Identify the pair of heterosporous pteridophytes among the following :
1. Equisetum and Salvinia
2. Lycopodium and Selaginella
3. Selaginella and Salvinia 
4. Psilotum and Salvinia 
Subtopic:  Pteridophytes |
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Match List - I with List - II
List-I List-II
(A) Pteropsida (I) Psilotum
(B) Lycopsida (II) Equisetum
(C) Psilopsida (III) Adiantum
(D) Sphenopsida (IV) Selaginella
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Options: (A) (B) (C) (D)
1. II III I IV
2. III I IV II
3. II III IV I
4. III IV I II
Subtopic:  Pteridophytes |
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NEET - 2023
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Match the plant with the kind of life cycle it exhibits:
List-I List-II
(a) Spirogyra (i) Dominant diploid sporophyte vascular plant, with highly reduced male or female gametophyte
(b) Fern  (ii) Dominant haploid free-living gametophyte
(c) Funaria (iii) Dominant diploid sporophyte alternating with reduced gametophyte called prothallus
(d) Cycas (iv) Dominant haploid leafy gametophyte alternating with partially dependent multicellular sporophyte

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
2. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
3. (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
4. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Subtopic:  Algae | Bryophytes | Pteridophytes | Gymnosperms |
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NEET - 2022
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Match List -I with List-II

List - I List - II
a. Cedrus  (i) Pteridophyte
b. Adiantum (ii) Gymnosperm
c. Sphagnum (iii) Liverwort 
d. Marchantia (iv) Moss

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

a. b. c. d.
1. (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
2. (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
3. (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
4. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Subtopic:  Bryophytes | Pteridophytes | Gymnosperms |
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NEET - 2022
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Match List-I with List-II
List-I List-II
(a) Chlamydomonas (i) Moss
(b) Cycas (ii) Pteridophyte
(c) Selaginella (iii) Alga
(d) Sphagnum (iv) Gymnosperm

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
2. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
3. (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
4. (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
Subtopic:  Algae | Bryophytes | Pteridophytes | Gymnosperms |
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NEET - 2022
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From an evolutionary point of view, retention of the female gametophyte with developing young embryo on the parent sporophyte for some time, is first observed in:

1. Gymnosperms 2. Liverworts
3. Mosses 4. Pteridophytes
Subtopic:  Pteridophytes: Heterospory | Pteridophytes |
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NEET - 2019
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In bryophytes and pteridophytes, transport of male gametes requires?

1. insects 2. birds
3. water 4. wind
Subtopic:  Bryophytes | Pteridophytes |
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NEET - 2016
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Read the following five statements (I to V) and select the option with all correct statements. 

I: Mosses and lichens are the first organisms to colonise bare rock. 
II: Selaginella is a homosporous pteridophyte. 
III: Coralloid roots in Cycas have VAM. 
IV: Main plant body in bryophytes is gametophytic, whereas in
pteridophytes it is sporophytic. 
V: In gymnosperms, male and female gametophytes are present
within sporangia located on sporophytes.
1. I, III and IV 2. II, III and IV
3. I, IV and V 4. II, III and V
Subtopic:  Bryophytes | Pteridophytes | Gymnosperms |
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NEET - 2015
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Read the following five statements (I - V) and answer as asked next to them.

I. In Equisetum, the female gametophyte is retained on the parent sporophyte
II. In Ginkgo, male gametophyte is not independent
III. The sporophyte in Riccia is more developed than that in Polytrichum
IV. Sexual reproduction in Volvox is isogamous
V. The spores of slime molds lack cell walls


How many of the above statements are correct?

1.  Three  2.  Four 
3.  One  4.  Two
Subtopic:  Algae | Pteridophytes | Gymnosperms |
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Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched?
1.  Salvinia - Prothallus
2.  Viroids – RNA
3.  Mustard-Synergids
4.  Ginkgo-Archegonia

Subtopic:  Pteridophytes |
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