Here are 10 One-Word Answer Type Questions from the topic Other Modes of Nutrition in Plants (from your provided PDF), along with answers and explanations after each question, as requested:
One-Word Answer Type Questions
Topic: Other Modes of Nutrition in Plants
1. Question: What is the mode of nutrition in plants like Cuscuta?
• Answer: Parasitic
• Explanation: Cuscuta cannot make its own food as it lacks chlorophyll and depends on another plant (host) for food, so it is parasitic.
2. Question: What is the plant called that lives on another plant and takes nutrients from it?
• Answer: Parasite
• Explanation: A parasite is an organism that derives its food from another living organism without giving any benefit in return.
3. Question: Name the host plant-dependent yellow climber.
• Answer: Cuscuta
• Explanation: Cuscuta (Amarbel) is a parasitic plant that climbs and lives on other plants to obtain food.
4. Question: What is the mode of nutrition in fungi?
• Answer: Saprotrophic
• Explanation: Fungi obtain food from dead and decaying matter and their mode of nutrition is called saprotrophic.
5. Question: Name the organism that grows on decaying bread.
• Answer: Fungi
• Explanation: Fungi like bread mould grow on moist and decaying bread and absorb nutrients from it.
6. Question: What is the nutrition called when organisms take nutrients from dead organisms?
• Answer: Saprotrophic
• Explanation: Saprotrophic nutrition is the mode where organisms like fungi absorb nutrients from dead and decaying matter.
7. Question: What is the mode of nutrition in pitcher plants?
• Answer: Insectivorous
• Explanation: Pitcher plants trap and digest insects to meet their nutrient requirements, hence their nutrition is insectivorous.
8. Question: What is the structure of a pitcher plant used to trap insects called?
• Answer: Pitcher
• Explanation: The leaf of a pitcher plant is modified into a pitcher-like structure that traps insects for nutrition.
9. Question: What is the relationship called where two organisms live together and share shelter and nutrients?
• Answer: Symbiosis
• Explanation: In symbiosis, two organisms live together and help each other in obtaining food and shelter.
10. Question: Name the association of algae and fungi living together.
• Answer: Lichen
• Explanation: Lichen is a symbiotic association where algae prepare food and fungi provide shelter and minerals.
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