Quiz_Ptridophyta

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1. The fern plant is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

3. Which of the following applies to Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

6. The most primitive vascular plants is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

8. Cyathia is characterized by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

10. The sporangia of Selaginella are attached:

 
 
 
 

11. Fern plants are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

15. Amphiphloeic siphonostele develops in rhizome of:

 
 
 
 

16. The ferns are usually found:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

18. The gametophyte of fern is as:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

20. In Pteris, the archegonia are present:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

23. In Selaginella, the microsporangia are:

 
 
 
 

24. Rhizophore of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

25. Selaginella differs from Moss in having:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

30. Heterospory and ligulate leaves are a feature of:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

33. The archegonia of Selaginella are differentiated by:

 
 
 
 

34. The archegonia in Selaginella develop on:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

38. Most primitive group of vascular plants are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

41. The prothallus of fern is:

 
 
 
 

42. Male gametophyte of Selaginella is found:

 
 
 
 

43. The gametophyte of fern bears:

 
 
 
 

44. Azolla and Salvinia both are:

 
 
 
 

45. . Tapetum develops in:

 
 
 
 

46. What is special feature of fern archegonia?

 
 
 
 

47. Polystelic condition is found in:

 
 
 
 

48. The stele of Dryopteris is a:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

53. attract the antherozoids of Funaria towards their archegonium:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

56. The sori in Dryopteris are found on:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

58. The sporangium of fern contains nearly:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

64. Psilotum is:

 
 
 
 

65. Fern phloem lacks:

 
 
 
 

66. Indusium in Dryopteris is:

 
 
 
 

67. Fern prothallus produces:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

70. Azolla growing in paddy fields helps in:

 
 
 
 

71. The term stele was given by:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

73. Pteridophyta are also called:

 
 
 
 

74. Male gametes in Dryopteris are:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

77. The leafy fern plant represents the:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

79. The tree fern is:

 
 
 
 

80. How a fern differs from a moss?

 
 
 
 

81. Meristele of fern is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

84. The prothallus of fern represents the plant:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

86. Placenta in fern is:

 
 
 
 

87. The development of Selaginella embryo is:

 
 
 
 

88. Fern prothallus is:

 
 
 
 

89. Which of the following is a heterosporous pteridophyte?

 
 
 
 

90. The development of sporangium in Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

93. The megasporangium of Selaginella is:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

95. The seedless plants which possess vascular tissues are:

 
 
 
 

96. Sporophyte of fern is:

 
 
 
 

97. In Pteris, the roots are:

 
 
 
 

98. Heterospory is the production of:

 
 
 
 

99. The megaspore of Selaginella on germination produces:

 
 
 
 

100. Which of the following is true for Selaginella?

 
 
 
 

101. Which is the correct statement about Selaginella?

 
 
 
 


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