1st year 1st Semester Examination, Session-2006-07
Title – Forest Botany
Course No. FOR-111
Credit: 3, Total Marks-70, Time: 3 hours
Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Science,
Shah Jalal University of Science And Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
1. Question no. 1 of each section is compulsory. Answer other two (2 )questions from the rest three (3) for each section.
2. Answer should be written in separate answer script for each section.
Section – B
1. Write short note on any one of the following :( 5x1=5)
a) Gene mutation ,
b) Linkage and crossing over.
2. a) What is secondary growth?
b) What is meristimetic tissue? Write the characteristics of meristimatic cells?
c) Write the salient adaptive features of Xerophytes, Hydrophytes and Epiphytes?
d) Write the significance of Meiosis over Mitosis cell division.
3. a) Chromosome is the physical basis of heredity- Explain.
b) Write the economic importance of polyplodies .
c) Write the process of secondary growth of stem in vascular plants.
4. a) What is plant breeding? Write the objectives of forest tree breeding.
b) Describe Mendel’s law of independent assortment of inheritance.
c) What are the function of Chloroplasts of plant cell?
