Pteridophyta - 1

Introduction to Pteridophyta including fern anatomy, reproduction, stele types, and related lycophytes

20 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Microsporangia and meagasporangia are found in the same cone in ___________.

  1. Adiantum
  2. Selaginella
  3. Pinus
  4. Dryopteris
  5. Enterosora
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A stele without pith is known as

  1. siphonostele
  2. protostele
  3. dictyostele
  4. eustele
  5. haplostele
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not involved in the fertilization of fern?

  1. Oogamy
  2. Pollen tube
  3. Archegonium
  4. Cillum
  5. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Gamete formation in ferns takes place through

  1. meiosis
  2. both meiosis and mitosis
  3. either meiosis or mitosis
  4. mitosis
  5. binary fission
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The stele of lycopodium is called

  1. Polystele
  2. Siphonostele
  3. Haplostele
  4. Actinostele
  5. Plectostele
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a plant produces two types of spores, it is called

  1. heterosporous
  2. homosporous
  3. dioecious
  4. autoecious
  5. none of these
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The vascular bundles in fern rhizome are

  1. radial
  2. collateral
  3. concentric
  4. bicollateral
  5. amphivasal
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In fern plant, flagella of spermatozoid are attached to

  1. nucleus
  2. rhizoplast
  3. body surface
  4. blepharoplast
  5. prothallus
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Horsetail is the common name of

  1. Equisetum
  2. Marsilea
  3. Pteris
  4. Pogonatum
  5. Metaxya
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In the sporophyll of ferns, sporangia are borne on

  1. abaxial surface
  2. adaxial surface
  3. either adaxial or abaxial surface
  4. margins
  5. both adaxial and abaxial surface
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In selaginella, an 'organ suigeneris' is

  1. rhizoid
  2. rhizophore
  3. root
  4. ligule
  5. fruit
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The sporangium of pteriodophyte is

  1. diploid
  2. haploid
  3. triploid
  4. aneuploid
  5. any of the above
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a Tassel fern?

  1. Huperzia Borneo Square
  2. Pteris longifolia
  3. Adiantum formosum
  4. Nephrolepis exaltata
  5. Doodia media
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A fossil pteriodophyte is

  1. Sequoia
  2. Tmesipteris
  3. Rhynia
  4. Psilotum
  5. Nephrolepis
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A meristele of fern rhizome is

  1. radial
  2. collateral
  3. amphicribal
  4. conjoint
  5. amphivasal
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fern plants are called

  1. hygrophytes
  2. hydrophytes
  3. xerophytes
  4. mesophytes
  5. none of the above
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a sporangium develops from a single initial cell, it is called

  1. leptosporangiate
  2. eusporangiate
  3. apomixis
  4. either eusporangiate or apomixis
  5. either eusporangiate or leptosporangiate
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Spore of fern gives rise to a

  1. gametophyte
  2. sporophyte
  3. heteroecious thallus
  4. heterotrichous
  5. both sporophyte and gametophyte
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Stele of rhizophore of selaginella is called

  1. tetrarch
  2. triarch
  3. diarch
  4. monarch
  5. pentarch
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An adaxial outgrowth in the leaves of selaginella is

  1. trabeculae
  2. stipule
  3. ligule
  4. velum
  5. bud