Question Bank No: 1

1. Which of the following groups do not have eukaryotic organisation?

 a)Blue green algae
 b)Green algae
 c)Golden brown algae
 d)Red algae

2. Cycas and Adiantum resemble each other in having

 a)Cambium
 b)Vessels
 c)Seeds
 d)Motile sperms

3. Vessels are found in

 a)All angiosperms, all gymnosperms and some pteridophyta
 b)Most of the angiosperm and few gymnosperms
 c)All angiosperms and some gymnosperm
 d)All pteridophyta

4. Conifers differ from grasses in the

 a)Absence of pollen tubes
 b)Lack of xylem trachieds
 c)Production of seeds from ovules
 d)Formation of endosperm before fertilization

5. Which of the following plants is monoecious?

 a)Pinus
 b)Marchantia
 c)Papaya
 d)Cycas

6. Moss spore germinate to form

 a)Protonema
 b)Leafy gametophyte
 c)Leafy sporophyte
 d)Prothallus

7. Mannitol is the stored food in

 a)Gracilaria
 b)Chara
 c)Porphyra
 d)Fucus

8. Largest ovule is found in

 a)Cycas
 b)Jackfruit
 c)Pinns
 d)Mangifera

9. Juvenile stage of moss is

 a)Prothallus
 b)Capsule
 c)Protonema
 d)All of these

10. Gymnosperm seeds are naked due to lack of

 a)Nucellus
 b)Perianth
 c)Pericarp
 d)Integuments

11. In a flowering plant, megaspore undergoes mitosis and develops into a/ an

 a)Anther
 b)Ovary
 c)Ovule
 d)Seed

12. Fern plant is

 a)Haploid sporophyte
 b)Diploid gametophyte
 c)Diploid sporophyte
 d)Haploid gametophyte

13. Fern gametophyte is nutritionally

 a)Chemoautotroph
 b)Parasite
 c)Sporophyte
 d)Photoautotroph

14. Corn and Beans are often cited as representative examples of ____ and ____ respestively

 a)Ferns and mosses
 b)Cycads and conifers
 c)Monocots and Dicots
 d)Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

15. Compared with the gametophytes of the bryophytes the gametophytes of vascular plants tend to be

 a)Smaller and to have smaller sex organs
 b)Smaller but to have larger sex organs
 c)Larger but to have smaller sex organs
 d)Larger and to have larger sex organs

16. Archegoniophore is found in

 a)Funaria
 b)Marchantia
 c)Chara
 d)Adiantum

17. Antheridia and Archegonia are sex organs of

 a)Moss
 b)Mucor
 c)Spirogyra
 d)Puccinia

18. Algae having oil as reserve food belongs to

 a)Xanthophyceae
 b)Rhodophyceae
 c)Chlorophyceae
 d)Phaeophyceae

19. A pine seed has cotyledons and tissue from the

 a)Male gametophyte
 b)Female gametophyte
 c)Megasporangium
 d)Pollen grain

20. A fresh water algae rich in proteins is

 a)Ulothrix
 b)Chlorella
 c)Chlamydamonas
 d)Spirogyra