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The word cereal is derived from the name of the most important grain deity
the Roman Goddess Ceres
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The synonym of family Leguminoseae is
Fabaceae
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The botanical classification of agricultural crops using the scientific names is an accepted means of plant classification worldwide and it was found by the scientist.
Linneaus
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An example of pulse crop is
cowpea
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Which is not under the family Leguminoseae
Lagenaria siceraria
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Which does not belong to the group
paragrass
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Which is not an example of root crops?
potato
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Which of these crops can be classified as an agronomic crops and horticultural crops based on their uses under Philippine condition?
mungbean
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Analyze the statements: I. An example of family Cucurbitaceae are: a) M. charantia b) C. sativum c) C. lunatus II. An example of family Leguminoseae are a) A. hypogaea b) Cajanus cajan c) V. radiata
Statements I and II are correct
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Which among the crops does not fall under the family Solanaceae?
P. lunatus
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An example of small fruit is
pineapple
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Which does not belong to the group of forage crops?
R. communis
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Which does not belong to the Crucifer family?
B. alba
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Scientific name of bitter gourd is
Momordica charantia
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The scientific name of watermelon is
C. lunatus
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Momordica charantia and Sechium edule, are examples of the family
Cucurbitaceae
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The scientific name of durian is
Durio zibethinus
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The scientific name of mangosteen is
Garcinia mangostana
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Mango's scientific name
Magnifera indica
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The scientific name of lanzones is
Lansium domesticum
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The scientific name of rambutan
Nephelium lappaceum
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The scientific name of wheat is
Triticum aestivum
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Plants that grow on live trees or dead trunks but do not depend on them for water and nutrients
epiphytes
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Pterocarpus indicus Willd, the Philippine National Tree, represents a type of dry indehiscent fruit called
samara
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Root hairs are uncutinized epidermal appendages located at the
cell maturation region
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Which is not a characteristic of dicotyledonous plants?
distinct nodes and internodes
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Magnifera indica L., our national fruit, is what type of fleshy fruit?
fleshy drupe
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The increase in the girth of the stem of dicotyledonous plant is due to the division of a meristematic tissue called
vascular cambium
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Water is translocated from the basal part of the plant, the root, to the upper parts, the stem, the leaves, the flowers or the fruits via two members of the conducting tissue namely
tracheids and vessels
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A flower that bears both reproductive structures,the pistil and stamen, is called
perfect
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The enlarged, fleshy root of some plants like Daucus carota, Ipomea batatas, Raphanus sativus, etc. is example of modified root doing the function
food storage
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Analyze the following statements: 1. The most colorful whorl of the flower is the petals and these attract insects for pollination. 2. Flowers that are inconspicuous are provided with mechanism responsible for attracting insects called showy or brightly colored leaves
both statements are correct or true
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The most common type of cell and tissue in the plant body is
parenchyma
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The phloem tissue is found in the bark which is composed of
sieve tube, fibers, parenchyma and companion cell
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The structure in plants located either at the upper, lower or both epidermis of the leaves responsible for exchange of gasses is known as
stoma
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A type of sclerenchyma that is short and more or less cuboidal in shape that imparts gritty feeling when fruits containing them are eaten is called
sclereids
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Provided with tap root system in which the main root is capable of penetrating down the soil surface to seek water level and this explains why these plants are rather long lived. They are:
dicots
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A leaf is held to the stem by a petiole, a leaflet to the rachis by a petiolule, a solitary flower to the stem by a peduncle and a flower in a cluster by
pedicel
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The main cell type and tissue type comprising the whole plant body that performs the function of food production, storage and secretion is
parenchyma
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The ultimate origin of all the primary tissues in the root and the stem is
apical meristem
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Stems of monocot plants are generally small compared to the dicot plants because of the absence of meristematic primary tissue called
vascular cambium
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Kangkon, ampalaya, and camote tops are easily chewed because of the absence of supporting and strengthening tissue called
sclerenchyma
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The smooth texture of the monocot stem is generally due to the absence of the porous swelling that facilitates gaseous exchange in this organ of the plant. This structure is called
lenticel
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An indication that corm and rhizome are stems although they are generally below the ground is the presence of
node and internode
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Which is not a kind of parallel venation
veinlets originate from a common point and project like the fingers of a palm
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A strengthening tissue present in the plant that can be extracted and can be transformed into economic products like rope, jute sack, cotton balls or cloth is
fibers
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A condition exhibited by the plants bearing both pistillate and staminate flowers that may be derived from either the lateral or terminal bud is called
monoecious
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In some plants like acacia trees, the outer covering especially of the older portion of the stem that breaks, separatesand flakes off is the
phellem
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Oryza sativa L. Is the Filipino's staple food and it represents a kind of indehiscent fruit called
caryopsis
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In coconut, Cocos nucifera L. the endosperm is classified into coconut meat and coconut water. The botanical term for the coconut meat is
solid endosperm
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Several plants have the characteristic of becoming leafless during a year's growth. These plants that shed off their leaves are called
deciduous
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The pigment found in some plants that is soluble in water is known as
anthocyanin
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The transformation of one plastid to another like the transformation of leucoplast to chloroplast is manifested in the following instances
greening of a potato tuber
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Crystals are metabolic waste products of the cell that could not be excreted and therefore stored in an organelle called
vacuole
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Based on habit, plants exist as trees, shrubs, and vines cling to a support or crawl on the soil surface and could not attain a vertical growth by itself because of the absence of
mechanical tissue
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Corn or Zea mays L. is a monicot plant that uses its terminal bud for the formation of the staminate flower and the lateral bud in the formation of the pistillate flower. Such condition exhibited by this plant is known as
monoecious condition
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The plant that is considered the three of life simply because of the many uses of its stem, leaves, and fruits is
Cocos nucifera L.
