What is incorrect regarding bryophytes in general?
1. Sex organs are multicellular
2. Main plant body is haploid
3. Sporophyte is free living and photosynthetic
4. Zygotes do not undergo reduction division immediately

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Identify the incorrectly matched pair:

1.

Numerical taxonomy

Based on all observable characteristics

2.

Cytotaxonomy

Based on chromosome number, structure and behavior

3.

Chemotaxonomy

Based on chemotrophic mode of nutrition

4.

Phylogenetic system

Based on evolutionary relationships

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Which of the following would not be true regarding importance of algae?
1. They increase level of dissolved oxygen in water
2. Many can be used as food source
3. They are the source of most antibiotics known to man
4. Products like hydrocolloids [algin] and agar are useful to man

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Red algae photosynthesize at ocean depths greater than any other group of algae and hence can be found in deepest waters because they

1. contain a higher concentration of chlorophyll
2. have an extremely large surface area to capture the little amount of light that reaches them
3. contain the pigment phycoerythrin
4. periodically float to the surface and intercept light, then move back to the ocean floor
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The given diagram shows:

1. Female thallus of Marchantia
2. Male thallus of Marchantia
3. Female thallus of Funaria
4. Male thallus of Funaria

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Club mosses are:
1. psilotophytes
2. bryophytes
3. lycopodophytes
4. pteridophytes

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Vegetative reproduction in mosses is by:
1. Fragmentation and budding in secondary protonema
2. Only budding in secondary protonema
3. Adventitious roots and budding in secondary protonema
4. Fragmentation and budding in sporophyte

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The structure marked as “b” can be used for:

1. Photosynthesis
2. Attachment
3. Buoyancy
4. Reproduction

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The economic importance of bryophytes include:

I: A moss provides peat used as a packing material
II: They are early colonizers of land in ecological succession
III: They can decompose rocks
IV: They can prevent soil erosion

 

1. Only I, II and III 2. Only I, III and IV
3. Only II, III and IV 4. I, II, III and IV
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Identify the incorrect statement regarding red algae:

1. Major pigments are chlorophyll a, c and phycocyanin
2. Stored food is floridean starch
3. Cellulosic cell wall with pectin and polysulfate esters
4. Absent flagellar insertions

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