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Multiple choice botany living world lichen lichens lichens ( the nature's pioneers )

Lichens are best indicators of

  1. Water pollution

  2. Soil pollution

  3. Air pollution

  4. Noise pollution
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Lichens are used as the indicators of air pollution. These structures grow on tree bark and rocks. Air pollutants which are in the gaseous forms get dissolved in the rainwater, especially SO$ _2$ (sulphur dioxide) can damage lichens, and check them from growing. In places where lichens are not growing, it indicates that the air is heavily polluted with sulphur dioxide and other pollutants. 

Thus, the correct answer is option D. 

Multiple choice botany living world lichen lichens lichens ( the nature's pioneers )

Function of fungal part of a lichen is

  1. Absorption of minerals

  2. Providing food for lichen

  3. Protection

  4. Both A and C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • The function of fungal part of a lichen is the absorption of water and minerals from the substratum and providing protection for the phycobiont.
  • Food production is done by phycobiont.
  • So, the correct answer is 'Absorption of minerals and Protection'.
Multiple choice botany living world lichen lichens lichens ( the nature's pioneers )

Which of the following statement holds good with the term lichen?

  1. Lichens are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations

  2. They are multi cellular eukaryotic organisms that are heterotrophs

  3. A composite organism made up of a fungus, that grows symbiotically with an algae or a cyanobacterium

  4. Lichens contains only unicellular organisms with a prokaryotic cell organization
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.
  • Lichens are multicellular, eukaryotic but they have symbiosis as their mode of nutrition where algal component provides nutrition and fungal component helps in mineral absorption and protection.
  • Lichens contain unicellular cyanobacteria if the algal component contains cyanobacteria but all cells are not unicellular as fungal myceliae are multicellular.
  • So the correct answer is 'A composite organism made up of a fungus, that grows symbiotically with an algae or a cyanobacterium.'
Multiple choice botany living world lichen lichens lichens ( the nature's pioneers )

Which of the following pairs include photosynthetic and saprophytic organisms respectively?

  1. Monocot and dicot

  2. Algae and fungi

  3. Mosses and ferns

  4. Ferns and gymnosperms

  5. Gymnosperms and angiosperms
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Algae are photosynthetic organisms, while fungi are saprophytic organisms.

Multiple choice botany living world lichen lichens lichens ( the nature's pioneers )

Lichen is an example of ___________.

  1. Commensalism

  2. Mutualism

  3. Parasitism

  4. Mycorrhizal association
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Lichens are not a single organism, but, rather, an example of a mutualism in which a fungus usually a member of the Ascomycota or Basidiomycota phyla lives in close contact with a photosynthetic organism