Choose the incorrect match from following:-
1. | Cycas-branched stem. |
2. | Salvinia-heterosporous sporophyte. |
3. | Marchantia-Elaters. |
4. | Chlorella-used by space travellers. |
Assertion: Seeds are formed in Gymnosperms.
Reason: Female gametophyte is retained within megasporangium in Gymnosperms.
Find out the incorrect statement about the Rhodophyceae.
1. | Majority are marine with greater concentrations found in the warmer areas. |
2. | They are also found at great depths of oceans where relatively little light penetrates. |
3. | Usually reproduce vegetatively by fragmentation. |
4. | They reproduce asexually by biflagellate zoospores. |
Coralloid roots of gymnosperms are/have
1. | Irregular and possess large number of roots hairs. |
2. | Symbiotic association with Rhizobium. |
3. | Symbiotic association with N2 - fixing cyanobacteria. |
4. | VAM |
In pteridophytes, gametophyte that develops in the homosporous species is usually
1. | Monoecious and has events, precursor to the seed habit. |
2. | Dioecious and does not lead to seed habit. |
3. | Monoecious and does not lead to seed habit. |
4. | Dioecious and has events, precursor to the seed habit. |
Read the following statements and select the option with correct statements
(a) | In Wolfia, the highly reduced female gametophyte present within ovule, is embryo sac. |
(b) | The ploidy level of endosperm in Cycas and Eucalyptus is triploid. |
(c) | Azolla is a water fern. |
(d) | Majority of the red algae are marine with greater abundance in the warmer areas. |
1. (a) and (b) only
2. (b) and (c) only
3. (a), (b) and (c)
4. (a), (c) and (d)
Match the classes of pteridophyte given in column-I
with their respective members given in column-II
Column-I Column-II
(A) Psilopsida (i) Selaginella
(B) Lycopsida (ii) Adiantum
(C) Pteropsida (iii) Psilotum
(D) Sphenopsida (iv) Equisetum
Select the correct answer from the following
(1) (A) – (iii), (B) – (i), (C) – (iv), (D) – (ii)
(2) (A) – (i), (B) – (iii), (C) – (ii), (D) – (iv)
(3) (A) – (iii), (B) – (i), (C) – (ii), (D) – (iv)
(4) (A) – (i), (B) – (iv), (C) – (iii), (D) – (ii)
Read the following statements and select the incorrect ones
(a) | Mosses have an elaborate mechanism of spore dispersal. |
(b) | In liverworts, the haploid free living sporophyte is formed by spore germination. |
(c) | Vegetative reproduction in Polytrichum occurs by budding in the secondary protenema. |
(d) | Marchantia is a heterosporous bryophyte. |
(e) | Growth of bog moss ultimately fills ponds and lakes with soil |
1. (a), (b) and (c)
2. (d) and (e) only
3. (b) and (d) only
4. All except (a)
The members of phaeophyceae are characterized by all, except
1. | Presence of chlorophyll a,c and fucoxanthin pigments. |
2. | Production of pear-shaped and biflagellated asexual spores. |
3. | Production of pyriform gametes that bear laterally attached flagella. |
4. | Their occurrence, mostly in fresh water habitats. |
Gametophyte of Bryophyte is
1. Green and vascular.
2. Independent, multicellular.
3. Dependent on sporophyte.
4. Foliose in nature.