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In an inflorescence where flowers are borne laterally in an acropetal succession,the position of the youngest floral bud shall be

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proximal

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distal

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intercalary

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any where

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ARIHANT NEET-MORPHOLOGY OF FLOWERING PLANTS -Chapter exercises A (Taking it together (Assorted Questions of the Chapter for Advanced Level Practice))
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  2. Tendrils modified form leaflets are not found in

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  4. The inflorensence of poplar and willow are

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  5. Name the inflorescence in which flowers reach the same level thought t...

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  6. If in an infloresecnce two laterla braches develop on either side of t...

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  7. In cyathium inflorescence the ratio between male and female flowers is

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  8. The composite fruit develops from the hypathodium inflorscence occurs ...

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  9. Which of the following develop form an intercalary spike of sterile fl...

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  10. Glumes are

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  11. The special inflorescence in which involucre or bracts fuse ot form a ...

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  12. A membraous small bract different for involucral bracts occurs at the ...

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  13. Vexillium wing and keel occuring in the flower of pisum sativum are th...

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  14. Cruciform corolla usually occurs in family brassicaceare (Cruciferae )...

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  15. When the whole gamospetalous corolla is divided in to two lips that ar...

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  16. In ipomoesa an aestivation is found in which the margins of the petals...

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  17. Statement fused by both the filaments as well as the anter throughtout...

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  18. When a connective is prolonged into a feathery appendix beyond the ant...

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  19. Antiphyllous stamens means the stamens develop

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  20. Laterouse introrse and extrorse are the terms used to repersent the

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