Question

Match the columns:

Column I	Column II
a) Hatch and Slack	i) Electron microscope
b) Theophrastus	ii) Citric acid cycle
c) Knoll and Ruska	iii) Micrographia
d) Robert Hooke	iv) $C_4$ Pathways
v) Historia Plantarum

A) (a)-(iv); (b)-(v); (c)-(i); (d)-(ii)
B) (a)-(iv); (b)-(v); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
C) (a)-(ii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(v);(d)-(iii)
D) (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)

Answer 1

Any photosynthetic plant approaches the Calvin cycle, although there is an initial method in certain plants known as the $C_4$ pathway to the Calvin Cycle. Plants also obey the $C_4$ pathway in tropical desert areas.

Complete answer:
First we should know about photosynthesis in higher plants to answer this question. Photosynthesis requires additional steps in higher plants, but it remains essentially the same. It is a physicochemical method that utilises sunlight for organic compound metabolism. Oxygen is emitted into the environment in this process.
Now, let us find the solution from the options-
- The $C_4$ pathway for fixing carbon in the $C_4$ plants was given by Hatch and slack.
-Theophrastus is regarded as Botany’s Parent. The book Historia Plantarum was written by him.
-In 1933, Knoll and Ruska heard that the first electron microscope had been developed.
-A book called Micrographia, released in 1665, was written by Robert Hooke.

Thus, the correct option is option (B) (a)-(iv); (b)-(v); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)

Note: A molecule called phosphoenolpyruvate, that is a 3-carbon molecule, initiates the $C_4$ pathway. This is the main $CO_2$ acceptor and, with the aid of an enzyme PEP carboxylase, carboxylation occurs. They contain the so-called oxaloacetic acid (OAA) 4-C compound.