Table Of ContentBOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION- ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA
VOCATIONAL BRIDGE COURSE
BOTANY– First Year (w.e.f. 2017-2018)
SCHEME AND WEIGHTAGE
1. The Question paper is to be set for 40 (Forty) marks. The student has to answer for 25
(Twenty five) marks.
2. There will be 8 (Eight) Very Short Answer Questions each carrying 1 (One) Mark. The
student has to answer 5 questions from this Section-A.
3. In Section-B there will be 8 (Eight) Short Answer Question each carrying 4 (Four)
Marks. The student has to answer 5 questions from this Section-B.
Weightage for the Chapters included in the Syllabus is as follows:
S.No. Unit Number of Weightage of
Periods Marks
1. Diversity in Living Word 15 05
2. Morphology 08 08
3. Reproduction in Plants 07 06
4. Plant Systematics 05 02
5. Cell Structure and Functions 07 10
Anatomy 06 08
6.
Plant Ecology 02 01
7.
50 40
Total
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BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION- ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA
VOCATIONAL BRIDGE COURSE
BOTANY – First Year (w.e.f. 2017-2018)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Time: 1 ½ Hours Max.Marks: 25
_ _____________________________________________________________________________
Section – A 5x1=5
Note:
i) Answer any five of the questions briefly
ii) Each question carries one mark.
1. Give the scientific name of mango?
2. Define Vivipary?
3. What is Vegetative propagation?
4. Write the floral formula of Solanum plant?
5. Give the technical description of anther of Allium Cepa.
6. Which tissue of plants exhibit meiosis?
7. What is middle lamella made of?
8. Define Sciophytes?
Section – B 5x4=20
Note:
i) Answer any five questions
ii) Draw labelled diagrams wherever necessary
ii) Each question carries four marks.
9. What is heterospory? Give its significance?
10. Define Venation? How do dicots differ from monocots with respect to venation?
11. Explain any four stem modification with examples?
12. Explain Binomial Nomenclature?
13. Describe the structure and functions of Power houses of cell?
14. Explain Prophase I of meiosis?
15. Describe in briefly the internal structure of Dicot root?
16. Write briefly about different types of meristems?
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BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION- ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA
VOCATIONAL BRIDGE COURSE
BOTANY – First Year (w.e.f. 2017-2018)
QUESTION BANK
Unit-I: DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
1. What does ICBN stand for?
2. Which is the largest botanical garden in the world?
3. Name a well known botanical garden in India.
4. What is the basic unit of classification?
5. Give the scientific name of Mango.
6. How are Viroids different from Viruses?
7. Who proposed five kingdom classification?
8. Name two diseases caused by Mycoplasmas.
9. Who is popularly known as father of Botany?
10. Who discovered the cell?
11. What is Palaeobotany?
12. What are the groups of plants that live as symbionts in lichens?
13. Name the study of lichens.
14. Which group of plants is called amphibians of plant kingdom?
15. Name the branch of Botany which deals with amphibians of plant kingdom?
16. What is the basis of classification of Algae ?
17. What are the two stages found in the gametophyte of mosses ?
18. Name the Gymnosperms which contain mycorrhiza
19. Name the corolloid roots respectively.
Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
20. What are taxonomical aids? Give the importance of herbaria and museums.
21. Explain binomial nomenclature.
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22. Give the salient features and importance of Chrysophytes.
23. Give a brief account of Dinoflagellates.
24. Differentiate between red algae and brown algae
25. What is heterospory? Briefly comment on its significance. Give two examples.
26. Draw labelled diagrams of female thallus and male thallus of a liverwort
Unit-II: MORPHOLOGY
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
27. Define venation.
28. How do dicots differ from monocots with respect to venation?
29. Which organ is modified to trap insects in insectivorous plants?
30. What type of inflorescence is found in fig trees?
31. Define placentation.
32. What type of placentation is found in Dianthus?
33. What is meant by parthenocarpic fruit?
34. Why certain fruits are called false fruits?
35. Name two examples of plants having false fruits.
36. Name any two plants having single seeded dry fruits.
37. What are aggregate fruits? Give two examples.
Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
38. Explain with examples different types of phyllotaxy.
39. Describe any two special types of inflorescences.
40. Describe in brief the fleshy fruits studied by you.
41. Explain how root is modified to perform different functions. ( Any Four).
42. Explain how stem is modified variously to perform different functions. (Any Four).
Unit-III: REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
43. What is the dominant phase in the life cycle of an angiosperm?
44. What is meant by heterospory?
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45. How do Liver worts reproduce vegetatively?
46. Between an annual and a perinneal plant, which one has a shorter juvenile phase?
47. What the following parts of a flower develop into after fertilization?
a) Ovary b) Ovules
48. Define vivipary. Give example.
49. Name the component cells of the ‘egg apparatus’ in an embryo sac.
50. Name the parts of pistil which develop into fruit and seeds.
51. What is self-incompatibility ?
52. Which is the triploid tissue in a fertilized ovule ?
53. How is pollination carried out in water plants ?
54. Define with examples endospermic and non-endospermic seeds.
Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
55. “Fertilisation is not an obligatory event for fruit production in certain plants”. Explain the
statement.
