a) Which characters given above varied most? b) Select a character mentioned above which shows minimum diversity.

Question

Collect 5 different plants from your surroundings and observe them carefully. Write your observations in the table given below.

a) Which characters given above varied most?

b) Select a character mentioned above which shows minimum diversity.

c) Did you find any similarities? What were they?

d) Did you find patterns like plants with fibrous roots had flowers borne in groups? Note the other patterns that you observed.

e) Carefully observe the plants collected by you and note down some other characters not mentioned in the table.

f) Did you notice any two plants which were alike with regard to the above characteristics? If not, note down what differences you found?

Answer 1

a) Length of stem, Inter nodal distance, venation in leaves, and in type of root system.

b) Flower shows least diversity arrangement of flowers in bunches.

c) Yes. Similarity in venation, number of sepals and petals, and in type of root system.

d) Yes. The flowers are borne in groups, reticulate venation.

e) Spine are present in rose plants whereas they are absent in other plants.

f) No. Venation, root system are the differences.