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Question 1: Which group does NOT produce an embryo?
(a) Algae
(b) Mosses
(c) Liverworts
(d) Club mosses
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Answer: (a) Algae

Explanation:
1. Algae do not form an embryo
2. Bryophytes and pteridophytes are embryophytes.

Teacher's Note:
1. Embryo formation separates land plants from algae.

Question 2: Which is NOT an example of a moss?
(a) Funaria
(b) Polytrichum
(c) Sphagnum
(d) Colletotrichum
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Answer: (d) Colletotrichum

Explanation:
1. Funaria, Polytrichum and Sphagnum are mosses
2. Colletotrichum is a fungus.

Teacher's Note:
1. Sphagnum gives peat.

Question 3: Sporophylls arranged spirally along an axis form:
(a) Strobilus
(b) Flowers
(c) Inflorescence
(d) Thalamus
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Answer: (a) Strobilus

Explanation:
1. Aggregated sporophylls form a strobilus or cone.

Teacher's Note:
1. Strobili occur in Selaginella, Equisetum and conifers.

Question 4: The gametophyte (prothallus) of pteridophytes requires:
(a) Warm, damp and shady places
(b) Cool, damp and shady places
(c) Warm, dry and shady places
(d) Cool, dry and sunny places
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Answer: (b) Cool, damp and shady places

Explanation:
1. The small prothallus needs cool, damp and shady places.

Teacher's Note:
1. Water is needed for the swimming male gametes.

Question 5: The majority of red algae grow in:
(a) Marine and warmer areas
(b) Marine and colder areas
(c) Freshwater and warmer areas
(d) Brackish water and colder areas
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Answer: (a) Marine and warmer areas

Explanation:
1. Most red algae are marine and live in warmer areas, some at great depths.

Teacher's Note:
1. Phycoerythrin helps them absorb blue light in deep water.

Question 6: Autotrophic aquatic organisms that reproduce vegetatively by fragmentation, asexually by non-motile spores and sexually by non-motile gametes are:
(a) Polysiphonia, Porphyra, Gracilaria
(b) Ectocarpus, Dictyota, Laminaria
(c) Laminaria, Fucus, Sargassum
(d) Volvox, Chara, Spirogyra
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Answer: (a) Polysiphonia, Porphyra, Gracilaria

Explanation:
1. Red algae have no motile stages; spores and gametes are non-motile.

Teacher's Note:
1. Red algae lack flagella throughout their life.

Question 7: Which statement about agar is NOT true?
(a) It is obtained from red algae
(b) It is used to grow microbes
(c) It is used to make ice-cream and jellies
(d) It is used as a food supplement even by space travellers
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Answer: (d) It is used as a food supplement even by space travellers

Explanation:
1. Agar from Gelidium and Gracilaria is used for culture and for ice-cream and jellies
2. The food supplement used by space travellers is Chlorella.

Teacher's Note:
1. Chlorella is protein-rich single-cell protein.

Question 8: The most acceptable system of classification at present is:
(a) Artificial system
(b) Natural system
(c) Phylogenetic system
(d) Practical system
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Answer: (c) Phylogenetic system

Explanation:
1. Phylogenetic systems are based on evolutionary relationships, so they are the most acceptable.

Teacher's Note:
1. Bentham and Hooker gave a natural system.

Question 9: Fill the blanks a, b, c and d in the table.
Bryophyta: main body gametophyte; fertilisation by zoidogamy; vascular tissue absent; female sex organ (c).
Pteridophyta: main body (a); fertilisation by zoidogamy; vascular tissue (b); female sex organ archegonium.
Gymnosperm: main body sporophyte; fertilisation by siphonogamy and zoidogamy; vascular tissue present; female sex organ (d).
(a) (a) Sporophyte, (b) Present, (c) Archegonium, (d) Archegonium
(b) (a) Sporophyte, (b) Absent, (c) Oogonium, (d) Archegonium
(c) (a) Gametophyte, (b) Present, (c) Oogonium, (d) Carpel
(d) (a) Gametophyte, (b) Present, (c) Archegonium, (d) Carpel
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Answer: (a) (a) Sporophyte, (b) Present, (c) Archegonium, (d) Archegonium

Explanation:
1. Pteridophytes have a dominant sporophyte with vascular tissue
2. Bryophytes and gymnosperms both have archegonia as female sex organs
3. Carpels occur only in angiosperms.

Teacher's Note:
1. Archegonium is the female organ in bryophytes, pteridophytes and gymnosperms.

Question 10: Floridean starch is a characteristic feature of:
(a) Polysiphonia, Gracilaria, Porphyra
(b) Laminaria, Sargassum, Porphyra
(c) Polysiphonia, Laminaria, Porphyra
(d) Chara, Dictyota, Polysiphonia
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Answer: (a) Polysiphonia, Gracilaria, Porphyra

Explanation:
1. Floridean starch is the reserve food of red algae, which include Polysiphonia, Gracilaria and Porphyra.

Teacher's Note:
1. Brown algae store laminarin and mannitol.

Question 11: Predominant stage gametophyte; vegetative reproduction by fragmentation and budding; antheridia and archegonia; sporophyte of foot, seta and capsule; spores form protonema on germination. This describes:
(a) Lycopsida
(b) Bryopsida
(c) Hepaticopsida
(d) Psilopsida
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Answer: (b) Bryopsida

Explanation:
1. A protonema stage arising from spores is typical of mosses (Bryopsida)
2. Liverworts do not form a protonema.

