Quiz_Ptridophyta

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1. Pteridophyta are also called:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

4. The archegonia of Selaginella are differentiated by:

 
 
 
 

5. Which is the correct statement about Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

6. The ferns are usually found:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

8. The development of Selaginella embryo is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

12. Heterospory and ligulate leaves are a feature of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

14. The development of sporangium in Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

16. The term stele was given by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

18. The sporangium of fern contains nearly:

 
 
 
 

19. The archegonia in Selaginella develop on:

 
 
 
 

20. In Selaginella, the microsporangia are:

 
 
 
 

21. The tree fern is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

23. Fern plants are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

25. Fern phloem lacks:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

31. Sporophyte of fern is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

33. In Pteris, the roots are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

35. Male gametophyte of Selaginella is found:

 
 
 
 

36. The fern plant is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

40. The megaspore of Selaginella on germination produces:

 
 
 
 

41. The leafy fern plant represents the:

 
 
 
 

42. Azolla growing in paddy fields helps in:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

45. How a fern differs from a moss?

 
 
 
 

46. The gametophyte of fern is as:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

48. The most primitive vascular plants is:

 
 
 
 

49. Rhizophore of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

50. Fern prothallus produces:

 
 
 
 

51. . Tapetum develops in:

 
 
 
 

52. Fern prothallus is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

54. The gametophyte of fern bears:

 
 
 
 

55. Polystelic condition is found in:

 
 
 
 

56. Placenta in fern is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

58. The prothallus of fern represents the plant:

 
 
 
 

59. Which of the following is a heterosporous pteridophyte?

 
 
 
 

60. The sporangia of Selaginella are attached:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

65. Psilotum is:

 
 
 
 

66. The seedless plants which possess vascular tissues are:

 
 
 
 

67. attract the antherozoids of Funaria towards their archegonium:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

69. The stele of Dryopteris is a:

 
 
 
 

70. Heterospory is the production of:

 
 
 
 

71. Which of the following is true for Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

73. Which of the following applies to Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

75. Most primitive group of vascular plants are:

 
 
 
 

76. The megasporangium of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

79. Cyathia is characterized by:

 
 
 
 

80. Male gametes in Dryopteris are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

82. Azolla and Salvinia both are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

84. The sori in Dryopteris are found on:

 
 
 
 

85. What is special feature of fern archegonia?

 
 
 
 

86. Indusium in Dryopteris is:

 
 
 
 

87. Meristele of fern is:

 
 
 
 

88. In Pteris, the archegonia are present:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

91. Amphiphloeic siphonostele develops in rhizome of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

98. Selaginella differs from Moss in having:

 
 
 
 

99. The prothallus of fern is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 


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