Chapter 9: Reproduction - Biology Mcqs for High School - Grade 10 - Set 13

1)   Considering the sexual reproduction in flowering petals, the birds and bees are classified as agents of

a. reproduction
b. cloning
c. grafting
d. pollination
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ANSWER: pollination

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2)   In rhizomes, the lower surface is responsible for the production of

a. adventitious shoots
b. adventitious buds
c. adventitious roots
d. adventitious stems
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ANSWER: adventitious roots

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3)   The method in which vegetative cells or tissues are used to produce identical offspring from the single parent is called

a. shoots culture
b. nodes culture
c. tube culture
d. tissue culture
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ANSWER: tissue culture

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4)   Pollination and fertilization in flowers was described by

a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Theophrastus
d. none of above
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ANSWER: Theophrastus

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5)   Male reproductive part of the flower is called

a. calyx
b. corolla
c. androecium
d. gynoecium
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ANSWER: androecium

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6)   The micropyle is used by the seed for

a. food
b. protection
c. minerals
d. absorption of water
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ANSWER: absorption of water

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7)   Seminiferous tubules are present within

a. ovaries
b. scrotum
c. testis
d. epididymis
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ANSWER: testis

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8)   In gametogenesis, the meiosis is undergone on diploid gamete-mother cells to form

a. diploid egg cells
b. haploid egg cells
c. haploid gametes
d. diploid gametes
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ANSWER: haploid gametes

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9)   An inner whorl of the flower after Calyx is called

a. corolla
b. petal
c. sepal
d. carpel
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ANSWER: corolla

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10)   In honeycomb, the eggs fertilized by the male bees turned into

a. haploid females
b. haploid males
c. diploid females
d. diploid males
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ANSWER: diploid females

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11)   The process of transferring matured pollen grains to the stigma of the plant is called

a. cloning
b. grafting
c. pollination
d. reproduction
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ANSWER: pollination

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12)   The non-germinating period of seed is

a. seed formation
b. seed dormancy
c. seed growth
d. seed division
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ANSWER: seed dormancy

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13)   The types of asexual reproduction include

a. binary fission and vegetative propagation
b. budding and fragmentation
c. parthenogenesis
d. all of above
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ANSWER: all of above

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14)   In the cutting method of vegetative propagation, the cuttings are mainly taken from

a. leaves of parent plant
b. roots or stems of parent plant
c. shoots of parent plant
d. buds of parent plant
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ANSWER: roots or stems of parent plant

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15)   The animals in which reproduction is done by the means of budding are

a. planarian and amoeba
b. hydra and corals
c. amoeba and euglena
d. paramecium and planarian
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ANSWER: hydra and corals

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16)   Reproduction is a basic survival for

a. species
b. individual
c. population
d. community
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ANSWER: species

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17)   The kind of reproduction parthenogenesis is classified as a type of

a. fragmented reproduction
b. propagation reproduction
c. asexual reproduction
d. sexual reproduction
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ANSWER: asexual reproduction

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18)   Joining of male and female gametes is called

a. fusion
b. reproduction
c. sexual reproduction
d. asexual reproduction
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ANSWER: sexual reproduction

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19)   The sporophyte generation in the life cycle of plants is

a. meiotic whorl
b. mitotic whorl
c. haploid
d. diploid
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ANSWER: diploid

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20)   The UNFPA works in

a. 130 countries
b. 150 countries
c. 140 countries
d. 110 countries
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ANSWER: 140 countries

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