1. Which of the following is not a component of four “Fs” important for survival of humans and cattle?
    a) Forage
    b) Fumitory
    c) Fuel
    d) Fibres
    Answer: b) Fumitory

  2. Book “Economic Botany in the Tropics” written by:
    a) B. P. Pandey
    b) S. L. Kochhar
    c) A. C. Dutta
    d) S. Sundara Rajan
    Answer: a) B. P. Pandey

  3. Who was the father of Botany?
    a) Aristotle
    b) Vavilov
    c) Theophrastus
    d) Alphonse de Candolle
    Answer: c) Theophrastus

  4. Who was the father of Taxonomy?
    a) Aristotle
    b) Vavilov
    c) Theophrastus
    d) Alphonse de Candolle
    Answer: a) Aristotle

  5. Which of the following is the incorrect pair?
    a) Study of algae - Algology
    b) Study of mosses - Bryology
    c) Study of fungus - Pathology
    d) Study of plants - Botany
    Answer: c) Study of fungus - Pathology

  6. The character present in plants which differentiates them from animals:
    a) Respiration
    b) Metabolism
    c) Reproduction
    d) Autotrophic mode of nutrition
    Answer: d) Autotrophic mode of nutrition

  7. The character not present in animals which differentiates them from plants:
    a) Nervous system
    b) Multicellular
    c) Movement and locomotion
    d) Cell wall
    Answer: d) Cell wall

  8. Who proposed five systems of classification in plants?
    a) Whittaker
    b) Aristotle
    c) Carl Woese
    d) Alphonse de Candolle
    Answer: a) Whittaker

  9. Which does not come under the branch of Applied or Economic Botany?
    a) Pharmacognosy
    b) Forestry
    c) Horticulture
    d) Cytology
    Answer: d) Cytology

  10. Which does not come under the branch of pure botany?
    a) Histology
    b) Genetics
    c) Anatomy
    d) Agronomy
    Answer: d) Agronomy

  11. _____________ is the backbone of man’s existence.
    a) Medical science
    b) Engineering
    c) Agriculture
    d) Pathology
    Answer: c) Agriculture

  12. Which is not a basic necessity of life for human beings?
    a) Shelter
    b) Clothing
    c) Fodder
    d) Food
    Answer: c) Fodder

  13. Presumably, agriculture began in the ________________ period:
    a) Mesolithic
    b) Neolithic
    c) Epipaleolithic
    d) Paleolithic
    Answer: b) Neolithic

  14. Onset of early agricultural practices in the Neolithic period has been called the:
    a) Green revolution
    b) Gene revolution
    c) Neolithic revolution
    d) White revolution
    Answer: c) Neolithic revolution

  15. Which is not a characteristic of plants?
    a) Immortal
    b) Life cycle
    c) Photosynthesis
    d) Protoplasm
    Answer: a) Immortal