Fun Quiz
On Flowers
AMAL KUMAR MONDAL & SANJUKTA MONDAL
1. Flowers are the part of the
plant that holds reproductive
parts of the plant in the
group of plants called:
a) Gymnosperms
b) Angiosperms
c) Ferns
d) None of the above
6. The base of the flower
where it is attached to the
rest of the plant is the:
a) Receptacle
b) Pistil
c) Fruit
d) None of the above
2. The parts of the flower
that are the leaf-like
outermost layer altogether
called the calyx are the:
a) Petals
b) Stamens
c) Carpels
d) Sepals
7. All flowers have the same number of flower parts:
a) True
b) False
3. The colourful parts of the
flower within the sepals
altogether called the corolla
are:
a) Petals
b) Stamens
c) Carpels
d) Sepals
8. Plants whose seeds have one seed
leaf are:
a) Monocots
b) Dicots
c) Ferns
d) Gymnosperms
9. Plants whose seeds have more
than one seed leaf are:
a) Monocots
b) Dicots
c) Ferns
d) Gymnosperms
4. The male part of the
flower that contains the
pollen producing parts is the:
a) Petals
b) Stamens
c) Carpels
d) Sepals
5. The innermost part of the
flower that contains the
ovaries that make the ovules
to be fertilized by the pollen
are the:
a) Petals
b) Stamens
c) Carpels
d) Sepals
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10. Smallest flower in the
angiosperms:
a) Raflessia
b) Nelumbo
c) Passiflora
d) Lemna
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Fun Quiz
17. Main pollinator of the
special flower Raflessia:
a) Air
b) Earthworms
c) Fly
d) Snake
11. Petal colors mainly
depend upon:
a) Chlorophyll
b) Chromophyll
c) Leucophyll
d) None of the above
18. Flower is modified shoot:
a) True
b) False
12. White flower mainly
blossoms at day:
a) True
b) False
13. Main reason of flower
colors is to attract the
Pollinator:
a) True
b) False
19. Which one is the advance character in
angiosperm?
a) Spiral arrangements of petals
b) Numerous petals
c) Numerous stamens
d) None of the above
14. Night blooming white
flower releases different
types of odor:
a) True
b) False
20. Which one is the
primitive character in
angiosperms?
a) Spiral arrangements
of petals
b) Formation of
staminode
c) Reduction of floral
parts
d) None of the above
15. The world’s largest
flower:
a) Raflessia
b) Nelumbo
c) Rose
d) Dahlia
16 Brahma Kamal belongs
to:
a) Lotus Family
b) Rose Family
c) Sunflower Family
d) None of the above
Answers;
1.b
2.d
7.a
8.a
13.a 14.a
19.d 20.a
3.a
9.b
15.a
4.b
10.d
16.c
5.c
11.b
17.c
6.a
12.b
18.a
Contributed by Dr Amal Kumar Mondal, Associate Professor of Botany &
Deputy Coordinator, UGC-DRS-SAP, Department of Botany (DRS-SAP
Department), Plant Taxonomy Biosystematics and Molecular Taxonomy
Laboratory, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore 721 102, West Bengal
Dr Sanjukta Mondal (Parui), Associate Professor in Zoology, WBES and Head
of the Department of Zoology, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata 700 017
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