Teacher's Note:
1. Mosses have a creeping protonema and a leafy stage.

Question 12: Integumented megasporangia are formed in:
(a) Phanerogams
(b) Cryptogams only
(c) Gymnosperms only
(d) Pteridophytes only
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Answer: (a) Phanerogams

Explanation:
1. Gymnosperms and angiosperms (phanerogams) form ovules, which are integumented megasporangia.

Teacher's Note:
1. Cryptogams do not make seeds.

Question 13: The most reduced gametophyte is found in:
(a) Bryophyta
(b) Pteridophyta
(c) Gymnosperms
(d) Angiosperms
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Answer: (d) Angiosperms

Explanation:
1. The gametophyte becomes progressively smaller from bryophytes to angiosperms
2. In angiosperms the male gametophyte has three cells and the female gametophyte seven cells.

Teacher's Note:
1. The embryo sac is the female gametophyte of angiosperms.

Question 14: In gymnosperms the megaspore forms:
(a) Endosperm
(b) Female gamete
(c) Male gamete
(d) Male cone
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Answer: (a) Endosperm

Explanation:
1. The megaspore develops into the female gametophyte, which is the haploid endosperm.

Teacher's Note:
1. The endosperm of gymnosperms is haploid.

Question 15: Find the odd one with respect to ploidy:
(a) Spore
(b) Sporophyte
(c) Archegonium
(d) Antheridium
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Answer: (b) Sporophyte

Explanation:
1. Spores, archegonia and antheridia are haploid
2. The sporophyte is diploid.

Teacher's Note:
1. Gametophyte structures are haploid.

Question 16: Which is the odd one about liverworts?
(a) Foot, seta, capsule
(b) Spore, archegonium, antheridium
(c) Multicellular rhizoids, primary and secondary protonema
(d) Rhizoids, gemmae, scales
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Answer: (c) Multicellular rhizoids, primary and secondary protonema

Explanation:
1. Liverworts have unicellular rhizoids and no protonema
2. Protonema and multicellular rhizoids belong to mosses.

Teacher's Note:
1. Mosses have multicellular branched rhizoids.

Question 17: Which statement is NOT true about ferns?
(a) They produce sori on sporophylls
(b) They produce male and female cones by spiral arrangement of sporophylls
(c) Some ferns are heterosporous
(d) Some ferns are aquatic
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Answer: (b) They produce male and female cones by spiral arrangement of sporophylls

Explanation:
1. Ferns bear sori on fronds and have no cones
2. Salvinia and Marsilea are aquatic and heterosporous ferns.

Teacher's Note:
1. Cones belong to lycopods, horsetails and conifers.

Question 18: Normally, how many archegonia are produced in a gymnosperm ovule?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Two or more
(d) Always one
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Answer: (c) Two or more

Explanation:
1. The female gametophyte of gymnosperms bears two or more archegonia.

Teacher's Note:
1. Each archegonium has one egg.

Question 19: The most common type of spores produced by algae in asexual reproduction are:
(a) Aplanospores
(b) Conidia
(c) Zoospores
(d) Hypnospores
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Answer: (c) Zoospores

Explanation:
1. Algae commonly reproduce asexually by flagellated zoospores.

Teacher's Note:
1. Zoospores are motile.

Question 20: Fusion between a large, non-motile female gamete and a smaller, motile male gamete is called:
(a) Isogamy
(b) Oogamy
(c) Anisogamy
(d) Autogamy
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Answer: (b) Oogamy

Explanation:
1. A large non-motile egg fusing with a small motile sperm is oogamy
2. In anisogamy both gametes are motile.

Teacher's Note:
1. Volvox and Fucus show oogamy.

Question 21: Non-vascular archegoniate plants are:
(a) Thallophytes
(b) Bryophytes
(c) Pteridophytes
(d) Gymnosperms
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Answer: (b) Bryophytes

Explanation:
1. Bryophytes have archegonia but no vascular tissue.

Teacher's Note:
1. Thallophytes lack archegonia.

Question 22: Vascular plants producing integumented megasporangia but no ovary are:
(a) Pteridophytes
(b) Gymnosperms
(c) Angiosperms
(d) Bryophytes
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Answer: (b) Gymnosperms

Explanation:
1. Gymnosperms have naked ovules without an ovary.

Teacher's Note:
1. Angiosperms have ovules inside an ovary.

Question 23: Which is NOT an ecological importance of mosses?
(a) Some mosses provide food for herbaceous mammals and birds
(b) High water-holding capacity of mosses is useful for trans-shipment of living materials
(c) Mosses along with lichens are pioneers in colonising rocks
(d) Mosses form dense mats on soil and reduce the impact of rain
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Answer: (b) High water-holding capacity of mosses is useful for trans-shipment of living materials

Explanation:
1. Packing of live plant material with Sphagnum is an economic use
2. Mosses are pioneers on rock, food for animals and prevent soil erosion.

Teacher's Note:
1. Sphagnum is used in packaging living material.

Question 24: In most plants, reduction division (meiosis) occurs during the formation of:
(a) Male and female gametes
(b) Male and female sex organs
(c) Microspores and megaspores
(d) Microsporangium and megasporangium
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Answer: (c) Microspores and megaspores

Explanation:
1. Meiosis in the sporophyte forms spores, that is microspores and megaspores.

Teacher's Note:
1. Gametes form by mitosis in gametophytes.

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