plant, commonly called eelgrass, tape grass or vallis. 
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

The floral bud is enclosed by which part of the flower?

  1. Sepals

  2. Petals

  3. Tepals

  4. Stamen


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Floral bud is the undeveloped or embryonic shoot which is protected by the sepals during bud stage which gets mature and it forms coloured petals that helps flower to attract pollinators.

So the correct option is 'Sepals'.

What are the characteristics associated with the flower?

  1. Green leaves

  2. Colourful petals

  3. Green sepals

  4. Both B and C


Correct Option: D
Explanation:


  1. Calyx which is considered as the outermost whorl and its unit is known as sepals and are green in colour helps in protection of bud of a flower.
  2. Corolla is the second nonessential unit and is composed of petals and are coloured which helps to attract pollinators.

So, the correct option is 'Both B and C'.

Bell shaped flowers are found in 

  1. Maize

  2. Datura

  3. Chrysanthemum

  4. Marigold


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

  1. Maize has an inflorescence of spikelets as flowers are born on an axis called rachilla surrounded by bracts.
  2. Datura flower is bell-shaped and a solitary flower.
  3. Chrysanthemum often shows solitary head inflorescence.
  4. Marigold has spike inflorescence means with short or no pedicel are elongated and unbranched peduncle.
So, the correct option is 'Datura'.

Flower is the part of the plant which

  1. Forms the vegetable

  2. Forms the fruit

  3. Contains the stamens and pistil

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The flower is considered as the modified shoot that is meant for reproduction and contains the reproductive organs stamen (male reproductive part) and pistil (female reproductive part) and after fertilization, its parts convert into fruits and vegetables as a result of reproduction.

So, the correct option is 'All of the above'

The ovary contains the small structures called as 

  1. Beads

  2. Ovules

  3. Pollens

  4. Both B and C


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Carpels, pistil or gynoecium are the female reproductive part of the flower that consists of a stigma that holds the pollen grains, the style that leads the path of pollen tube and ovary produce small structures called ovules or ovum (female gamete).

So the correct option is 'Ovule'

A clove represents a

  1. Terminal bud

  2. Accessory bud

  3. Flower bud

  4. Vegetative bud


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Cloves represent the flower bud. They are aromatic.  They are flower buds of a tree Syzygium aromaticum belonging to the family Myrtaceae.

So the correct option is C.

Plants that produce sexually do not produce flower.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
The flower is formed to begin the process of reproduction. The female parts will create an ovule, or unfertilized egg. The egg (or eggs) will remain in the ovary and wait to be fertilized. The male parts (in particular, the anther) will produce pollen, which contains the sperm needed to fertilize the egg.

So, the correct answer is 'False'.

Sexual reproduction of following plants was discovered by

  1. Camerarius

  2. Nawaschin

  3. Strasburger

  4. Maheshwari


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A.Camerarius – He first discovered sexual reproduction in plants.

B.Nawaschin – He first discovered triple fusion and double fertilization in angiosperms.

C.Strasburger – He first discovered syngamy and monosporic embryo sac in angiosperms.

D.Maheswari – He first discovered the lab to land habit in plants.

So, the correct option is ‘Camerarius’.

VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE
Match the parts in Column A with the flowers or parts of flower in Column B.

Column A Column B
(a)  Polyadelphous (i)   Polypetalous
(b)  Pollen grains (ii)   Calyx, corolla
(c)  Free petals (iii)   Nectar
(d)  Non-essential (iv)   Bombax
(e)  Sweet fragrant fluid (v)   Pollen sac
  1. a-v, b-iv, c-iii, d-ii, e-i

  2. a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv, e-v

  3. a-iv, b-v, c-i, d-ii, e - iii

  4. a-ii, b-v, c-i, d-iv, e-iii


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Free petals - Polypetalous 

Polyadelphous - Bombax
 Pollen grains - Pollen sac
Non-essential - Calyx, corolla
Sweet fragrant fluid - Nectar
So, the correct answer is 'a-iv, b-v, c-i, d-ii, e - iii'

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