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Questions Related to types of bryophytes

The moss plants are characterised by

  1. Presence of stem like and leaf like

  2. Absence of vascular tissue

  3. A filamentous juvenile gametophyte

  4. All the above


Correct Option: D

Sporogonium of Riccia is made of

  1. Foot and capsule

  2. Foot, seta and capsule

  3. Capsule only

  4. Seta and capsule


Correct Option: C

In Riccia the sporogonium is

  1. Embedded

  2. Projecting but sessile

  3. Shortly stalked and projecting

  4. Lateral


Correct Option: A

In Riccia/Marchantia the rhizoids are

  1. Branched unicellular

  2. Branched multicellular

  3. Unbranched multicellular

  4. Unbranched unicellular


Correct Option: D

Moss peristome takes part in

  1. Spore dispersal

  2. Photosynthesis

  3. Protection

  4. Absorption


Correct Option: A

On germination a moss spore produces

  1. Protonema

  2. Leafy gametophyte

  3. Sporogonium

  4. Sporophyte


Correct Option: A

What is characteristic of sporophyte of Anthoceros?

  1. Presence of mechanical tissue

  2. Photosynthesis

  3. Meristematic zone

  4. Foot


Correct Option: C

A bryophyte harbouring Nostoc colonies is

  1. Zoopis

  2. Anthoceros

  3. Dawsonia

  4. Marchantia


Correct Option: B

In Riccia/bryophytes

  1. Sporophyte is parasitic over gametophyte

  2. Gametophyte is parasitic over sporophyte

  3. Sporophyte is independent of gametophyte

  4. Sporophyte is semiparasite


Correct Option: A

Slime pores occur ventrally in

  1. Marchantia

  2. Riccia

  3. Sphagnum

  4. Anthoceros


Correct Option: D