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Transport in vascular plants - class-X

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Lenticels are associated with

  1. Absorption of moisture

  2. Photosynthesis

  3. Gaseous Exchange

  4. Mineral uptakes


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Lenticels act as a pore and provide a pathway for the direct exchange of gases between the internal tissues and atmosphere through the bark, which is otherwise impermeable to gases.
So, the correct option is 'Gaseous Exchange'.

The waste product of photosynthesis is 

  1. Carbon dioxide

  2. Oxygen

  3. Nitrogen

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants make their own food from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight. The prepared food is glucose. To prepare one molecule of glucose, by the process of photosynthesis six molecules of carbon dioxide and six molecules of water is required. Six oxygen molecule is released as a waste product. This oxygen is produced due to splitting of water by the process of photolysis during light reaction. So, the correct answer is option 'Oxygen'.

In respiration,

  1. Chlorophyll synthesises food from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight.

  2. Oxygen absorbed from air or water is made to combine with carbon dioxide to produce food.

  3. Chlorophyll absorbs oxygen from air or water and releases carbon dioxide.

  4. Oxygen is absorbed from air or water and made to combine with food and carbon dioxide is released.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In physiology, respiration is defined as the movement of oxygen from the outside air to the cells within tissues, and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction. The physiological definition of respiration should not be confused with the biochemical definition of respiration, which refers to cellular respiration. The metabolic process by which an organism obtains energy by reacting oxygen with glucose to give water, carbon dioxide and 38 ATP (energy). Although, physiologic respiration is necessary to sustain cellular respiration and thus life in animals, the processes are distinct: cellular respiration takes place in individual cells of the organism, while physiologic respiration concerns the bulk flow and transport of metabolites between the organism and the external environment. 

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.

Lenticles are involved in

  1. Photosynthesis.

  2. Transpiration.

  3. Gaseous exchange.

  4. Food transport.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Lenticels are involved in gaseous exchange between internal tissues and atmosphere. These are porous tissues present in periderm that are developed during secondary growth.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.

In which part of the plant, the rate of respiration is higher?

  1. Root and stem tip

  2. Buds

  3. Germinating seeds

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The highest rate of respiration are found in the actively growing root and stem tips, cambium and embryos of germinating seeds and lowest rates in dormant seeds or spores. As, the growing tips are generally rich in meristematic tissues the rate of respiration is also high.

Which of the following features does all gas exchange have in common?

  1. They are enclosed within ribs.

  2. They are maintained at constant temperature.

  3. The exchange surfaces are moist.

  4. They are exposed to air.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Out of all the options given the third option is the correct one.
Exchange of gases is a feature that is common in all living things. Irrespective of the genera of living organisms,  all organs that exchange gases are characterized by features such as- thin, moist, large surface area and a large capillary network.

Correct statement is 

  1. Roots of plant respire through lenticels and stomata.

  2. Stem of plant respire through lenticels.

  3. Both A and B are correct.

  4. None of the above.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

All parts of the plant respire, the leaves, the stem, the roots and even the flowers. The parts above the soil get their oxygen directly from the air through pores. The pores in the leaves are called stomata. The pores in stems of trees are called lenticels.

During night, a person should not sleep under a tree because the tree

  1. Releases O$ _2$ during night.

  2. Does not release CO$ _2$ during night.

  3. Releases CO$ _2$ during night.

  4. Releases water during guttation.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Photosynthesis does not take place in plants during night time as the sunlight is absent and the accumulation of carbon dioxide is more. we feel suffocated if we sleep under trees during night times are more carbon dioxide is present around the trees.

So the correct option is 'Releases CO$ _2$ during the night.'

Stomata perform the function of

  1. Gaseous exchange

  2. Oxygen evolution

  3. Carbon dioxide evolution

  4. $CO _2$ absorption.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The stomata control gas exchange in the leaf. Each stoma can be open or closed, depending on how turgid its guard cells are. In the light, the guard cells absorb water by osmosis, become turgid and the stoma opens. In the dark, the guard cells lose water, become flaccid and the stoma closes.
So, the correct answer is 'Gaseous exchange'.

Supply ends in transport of solute are

  1. Green leaves and storage organs

  2. Root and stem

  3. Xylem and phloem

  4. Hormones and enzymes


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Source and sink are important concepts in translocation in plants. In plants, organic solutes are translocated from regions of their synthesis like green leaves or storage organs like tubers in stem and roots to the region of their active utilisation like the regions of active growth at tips of stem and roots. Thus green leaves and storage organs act as source, whereas regions of active growth act as sink for organic solutes.

Proton pump in thylakoid membrane is :

  1. PC

  2. Pheophytin

  3. Fd

  4. PQ


Correct Option: A

Which region of plants is considered as supply end?

