Q.1
Bryophytes are amphibious of plant kingdom as their .. [ BHU 2012]
  • a) Reproductive phase requires water
  • b) Sex organs are multicellular and jacketed
  • c) Conducting strands have tracheids
  • d) All the above
Q.2
Cycas occurs commonly in … [ AMU 1999]
  • a) South America
  • b) North America
  • c) South East Asia
  • d) Europe
Q.3
Which of the following is not correctly matched … [ kerala 2006]
  • a) Chlamydomonas - Unicellular flagellate
  • b) Volvox - Colonial, non-flagellate
  • c) Laminaria - Flattened leaf like thallus
  • d) Chlorella - Unicellular, non-flagellate
Q.4
Number of prothallial cells in male gametophyte of Selaginella is … [ AMU 2002]
  • a) One
  • b) Two
  • c) three
  • d) Four
Q.5
At the time of pollination the pollen grains of Pinus are … [ MPPMT 2009]
  • a) One celled
  • b) Two celled
  • c) Three celled
  • d) Four celled
Q.6
Which gymnosperm group includes all fossil plants? … [ Odisha 2009]
  • a) Gnetales
  • b) Cycadales
  • c) Cycadofilicales
  • d) Coniferales
Q.7
Which is important in development of seed habit … [ CBSE 2009]
  • a) Dependent sporophyte
  • b) Haplontic life cycle
  • c) Heterospory
  • d) Free living gametophyte
Q.8
Mitospores of algae differentiate through .. [ Chd. CET 2012]
  • a) Meiosis
  • b) Mitosis
  • c) Fusion of gametes
  • d) Fragmentation
Q.9
Archegoniate include … [ MPPMT 1993]
  • a) Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms
  • b) Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
  • c) Algae, Fungi and Bryophytes
  • d) Algae, Fungi and bacteria
Q.10
Male gametes of cycads are … [ CPMT 1992]
  • a) Round and non-ciliate
  • b) Sickle-shaped biflagellate
  • c) Boat-shaped nonciliate
  • d) Large, top-like, spirally twisted with cilia
Q.11
Gymnosperms are naked seeded plants because …[ kcet 2003]
  • a) There is no fruit
  • b) There is no ovule
  • c) There is no fertilization
  • d) There is no ovary and fruit
Q.12
In Ulothrix zygote is …
  • a) Non-flagellate
  • b) Uniflagellate
  • c) Biflagellate
  • d) Tetraflagellate
Q.13
Which is wrongly matched
  • a) Ginkgo - Archegonia
  • b) Salvinia - Prothallus
  • c) Viroids – RNA
  • d) Mustard – Synergids
Q.14
Which of the following is a flagellated alga? [ HPPMT 2005]
  • a) Chlamydomonas
  • b) Ulothrix
  • c) Spirogyra
  • d) Acetabularia
Q.15
If three filaments are involved in lateral conjugation in Spirogyra, zygospores will found in … [ JIPMER 1999]
  • a) All the three filaments
  • b) Only the middle filament
  • c) Lateral filaments
  • d) Either b or c
Q.16
Ramenta occur in … [ HarPMT2007]
  • a) Marchantia
  • b) Funaria
  • c) Dryopteris
  • d) None of the above
Q.17
Riccia gametophyte develops from spore and ends in … [ BHU 2001]
  • a) Thallus
  • b) Capsule
  • c) Zygote
  • d) Spore
Q.18
Iodine can be obtained from … [ AFMC 2000]
  • a) Chlorella
  • b) Polysiphonia
  • c) Laminaria
  • d) Porphyra
Q.19
Cycas and Adiantum resemble each other in having … [ CBSE 2012]
  • a) Seeds
  • b) Motile sperms
  • c) Vessels
  • d) Cambium
Q.20
Both pteridophytes and gymnosperms possess …[ RPMT 2011]
  • a) Independent gametophytes
  • b) Ovules
  • c) Seeds
  • d) Archegonia
Q.21
Fern prothallus develops from … [ MPPMT 1998]
  • a) Oospore
  • b) Antherozoid
  • c) Elater
  • d) Spore
Q.22
Which is not true of Pinus … [ JKCMEE 2003]
  • a) Three needless in spur of P. roxburgii
  • b) Xylem is towards inner side of vascular bundles of stem
  • c) Homosporous gymnosperm
  • d) Microsporophyll has two microsporangia
Q.23
Fern gametophyte bears … [ EAMCET 1999]
  • a) true roots
  • b) Antheridia
  • c) Archegonia
  • d) Both b and c
Q.24
Sporophyte dependent on gametophyte occurs in … [ BHU 1995]
  • a) Algae
  • b) Pteridophytes
  • c) Fungi
  • d) Bryophytes
Q.25
In Ulothrix, zygote is ….
