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Questions Related to ecological adaptations, succession and ecological services

A non-succulent xerophyte with thick leathery leaves having white sticky waxy coating is

  1. Nerium

  2. Calotropis

  3. Bryophyllum

  4. Ruscus


Correct Option: B

Which one is not a trait of xerophytes ?

  1. Thick cuticle

  2. Sunken stomata

  3. Aerenchyma

  4. Well developed mechanical tissue


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Xerophytes are made up of thick cuticles and contains parenchymal tissues. It does not contain Aerenchyma.

Which ones develop characteristics of xerophytes?

  1. Hydrophytes

  2. Sciophytes

  3. Heliophytes

  4. Halophytes


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is a xerophytic plant in which the stem is modified into a flat green and succulent structure?

  1. Casuarina

  2. Opuntia

  3. Hydrilla

  4. Acacia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Opuntia is a plant growing in dry and xeric habitats and it has a stem containing several nodes and internodes. It is modified into a flat, fleshy and thick green leaf-like structure called phylloclade. which performs the functions of photosynthesis. The leaves gets modified into spines to help in reducing transpiration.