Absorption by Roots – Objective Test

1. The molecular attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass is
known as
Options:
(a) Adhesion
(b) Cohesion
(c) Attraction
(d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

2. A Visking bag acts as a

Options:
(a) Impermeable membrane
(b) Freely permeable membrane
(c) Double membrane
(d) Semi-permeable membrane
Answer: ()
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

3. Energy utilized during active transport is in the form of _____________.

Options:
(a) ADP
(b) Either (B) or (C
(c) ATP
(d) GDP
Answer: (c)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

4. Loss of water through a cut stem is called __________________.

Options:
(a) (B) and (C)
(b) Transpiration
(c) Guttation
(d) Bleeding
Answer: (d)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

5.The stimulus of touch in Mimosa pudica leads to the loss of ______________.

Options:
(a) wall pressure
(b) osmotic pressure
(c) turgor pressure
(d) All of these
Answer: (b)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

6. For which of the following plant functions, water is not necessary?

Options:
(a) Transport
(b) Mechanical stiffness
(c) Photosynthesis
(d) None of the above
Answer: (d)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

7. Rupturing of the seed coat is a result of

Options:
(a) Action of microbes
(b) Swelling up of the seed
(c) Emergence of the radical
(d) Release of enzymes
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

8. The phenomenon in which a substance moves along the concentration gradient through a
semi permeable membrane is called
Options:
(a) Osmosis
(b) Diffusion
(c) Plasmolysis
(d) Imbibition
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

9. Which of the following characteristics increases absorptive power of roots?

Options:
(a) Surface area
(b) Root hair with thin walls
(c) Capillarity
(d) Both (A) and (B)
Answer: (d)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

10. Which of the following is not responsible for ascent of sap?

Options:
(a) Adhesion
(b) Transpirational pull
(c) Capillarity
(d) Diffusion
Answer: (d)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

11. The space between the cell wall and plasma membrane in a plasmolysed cell is filled with
_________________.
Options:
(a) Hypotonic solution
(b) Isotonic solution
(c) Hypertonic solution
(d) Water
Answer: (c)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

12. The molecular attraction by which the particles of a body are united through out the mass
is called _________________.
Options:
(a) Cohesion
(b) Adhesion
(c) Transpiration pull
(d) (A) and (B)
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

13. Which of these is responsible for developing root pressure?

Options:
(a) Turgor pressure
(b) Endosmosis
(c) Wall pressure
(d) Imbibition
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

14. _____________ located in the stem deeper internally.

Options:
(a) Cambium
(b) Xylem
(c) Phloem
(d) (B) and (C)
Answer: (b)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

15. Which of the following statement is not true about active transport?
Options:
(a) It is energy independent
(b) It takes place against the concentration gradient
(c) Minerals are transported
(d) None of the above
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

16. A plasmolysed cell was kept in a solution after 1 hour also it remained the same. The
solution in which the cell was kept was:
Options:
(a) Isotonic
(b) 10% salt solution
(c) Hypotonic
(d) Hypertonic
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

17. Salting kills bacteria by

Options:
(a) Damaging their cell wall
(b) Plasmolysis
(c) Damaging their nuclear material
(d) Making them turgid and thus causing bursting of the cell
Answer: (b)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

18. Narrow diameter of xylem vessels cause the water from a lower level to raise to fill up the
vacuum created by the loss of water in transpiration. This phenomenon is called as
Options:
(a) Transpiration pull
(b) Adhesion
(c) Cohesion
(d) Capillarity
Answer: (d)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

19. What is responsible for Guttation?

Options:
(a) Root pressure
(b) Osmotic pressure
(c) Suction pressure
(d) Capillarity
Answer: (a)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1

20. Wooden doors swell up when they come in contact with water due to:
Options:
(a) Diffusion
(b) Osmosis
(c) Imbibition
(d) All of these
Answer: (b)
Marks: 4
Negative Marks: 1