Q.1.
Which of the following is not correctly matched?
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29%
a) Chlamydomonas – Unicellular flagellated.
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29%
b) Volvox – Colonial, non flagellated.
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24%
c) Laminaria – Flattened leaf like thallus.
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19%
d) Chlorella – Unicellular, non-flagellated.
Q.2.
Which of the following statements is correct ? [NEET 2018]
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15%
a) Horsetails are gymnosperms.
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27%
b) Selaginella is heterosporous, while Salvinia is homosporous.
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42%
c) Ovules are not enclosed by ovary wall in gymnosperms.
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16%
d) Stems are usually unbranched in both Cycas and Cedrus.
Q.3.
Tallest gymnosperm is:
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25%
a) Eucalyptus
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29%
b) Pinus gerardiana.
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21%
c) Ephedra.
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25%
d) Sequoia sempervirens.
Q.4.
Consider the following statements regarding gymnosperms and choose the correct option: (i) In gymnosperms, the male and female gametophyte have an independent existence. (ii) The multicellular female gametophyte is retained within the Megasporangium. (iii) The gymnosperms are heterosporous.
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31%
a) (i) and (ii) are true but (iii) is false.
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29%
b) (i) and (iii) are true but (ii) is false.
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23%
c) (ii) and (iii) are false but (i) is true.
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18%
d) (ii) and (iii) are true but (i) is false.
Q.5.
A student was given a sample to observe under the microscope. He observed and found that the sample is the most common type of spore involved in asexual reproduction in algae. Identify the spore.
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16%
a) Hypnospore
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21%
b) Endospore.
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42%
c) Zoospore.
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21%
d) None of the above.
Q.6.
Refer the statement and answer the question. They usually reproduce vegetatively by fragmentation and asexually by non - motile spores and sexually by non - motile gametes. Identify the group of plants and its example.
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24%
a) Pteridophytes, Selaginella.
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28%
b) Mosses, Funaria.
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30%
c) Brown algae, Laminaria.
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18%
d) Red algae, Polysiphonia.
Q.7.
Mosses do not have true leaves because their leaf-like structures lack:
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42%
a) Vascular tissues.
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25%
b) Chlorophyll.
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18%
c) Starch in their chloroplast.
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15%
d) Cellulose in their cell walls.
Q.8.
Place the following groups of plants in order, beginning with those that first appeared on the earth and progressing toward those that appeared most recently in time.
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28%
a) Algae, ferns, angiosperms, gymnosperms, moss.
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25%
b) Gymnosperms, angiosperms, ferns, moss, algae.
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15%
c) Moss, algae, ferns, angiosperms, gymnosperms.
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33%
d) Algae, moss, ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms.
Q.9.
Chemotaxonomy is connected with:
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17%
a) Application of chemicals on herbarium sheets.
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34%
b) Classification of chemicals found in plants.
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34%
c) Use of phyto-chemical data in systematic botany.
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15%
d) Use of statistical methods in chemical yielding plants.
Q.10.
In order to colonize land, plants needed to acquire which of the following characteristics?
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20%
a) A mechanism for moving water throughout the plant.
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19%
b) A mechanism to prevent desiccation of tissues.
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20%
c) An ability to screen ultraviolet radiation.
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42%
d) Both (B ) and (C).
Q.11.
Find out the incorrect match:
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22%
a) Marchantia – Gemmae.
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24%
b) Funaria – Prothallus.
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30%
c) Ginkgo – Living fossil.
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25%
d) Marsilea – Sporocarp.
Q.12.
In which of the following bryophytes, ventral side of the thallus is symbiotically associated with cyanobacteria Nostoc colonies?
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28%
a) Marchantia.
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28%
b) Funaria.
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29%
c) Anthoceros.
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15%
d) Polytrichum.
Q.13.
Which of the following sentence is wrong?
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19%
a) Batrachospermum is neither red nor a marine alga.
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25%
b) Carrageen is obtained from Chondrus crispus
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33%
c) Protonema is directly developed from germination of spore in Riccia.
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24%
d) Prothallus is the free-living gametophyte in pteridophytes.
Q.14.
Which among the following groups of plants are known as vascular cryptogams?
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20%
a) Moss.
