alleryStart learning →Leaves capture sunlight using which green pigment?
- Melanin
- Cellulose
- Chlorophyll
- Haemoglobin
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Correct answer: C. Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll inside chloroplasts absorbs light energy that drives sugar making.
Olympiad (Class 6) Plants and Animals — practice questions
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Leaves capture sunlight using which green pigment?Read the answer and worked solution →The scientific study of plants is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cell has chloroplasts, a strong wall and a big central vacuole?Read the answer and worked solution →The plant cell wall is made mostly of which substance?Read the answer and worked solution →Which plant part mainly absorbs water and minerals from the soil?Read the answer and worked solution →Which plant organ is specialised mainly for photosynthesis?Read the answer and worked solution →Stems of plants mainly serve which pair of functions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of raw materials do plants use with light to make sugars?Read the answer and worked solution →Which gas released by green plants is breathed in by most animals?Read the answer and worked solution →Most of the roughly 380,000 known plant species produce what?Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of all plant species are flowering plants?Read the answer and worked solution →Which organism is not counted as a plant in modern definitions?Read the answer and worked solution →Where did the ancestors of today's land plants first evolve?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group contains the earliest seed plants?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair forms the vascular tissue of plants?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can a plant cell take in much water without bursting?Read the answer and worked solution →Which part lets a plant cell change size while its cytoplasm stays the same?Read the answer and worked solution →A gardener plants a potato piece with buds and gets a new plant. What kind of reproduction is it?Read the answer and worked solution →What do the runners of a plant help it to do?Read the answer and worked solution →A clump of moss is torn into pieces. What may each piece do?Read the answer and worked solution →A bee visiting flowers carries pollen by accident. What does the bee gain?Read the answer and worked solution →Seeds with tiny hooks are most likely spread by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do many fruits have sweet, nutritious flesh?Read the answer and worked solution →In a partnership between a plant and ants, what do the ants give the plant?Read the answer and worked solution →In mycorrhiza, what does the plant give to the fungus?Read the answer and worked solution →Root nodules of bean plants hold bacteria that fix which gas?Read the answer and worked solution →Why might a farmer grow beans before a wheat crop?Read the answer and worked solution →A plant has green leaves but also takes some nutrients from a host. It is a what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why does a fully parasitic plant such as broomrape lack chlorophyll?Read the answer and worked solution →An orchid grows on a tree branch but takes no food from it. It is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →
Worked practice questions
The scientific study of plants is called what?
- Geology
- Botany
- Ecology
- Zoology
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Correct answer: B. Botany
Botany is the branch of biology that deals with plants.
Which cell has chloroplasts, a strong wall and a big central vacuole?
- Nerve cell
- Blood cell
- Leaf cell
- Muscle cell
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Correct answer: C. Leaf cell
Chloroplasts, a rigid wall and a large vacuole are features of plant cells, not animal cells.
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