Pteridophyta - 1
Introduction to Pteridophyta including fern anatomy, reproduction, stele types, and related lycophytes
Questions
Microsporangia and meagasporangia are found in the same cone in ___________.
- Adiantum
- Selaginella
- Pinus
- Dryopteris
- Enterosora
A stele without pith is known as
- siphonostele
- protostele
- dictyostele
- eustele
- haplostele
Which of the following is not involved in the fertilization of fern?
- Oogamy
- Pollen tube
- Archegonium
- Cillum
- None of these
Gamete formation in ferns takes place through
- meiosis
- both meiosis and mitosis
- either meiosis or mitosis
- mitosis
- binary fission
The stele of lycopodium is called
- Polystele
- Siphonostele
- Haplostele
- Actinostele
- Plectostele
If a plant produces two types of spores, it is called
- heterosporous
- homosporous
- dioecious
- autoecious
- none of these
The vascular bundles in fern rhizome are
- radial
- collateral
- concentric
- bicollateral
- amphivasal
In fern plant, flagella of spermatozoid are attached to
- nucleus
- rhizoplast
- body surface
- blepharoplast
- prothallus
Horsetail is the common name of
- Equisetum
- Marsilea
- Pteris
- Pogonatum
- Metaxya
In the sporophyll of ferns, sporangia are borne on
- abaxial surface
- adaxial surface
- either adaxial or abaxial surface
- margins
- both adaxial and abaxial surface
In selaginella, an 'organ suigeneris' is
- rhizoid
- rhizophore
- root
- ligule
- fruit
The sporangium of pteriodophyte is
- diploid
- haploid
- triploid
- aneuploid
- any of the above
Which of the following is a Tassel fern?
- Huperzia Borneo Square
- Pteris longifolia
- Adiantum formosum
- Nephrolepis exaltata
- Doodia media
A fossil pteriodophyte is
- Sequoia
- Tmesipteris
- Rhynia
- Psilotum
- Nephrolepis
A meristele of fern rhizome is
- radial
- collateral
- amphicribal
- conjoint
- amphivasal
Fern plants are called
- hygrophytes
- hydrophytes
- xerophytes
- mesophytes
- none of the above
If a sporangium develops from a single initial cell, it is called
- leptosporangiate
- eusporangiate
- apomixis
- either eusporangiate or apomixis
- either eusporangiate or leptosporangiate
Spore of fern gives rise to a
- gametophyte
- sporophyte
- heteroecious thallus
- heterotrichous
- both sporophyte and gametophyte
Stele of rhizophore of selaginella is called
- tetrarch
- triarch
- diarch
- monarch
- pentarch
An adaxial outgrowth in the leaves of selaginella is
- trabeculae
- stipule
- ligule
- velum
- bud