MCQ's About "Reproduction In Plants".

 REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS

Question 1

The most important part of a plant for the continuation of the species is the:

A)  root  B)  stem  C)  leaf  D)  flower

Question 2

In flowering plants, sexual reproduction involves the formation of:

A)  pollen  B)  seeds  C)  spores  D)  conifers

Question 3

The order of the parts of a flower, from the outside inwards is:

(A)  sepals carpels, stamens petals  (B)  sepals, petals, stamens, carpels

(C)  carpels, sepals, stamens, petals  (D)  petals, carpels, stamens, sepals

Question 4

Where is the male sex cell in a plant?

(A)  pollen grain  (B)  ovule or egg-cell  (C)  anther  (D)  filament

Question 5

Which of these is the female sex cell?

(A)  ovary  (B)  pollen grain  (C)  anther  (D)  ovule or egg-cell

Question 6

The part of a flower to which pollen grains carried by insects stick is called the:

(A)  anther  (B)  stigma  (C)  ovary  (D)  moss

Question 7

Hay fever is caused by the male cells of certain plants. These males cells are contained in the:

(A)  ovules  (B)  pollen  (C)  anther  (D)  stigma

Question 8

Which of these stages is the beginning of fertilization?

(A)  A pollen tube begins to grow.  (B)  The ovary turns into a fruit.

(C)  Pollen lands on the stigma.  (D)  The ovule grows into a seed.

Question 9

Because a watermelon fruit contains many seeds, we know that the normal flower of the watermelon contains large numbers of:

(A)  sepals and petals  (B)  very large anthers  (C)  ovules  (D)  stamens

Question 10

Which of these conditions is NOT suitable for germination to occur?

(A)  warmth  (B)  cold  (C)  moisture  (D)  oxygen

Question 11

Which of these is NOT a method of seed dispersal?

(A)  wind  (B)  animals (C)  explosive mechanisms  (D)  fog

Question 12

You find a new fruit with a thin, flattened piece sticking out from it. How it is most likely to be dispersed?

(A)  wind  (B)  animals  (C)  water  (D)  explosively

Question 13

What is the first part to emerge when a seed germinates?

(A)  embryo  (B)  cotyledon  (C)  plumule  (D)  radicle

Question 14

Sexual reproduction is a big advantage to a species because it provides lots of:

(A)  identical organisms  (B)  variation in the species

(C)  energy for the species to survive  (D)  similar copies of the parent

Question 15

When a strawberry plant produces a new plant without the formation of seeds, this type of asexual 

reproduction is called:

(A)  budding  (B)  binary fission  (C)  spore formation  (D)  vegetative reproduction

Question 16

The type of vegetative reproduction seen in potatoes is by the formation of:

(A)  runners  (B)  suckers  (C)  bulbs  (D)  tubers

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Answers:

Question 1 (D)  Question 2 (B)  Question 3 (B)  Question 4 (A)  Question 5 (D)

Question 6 (B)  Question 7 (B)  Question 8 (A)  Question 9 (C)  Question 10 (B)

Question 11 (D)  Question 12 (A)  Question 13 (D)  Question 14 (B)  Question 15 (D)

Question 16 (D)