1. | The gymnosperms are heterosporous. |
2. | Spores in gymnosperms are produced within sporangia. |
3. | Sporangia in gymnosperms are borne on sporophylls which are arranged spirally along an axis to form lax or compact strobili or cones. |
4. | Male strobili in gymnosperms are called macrosporangiate. |
1. | develops from the primary protonema. |
2. | consists of upright, slender axes bearing spirally arranged leaves. |
3. | is attached to the soil through unicellular and unbranched rhizoids. |
4. | lacks the sex organs. |
Statement I: | Classification for flowering plants given by George Bentham and Joseph Dalton Hooker is a natural system of classification. |
Statement II: | Classification for flowering plants given by Linnaeus is an artificial system of classification. |
1. | Phylogenetic classification systems | Based on evolutionary relationships |
2. | Numerical Taxonomy | Based on all observable characteristics |
3. | Cytotaxonomy | Based on a few vegetative characters only. |
4. | Chemotaxonomy | Uses the chemical constituents of the plant |
I: | Zygotes undergo reduction division immediately. |
II: | The sporophyte is not free-living but attached to the photosynthetic gametophyte and derives nourishment from it. |
1. | spores produced are of one kind. |
2. | heterospory is seen. |
3. | gametophyte is the dominant generation in the life cycle. |
4. | sporophylls form distinct compact structures called strobili or cones. |
1. | develop outside microsporangia |
2. | are a result of mitosis in certain pollen mother cells |
3. | are carried in air currents |
4. | do not form pollen tubes and the male gamete is released into water |
I: | At least a half of the total carbon dioxide fixation on earth is carried out by algae through photosynthesis. |
II: | They are of paramount importance as primary producers of energy-rich compounds which form the basis of the food cycles of all aquatic animals. |
III: | Many species of Porphyra, Laminaria and Sargassum are among the 70 species of marine algae used as food. |
IV: | Agar, one of the commercial products obtained from Gelidium and Gracilaria, are used to grow microbes and in preparations of ice-creams and jellies. |
V: | Chlorella, a multicellular alga rich in proteins, is used as food supplement even by space travellers. |