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What are adventitious roots, and give some examples?

Important Questions on Morphology of Flowering Plants

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Which of the following statements are correct about all the four types of modifications: potato, ginger, carrot and sweet potato?
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Identify the correct set of statements :
(a) The leaflets are modified into pointed hard thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea
(b) Axillary buds form slender and spirally coiled tendrils in cucumber and pumpkin
(c) Stem is flattened and fleshy in Opuntia and modified to perform the function of leaves
(d) Rhizophora shows vertically upward growing roots that help to get oxygen for respiration
(e) Subaerially growing stems in grasses and strawberry help in vegetative propagation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
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Sweet potato is a modified
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Plants which produce characteristic pneumatophores and show vivipary belong to:
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Pneumatophores are found in the following roots of Rhizophora plant.
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Identify A, B and C in the given diagram of the regions of root tip?

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Pneumatophores occur in:
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General function of the root system is absorption and conduction of water and minerals besides anchoring. But in this case the roots are fibrous and become swollen due to storage of food. Indicate the plant:
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The roots that originate from the base of the stem are
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Root hairs develop from the region of
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Asparagus is a
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Differentiate between tap root and adventitious root.
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Adventitious roots are adventitious in their
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How many statements is/are true:-

i. The primary root and its branches constitute the taproot system.

ii. In monocot the primary root is short-lived.

iii. The root that arises from another part of the plant other than the radicle is called an adventitious root.
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Differentiate between tap root and adventitious root.
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Differentiate between Fibrous root and adventitious root.
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What is tap root system? Explain with examples.
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Which amongst the following options contains mismatched pair?
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Represent the union of two sets by Venn diagram for each of the following.

X={x | x is a prime number between 80 and 100}

Y={y | y is an odd number between 90 and 100}

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Fibrous root is a type of