Botany General Knowledge Questions and Answers

1. A Pigment responsible for photo morphogenetic responses is?
Answer: Phytochrome

2. The disease ’die back of shoots’ is caused due to the deficiency of the micro element:
Answer: Copper

3. Father of gene therapy?
Answer: Anderson

4. Smallest living cell?
Answer: RBC

5. In flurascent microscope the radiations pass through a filter called?
Answer: Exciter

6. Which is the smallest dicot plant?
Answer: Arcuthobium

7. Chiasmata was first observed by?
Answer: Janson

8. Which plant has longest fibre?
Answer: Linum usitatissimum

9. The vector which can multiply in more than one host?
Answer: Shuttle vector

10. A plasmid with phage gene is called?
Answer: Plasmid

11. Split genes are discovered by?
Answer: Sharp & Robertis

12. Which Amino acid known as bacterial amino acid?
Answer: Diamino pimelic acid

13. Rephano brassica is an example for?
Answer: Allopolyploid

14. Recently discovered non-leguminous nitrogen fixing Bacteria?
Answer: Acatobacter paspali

15. Largest organelle of a plant cell?
Answer: Vacuole

16. Which plant is called water fly trap?
Answer: Aldrovanda

17. Intra nuclear mitosis is known as?
Answer: Karyochoresis

18. Father of plant physiology
Answer: Stephen Hales

19. The simplest biological light energy transducer?
Answer: Bacteriorhodopsin

20. Reagent used in RNA extraction is?
Answer: Guanadinium thiocyanate