Tag: bryophyta

Questions Related to bryophyta

Largest moss is

  1. Pogonatum

  2. Funaria

  3. Dawsonia

  4. Polytrichum


Correct Option: C

Sex organs of Anthoceros are

  1. Terminal

  2. Borne over dorsal surface of thallus

  3. Embedded

  4. Formed over gametophores


Correct Option: C

A common hornwort is

  1. Anthoceros

  2. Funaria

  3. Marchantia

  4. Riccia


Correct Option: A

In mosses gametophyte has $2$ stages. What are these stages?

  1. $1st$ stage is sporogonium phase and $2nd$ protonema stage

  2. $1st$ stage is protonema and the $2nd$ stage is leafy stage

  3. $1st$ stage is gemmae formation and $2nd$ one is meiosis.

  4. $1st$ stage is zygote and $2nd$ one is Spore mother cell


Correct Option: A

Archegonia in Riccia are______________.

  1. Projecting type and sessile

  2. Projecting type and stalked

  3. Embedded type and sessile

  4. Half embedded type and stalked


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The archegonium is a stalked flask-shaped structure with a basally swollen venter and an elongated neck 

First true land plants are

  1. Mosses

  2. Ferns

  3. Amphibians of plant kingdom

  4. Produce flowers


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The first true land plants were non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts that appeared in the early Ordovician period. 

So, the correct answer is 'Mosses'

Mosses are gregarious in nature, because?

  1. They show independent alternation of generation

  2. They appear in group

  3. They show haplo-diplontic life cycle

  4. Their antherozoids are biflagellate


Correct Option: A

The sporophyte in mosses is?

  1. Less elaborate than that in liverworts

  2. More elaborates than that in liverworts

  3. Equally elaborate in both

  4. Independent of gametophyte


Correct Option: A

Elaters are present in the sporogonium of

  1. Riccia

  2. Selaginella

  3. Marchantia

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Elaters are present in hepaticopsida (marchantia). Pseudoelators are present in Anthocerotopsida. Single layered capsule wall splits into a number of longitudinal valves, which extend from apex towards the middle of capsule. The valves are rolled back due to annular thickenings in jacket cells. Jerky movement of elaters due to their hygroscopic nature leads to loosening up of spore mass and scattering of spores in air.

Which one of them lack foot and seta in sporophyte?

  1. Marchantia

  2. Riccia

  3. Anthoceros

  4. Moss


Correct Option: B