Class 11 Biology Chapter 5: Morphology of Flowering Plants – 100 MCQs with Answers
1. The edible part of mango is derived from which part?
Answer: B) Mesocarp
2. Pneumatophores are found in:
Answer: B) Halophytes
3. Which one is a modification of root for food storage?
Answer: A) Sweet potato
4. Tendrils in pea are modification of:
Answer: C) Leaflet
5. Which inflorescence is found in sunflower?
Answer: D) Capitulum
6. Which type of phyllotaxy is seen in China rose?
Answer: A) Alternate
7. The root cap is absent in:
Answer: C) Hydrophytes
8. What type of placentation is found in tomato?
Answer: B) Axile
9. The edible part of apple is:
Answer: D) Thalamus
10. Lateral roots in dicots originate from:
Answer: B) Pericycle
11. A compound leaf is characterized by:
Answer: B) Bud present in axil of whole leaf
12. Storage roots are seen in:
Answer: A) Carrot
13. What is the fruit of banana called?
Answer: B) Berry
14. Legumes show which type of placentation?
Answer: C) Marginal
15. Radicle gives rise to:
Answer: A) Root
16. When leaflets arise from a common point it is:
Answer: A) Palmately compound
17. Reticulate venation is commonly found in:
Answer: C) Dicotyledons
18. A corm is a modification of:
Answer: B) Stem
19. Rhizobium lives in the root nodules of:
Answer: C) Leguminous plants
20. Which one is a false fruit?
Answer: A) Apple
21. The underground stem which grows horizontally is:
Answer: B) Rhizome
22. The family Solanaceae is mainly characterized by:
Answer: B) Axile placentation
23. Imbricate aestivation is found in:
Answer: A) Gulmohur
24. Which of these is a zygomorphic flower?
Answer: D) Pea
25. Perianth is not differentiated into calyx and corolla in:
Answer: B) Lily
26. Which one is not a seed?
Answer: C) Mango
27. Monocarpellary pistil is present in:
Answer: A) Mustard
28. Parallel venation is a character of:
Answer: B) Wheat
29. The edible part of coconut is:
Answer: A) Endosperm
30. Phyllode is a modification of:
Answer: C) Petiole
31. In a typical dicotyledonous leaf, the vascular bundles are:
Answer: A) Collateral
32. The main function of stem is:
Answer: C) Conduction
33. Whorled phyllotaxy is found in:
Answer: C) Nerium
34. Carpel is a modified:
Answer: A) Leaf
35. Which is not a form of racemose inflorescence?
Answer: D) Cyme
36. Staminode refers to:
Answer: B) Sterile stamen
37. Which part forms the fruit after fertilisation?
Answer: A) Ovary
38. Gynoecium of a flower represents:
Answer: B) Carpels
39. Hypogynous flowers have:
Answer: A) Superior ovary
40. Carpel and ovary in flower are:
Answer: C) Ovary is within carpel
41. The part by which flower is attached to the stem is:
Answer: A) Pedicel
42. Penicillium is:
Answer: A) Fungus
43. In family Fabaceae, stamens are:
Answer: B) Diadelphous
44. Parthenocarpic fruit develops without:
Answer: B) Fertilisation
45. Lenticels are present in:
Answer: C) Bark
46. Compound inflorescence is seen in:
Answer: A) Sunflower
47. The swollen base of a flower is called:
Answer: B) Thalamus
48. Which of the following is not a stem modification?
Answer: D) Storage root
49. The edible part of potato is:
Answer: B) Stem tuber
50. Which tissue is mainly responsible for the increase in girth of the stem?
Answer: B) Lateral meristem
51. The cuticle in leaves is secreted by:
Answer: C) Epidermis
52. The stem that spreads on the surface of soil is called:
Answer: C) Runner
53. Which inflorescence is unbranched, elongated, and flowers have no pedicel?
Answer: D) Spike
54. A fruit developing from the inflorescence is:
Answer: B) Multiple fruit
55. The outermost whorl of a flower is:
Answer: C) Calyx
56. When stamens are attached to petals, it is called:
Answer: A) Epipetalous
57. Alternate phyllotaxy is found in:
Answer: D) China rose
58. Gynandrous condition is found in:
Answer: C) Calotropis
59. Main function of root hairs:
Answer: B) Water absorption
60. The stamen is also known as:
Answer: A) Microsporophyll
61. Grafting is possible only in:
Answer: B) Dicots
62. Marginal placentation is characteristic of:
Answer: B) Pea
63. The edible part of onion is:
Answer: B) Fleshy leaves
64. When fruits develop from ovary only, they are called:
Answer: A) True fruits
65. A seed in mango is:
Answer: B) Dicotyledonous
66. The flower which can be cut in two equal halves only through one plane is:
Answer: B) Zygomorphic
67. The family Leguminosae shows:
Answer: D) All
68. Onion is a:
Answer: C) Bulb
69. The stalk of leaf is:
Answer: A) Petiole
70. Perigynous flower has:
Answer: C) Half-inferior ovary
71. The lamina of a leaf is:
Answer: D) Leaf blade
72. Gynoecium of Hibiscus consists of:
Answer: B) Five carpels
73. The edible part of carrot is:
Answer: A) Tap root
74. Corm is present in:
Answer: A) Colocasia
75. Placenta is:
Answer: A) Inside ovary
76. Most of dicot plants show:
Answer: A) Tap root
77. The edible part of maize grain is:
Answer: A) Endosperm
78. The flowers that never open are:
Answer: B) Cleistogamous
79. Trichomes are:
Answer: B) Hairs on epidermis
80. Aggregate fruit is formed from:
Answer: A) Single flower many pistils
81. The condition when stamens are fused by their filaments only:
Answer: A) Monadelphous
82. The edible part of groundnut is:
Answer: A) Cotyledon
83. The small leaf-like structure at the base of leaf is:
Answer: B) Stipule
84. Which inflorescence is found in pea?
Answer: A) Raceme
85. Tuberous roots are:
Answer: D) Storage roots
86. Which part of the ovary forms the seed coat?
Answer: A) Integuments
87. The leaf base in monocots often forms a sheath called:
Answer: C) Sheathing leaf base
88. The edible part of ginger is:
Answer: B) Rhizome
89. Which one of the following is not related to the flower?
Answer: D) Columella
90. Inflorescence in banana is:
Answer: B) Compound spadix
91. Which one is a seed modification for dispersal?
Answer: A) Hairy appendages
92. Which family has a characteristic “papilionaceous” corolla?
Answer: A) Fabaceae
93. The edible part of lettuce is:
Answer: A) Leaf
94. The underground stem in potato is called:
Answer: A) Tuber
95. Amorphous calyx is seen in:
Answer: B) Sunflower
96. Flowers without stalk are known as:
Answer: A) Sessile
97. The typical monocot root shows:
Answer: A) Polyarch condition
98. Parthenocarpic fruits are:
Answer: A) Without seeds
99. Adventitious roots arise from:
Answer: B) Any part other than radicle
100. Which of the following is NOT a part of the perianth?
Answer: C) Stamen
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