Q.1
A parasitic green alga is … [ BHU 2008]
  • a) Chlorella
  • b) Ulva
  • c) Cladophora
  • d) Cephaleuros
Q.2
Algae are useful as they … [ AIIMS 2002]
  • a) Are used in study of photosynthesis
  • b) Purify air
  • c) Cause alcohol fermentation
  • d) Occur in larger number
Q.3
What is true for Spirogyra … [ Odisha 2002]
  • a) Lateral conjugation occurs in homothallic species
  • b) Scalariform conjugation occurs in homothallic species
  • c) Lateral conjugation occurs in heterothallic species
  • d) Conjugation type is unrelated to homothallic or heterothallic nature
Q.4
A highly thickened non-motile spore is …. [AFMC 1994]
  • a) Macrozoospore
  • b) Microzoospore
  • c) Aplanospore
  • d) Hypnospore
Q.5
Sporogonium of Polytrichum possesses … [ Manipal 2002]
  • a) Foot, seta and capsule
  • b) Ribbon shaped thallus
  • c) Cordata prothallus
  • d) Fleshy thallus
Q.6
Mosses grow in moist places because they … [ CPMT 2002]
  • a) Lack vascular tissue
  • b) Have gametes which require water for transport
  • c) Lack root and stomata
  • d) Cannot grow on land
Q.7
Leafy gametophytes occur in …. [ RPMT 1992]
  • a) Pteridophytes
  • b) Gymnosperms
  • c) Bryophytes
  • d) Angiosperms
Q.8
Plant body of Funaria is … [ AIIMS 2002]
  • a) Completely sporophyte
  • b) Completely gametophyte
  • c) Predominantly gametophyte
  • d) Predominantly gametophyte with sporophyte
Q.9
Which one has the largest gametophyte
  • a) Cycas
  • b) Angiosperm
  • c)Selaginella
  • d) Moss/Polytrichum
Q.10
Rudimentary seed habit occurs in … [ Manipal 1997]
  • a) Lycopodium
  • b)Selaginella
  • c) Psilotum
  • d) Equisetum
Q.11
Which of the following is resurrection plant?
  • a) Adiantum capillus – veneris
  • b) Dryopteris filix-mas
  • c) Selaginella lepidophylla
  • d) Adiantum caudatum
Q.12
Which is heterosporous? [ CBSE 2008]
  • a) Salvinia
  • b) Adiantum
  • c) Dryopteris
  • d) Equisetum
Q.13
Resin ducts of Cedrus are mostly present in … [ CMC 2003]
  • a) Epidermis
  • b) Cortex
  • c) Pericycle
  • d) Pith
Q.14
Fucoxanthin is found in … [ HPPMT 2001]
  • a) Gelidium
  • b) Volvox
  • c) Sargassum
  • d) Ulothrix
Q.15
In Spirogyra sexual reproduction occurs through ….
  • a) Conjugation
  • b) Physiological isogamy
  • c) Morphological anisogamy
  • d) Oogamy
Q.16
In gymnosperms how many male gametes are produced by each pollen grain … [ HPPMT 2005]
  • a) 4
  • b) 3
  • c) 2
  • d) 1
Q.17
Physiological anisogamous sexual reproduction occurs in … [ MPPMT 2001]
  • a) Spirogyra
  • b) Mucor
  • c) Selaginella
  • d) Pinus
Q.18
Red algae differs from green and brown algae in … [ AMU 2011]
  • a) Absence of chlorophyll a
  • b) Undifferentiated cells
  • c) Not having any flagellate stage
  • d) All the above
Q.19
In mosses conducting tissue is … [ JIPMER 2004]
  • a) Phloem
  • b) Parenchyma
  • c) Xylem
  • d) Coloured cells
Q.20
Cleavage and archegonial polyembryony is common in … [ CMS 2002]
  • a) Gymnosperms
  • b) Pteridophytes
  • c) Angiosperms
  • d) Bryophytes
Q.21
Which of the following show zooidogamous oogamy? [ EAMCET 2009] i) Spirogyra    ii) Funaria iii) Pteris     iv) Cycas
  • a) i, ii, iii
  • b) ii, iii, iv
  • c) i, iii, iv
  • d) i, ii, iv
Q.22
Calyptra around the sporophyte of a bryophyte is derived from … [ BHU 2006]
  • a) Columella
  • b) Antheridium
  • c) Archegonium
  • d) Capsule
Q.23
Pinus possesses … [ Manipal 2001]
  • a) Atactostele
  • b) Protostele
  • c) Dictyostele
  • d) Stenostele
Q.24
The first division in zygote of Selaginella is … [ JKCMEE 1994]
  • a) Transverse
  • b) Longitudinal
  • c) Oblique
  • d) Both a and b
Q.25
In Selaginella, the megasporophyll is comparable to a structure in angiosperms … [ BHU 1991]
  • a) Stamen
  • b) Leaf
  • c) Carpel
  • d) Ovule
Q.26
Plant body of Selaginella is … [ MPPMT 1997]
  • a) Sporophyte
  • b) Gametophyte
  • c) Halophyte
  • d) Both b and c
Q.27
Rosin and turpentine are obtained from … [ BHU 1998]
  • a) Cycas
  • b) Pinus
