Identify the incorrectly matched comparison between liverworts and mosses:
Character |
Liverworts |
Mosses |
|
1. |
Gametophyte |
Thalloid and dorsiventral |
Leafy and radial |
2. |
Rhizoids |
Unicellular, mostly unbranched |
Multicellular, generally branched |
3. |
Protonema |
Mostly absent or small |
Distinct and well developed |
4. |
Elaters |
Absent |
Present |
Identify the parts labeled as 1, 2 and 3 in prothallus of the fern:
A | B | C | |
1. | Archegonium | Antheridium | Multicellular rhizoids |
2. | Antheridium | Archegonium | Multicellular rhizoids |
3. | Archegonium | Antheridium | Unicellular rhizoids |
4. | Antheridium | Archegonium | Unicellular rhizoids |
A species of red algae has been discovered near Bahamas at a depth of more than 260 m. This unusual feat is possible because this alga:
1. | lacks pigmentation and functions heterotrophically as parasite on other plants |
2. | has significant amount of phycoerythrin in addition to chlorophyll a and d |
3. | unlike other red algae has flagellated gametes |
4. | it has large number of root like rhizoids enabling it to attach to a deep substratum |
The earliest land plants lacked true roots. What may have enabled them the most to colonize land?
1. | Symbiotic associations with fungi |
2. | Prostrate thalloid body |
3. | Motile antherozoids capable of reaching the egg through water |
4. | Parasitic and saprophytic modes of nutrition |
Charophytes are the only living algae that share distinctive derived traits with land plants that other algae don’t. All the following will be examples of such derived traits except:
1. Rings of cellulose-synthesizing proteins
2. Structure of flagellated sperms
3. Formation of a phragmoplast
4. Presence of chlorophyll a and b
Seed plants are source of some very important medicines for humans. Identify the pair where the drug in Column I is not correctly matched with its source seed plant in Column II:
|
COLUMN I |
COLUMN II |
1. |
Digitalin |
Foxglove |
2. |
Quinine |
Cinchona |
3. |
Taxol |
Belladonna plant |
4. |
Vinblastine |
Periwinkle |
In the given diagram of the green alga Chara, the parts labeled A and B respectively are called :
1. Nucule and Globule
2. Globule and Nucule
3. Antheridium and Archegonium
4. Archegonium and Antheridium
In the life cycle of a moss, the sporphytic generation is represented by all the following except:
1. | Oospore | 2. | Spore |
3. | Sporogonium | 4. | Spore mother cell |
Identify the incorrectly matched row:
|
Character |
Gymnosperm |
Angiosperm |
1. |
Xylem |
Tracheids only |
Mainly vessels |
2. |
Pollination agency |
Water only |
Various |
3. |
Female gametophyte |
Relatively large with distinct Archegonia |
8-nucleate embryo sac |
4. |
Endosperm |
Haploid |
Triploid |
The structure in phanerogams that is homologous to the megasporangium of cryptogams is known as:
1. Embryo sac
2. Pollen sac
3. Nucellus of the ovule
4. Carpel