Question

Which of the following is a correctly matched mode of reproduction?

• A. Ginger - sucker
• B. Onion - bulb
• C. Yeast - zoospores
• D. Chlyamdomonas - conidia

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Onion - bulb

The correct option is B.

Explanation of the correct answer:

1. Many plants reproduce through various vegetative methods i.e. vegetative parts of plants.
2. Onion bulbs are an underground modified stem that stores food in them.
3. Onions reproduce through these bulbs and give rise to the new plant.

Explanation of the incorrect answers:

Option A:

1. Ginger reproduce by rhizome which is an underground modified root.
2. Whereas Suckers are modified shoot that helps plant suck the nutrition from the host plant.

Option C:

1. The mode of reproduction in Yeast is budding.
2. A small outgrowth, a bud, gives rise to an entire organism, it is known as budding.
3. Many fungi and algae reproduce through an asexual spore known as zoospore.
4. Zoospore found in Phytophthora, Chlyamdomonas, Cladophora, etc

Option D:

1. Chlamydomonas reproduce through motile, asexual zoospores.
2. Conidia is a type of asexual reproductive spore found in fungi.
3. The group of fungi reproducing through conidia are known as conidiophores.
   

Final answer:

Onion-bulb is a correctly matched mode of reproduction.