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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQ’S)
1.    Transpiration is least in:
a)   Good soil moisture          
b) Dry environment
c)  High wind velocity                       
d) High atmospheric humidity

2.    Phytochrome is involved in:
a)  Phototropism                       
b) Photorespiration
c) Photoperiodism                  
d) Geotropism
3.  Carbon dioxide joins the photosynthetic pathway in:
a)  PS I                                     
b) PS II
c) Light reaction                     
d) Dark reaction.

4.   NADPis reduced to NADPH in:
a)  PS I                                   
b) PS II
c) Calvin cycle                       
d) Non cyclic photophos phorylation

5.    Minerals absorbed by root move to the leaf through.
a)  Xylem                               
b) Phloem
c) Sieve tubes                         
d) None of the above           
              
6.    Which one increases in the absence of light?
a)  Uptake of minerals                        
b) Uptake of water
c) Elongation of internodes       
d) Ascent of sap

7.    Greatest producers of organic matter are:
a)  Crop plants                                     
b) Forests
c) Plants of the land area       
d) Phytoplankton of oceans   

8.     The first carbon dioxide acceptor in C4-plants is:
a)  Phosphoenol-pyruvate      
b) Ribulose 1, 5-diphosphate
c) Oxalo-acetic acid               
d) Phosphoglyceric acid
9.    The most widely accepted theory for ascent of sap in trees is:
a)  Pulsating action of living cell           
b) Role of atmospheric pressure
c) Capillarity                         
d) Transpiration pull and cohesion theory of Dixon and Jolly
10.     Photosynthetic pigments found in the chloroplasts occur in:
a)   Thylakoid membranes      
b) Plastoglobules
c) Matrix                                
d) Chloroplast envelope

11.    Dark reactions of photosynthesis occur in:
a)   Granal thylakoid membranes                       
b) Stromal lamella membranes
c) Stroma outside photosynthetic lamellae  
d) Periplastidial space
12.    Water movement between cells is due to:
a)  T.P.                                    
b) W.P.
c) D.P.D.                                
d) Incipient plasmolysis  
       
13.    In terrestrial habitats, temperature and rainfall conditions are influence by:
a)   Water transformations     
b) Transpiration
c) Thermoperiodism               
d) Translocation
14.    The enzyme that catalyses carbon dioxide fixation in C4 plants is:
a)  RuBP carboxylas              
b) PEP carboxylase
c) Carbonic anhydrase                       
d) Carboxydismutase

15.    Photosystem II occurs in:
a)  Stroma                               
b) Cytochrome
c) Grana                                 
d) Mitochondrial surface
16.    Chlorophyll a occurs in:
a) All photosynthetic autotrophs       
b) In all higher plants
c) Help retain chlorophyll                  
d) Inhibit protoplasmic streaming

17.    Translocation of carbohydrate nutrients usually occurs in the form of:
a) Glucose                  
b) Maltose
c) Starch                     
d) Sucrose

18.    Which one is a C4-plant?
a)    Papaya                    
b) Pea
c) Potato                      
d) Maize/corn
19.    The carbon dioxide acceptor in Calvin cycle/ C3-plants is:
a) Phospho-enol pyruvate (PEP)                    
b) Ribulose 1, 5-diphosphate (RuBP)
c) Phosphoglyceric acid (PGA)                     
d) Ribulose monophosphate (RMP)

20.  The primary acceptor, during C02 fixation in Cpaints, is:
a) Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)                      
b) Ribulose 1, 5-diphosphate (RuDP)
c) Phosphoglyceric acid (PGA)                     
d) Ribulose monophosphate (RMP)
21. Anthranilic acid is an immediate precursor of formation of:
a) Tyrogine
b) Tryptophas
c) Ornithine
d) Methiodine

22. Tropane nucleus is a combination of:
a) Pyrolidine and piperidine
b) Pyrolidine and pyridine
c) Pyrolidine and oscine
d) Piperidine and Oscine
23. The recemic form of hyoscyamine is known as:
a) Hyoscine
b) Oscine
c) Atropine
d) Ecoganine

24. An alkaloid which contains Isoquinoline ring system:
a) Papaverine
b) Quinine
c) Strychine
d) Reserpine
25. The precursor of Indole alkaloids is:
a) Ornithine
b) Phenylalarine
c) Tryptophan
d) N-methionine

26. Pyrrole and pyridine ring present in:
a) Atropine
b) Digitoxin
c) Vinblastine
d) Quinidine
27. The Important precursor for the production of streroidal drugs is:
a) Diosgin
b) Diosgenin
c) Digoxin
d) Digitoxin

28. Steroidal Saponins are biosynthesised via:
a) Shikimic acid pathway
b) Calvin's Cycle
c) Aceto acetate pathway
d) Mevalonic acid pathway
29. Which of the following is precursor for biosynthesis of atropine?
a) L-Ornithine
b) Tryptophan
c) Tyrosine
 d) Cholesterol

Answer KEY
1. d      2. c      3. d      4. d      5. a      6. c      7. d      8. a      9. d      10. a


11. c      12. c  13.b     14. b    15. c    16.c     17. d    18. d    19. b    20.b  

  
21. b      22. a  23.c     24. a    25. c    26.c     27. b    28. d    29. a


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