  1. Root

  2. Fruit

  3. Leaf

  4. Flower


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The translocation of sugars in a plant occurs from source to sink by active loading at source or supply end and active unloading at the sink end. The source and sink are not fixed and keep on changing depending on the physiology of plant. In water transport water is always transported from roots to the aerial parts but not so in case of sugars. 

Sugars are transported from a region, where they are present in high concentration, example leaves to regions of sugar utilisation or storage parts, example storage roots or tubers or fruits etc. 
Thus, storage organs like tubers, roots, fruits etc. serve as sink end and leaves acts as supply end.

Removal of a ring of bark from the trunk of a tree eventually kills it, because

  1. Water can not go up

  2. Fungi and insects attack exposed parts

  3. Food does not travel down and root becomes starved

  4. Air blocks the xylem


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In plants sugars are translocated by phloem tissue. This can be experimentally demonstrated by girdling experiments. In girdling experiments all tissues from phloem to epidermis, including secondary phloem are removed. This stops flow of sugars to plant parts below the level of girdle. Thus, the roots are starved and consequently the plant is killed.

A and B cells are contiguous. Cell A has OP$=10$ atm, TP $=7$ atm and DPD$=3$atm. Cell B has OP$=8$atm. TP$=3$ atm and DPD$=5$atm. The result would be?

  1. No movement of water

  2. Equilibrium between the two

  3. Movement of water from A to B

  4. Movement of water from B to A


Correct Option: A

Photosynthetic food material is transported in the form of 

  1. Glucose

  2. Sucrose

  3. Starch

  4. Fructose


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Plants photosynthesize to produce sugars. Sugars are produced as monosaccharides- glucose or fructose. They are transported in the disaccharide form of sucrose through phloem tissue. Sugars are stored as polysaccharides, starch in storage organs.

Factors like plasmolysis, deplasmolysis, root pressure, turgidity, flacidity in plants are responsible for

  1. Absorption of water and minerals in plants

  2. Movement of water and minerals inside roots of the plants

  3. Movement of water and minerals upward in the stem

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The absorption of water and minerals from the soil by the roots of plants and their movement inside roots of the plant and subsequently its upward movement in stem and other aerial parts of the plant body is because of the following phenomenon:-
Imbibition
Diffusion
Osmosis
Osmotic pressure
Root pressure
Turgidity and flacidity
Plasmolysis and deplasmolysis 

Which of the factor is responsible for absorption and water and minerals in plants ?

  1. Plasmolysis

  2. Turgidity

  3. Osmotic pressure

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The absorption of water and minerals from the soil by the roots of plants and their movement inside roots of the plant and subsequently its upward movement in stem and other aerial parts of the plant body is because of the following phenomenon:-
Imbibition
Diffusion
Osmosis
Osmotic pressure
Root pressure
Turgidity and flacidity
Plasmolysis and deplasmolysis

Ringing experiment is to show

  1. Translocation of food

  2. Passive absorption

  3. Stomatal opening and closing

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In ringing experiment a complete ring of tissue is removed outside the vascular cylinder at a particular height from ground in a dicot plant. As the xylem is intact water can move freely to the aerial parts from roots. But the sugars cannot move down to roots from aerial parts, because of the removal of phloem tissue, which occurs in the outer cylinder and is removed in ringing experiment. 

A prominent swelling is observed just above the point of removal of ring of tissue due to accumulation of sugars. This experiment proves the respective roles of xylem and phloem in transportation of water and sugars.

I. Assertion: sugar is translocated to buds for growing them into flowers.
II. Reason:  xylem transport food through the plant.

  1. I and II both are correct and II is correct explanation for I

  2. I is correct and II is incorrect

  3. I and II both are false

  4. I and II both are correct but II is not correct explanation to I


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The increased contents within the cells exert a high amount of pressure on their wall. This pressure moves the food material to the adjacent cells with low pressure. This allows the phloem to move material according to the plants needs.

Root pressure theory and cohesion adhesion theory is possible due to _____

  1. Phloem

  2. Xylem trachieds

  3. Parenchymatic tissue

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

There are two types of vascular tissues present in the plants viz. Xylem and Phloem. Xylem is responsible for transport of water and some minerals. Phloem is responsible for transport of food and minerals.

Root pressure provides a force which causes

  1. Pushing of water in the stem

  2. Pulling of water in the stem

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Root pressure provides a force which causes pushing of water in a stem. A continuous flow of water is maintained in the plants because the leaves transpire water through stomata and to replace the lost water the water drawn by the roots moves up.

Supply end in solute transport is

  1. Root

  2. Stem

  3. Green leaves and storage organs

  4. Xylem and phloem


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
(A)Root is the absorption end of the plant.
(B)The stem is the anchorage end of the plant.
(C)Leaf is the supply end of the plant.
(D)Xylem and phloem are the conducting ends.
So, the correct answer is 'Green leaves and storage organs'.

