Botany General Knowledge Questions and Answers
1. A Pigment responsible for photo morphogenetic responses is?
Answer: Phytochrome
2. The disease ’die back of shoots’ is caused due to the deficiency of the micro element:
Answer: Copper
3. Anomocytic type of stomata is the feature of:
Answer: Ranunculaceae
4. Father of gene therapy?
Answer: Anderson
5. Smallest living cell?
Answer: RBC
6. In flurascent microscope the radiations pass through a filter called?
Answer: Exciter
7. Which is the smallest dicot plant?
Answer: Arcuthobium
8. Tetrand formation occurs in which stage of meosis?
Answer: Pachytene
9. Chiasmata was first observed by?
Answer: Janson
10. Which plant has longest fibre?
Answer: Linum usitatissimum
11. A xerophyte bryophyte?
Answer: Porella
12. The scaly membraneous perianth of graminae?
Answer: Lodicules
13. The vector which can multiply in more than one host?
Answer: Shuttle vector
14. A plasmid with phage gene is called?
Answer: Plasmid
15. The stomata which guard cell have lost their power are?
Answer: Potomogeton type
16. First bio insecticide to be developed in commercial scale?
Answer: Sporeine
17. How many meotic divisions are need for the development of 64 spores?
Answer: 16
18. Split genes are discovered by?
Answer: Sharp & Robertis
19. Which Amino acid known as bacterial amino acid?
Answer: Diamino pimelic acid
20. Rephano brassica is an example for?
Answer: Allopolyploid
21. Recently discovered non-leguminous nitrogen fixing
Bacteria?
Answer: Acatobacter paspali
22. Largest organelle of a plant cell?
Answer: Vacuole
23. Late blight of potato is caused by?
Answer: Phytophthora Infestans
24. Which plant is called water fly trap?
Answer: Aldrovanda
25. Intra nuclear mitosis is known as?
Answer: Karyochoresis
26. The structure that is produced by the parasitie fungi to adhere to the host cell?
Answer: Appresorium
27. Father of plant physiology
Answer: Stephen Hales
28. The simplest biological light energy transducer?
Answer: Bacteriorhodopsin
29. Reagent used in RNA extraction is?
Answer: Guanadinium thiocyanate