Given are the following five statements (I - V) for your consideration:
I: | In Equisetum, the female gametophyte is retained on the parent sporophyte |
II: | In Ginkgo, male gametophyte is not independent |
III: | The sporophyte in Marchantia is more developed than that in Polytrichum |
IV: | Sexual reproduction in Volvox is isogamous |
V: | The spores of slime moulds lack cell walls |
How many of the above statements is/are correct?
1. | Three | 2. | Four |
3. | One | 4. | Two |
Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched?
1. Salvinia - Prothallus
2. Viroids – RNA
3. Mustard-Synergids
4. Ginkgo-Archegonia
If you are asked to classify the various algae into distinct groups, which of the following character would you choose?
1. Types of pigments present in the cell
2. Nature of stored food material in the cell
3. Structural organization of thallus
4. Chemical composition of the cell wall
In pteridophytes, antheridium are present in :-
1. Leafy gametophyte
2. Prothallus
3. Sporophyll
4. Protonema
Which of the following statements would be true for brown algae?
1. | Major pigments are chlorophyll a, c and fucoxanthin. |
2. | Food is stored as floridean starch. |
3. | Vegetative cells have wall made of cellulose, pectin and polysulphate esters. |
4. | Flagellar number and insertions are 2, equal and apical. |
I: | the male and the female gametophytes do not have an independent free-living existence. |
II: | vascular tissues [xylem and phloem] are present. |
Assertion (A): | Water is required for transfer of male gametes to archegonium in ferns |
Reason (R): | Ferns bear sporangia on gametophytes which in turn bear diploid sex organs |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
3. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are false. |
1. | It is called artificial system because it is based on only one or two characters |
2. | It was based on androecium structure |
3. | It is also called sexual system as he chiefly used characters of stamens |
4. | It divides flowering and non-flowering plants into two categories |