A plant of reed -swamp stage is __________.

  1. Juncus

  2. Salix

  3. Trapa

  4. Sagittaria


Correct Option: D

Periderm includes __________________.

  1. Phelloderm, collenchyrna and cortex

  2. Phellem, cambium and cortex

  3. All the tissues between epidermis and pith

  4. Phellogen, phellem and phelloderm


Correct Option: A

With reference to the water relations of plants, consider the following statements.
a. The mechanical work done by a chemical system during any change at constant temperature is equal to the decrease in its free energy
b. In the case of inhibition, as water continues to move into the imbibing, the water potential of the water in the imbibing becomes less negative
c. Osmotic pressure is directly proportional to the number of solute molecules per solvent.
Which of these statements are correct?

  1. $1$ and $2$

  2. $2$ and $3$

  3. $1$ and $3$

  4. $1, 2$ and $3$


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following compounds is NOT a member of the electron transport chain?

  1. Ubiquinone

  2. Cytochrome C

  3. Carnitine

  4. NAD


Correct Option: A

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
At the time of heavy rain, minerals in upper layers of the soil move downward by a process known as:

  1. weathering

  2. leaching

  3. erosion

  4. smearing


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Leaching is draining away from soil, ash, or similar material by the action of percolating liquid, especially rainwater downwards.

So the correct answer is "leaching"

Read the given statements and selected the correct option.
Statement 1: Xylem transport is unidirectional.
Statement 2: Phloem transport is bidirectional.

  1. Both statement 1 and 2 are correct and statement 2 is the correct explanation of statemnet 1

  2. Both statement 1 and 2 are correct and statement 2 is not the correct explanation of statement 1

  3. Statement 1 is correct and statement 2 is incorrect

  4. Both statement 1 and 2 are correct.


Correct Option: D

The primary difference between the aopolast and the symplast is that the

  1. apoplast is nonliving spaces and cell walls

  2. apoplast relies on active transport

  3. symplast is nonliving spaces and cell walls

  4. apoplast prevents passive diffusion.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Apoplast and symplast are two routes used by plants to transport water from root hair cells to the xylem of the root. Apoplast includes the non-living components of a plant such as cell walls and the intracellular spaces. The main difference between apoplast and symplast is their mechanism of the water movement.

So, the correct option is 'apoplast is non-living spaces and cell walls'.

The movement of water and minerals in xylem and the movement of phloem sap in phloem is ............... and .................... respectively

  1. Unindirectional, bidirectional

  2. Bidirectional, bidirectional

  3. Bidirectional, unidirectional

  4. Unindirectional, unidirectional


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The movement of water and minerals in xylem and the movement of phloem sap in phloem is unidirectional and bidirectional respectively. Plants need water for their growth, and it uptakes water through the roots. Water that is taken by the roots has to reach all the leaves or branches, here the xylem function as transportation of water. Therefore, the movement of water and minerals in xylem is always an unidirectional. Whereas, the movement of phloem is bidirectional this is because, once the food is synthesized it is the phloem that transfers the food to all the parts of plants wherever it is necessary.

So, the correct answer is option A.

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
By what method arc ions absorbed by plants?

  1. Along DPD gradient

  2. By molecular diffusion

  3. By carriers and pumps

  4. Along water potential gradients


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 For plants to take up mineral ionsions are moved into root hairs, where they are in a higher concentration than in the dilute solutions in the soil. Active transport (pumps) then occurs across the root so that the plant takes in the ions it needs from the soil around it. The root hair cells have carrier molecules on their surface that pick up the minerals and move them into the cell against the concentration gradient.

So, the correct option is, 'By carriers and pumps'.

The direction of water in Cycas leaflets is 

  1. Upward

  2. Downward

  3. Lateral

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

(A) The upward flow of the water is seen in the roots of the plant.

(B) Downward flow is seen in the bulk transportation from leaf to every other part of the plant.
(C) Lateral flow of water is seen in leaf and roots due to the diffusion patterns.
So. the correct answer is 'Lateral'

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given.
Minerals are absorbed in:

  1. meristematic zone

  2. root hair zone

  3. elongation zone

  4. root cap zone


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Plants absorb their mineral salt supply from the soil through the roots from the zones of elongation and root hair. The minerals are absorbed as ions which are accumulated by the plants against their concentration in the soil.

So, the correct option is, 'Elongation zone'.

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
The energy source that drives the upward flow of water is

  1. Light

  2. Glucose

  3. ATP

  4. Solar heat


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Solar heat causes the evaporation of water from the surface of the leaves in form of water vapour through small openings called stomata. This loss is known as transpiration. Due to the loss of water, water stress condition is created that forces the upward movement of water from the soil towards the shoot system. This water is then again distributed to various plant parts.

Hence, the correct answer is 'Solar heat'.

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