Tag: botany

Latex is a miliky, white emulsoin, composed with 30-40% rubber particles, 55-65% water, and small amounts of protein, sterol glycosides, resins, ash, and sugars. Natural rubber latex consists of particles of rubber hydrocarbon and nonrubber substances dispersed in an aqueous serum phase.

Mitochondria produces the energy currency, i.e., ATPs of the cell. Mitochondria take nutrients and convert them into energy molecules. This process is known as 'oxidative phosphorylation'. 
Plastids are present in plant cells, which synthesize and store important chemical compounds used by the cell. 
Golgi apparatus has the main function of modifying, sorting and packaging the proteins, which are synthesized by cells. Golgi bodies are also involved in the transport of lipid molecules across the cell. 

The late prophase or metaphase chromosome has two similar threads or chromatids attached to each other by a narrow non stainable area called as centromere. The two parts of the chromatids on either side of centromere are called as arms. Centromeres bind to spindle fibres and help in movement of chromosomes to opposite poles.

A plant cell is characterised by a single large sap vacuole. They enclose sap or water with dissolved inorganic and organic substances. It is surrounded by a membrane called as tonoplast. Plant cell vacuole maintains osmotic pressure for turgidity and osmosis. They also store useful as well as waste substances. The growth in terms of increase in size depends on the elongation of the cell. For elongation of the cell, the protoplasm needs to push against cell wall from inside. The generation of pushing force depends on the osmotic pressure created by substances stored in central vacuole. Thus, the correct answer is option D.

• The kinetochore is a disc-shaped protein complex associated with the centromere of a chromosome during cell division, to which the microtubules of the spindle attach.
• It forms on a chromatid during cell division.
• Hence Kinetochore is the protein disc near the centromere.
• So, the correct answer is 'Protein disc near centromere'.

Acentric chromosomes may be lost during cell division. An acentric fragment is a segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere. Because the centromere is the point of attachment for the mitotic apparatus, acentric fragments are not evenly distributed to the daughter cells in cell division. As a result, one of the daughters will lack the acentric fragment. Lack of the acentric fragment in one of the daughter cells may have deleterious consequences, depending on the function of the DNA in this region of the chromosome

Tonoplast or vacuolar membrane is the living membrane of the vacuole. It separates the vacuolar contents from the cell's cytoplasm. It helps the vacuole in maintaining the osmoregularity inside the cell.

Vacuoles are the membrane-bound organelle mostly found in the plant cell. It is the centrally located large storage bubble in the plant cells and filled with cell sap. They provide osmotic pressure and turgidity to the plant cell.