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Which of the following hormone is known as death or ripening hormone?

Which of the following hormone is known as death or ripening hormone? Correct Answer Ethylene

The correct answer is Ethylene.

  • Ethylene is known as the death or ripening hormone.
  • It is a hydrocarbon, colorless, flammable gas.
  • It helps in both the growth and senescence of the plant.
     

Important Points

  • Uses of ethylene in plant growth and development:
  • It helps in the ripening of the fruit.
  • Induction of flower.
  • The change in chlorophyll content of the leaves depends on the concentration of the ethylene.

Related Questions

Which of the following statements are true with respect to ripening process? Statement 1: There is no production of volatile compounds. Statement 2: Chlorophyll degradation takes place during ripening process.
Read this statement and state which of the following arguments is/are stronger. Statement: The Central Government should abolish the death penalty in India. Conclusions: I. The removal of the death penalty forever will increase the courage of premeditated and heinous offenders to indulge in such crimes again and again. Therefore, instead of removing the death penalty completely, the use of it in selective and special circumstances is stronger. II. The death penalty itself is equivalent to the state taking life in itself, which is considered a heinous crime. Therefore it should be eliminated.
Consider the following provision in Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code:
Several culpable states of mind are referred to with the:
1. intention to cause death
2. knowledge that the act is so imminently dangerous that it must in all probability cause death
3. intention to cause such bodily injury as the offender know to be likely to cause death of the person to whom harm is caused
4. intention of causing such bodily injury as is sufficient in ordinary course of nature to cause death.
The correct order of the sequence in which they are placed in the provision is:
Principle: Whoever causes death by doing an act with the intention of causing death, commits the offence of culpable homicide. However, a person is guilty of culpable homicide amounting to murder if the act by which the death is caused is done with the intention of causing death.
Factual Situation: Saurab, had a serious argument with his wife. The woman uttered some filthy words at Saurab, which further irritated him. He moved towards the woman with a wooden piece to beat her. Suddenly, their daughter who was sleeping in the room woke up and ran towards her mother. Saurab's blow fell on the child's head and she fell down unconscious. The couple believed that their daughter died due to the blow.
Saurab immediately took out a rope and hung her by the neck on to the ceiling fan to give the impression that the girl committed suicide as she failed in the Class X examination. When the rope got tightened the child cried, but died immediately due to asphyxiation.
PRINCIPLE: 1. A person is liable for death penalty when he does an act which is likely to cause death, and that person knows that his act in all probability will only result in death.
2. Death penalty is given only in rarest of rare cases.
FACT: Sunita, a married woman was flogged out of her husband's house by her father-in-law. When she was living with her parents, she got involved with a widower who also had an affair with Anita. In a fit of jealousy, Sunita killed her rival, Anita, as well as her little baby. Sunita also disfigured the faces of Anita and her baby and buried the bodies. Later, Sunita was tried for murder.
The passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences (S1 and S6) are given. The middle four sentences (P, Q, R, S) are given in jumbled order. Find out the proper order for the four sentences. S1: Most people who have come close to death say they remember nothing. P. It may permanently change a person’s perceptions of what is real and important Q. The near-death experience is among the most powerful experiences that a person can have. R. That ‘something’ might be a near-death experience. S. However, a third or more may later report that ‘something happened.’ S6: However, one extraordinary aspect of near-death experience is that a person’s culture, religion, race or education does not affect the pattern of the experience.
A' intended to cause death of 'B' caused death of 'C' whose death he neither intended nor knew himself to be likely to be caused and it happened in the description of his intention to cause death of 'B'. 'A'
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