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The tissue found in the root but not in the stem is known as
endodermis
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Analyze the following statements: 1. Teeminal bud are necessary for the increase in the height of the plant as well as for fruit formation 2. Lateral buds are necessary for fruit formation only
statement 1 is true, statement 2 is false
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Adjacent cell walls are cemented together by means of
middle lamella
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Storage plastids store starch, oil, and proteins and are called
leucoplast
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The meristematic tissue found in the periderm responsible for the production of the cork and the parenchyma is
phellogen
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Stomata are avenues for the exchange of gases in the leaves. When these evenues are located on both epidermis of the leaves, they are called
amphistomata
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Photosynthesis occurs also in other organs of the plant as specialized function. A modified stem capable of food producion is called
cladophyll
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Branch roots or secondary roots are produced due to the division of a meristematic tissue called
pericycle
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Fruits are derived from one flower and several ovaries
aggregate
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These are meristems found at the apices of the stem and the root mainly responsible for the increase in lenght of these plant organs are called
promeristems
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Analyze the following statements: 1. Endospermic or albuminous seeds contain endosperm for food storage 2. Corn and rice are two plants whose seeds are classified as non endospermic or exalbuminous
statement 1 is correct, statement 2 is incorrect
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These are several agents that transfer pollen grains to hasten fruit development. Some flowers are pollinated by bats and these flowers are called
chiropterophilous
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Apical dominance is a phenomenon wherein lateral buds are dormant in the presence of terminal buds is affected by
auxins
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Stomatal closure is not only due to deficiency of turgor pressure but also due to the action of hormones. It is affected by
abscissic acid
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Senescence is yellowing of leaves due to maturity and it is due to a hormone called
ethylene
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Short day plants are plants that bear flowers during the period of the year when nights are longer than daytime. The flowering of these kinds of pants is due to the action of the hormone
abscissic acid
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The production of ethylene is due to the action of growth hormone known as
auxins
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Geotropism is response of the plants to gravity. This response is an effect of growth hormone called
auxin
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Senescence is affected by ethylene but prevented by
cytokinins
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Storing matured fruits in plastic bags
enhances
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The foolish seedling growth is associated with what kind of growth hormone?
gibberellins
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If the flowering of short day plant is controlled by a growth hormone, the flowering of long day plant is likewise controlled by growth hormones. The hormone responsible for this effect is
gibberellins
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Tissues at the cell elongation region are
protoderm, ground meristem, and procambium
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Cork cells are derived from the division of the tissue called
cork cambium
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The grand phase of growth is known as
linear phase
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A tissue found only in the dicot but not in the monocot root and stem as well as dicot stem is
endodermis
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Is an irreversible increase in the size of the organism
growth
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This law states that additional farm inputs in excess of the required does not bring an increase in the amount of produce
diminishing returns
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The appearance if a plant with respect to a particular character
phenotype
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The genetic constitution of an individual
genotype
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The observable variation present in a character in a population is called
phenotypic variation
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The component of variation that is due to genotypic differences among individuals within a population is called
genotypic variation
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The differential performance of genotypes in different environments is termed as
GE interaction
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The ratio of genotypic variance to the total variance is termed as
heritability
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Characters governed by several genes with small effects are known as
quantitative
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The phenomenon of a single major gene affecting more than one character is known as
pleiotropy
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Modification in the expression of a dominant gene by another non-allelic dominant gene is known as
gene interaction
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Bacillus thuringensis is
bacterium
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Bt corn is a variety of corn where the Bt gene has been inserted and makes corn resistant to
asiatic corn borer
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The first genetically modified food crop produced in developed countries due to delayed ripening is
tomato
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The process of introducing a recombinant DNA molecules into cells of bacteria plants or animal is called
transformation
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Cells containing nucleus of one specie but cytoplasm from both the parental species
cybrids