NEETBotanyMorphology of Flowering Plants
Read the following statements and choose the correct option: 1. The compound leaves may be of two types- pinnately compound leaf and palmately compound leaf 2. In pinnately compound leaf, the leaflets are attached at a common point. 3. The examples of palmately compound leaves is neem. 4. in palmately compound leaf a number of leaflets are present on a common axis, the rachis. 5. silk cotton is a example of pinnately
Options
- AOnly 1 is correct
- BBoth 1 and 3 are incorrect
- CAll are incorrect
- DOnly 3 is correct
Correct answer
A. Only 1 is correct
Step-by-step solution
The compound leaves may be of two types-pinnately compound leaf and palmately compound leaf. In a pinnately compound leaf a number of leaflets are present on a common axis, the rachis, which represents the midrib of the leaf, as in neem. In palmately compound leaves, the leaflets are attached at a common point, as in silk cotton.