Plant Kingdom

If you are asked to classify the various algae into distinct groups, which of the following characters you should choose?

1. Nature of stored food materials in the cell
2. Structural organization of thallus
3. Chemical composition of the cell wall
4. Types of pigments present in the cell

In the prothallus of a vascular cryptogam, the antherozoids and eggs mature at different times. As a result

1. there is high degree of sterility
2. one can conclude that the plant is apomictic
3. self fertilization is prevented
4. there is no change in success rate of fertilization

Peat moss is used as a packing material for sending flowers and live plants to distant places because

1. it serves as a disinfectant
2. it is easily available
3. it is hygroscopic
4. it reduces transpiration

Conifers differ from grasses in the

1. formation of endosperm before fertilization
2. production of seeds from ovules
3. lack of xylem tracheids
4. absence of pollen tubes

In a moss, the sporophyte

1. manufactures food for itself, as well as for the gametophyte
2. is partially parasitic on the gametophyte
3. produces gametes that give rise to the gametophyte
4. arises from a spore produced from the gametophyte

Ectophloic siphonostele is found in

1. Osmunda and Equisetum
2. Marsilea and Botrychium
3. Adiantum and Cucurbitaceae
4. Dicksonia and Maiden hair fern.

Top-shaped multiciliate male gametes and the mature seed which bears only one embryo with two cotyledons, are characterised features of

1. cycads
2. conifers
3. polypetalous angiosperms
4. gamopetalous angiosperms

Phenetic classification of organisms is based on

1. observable characteristics of existing organisms
2. the ancestral lineage of existing organisms
3. dendrogram based on DNA characteristics
4. sexual characteristics

Angiosperms have dominated the land flora primarily because of their

1. power of adaptability in diverse habitat
2. property of producing large number of seeds
3. nature of self pollination
4. domestication by man

Which one of the following is living fossil ?

1. Cycas
2. Moss
3. Spirogyra
4. Saccharomyces