Multiple Choice Questions

Sori can be found in which of the following?
  • On moist soil
  • the sporangia
  • Equisetum
  • Pterophytes
During what period did seedless vascular plants form extensive forests of tall trees?
  • Equisetum
  • Pterophytes
  • Carboniferous
  • On moist soil
What is the evolutionary significance of megaphylls?
  • All of the listed characteristics inhibit decomposition.
  • Reproductive cells are more resistant to desiccation.
  • Distribution of sugars, amino acids, and other organic products
  • They increase the surface area for photosynthesis.
In moving to land, plants had to overcome which of the following challenges?
  • vascular tissue
  • Pterophytes
  • Desiccation
  • megaphylls
The embryophytes are __________.
  • the land plants
  • Pterophytes
  • megaphylls
  • the sporangia
The gametophyte stage of the plant life cycle is most conspicuous in __________.
  • Stomata
  • cuticle
  • mosses
  • megaphylls
A major division in plant systematics is based on whether a particular species has __________.
  • Desiccation
  • vascular tissue
  • Charophytes
  • Equisetum
Which of the following statements about algae and plants is true?
  • They increase the surface area for photosynthesis.
  • Plants have a waxy, waterproof cuticle, and algae do not.
  • Walled spores produced in sporangia
  • In plants, the haploid and diploid stages are both multicellular.
Water is brought into mosses primarily by __________.
  • Distribution of sugars, amino acids, and other organic products
  • They increase the surface area for photosynthesis.
  • By mitosis of gametophyte cells
  • diffusion through all cells
Typically, the upper part of a bryophyte capsule that contains the spores features a ring of interlocking, tooth-like structures known as the __________.
  • It is a sporophyte.
  • peristome
  • Pterophytes
  • Charophytes
In sporophyte ferns, the leaves are __________.
  • megaphylls
  • Charophytes
  • the land plants
  • the sporangia
The development of the __________ prevents plants from drying out and protects them from microbes.
  • cuticle
  • Desiccation
  • peristome
  • mosses
What structures allow plants to readily take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
  • Desiccation
  • Equisetum
  • Pterophytes
  • Stomata
The tissue called phloem has what function in vascular plants?
  • They increase the surface area for photosynthesis.
  • A moist environment is required for sexual reproduction.
  • Reproductive cells are more resistant to desiccation.
  • Distribution of sugars, amino acids, and other organic products
The antheridia of mosses produce __________.
  • Equisetum
  • the sporangia
  • Stomata
  • sperm
Where would you find a fern gametophyte?
  • A moist environment is required for sexual reproduction.
  • the land plants
  • Pterophytes
  • On moist soil
How are gametes produced by bryophytes?
  • On moist soil
  • Distribution of sugars, amino acids, and other organic products
  • Pterophytes
  • By mitosis of gametophyte cells
Which is a key difference between alternation of generations in plants and sexual reproduction in nonplant organisms?
  • Plants have a waxy, waterproof cuticle, and algae do not.
  • In plants, the haploid and diploid stages are both multicellular.
  • All of the listed characteristics inhibit decomposition.
  • All of the listed traits of land plants are present in their closest relatives among the algae.
The "dots" on the underside of a fern frond are spore cases; therefore, what is true of the plant to which the frond belongs?
  • vascular tissue
  • the sporangia
  • It is a sporophyte.
  • In plants, the haploid and diploid stages are both multicellular.
0 h : 0 m : 1 s

Multiple Choice Questions
Answered Not Answered Not Visited Correct : 0 Incorrect : 0