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27%
b) Ferns
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33%
c) Liver worts.
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21%
d) Conifers.
Q.15.
Find the set of statements related to Funaria? (i) Protonema. (ii) Prothallus. (iii) Gametophyte. (iv) Thallus. (v) Haplodiplontic. (vi)Heterospory.
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37%
a) (i), (iii), (v).
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28%
b) (ii), (v), (vi).
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22%
c) (i), (iv), (v), (vi).
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14%
d) (ii), (iii), (v), (vi).
Explanation
Q.16.
The aquatic fern which supports the blue green algae, Anabaena and is used to increase the yield of paddy fields is:
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35%
a) Salvinia
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25%
b) Marsilea
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17%
c) Isoetes
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24%
d) Azolla
Q.17.
Classification of plants proposed by Carolus Linnaeus was artificial because it was based on:
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30%
a) Physiological traits along with morphological characters.
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20%
b) Anatomical characters which are adaptive in nature.
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39%
c) only a few morphological characters.
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11%
d) Evolutionary tendencies which are diverse.
Q.18.
Coenobium is the name given to the colony of:
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30%
a) Chlamydomonas.
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11%
b) Fritschiella.
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49%
c) Volvox.
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10%
d) Vaucheria.
Q.19.
Which of the following is a true moss?
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25%
a) Cord moss.
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37%
b) Club moss.
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13%
c) Irish moss.
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24%
d) Spike moss.
Q.20.
Which of the following characteristics is not related to Cycas?
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27%
a) Circinate venation of foliage leaves
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32%
b) Presence of armed parenchyma
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23%
c) Presence of motile sperm
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18%
d) Absence of vessels in the xylem
Q.21.
Archegonia is absent in:
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20%
a) Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.
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32%
b) Bryophytes.
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23%
c) Angiosperms.
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24%
d) Pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms.
Q.22.
Sporophyte is represented by zygote only in:
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21%
a) Riccia.
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31%
b) Ulothrix
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22%
c) Selaginella.
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26%
d) Pinus.
Q.23.
Which one of the following is heterosporous?
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24%
a) Marsilea.
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33%
b) Equisetum.
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18%
c) Adiantum.
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25%
d) Lycopodium.
Q.24.
Match column I with column II:
| (a) Acetabularia | Parasitic green algae |
| (b) Cephaleuros | Umbrella plant |
| (c) Chlorella | Space algae |
| (d) Harveyella | Parasitic red algae |
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28%
a) a - 2 ; b - 1 ; c - 3 ; d - 4
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36%
b) a - 1 ; b - 2 ; c - 3 ; d - 4
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25%
c) a - 4 ; b - 3 ; c - 2 ; d - 1
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11%
d) a - 3 ; b - 1 ; c - 2 ; d - 4
Q.25.
Leaves of ferns are covered with:
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13%
a) Ramenta.
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46%
b) Spores.
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20%
c) Wax.
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20%
d) Inducium.
Q.26.
Select the incorrectly matched pair?
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30%
a) Cycas – Absence of female cone.
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28%
b) Pinus - ♂ and ♀ strobilus on different plants.
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30%
c) Gingko – Living fossil of plant kingdom.
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13%
d) Gnetum – Absence of archegonium.
Q.27.
The term Saccus refers to:
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22%
a) Wings of seeds of Pinus.
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35%
b) Wings of pollen grains of Pinus
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24%
c) Prothallial cells of pollen grains of Pinus.
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19%
d) Female cone of Pinus.
Q.28.
Which of the following, examples belongs to the same class of algae?
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19%
a) Porphyra, Ectocarpus, Ulothrix.
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22%
b) Sargassum, Laminaria, Gracilaria.
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52%
c) Volvox, Spirogyra, Chlamydomonas.
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7%
d) Chara, Fucus, Polysiphonia.
Q.29.
Largest plant cells.
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14%
a) Acetabularia.
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16%
b) Chlorella.
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24%
c) Ostrich egg.
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46%
d) Sclerenchyma fibres.
Q.30.
Which of the following is a terrestrial species?
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21%
a) Marsilea.
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29%
b) Adiantum.
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30%
c) Salvinia
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21%
d) Azolla.