  • c) Cedrus
  • d) Abies
Q.28
Which of the following is matched incorrectly … [ AMU 2010]
  • a) Pinus - Coralloid roots
  • b) Cedrus - Branched stem
  • c) Sequoia - Tap roots
  • d) Cycas - Unbranched stem
Q.29
Neck canal cell is absent in the archegonium of … [ CPMT 1992]
  • a) Funaria
  • b) Cycas
  • c) Dryopteris
  • d) All pteridophytes
Q.30
Dichotomous branching occurs in … [ AFMC 1998]
  • a) Liverworts
  • b) Funaria
  • c) Dryopteris
  • d) Pinus
Q.31
Pteridophytes are distinguishable from bryophytes in possessing …
  • a) Dependent sporophyte
  • b) Independent sporophyte
  • c) Dependent gametophyte
  • d) Dependent gametophyte
Q.32
In gymnosperms, the ovules are … [ BHU 1996]
  • a) naked
  • b) Covered
  • c) With two coats
  • d) All the above
Q.33
Unique features of bryophytes in that they … [ CBSE 1994]
  • a) Produce spores
  • b) Have sporophyte attached to gametophyte
  • c) lack roots
  • d) Lack vascular tissues
Q.34
Formation of gametophyte directly from sporophyte is …. [ AIIMS 1998]
  • a) Apogamy
  • b) Apospory
  • c) Apocarpy
  • d) Parthenogenesis
Q.35
Which one produces carrageenin … [ BHU 2002]
  • a) Brown algae
  • b) Red algae
  • c) Green algae
  • d) Blue green algae
Q.36
Which is characteristic of Funaria .. [ Bih PMT 1995]
  • a) Scalariform
  • b) Xylem
  • c) Elatera
  • d) Peristome
Q.37
In Ulothrix/ Spirogyra/ Chlamydomonas, reduction division ( meiosis) occurs at the time of …. [ CBSE 1993]
  • a) Gamete formation
  • b) Zoospore formation
  • c) Zygospore germination
  • d) Vegetative reproduction
Q.38
Presence of ciliated antherozoids in Dryopteris indicates … [ CPMT 1995]
  • a) Terrestrial habit
  • b) Aquatic ancestry
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) None of the above
Q.39
Ulothrix is … [ CBSE 1998]
  • a) Filamentous alga with flagellated reproductive stages
  • b) Filamentous alga with non-flagellated reproductive stages
  • c) Membranous alga producing zoospores
  • d) Non-motile colonial alga lacking reproductive stages
Q.40
Assertion(a): In Spirogyra, some cells in one of the two filaments becomes empty after conjugation Reason(R): The aplanogamete from the cells of the filaments pass through conjugation tubes into the cells of the other filaments
  • a) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of A
  • b) Both A and R are true and R is not correct explanation of A
  • c) A is true but R is false
  • d) A is false but R is true
Q.41
Which one propagates through leaf tip … [ CBSE 2004]
  • a) Marchantia
  • b) Moss
  • c) Walking Fern
  • d) Pinus
Q.42
In Pinus/Cycas/ gymnosperms, the endosperm is … [ BHU 1992]
  • a) Triploid
  • b) Haploid
  • c) Diploid
  • d) Tetraploid
Q.43
Vascular bundles of Cycas/Pinus stem are …[MPPMT2001]
  • a) Conjoint, collateral and closed
  • b) Conjoint, collateral and open
  • c) Conjoint, bicollateral and open
  • d) Conjoint, bicollateral and closed
Q.44
Cycas is … .. [ CPMT 1991]
  • a) Hermaphrodite
  • b) Diecious
  • c) Monoecious
  • d) None of the above
Q.45
In Dryopteris, the antherozoids are …. [ BHU 1990]
  • a) Biflagellate sickle-shaped
  • b) Multiflagellate sickle – shaped
  • c) Multiflagellate spirally coiled
  • d) Biflagellate spirally coiled
Q.46
Dominant phase in life cycle of most algae and fungi is … [ AMU 2003]
  • a) Haploid
  • b) Diploid
  • c) Triploid
  • d) Tetraploid
Q.47
In mosses conducting tissue is … [JIPMER 2004]
  • a) Phloem
  • b) Parenchyma
  • c) Xylem
  • d) Coloured cells
Q.48
Angiosperms contain … [ AFMC 1996]
  • a) Tracheids
  • b) Vessels
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) None of the above
Q.49
Elater mechanism of spore dispersal is found in … [ AIIMS 2002]
  • a) Riccia
  • b) Marchantia
  • c) Funaria
  • d) Fern
Q.50
Which is characteristics of ferns?
  • a) Leafy gametophyte
  • b) Circinate vernation
  • c) mycorrhizal roots
  • d) Coralloid roots
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