Q.1
Gymnosperms are characterized by … [ AIIMS 1996]
  • a) Multiflagellate sperms
  • b) Naked seeds
  • c) Winged seeds
  • d) Seeds inside fruits
Q.2
Match the columns [ kerala 2007]
Column I Column II
a.Anthoceros 1 Walking fern
b.Adiantum 2.Alga
c.Sargassum 3.Inferae
d.Prothallus 4.Gametophyte
e.Asterales 5.Hornwort
- - 6.Liverwort
  • a) a – 6, b – 5, c – 1, d – 3, e – 4
  • b) a – 5, b – 4, c – 3, d – 2, e – 1
  • c) a – 5, b – 1, c – 2, d – 4, e – 3
  • d) a – 3, b – 2, c – 1, d – 5, e – 4
Q.3
Which is wrong … [ KCET 2001]
  • a) Naked seeds occur in gymnosperms
  • b) Endospores develop in pteridophyte
  • c) basidiocarp is fructification of fungus
  • d) Capsule is part of sporophyte in bryophytes
Q.4
What is true of bryophytes? They have … [ BHU 2008]
  • a) Thalloid nature
  • b) Chloroplasts
  • c) Archegonia
  • d) All the above
Q.5
Sporophyte of Riccia contains … [ RPMT 1998]
  • a) Spores, elaters and nutritive cells
  • b) Spores and nutritive cells
  • c) Elaters and spores
  • d) Spores only
Q.6
Thermal algae survive at … [ BHU 2001]
  • a) Low temperature
  • b) Hot water of 30° – 40°C
  • c) Hot spring at 70°C
  • d) Frozen lakes and ocean
Q.7
Match the columns I and II
Column I Column II
a)Pteris-Spermatozoids i)Zoidogamy
b)Cycas-Male gametes ii)Malic acid
c)Funaria-Antherozoids iii)Oogamy
d)Spirogyra- Aplanogamete iv)Sucrose
- - v)Physiological anisogamy
  • a) a – i , b – v, c – iv, d – iii
  • b) a – iii , b – ii, c – iv, d – v
  • c) a – ii , b – v, c – iv, d – i
  • d) a – ii , b – i, c – iv, d – v
Q.8
Ancestors of land plants possessed … [ Pb. PMT 1997]
  • a) Arboreal habit
  • b) Heterotrichous habit
  • c) Thorny habit
  • d) Prostrate habit
Q.9
Selaginella leaf possesses an outgrowth proximally on the adaxial surface. It is … [ BHU 2005]
  • a) Ligule
  • b) Indusium
  • c) Stipule
  • d) Petiole
Q.10
Tracheophyte consists of … [ Pb PMT 1997]
  • a) Bryophytes only
  • b) Pteridophytes only
  • c) Gymnosperms and angiosperms
  • d) Pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms
Q.11
Algae are important. We should study them because … [ BHU 2000 ]
  • a) They are good experimental materials
  • b) They may become important constituent of future food for human beings
  • c) They can be easily frown in water tanks
  • d) They renew oxygen of atmosphere and water
Q.12
pteridophytes are called vascular cryptogams as they are non-seeded plants containing … [ KCET 2012]
  • a) Only xylem
  • b) Only phloem
  • c) Neither xylem nor phloem
  • d) Xylem and phloem
Q.13
Dominant gametophytic phase alternated by multicellular dependent sporophyte occurs in … [ AMU 2009]
  • a) Adiantum
  • b) Polytrichum
  • c) Chlamydomonas
  • d) Pinus
Q.14
Ladder-like structure in Spirogyra represents … [ CPMT 1996]
  • a) lateral conjugation
  • b) Scalariform conjugation
  • c) Direct conjugation
  • d) Asexual reproduction
Q.15
Cycas is a gymnosperm because of … [ Bih. PMT 2006]
  • a) Vessels present in xylem
  • b) Living fossil
  • c) Naked seed without fruit
  • d) None of the above
Q.16
Which one of the following is not characteristic feature of bryophytes? [ KCET 2005]
  • a) Dominant gametophytic generation
  • b) Filamentous rhizoids
  • c) Amphibious habitat
  • d) Vascular tissues
Q.17
Agar is commercially got from … [ AFMC 1996]
  • a) Green Algae
  • b) Blue- green Algae
  • c) Brown Algae
  • d) Red Algae
Q.18
Red rust of Tea is caused by … [ CPMT 1993]
  • a) Puccinia
  • b) Ustilago
  • c) Cephaleuros
  • d) Harveyella
Q.19
Which one shows correct descending sequence with reference to the number of cohorts … [ EAMCET 2008]
  • a) Heteromerae, Inferae, Disciflorae, Calyciflorae
  • b) Bicarpellatae, Disciflorae, Heteromerae, Calyciflorae
  • c) Disciflorae, Thalamiflorae, Calyciflorae, Heteromerae
  • d) Thalamiflorae, Calyciflorae, Disciflorae, Inferae
Q.20
Cell wall of Chlamydomonas possesses .. [JKCMEE 2002]
  • a) Cellulose
  • b) Glycoproteins
  • c) Hemicellulose
  • d) Proteins only
Q.21
Grouping of algae is based on … [ CBSE 2007]
  • a) Food reserve
  • b) Colony formation
  • c) Shape
  • d) Pigments
Q.22
Which are the amphibians in Plant Kingdom? … [ AFMC 2009]
  • a) Tracheophyta
  • b) Bryophyte
  • c) Pteridophyte
  • d) Thallophyte
Q.23
Match the columns
Column I Column II
a .Exarch Rhizome of Pteris
b.Endarch 2.Roots of Pteris
c.Mesarch &3.Pinnule of Cycas
d.Pseudomesarch 4.Primary stem of Cycas
  • a) a -1, b – 3 , c -4, d – 2
  • b) a-2, b – 4, c-3, d – 1
  • c) a -3, b – 2, c -1, d – 4
  • d) a -2, b – 4, c -1, d – 3
Q.24
Oldest gymnospermous tree is
  • a) Taxodium mucronatum
  • b) Pinus longaeva
  • c) Zamia pygmaea
  • d) Sequoia sempervirens
Q.25
maiden hair tree is … p MPPMT 1996]
  • a) Araucaria
  • b) Thuja
  • c) Ginkgo
  • d) Pinus
Q.26
Based on its nucleus, which one is different in Spirogyra … [ EAMCET 2008]
  • a) Zygospore
  • b) Azygospore
  • c) Akinete
  • d) Aplanospore
Q.27
Select the correct major pigments and stored food in different groups of algae a) Chlorophyceae – Stored food starch, major pigments Chl a, b b) Phaeophyceae – Stored food laminarin major pigments Chl a, b c) Rhodophyceae – Stored food floridean starch, major pigments Chl a, and d, phycoerythrin
  • a) c correct, a and b wrong
  • b) a correct, b and c wrong
  • c) a and b correct, c is wrong
  • d) a and c correct, b wrong
Q.28
Amphiphloic siphonostele/solenostele occurs in the stem of … [ CET Chd 1997]
  • a) Lycopodium
  • b) Equisetum
  • c) Pteris
  • d) Marsilea
Q.29
Hydroids and leptoids were first found in …[ JKCMEE 2005]
  • a) Liverworts
  • b) Hornworts
  • c) Mosses
  • d) All the above
Q.30
Sporophyte of Riccia is … [ RPMT 2005]
  • a) Total parasite
  • b) Partial parasite
  • c) Saprophyte
  • d) Autotroph
Q.31
Pollen chambers present in gymnosperms represents …
  • a) Microsporangium
  • b) Pollen grain cell where sperms are formed
  • c) Opening of megagametophyte for passage of pollen tube to egg
  • d) Cavity in nucellus for resting pollen grains after pollination
Q.32
Stem of Selaginella has … [ AMU 1998]
  • a) Siphonostele
  • b) Protostele
