List of top Botany Questions asked in Andhra Pradesh Engi Agriculture & Pharmacy CET

Choose the correct statements among the following:
1. Plant ash includes all carbon and inorganic elements.
2. In amino acid, an amino group and acidic group on α-carbon makes it α-amino acid.
3. Glycerol has 3 -OH groups.
4. Acid insoluble fractions are called macromolecules.
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Assertion (A): Dicot leaf is dark green in colour on the upper surface and light green in colour on the lower surface.
Reason (R): Palisade tissue is at the abaxial side and spongy tissue is at the adaxial side in this leaf.
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Assertion (A): Due to water stress the bulliform cells in grasses make the leaf curl outward to minimise water loss.
Reason (R): Bulliform cells are large, empty and colourless cells.
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Match the following:

List - I	List - II
A. Velamen Roots	II. Eichhornia
B. Axillary buds as tendrils	I. Watermelon
C. Floral buds as storage food	IV. Agave
D. Swollen petiole	III. Pisum

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Identify the plants in sequence with the following characters:
1. Tendrillar climber, odd sepal anterior, self pollination.
2. Twisted aestivation, capsule, terminal flower.
3. Berry, Cladophylls, tuberous roots.
4. Geocarpic, monoadelphous stamens, oil seeds.

The margins of sepals or petals are overlap one another but not in particular direction.

Match the following:

List - I	List - II
A. Amoeboid	IV. WBC
B. Elongated	III. Nerve cell
C. Long and narrow	II. Tracheid
D. Branched and long cells	I. Columnar epithelial cells

Assertion (A): Presence of {Eichhornia} in a pond can lead to the death of fishes.
Reason (R): It is an invasive weed and occupies the total pond.
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Study the following and identify the correct combinations:

S.No.	List - I	List - II	List - III
I	Algae	Phaeophyceae	Sargassum
II	Bryophyta	Hepaticopsida	Marchantia
III	Pteridophyta	Pteropsida	Equisetum
IV	Gymnosperms	Gnetopsida	Pinus

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Assertion (A): Molecular interactions result in emergent properties at a higher level of organization.
Reason (R): All living phenomena are due to underlying interactions.
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Choose the correct statements among the following:
1. White spots on leaves are due to Puccinia.
2. Mycelium with multinucleated cytoplasm is called coenocytic.
3. Bacteria produce endospores under unfavourable conditions.
4. Gonyaulax release toxins to kill fish.
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Assertion (A): The progress in biology was rapid during the past three decades.
Reason (R): This was due to the invention of microscope and studies of sexual patterns.
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Select the correct statements among the following
I. The use of biofertilizers reduce the use of chemical fertilizers.
II. Mycorrhizae enhances phosphorous content in the soil.
III. An important biofertilizer in legume crops is Rhizobium.
IV. Glomus forms mycorrhizal association with plants.

Choose the incorrect statements among the following I. Hairy leaves in plants are associated with resistance to insect pest.
II. Solid stem of wheat rejects stem saw fly.
III. Smooth leaves and nector less cotton attracts bollworms.
IV. Resistance to maize stem borer is by low aspartic acid and high nitrogen and sugar.

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Which of the following statements are correct?
[I.] The packaging of chromatin at higher level requires additional set of proteins called non-histone chromosomal proteins.
[II.] In some viruses, the flow of genetic information for protein synthesis is in the reverse direction — that is from RNA to DNA.
[III.] RNA is the genetic material that is passed from virus to bacteria was given by Avery, Macleod and McCarty.
[IV.] RNA polymerase II transcribes the precursor of 5S RNA.

Study the following lists:

Match the following:

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Assertion (A): TCA cycle requires continuous replenishment of oxaloacetic acid.
Reason (R): TCA cycle requires regeneration of NAD\textsuperscript{+} and FAD\textsuperscript{+} from NADH and FADH.