Tamil Nadu SSLC (Class 10) Plant Anatomy and Plant Physiology — practice questions
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Practice Tamil Nadu SSLC (Class 10) Plant Anatomy and Plant Physiology in the app →Which scientist is regarded as the Father of Plant Anatomy?According to Sachs, how many tissue systems are recognised in plants?Which tissue system is mainly responsible for transporting water and food in a plant?Casparian strips are a characteristic feature of which root layer?Casparian strips in the endodermis are made up of which substance?In a radial vascular bundle, how are xylem and phloem arranged?A conjoint vascular bundle in which xylem lies towards the centre and phloem towards the periphery is called:A concentric vascular bundle in which the xylem completely surrounds the phloem is termed:In which plant organ is the xylem typically exarch, with protoxylem lying towards the periphery?The number of xylem groups in a dicot root such as bean is described as:In a monocot root such as maize, the conjunctive tissue between the xylem and phloem is made of:Which feature is present in a monocot root but absent in a typical dicot root?The endodermis of a dicot stem stores starch grains and is therefore also called the:The hypodermis of a dicot stem provides mechanical support because it is composed of:Vascular bundles of a dicot stem are best described as:In a mature monocot stem, the disintegration of the lowermost protoxylem produces a structure called the:Which statement about the ground tissue of a monocot stem is correct?In a dorsiventral dicot leaf, which mesophyll layer has elongated, tightly packed cells rich in chloroplasts?The large, thin-walled cells found in the upper epidermis of a monocot leaf are known as:Which type of plastid contains the green pigment chlorophyll and carries out photosynthesis?In a chloroplast, the stacked disc-like structures formed by thylakoids are called:Which pigment acts as the primary photosynthetic pigment and the reaction centre?In photosynthesis, oxygen is released as a by-product when:The light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis takes place in which part of the chloroplast?The light-independent reaction of photosynthesis, which fixes CO2 in the stroma, is also called the:Mitochondria are called the power house of the cell mainly because they:The finger-like projections of the inner mitochondrial membrane that increase its surface area are called:The tennis-racket-shaped particles on the inner mitochondrial membrane that take part in ATP synthesis are theWhich step of cellular respiration takes place in the cytoplasm and is common to both aerobic and anaerobic reThe Krebs cycle of aerobic respiration occurs in which part of the cell?During anaerobic respiration in yeast, glucose is converted mainly into:Respiratory quotient (R.Q.) is defined as the ratio of: