Which one of the following is correctly matched?
- Onion – Bulb
- Ginger – Sucker
- Chlamydomonas – Conidia
- Yeast – Zoospores
Answer
(1) Onion – Bulb
Solution
⇒ As per NCERT, ginger reproduces vegetatively by rhizome, not sucker; (2) is wrong.
⇒ Chlamydomonas reproduces asexually by zoospores, while conidia are formed by Penicillium; (3) is wrong.
⇒ Yeast reproduces asexually by budding (and ascospores), not zoospores; (4) is wrong.
∵ Onion stores food in fleshy leaves around a reduced stem, i.e., a bulb, which also serves for vegetative propagation.
∴ Onion – Bulb is correctly matched.
Answer: (1)