NEET
Botany

Asexual Reproduction

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Consistency: 35%
Weightage: 7 / 20 Yrs

High-Yield Trend

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Questions
7 MCQs

01
PYQ 2009
easy
botany ID: neet-200

Which one of the following plants is monoecious?

1. Marchantia 2. Pinus
3. Cycas 4. Papaya

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02
PYQ 2012
easy
botany ID: neet-201

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

1. Onion - Bulb

2. Ginger - Sucker

3. Chlamydomonas - Conidia

4. Yeast - Zoospores

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03
PYQ 2015
easy
botany ID: neet-201

Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Mode of reproduction Example
(a) Offset (i) Water hyacinth
(b) Rhizome (ii) Banana
(c) Binary fission (iii) Sargassum
(d) Conidia (iv) Penicilium

1. a
2. b
3. c
4. d

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04
PYQ 2016
easy
botany ID: neet-201

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

1. Offspring produced by asexual reproduction is called clone
2. Microscopic motile asexual reproductive structures are called zoospores
3. In potatoes, bananas, and ginger, the plantlets arise from the internodes present in the modified stem
4. Water hyacinth growing in standing water drains oxygen from water that leads to the death of fish

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05
PYQ 2018
easy
botany ID: neet-201

Offsets are produced by:

1. Meiotic divisions
2. Mitotic divisions
3. Parthenocarpy
4. Parthenogenesis
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06
PYQ 2020
easy
botany ID: neet-202

Vegetative propagule in Agave is:

1. Rhizome 2. Bulbil
3. Offset 4. Eye
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07
PYQ 2022
easy
botany ID: neet-202
Identify the asexual reproductive structure associated with penicillium :
1. Buds
2. Zoospores
3. Conidia
4. Gemmules
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