56. Why is vegetative reproduction also considered as a type of asexual reproduction?
57. Give a brief account on the phases of the life cycle of an angiosperm plant.
58. What is vegetative propagation?
59. Give two suitable examples showing vegetative propagation in plants.
60. Write a brief account on agents of pollination.
Unit-IV : PLANT SYSTEMATICS
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
61. What is Natural system of plant classification?
62. Name the scientists who followed Natural System of Classification.
63. What is geocarpy?
64. Name the plant which exhibits geocarpy phenomenon.
65. Name the type of pollination mechanism found in members of Fabaceae.
66. Write the floral formula of solanum plant.
67. Give the technical description of ovary in Solanum nigrum.
68. Give the technical description of anthers of Allium cepa.
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Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
69. Describe the essential organs of Solanaceae.
70. Give economic importance of plants belonging to Fabaceae.
Unit - V: CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
71. What is the significance of vacuole in a plant cell ?
72. What does ‘S’ refer in a 70S & and 80S ribosome ?
73. Mention a single membrane bound organelle which is rich in hydrolytic enzymes.
74. What is the feature of a metacentric chromosome ?
75. What is middle lamella made of ?
76. What is osmosis ?
Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
77. Describe the cell organelle which contains chlorophyll pigments.
78. Describe the structure and function of power houses of cell.
79. Differentiate between Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER) and Smooth Endoplasmic
Reticulum (SER).
80. Describe the structure of nucleus.
81. What are the characteristics of a prokaryotic cell?
Unit - VI: ANATOMY
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
82. Which tissue of animals and plants exhibits meiosis?
83. If a tissue has at a given time 1024 cells. How many cycles of mitosis had the original
parental single cell undergone?
84. Name the stage of meiosis in which actual reduction in chromosome number occurs.
Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
85. Explain prophase I of meiosis.
86. Which division is necessary to maintain constant chromosome number in all body cells
of multi cellular organism and why?
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Unit – VII : PLANT ECOLOGY
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
87. Why are xylem and phloem called complex tissues?
88. What is the function of phloem parenchyma?
89. What are the cells that make the leaves curl in plants during water stress?
90. Give an example.
91. Define heliophytes.
92. Define sciophytes.
93. Define population.
94. Define community
95. Hydrophytes show reduced xylem. Why?
Short Answer Questions (4 Marks)
96. State the location and function of different types of meristems.
97. What is the difference between lenticels and stomata?
98. Write the precise function of
a. Collenchyma
b. Sclerenchyma
99. What are simple tissues ? Describe various types of simple tissues
100. Describe the internal structure of dorsiventral leaf with the help of labelled diagram.
101. Describe the internal structure of an isobilateral leaf with the help of labelled
diagram.
102. Describe in brief the T.S of a dicot stem.
103. Describe in brief the T.S of monocot stem.
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BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION- ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA
VOCATIONAL BRIDGE COURSE
BOTANY– Second Year (w.e.f. 2017-2018)
SCHEME AND WEIGHTAGE
4. The Question paper is to be set for 40 (Forty) marks. The student has to answer for 25
(Twenty five) marks.
5. There will be 8 (Eight) Very Short Answer Questions each carrying 1 (One) Mark. The
student has to answer 5 questions from this Section-A.
6. In Section-B there will be 8 (Eight) Short Answer Question each carrying 4 (Four)
Marks. The student has to answer 5 questions from this Section-B.
Weightage for the Chapters included in the Syllabus is as follows:
S.No. Unit Number of Weightage of
Periods Marks
1. Plant Physiology 18 10
2. Micro Biology 06 05
3. Genetics 04 05
4. Molecular Biology 07 05
5. Biotechnology 05 05
Plants, Microbes and Human Welfare 10 10
6.
50 40
Total
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BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION- ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA
VOCATIONAL BRIDGE COURSE
BOTANY – Second Year (w.e.f. 2017-2018)
MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Time: 1 ½ Hours Max.Marks: 25
_ _____________________________________________________________________________
Section – A 5x1=5
Note:
i) Answer any five of the questions briefly
ii) Each question carries one mark.
1. Define Water Potential?
2. Name two amino acids in which Sulphur is present?
3. What is genophore.
4. Differentiate between Homozygous and Heterozygous?
5. What is meant by Capping?
6. Expand GMO?
7. What is emasculation?
8. Give any two microbes that are useful in biotechnology?
Section – B 5x4=20
Note:
i) Answer any five questions
ii) Draw labelled diagrams wherever necessary
ii) Each question carries four marks.
9. Explain the steps involved in the formation of root nodule?
10. With the help of diagram, explain briefly the process of Cyclic Photophosphorylation?
11. Explain lytic cycle?
12. Design a test cross?
13. Write briefly about DNA Polymerase.
14. What are cloning vectors? Give an example?
15. Explain the process of biogas production?
16. What is meant by germplasm collection? Give its benefits?
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BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION- ANDHRA PRADESH, VIJAYAWADA
VOCATIONAL BRIDGE COURSE
BOTANY – Second Year (w.e.f. 2017-2018)
QUESTION BANK
Unit – I : PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Very Short Answer Questions (1 Mark)
1. What are porins?
2. Define water potential.
3. Differentiate osmosis from diffusion.
4. Explain why xylem transport is unidirectional while that in phloem is bidirectional?
5. Does transpiration occur at night? Give an example.
6. How does ABA bring about the closure of stomata under water stress conditions?
7. How do you categorize a particular essential element as a macro or micronutrient?
8. Out of the 17 essential elements which elements are called non-mineral essential
elements?
9. Name two amino acids in which sulphur is present.
10. Which element is regarded as the 17th essential element?
11. Name the essential elements present in nitrogenase enzyme.
12. Write the balanced equation of nitrogen fixation.
13. Who proposed ‘Lock and Key hypothesis’
14. Who proposed Induced fit hypothesis?
15. How many molecules of ATP and NADPH are needed to fix a molecule of CO2 in C3
plants?
16. What is the primary acceptor of CO2 in C3 plants?
17. What is first stable compound formed in a Calvin cycle?
18. What is the primary acceptor of CO2 in C4 plants?
19. Explain the term ‘Energy currency’.
20. Explain the economic importance of fermenation.
21. What is the common pathway for aerobic and anaerobic respirations?
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