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CHAPTER (Total Marks) VSAQ SAQ LAQS Total

UNIT – I PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (32 Marks)

1 TRANSPORT IN PLANTS 2 4 - 6

2 MINERAL NUTRITION - 4 - 4

3 ENZYMES - 4 - 4

4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS 2 4 8 6

5 RESPIRATION IN PLANTS - - 8 8

PLANT GROWTH &

6 - 4 - 4
DEVELOPMENT
UNIT – II MICROBIOLOGY (6 Marks)

7 BACTERIA 2 - - 2

8 VIRUSES - 4 - 4
UNIT – III GENETICS (6 Marks)

9 PRINCIPLES OFINHERITANCE 2 4 - 6

UNIT – IV MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (8 Marks)

MOLECULAR BASIS OF
10 2+2 4 - 8
INHERITANCE

UNIT – V BIOTECHNOLOGY (16 Marks)

11 BIOTECHNOLOGY PRINCIPLES 2 - 8 10

BIOTECHNOLOGY
12 2 4 - 6
APPLICATIONS

UNIT – VI PLANTS, MICROBES AND HUMAN WELFARE (14 Marks)

STRATEGIES FRO
13 2 - 8 10
ENHANCEMENT

MICROBES IN HUMAN
14 2+2 - 8 4
WELFARE

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SUB:BOTANY IPE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. Give an account of glucolysis. Where does it occur ? What are the end products ? Trace the fate of
these products in both areobic and anaerobic respiration.
2. Explain krebs cycles.
3. Explain briefly the various process of recombination DNA technology.
4. Give a brief account of the tools of recombination DNA technology.
5. Describe the various steps that you will undertake to relase a new variety of plant breeding me drop
imporve ment programme.
6. Describe the tissue culture technique and what are the advantages of tissue culture over
conventional method of plant breeding in crop improvement programm.
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
TRANSPORT IN PLANTS:
1. Define and explain water potential.
2. Write a short notes on facilitated diffusion.
3. What is meant by plasmolysis? How is it practically useful to us?
4. Explain pressure flow hypothesis of translocation of sugars in plants.
5. How does ascent of sap occurs in tall tress ?
6. Transpiration is a necessary evil - explain.
MINERAL NUTRATION:
7. Explain steps involved in the formation of root nodules.
8. Write in breif about how plants synthesise amino acids.
ENZYMES :
9. Explain the importance of [ES] Enzyme substrate complex formation.
10. Write breifly about enzyme inhibitors.
11. Explain different types of co-factors.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS:
12. With the help of diagram, explain briefly the process of cyclic photophosphorylation.
13. In what type of plants do you come across ‘kranz’ anatomy’? To which condations are those plants
better adapted? How are these plants better adapted than the plants, which lack this anatomy?
14. Explain the structure of the chloroplast? Draw a neat labelled diagram.
15. Tabulate any eight different types of C3 and C4 plants.

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PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

16. Write a note on agriculture/norticulture applications of auxins.
17. Write the physiological responces of gibberillins in plants
18. Write any four physiological effects of cytokinins in plants
19. What are the physiological processes that are regulated by ethylene in plants?
20. Write a short notes on seed dormancy.
VIRUSES :
21. What is ICTV? How are viruses named?
22. Explain the chemical structure of viruses.
23. Explain the structure of TMV.
24. Explain the structure of T-even bacteriophage.
25. Explain the cytic cycle with reference to certain viruses.
GENETICS :
26. Mention the advantages of selecting peaplant for experiments by mendel.
27. Explain the law of Dominance using a Monohybrid cross.
28. Define and disign a test cross.
29. Define co-dominance.
30. Define and design incomplete dominance.
MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE:
31. Define transformation in Griffith’s experiments. Discuss how it helps in the identification of DNA as
genetic material.
32. How many types of RNA polymerases exist in cells. Name and function of them.
33. Draw a systematic / diagramatic representation of Lac operon.
34. What are the differences between DNA and RNA?
35. Write the important features of Genetic code
36. Write in brief about Nucleosomes.
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
29. List out the benificial aspects of Transgenic plants.
30. What are bio-safety measures concerned with genetically modified crops ?
31. Give a brief account of bt.cotton.

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VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

TRANSPORT IN PLANTS:
1. What are porins ? What role do they play in diffusion.
2. Differentiate osmosis from diffusion.
3. What are apoplast and symplast.
4. Differentiate guttation from transpiration.
5. What are the physical factors responsible for ascent of sap through xylem
6. Compare imbibing capacities of pea and wheat seeds.
MINERAL NUTRATION:
7. Define hydroponics.
8. Explain the role of the pink colour pigment in the root nodules
9. Legune plants. What is it called.
ENZYMES :
10. Differentiate between apoenzyme and co-fixation.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS:
11. Where does the photolysis of H2O occurs.
12. Distinguish between action spectrum and absorption spectrum.
13. Difine the law of limiting factors proposed by Blackman.
14. What is the primary acceptor of CO2 in C3 plants.
PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
15. What is meant by bolting ? Which harmone causes bolting.
16. Define the terms quiescence and dormancy.
BACTERIA
17. Write briefly on the occurance of micro organisms.
18. What are pleomorphic bacteria ? What is its significance ?
19. What is a plasmid ? Who discovered it and in which organism.
20. What is transduction ? Who discovered it and in which organism ?
21. What is transductin ? Who discovered it and in which organism ?
GENETICS
22. What is the cross between the F1 progeny and the homozygous recessive parent called.
23. Who proposed the chromosomal theory of iheritance.
24. Explain the terms phenotype and genotype.
25. What is the genotype of wrinkled phenotype of pea seeds.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
26. Who proved that DNA is gentic moterial ? What is the organic material.
27. What are the compnents of a nucleotide.

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28. Name any three viruses which have RNA as the genetic material.
29. What are the components of a transcription unit ?
30. What is the difference between exons and inrons
31. What is meant by capping and tailing.
32. What is menat by point mutation ? Give an example.
33. Define stop codons. Write the condons.
34. Write any two differences between DNA and RNA.
35. In a typical DNA molecule, the proportion of thymne is 30% of the N bases. Find out the
percentages of other N bases.
36. The proportion of nucleotides in a given nuclic acid are Adenine 18% Guanine 30%, cytosine 42%,
and uracil - 10%. Name the nuclic acid and metion the number of strands in it.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
37. Define biotechnology.
38. What are molecular scissors ? Where are they obtained from ?
39. What are cloning vectors ? Give one exapmle.
40. What is the full form of PCR ? How is it useful on biotechnology.
41. What is down stream processing.
42. How does one visualize DNA on an agar gel.
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
43. Give different types of cry genes and pests which are controued by the proteins encoded by these
genes.
44. What is GEAC and what are its objectives.
STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCEMENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION
45. Name the numatode that infects the roots of tobacco plant.
46. What is green revolution. Who is regarded as the father of green revolution.
47. Name two wheat varieties that are produced in India which are high yeilding.
48. Give two example of fungi used in scp
49. What is meant by germ plasm collect.
MICROBES IN HUMAN WELFARE
50. Which part of the plant is best suited for making virus free plants.
51. Why does swiss chess have a big holes. Name virus responsible for it.
52. What are fermentors.

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