Quiz_Ptridophyta

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1. Heterospory and ligulate leaves are a feature of:

 
 
 
 

2. The megasporangia of Selaginella can be identified due to their:

 
 
 
 

3. The development of Selaginella embryo is:

 
 
 
 

4. Fern plants are:

 
 
 
 

5. The sex organs that develop amongst the rhizoids of fern prothallus are:

 
 
 
 

6. The seedless plants which possess vascular tissues are:

 
 
 
 

7. If the sporangia in a sorus are in different stages of development and are intermixed, this condition is called:

 
 
 
 

8. attract the antherozoids of Funaria towards their archegonium:

 
 
 
 

9. Evidence in support of root-like nature of Selaginella rhizophore is:

 
 
 
 

10. The xylem of stele of fern rhizome is made up of:

 
 
 
 

11. Psilotum is:

 
 
 
 

12. In Selaginella, the microsporangia are:

 
 
 
 

13. Which of the following is true for Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

14. Dryopteris prothallus is bisexual but the type of gametic union is generally by:

 
 
 
 

15. Which group of plants have spores, vascular bundles but no flowers?

 
 
 
 

16. The sori of Dryopteris are covered by a thick multicellular covering known as:

 
 
 
 

17. Meristele of fern is:

 
 
 
 

18. The development of sporangium in Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

19. . Tapetum develops in:

 
 
 
 

20. In Pteris, the sporophytic generation begins from and ends with the formation of spore mother cells:

 
 
 
 

21. Which of the following applies to Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

22. Which group of plants have spores, vascular bundles and no seeds?

 
 
 
 

23. The antheridia of fern are different from that of moss in the sense that they produce:

 
 
 
 

24. If a sporangium is derived from a single cell it is called:

 
 
 
 

25. The sori in Dryopteris are found on:

 
 
 
 

26. Cyathia is characterized by:

 
 
 
 

27. The gametophyte of fern is as:

 
 
 
 

28. The structure produced from germination of a microspore of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

29. The fern plant is:

 
 
 
 

30. The ferns are usually found:

 
 
 
 

31. Fern prothallus produces:

 
 
 
 

32. Fern phloem lacks:

 
 
 
 

33. In Pteris, the roots are:

 
 
 
 

34. The megasporangium of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

35. Pteridophyta are also called:

 
 
 
 

36. Which of the following is a heterosporous pteridophyte?

 
 
 
 

37. The megaspore of Selaginella on germination produces:

 
 
 
 

38. Formation of gametophyte-like structure from sporophyte without reduction division is called (i.e., without formation of spores):

 
 
 
 

39. Male gametes in Dryopteris are:

 
 
 
 

40. The prothallus of fern represents the plant:

 
 
 
 

41. The capsule of fern sporangium bursts at a place called:

 
 
 
 

42. Certain leafless non-green branches produced from Selaginella are:

 
 
 
 

43. Amphiphloeic siphonostele develops in rhizome of:

 
 
 
 

44. Which of the following can be said to be the precursor of seed-bearing plants?

 
 
 
 

45. The stem-like character of rhizophore of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

46. The sori bearing leaves of fern are known as:

 
 
 
 

47. Most primitive group of vascular plants are:

 
 
 
 

48. The gametophyte of fern bears:

 
 
 
 

49. The stele of Dryopteris is a:

 
 
 
 

50. Pteridophytes as a group differ from Bryophytes and Thallophytes in having:

 
 
 
 

51. In pteridophytes, meiosis occurs at the stage of:

 
 
 
 

52. The most primitive vascular plants is:

 
 
 
 

53. In the sub genus Heterophyllum of genus Selaginella the leaves are present in:

 
 
 
 

54. What is special feature of fern archegonia?

 
 
 
 

55. The chief characteristic of fern leaf is that they:

 
 
 
 

56. The mature ligule has a prominent basal portion called:

 
 
 
 

57. The developing embryo in Selaginella derives its food from:

 
 
 
 

58. The tree fern is:

 
 
 
 

59. Male gametophyte of Selaginella is found:

 
 
 
 

60. How a fern differs from a moss?

 
 
 
 

61. The archegonia of Selaginella are differentiated by:

 
 
 
 

62. The prothallus of fern is:

 
 
 
 

63. Rhizophore of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

64. Azolla growing in paddy fields helps in:

 
 
 
 

65. Biciliate antherozoids are found in which of the following?

 
 
 
 

66. Fern prothallus is:

 
 
 
 

67. . In Oswald and Tippo’s system of classification, Pteropsida does not include:

 
 
 
 

68. In which of the following diploid stage is usually dominant?

 
 
 
 

69. In which of the following plants is the sporophyte a dominant phase in the life cycle?

 
 
 
 

70. If a sporangium developed from a group of cells it is called:

 
 
 
 

71. In young stage sporophyte of fern absorbs food from the prothallus through:

 
 
 
 

72. Adaxial outgrowth from the base of the leaf of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

73. The sporangia of Selaginella are attached:

 
 
 
 

74. Some of the species of Selaginella perennate by means of:

 
 
 
 

75. A number of short stalked sporangia attached with placenta and covered by indusium is called:

 
 
 
 

76. Sporophyte of fern is:

 
 
 
 

77. Polystelic condition is found in:

 
 
 
 

78. Megasporophylls of Pteridophyta are comparable to which structure of Angiosperms?

 
 
 
 

79. Marsilea quadrifolia has only four leaflets. It is a:

 
 
 
 

80. If the sporangia in a sorus are in the same stage of development it is called:

 
 
 
 

81. Some of the species of Selaginella are commonly called:

 
 
 
 

82. The term stele was given by:

 
 
 
 

83. Eligulate, eusporangiate, homosporous, protostelic pteridophyte is:

 
 
 
 

84. The number of androcytes in male prothallus of Selaginella are:

 
 
 
 

85. The microsporophyll of Selaginella are the forerunners of which structure of Angiosperms?

 
 
 
 

86. Indusium in Dryopteris is:

 
 
 
 

87. . In Bryophytes and Pteridophytes, transport of male gametes requires: (NEET 2016)

 
 
 
 

88. A special structure is born in between the microsporophyll and microsporangium of Selaginella. It is called:

 
 
 
 

89. In Pteris, the archegonia are present:

 
 
 
 

90. The number of neck canal cells in archegonium of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

91. Heterospory is the production of:

 
 
 
 

92. Azolla and Salvinia both are:

 
 
 
 

93. Placenta in fern is:

 
 
 
 

94. The chief function of the indusium of the fern is:

 
 
 
 

95. Selaginella differs from Moss in having:

 
 
 
 

96. The archegonia in Selaginella develop on:

 
 
 
 

97. The leafy fern plant represents the:

 
 
 
 

98. The heart-shaped prothallus of Dryopteris is always:

 
 
 
 

99. Which is the correct statement about Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

100. The sporangium of fern contains nearly:

 
 
 
 

101. The stem and petiole are covered with numerous brownish scale-like structures which are called:

 
 
 
 


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