  • a) Non-flagellate
  • b) Uniflagellate
  • c) Biflagellate
  • d) Tetraflagellate
Q.26
Lower vascular plant which produce seeds but not fruits belong to …
  • a) Bryophyte
  • b) Pteridophyte
  • c) Gymnosperms
  • d) Euglenophyta
Q.27
The number of peristome teeth in Funaria capsule is … [ AFCH 1998]
  • a) 8
  • b) 16
  • c) 32
  • d) 64
Q.28
First seed plants evolved during … [ AMU 1996]
  • a) Cretaceous
  • b) Carboniferous
  • c) Devonian
  • d) Silurian
Q.29
In Riccia/bryophytes … [ CPMT 1994]
  • a) Sporophyte is parasitic over gametophyte
  • b) Gametophyte is parasitic over sporophyte
  • c) Sporophyte is independent of gametophyte
  • d) Sporophyte is semiparasite
Q.30
Secondary growth occurs in …[ MPPMT 2001]
  • a) Riccia
  • b) Funaria
  • c) Selaginella
  • d) None of the above
Q.31
In Pinus, male and female cones occur
  • a) On the same branch
  • b) On different branches of same plant
  • c) On different plants
  • d) On the trunk
Q.32
Mannitol is stored food of … [ JKCET 2012]
  • a) Rhodophyceae
  • b) Xanthophyceae
  • c) Chlorophyceae
  • d) Phaophyceae
Q.33
On germination, each zygospore of Spirogyra produces .. [ BHU 19999]
  • a) Four plant
  • b) Three plants
  • c) Two plants
  • d) One plant
Q.34
In Spirogyra, pyrenoids occur in … [ BHU 1999]
  • a) Nucleus
  • b) Cell wall
  • c) Cytoplasm
  • d) Chloroplast
Q.35
Presence of basal rhizoidal cell in Ulothrix is an example of … [ RPMT 1998]
  • a) Dead cell
  • b) Vestigial cell
  • c) Accessory cell
  • d) Beginning of division of labour
Q.36
A conducting tissue in leaves of pinus/Cycas for both water and food is … [ AFMC 2002]
  • a) Xylem
  • b) Phloem
  • c) Conducting tissue
  • d) Transfusion tissue
Q.37
Consider the following four statements and select the two wrong ones a) Sporophyte of liverworts is more elaborate than that of mosses b) Salvinia is heterosporous c) Life cycle of all seed plants is diplobiontic d) In Pinus, male and female cones are borne on different trees
  • a) a and c
  • b) a and d
  • c) b and c
  • d) a and b
Q.38
Which one is not a pteridophyte … [ MPPMT 2011]
  • a) Selaginella
  • b) Equisetum
  • c) Salvinia
  • d) Polytrichum
Q.39
Wood of Pinus is … [ MPPMT 2000]
  • a) Manoxylic and homoxylous
  • b) Manoxylic and heteroxylous
  • c) Pycnoxylic and homoxylous
  • d) Pycnoxylic and heteroxylous
Q.40
Funaria differs from Marchantia in having … [ DPMT 2001]
  • a) Foot
  • b) Calyptra
  • c) Ventral canal cell
  • d) Protonema
Q.41
Heterospory and seed habit are exhibited by non-floweing plant which also possesses … [ CBSE 1997]
  • a) Bract
  • b) Ligule
  • c) Petiole
  • d) Spathe
Q.42
Which of the following statements is /are incorrect regarding bryophytes .. [ Odisha 2010]
  • a) Sporophyte is parasitic over gametophyte
  • b) Fertilization takes place in presence of water
  • c) Zygote undergoes mitosis to form embryo proper
  • d) Zygote undergoes meiosis to produce sporophytes
Q.43
The chief water conducting elements of xylem in gymnosperms are … [ CBSE 2010]
  • a) Fibres
  • b) Transfusion tissue
  • c) Tracheids
  • d) Vessels
Q.44
Chl a, Chl d and phycoerythrin occur in … [ AFMC 2009]
  • a) Chlorophyceae
  • b) Bacillariophyceae
  • c) Cyanophyceae
  • d) Rhodophyceae
Q.45
Double fertilization is characteristic of .. [BHU 2000]
  • a) Pteridophytes
  • b) Gymnosperms
  • c) Bryophytes
  • d) Angiosperms
Q.46
Which one is living fossil … [ AFMC 2011]
  • a) Pinus
  • b) Cycas
  • c) Selaginella
  • d) Metasequoia
Q.47
Smooth and pegged rhizoids are present in the gametophyte of …
  • a) Bryopsida
  • b) Pteropsida
  • c) Anthoceropsida
  • d) Hepaticopsida
Q.48
In bryophytes, the adult plant body is … [ kerala 2004]
  • a) Epiphyte
  • b) Sporophyte
  • c) Gametophyte
  • d) Sporophyll
Q.49
Cycas resembles angiosperms in having … [ CPMT 2007]
  • a) Vessels
  • b) Circinate vernation
  • c) Siphonogamy
  • d) Dichotomous branching
Q.50
Algae have cell walls made up of … [ CBSE 2010]
  • a) Hemicellulose, pectins and proteins
  • b) Pectins, cellulose and proteins
  • c) Cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectins
  • d) Cellulose, galactans and mannans
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