Question

Oryza sativa is

• A. A terrestrial plant
• B. An aquatic plant
• C. A semi-aquatic plant
• D. An amphibious plant

Answer 1

The correct option is D An amphibious plant

Oryza sativa, commonly known as Asian rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as rice. Oryza sativa is a grass. It is renowned for being easy to genetically modify, and is a model organism for cereal biology. Oryza sativa, rice, is a genus of perennial grass in the Poaceae (grass family) that originated in India, Thailand and southern China, was domesticated and diversified in ancient times, and is now cultivated in wet tropical, semi-tropical, and warm temperate areas around the world for the production of its cereal grain.

Amphibious plants are remarkable for their ability to photosynthesise in air and water, since these two media are very different.