  • c) Ectophloic siphonostele
  • d) Amphiphloic siphonostele
Q.33
Plants having single whorl of perianth are placed under … [kerala 2007]
  • a) Class Dicot, Subclass Monochlamydeous
  • b) Class Dicot, series Monochlamydeous
  • c) Class Dicot, series Bicarpellatae
  • d) Class Monocot, Subclass Monochlamydeous
Q.34
Acrocarpous solitary sporangia occur in … [ Odisha 2012]
  • a) Funaria
  • b) Cycas
  • c) Opuntia
  • d) Pinus
Q.35
Which of the following is a character of gymnospermous wood … [ MPPMT 2010]
  • a) Porous
  • b)Diffused porous
  • c) Ring porous
  • d) Non-porous
Q.36
What is true about foliage of Cycas
  • a) Palmate and pinnate foliage leaves
  • b) Brown scales and pinnate green foliage leaves
  • c) Oblong and long leaves
  • d) Green and scaly leaves
Q.37
Life cycle in Chlamydomonas/Ulothrix/Spirogyra is … [EAMCET 1995]
  • a) Diplontic
  • b) Diplohaplontic
  • c) Haplontic
  • d) None of the above
Q.38
Fusion between a large non-motile (static) female gamete and smaller motile male gamete is … [ HPPMT 2011]
  • a) Isogamous
  • b) Oogamous
  • c) Anisogamous
  • d) Homogamous
Q.39
Number of flagella present in the gametes of Ulothrix is … [ CPMT 1992]
  • a) Four
  • b) Three
  • c) One
  • d) Two
Q.40
An alga which can be possibly used in space flight ( Space Alga) is … [ BHU 1992]
  • a) Nostoc
  • b) Chlirella
  • c) Ulothrix
  • d) Spirogyra
Q.41
Which one is homosporous … [ MHTCET 2007]
  • a) Cycas
  • b) China Rose
  • c) Jowar
  • d) Nephrolepis
Q.42
Fern leaves are named as … [ CET Chd 2009]
  • a) Fronds
  • b) Sporophylla
  • c) lamina
  • d) Blades
Q.43
Naked seeds occur in … [ AFMC 1996]
  • a) Pteris/ Pteridophytes
  • b) Cycas/ Gymnosperms
  • c)Funaria/ Bryophytes
  • d) maize/ Angiosperms
Q.44
Pick a bushy trailing herbaceous gymnosperm … [ kerala 2007]
  • a) Cedrus
  • b) Cycas
  • c) Pinus
  • d) Ephedra
Q.45
In chlorophyceae, sexual reproduction occurs by … [CBSE 1994]
  • a) Isogamy and anisogamy
  • b) Isogamy, anisogamy and oogamy
  • c) Oogamy only
  • d) Anisogamy and oogamy
Q.46
Assertion: Red algae contribute in producing coral reefs Reason: Some red algae secrete and deposit calcium carbonate over their walls … [ AIIMS 2004]
  • a) If both the assertion and reason are true and reason explains the assertion
  • b) If both the assertion and reason are true but reason does not explain the assertion.
  • c) If assertion is true but reason is false
  • d) If assertion is false but reason is true.
Q.47
Seed habit originated in certain … [ CBSE 1996]
  • a) Bryophytes
  • b) Ferns
  • c) Gymnosperms
  • d) Angiosperms
Q.48
Moss peristome takes part in …. [ CBSE 1990]
  • a) Spore dispersal
  • b) Photosynthesis
  • c) Protection
  • d) Absorption
Q.49
Brown algae have a characteristic pigment of … [ CBSE 1997]
  • a) Phycocyanin
  • b) Fucoxanthin
  • c) Phycoerythrin
  • d) Haematochrome
Q.50
A chlorophyllous thallophyte is … [ KCET 2011]
  • a) Nephrolepis
  • b) Volvariella
  • c) Spirogyra
  • d) Gnetum
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