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SANJIVANI Question Series
Topic – Plant Kingdom Part-I
1. Select the incorrect pair - 6. During asexual reproduction, non motile
spores are produced by members of -
1) Linnaeus - Artificial classification of plant
1) Green algae 2) Red algae
2) Phylogenetic classification - Most acceptable
classification 3) Brown algae 4) Both (2) and (3)

3) Carrageen - Red algae 7. Algin is found in cell wall of -

4) Polytrichum - Liverwort 1) Green algae 2) Red algae

2. Which of the following is not related to red 3) Brown algae 4) Blue green algae
algae - 8. How many of the given statements are true :
1) Carragenin 2) Agar A. Red algae are found usually in colder areas.
3) Algin 4) Both (1) and (3) B. Pyrenoids contain starch and protein.
3. Select the correct statement - C. Stored food in green algae is starch.
1) The colour of Phaeophyceae depends upon 1) None 2) One
the amount of Fucoxanthin
3) Two 4) Three
2) Equal, lateral flagella are found in brown algae
9. Cell wall in members of Rhodophyceae is
3) Oogamous reproduction is found in red algae made up of -
4) Both (1) and (3) 1) Cellulose only 2) Cellulose + Algin
4. Which set of algae does not belongs to same 3) Algin only 4) Cellulose + Pectin
class
10. Biflagellated pear shaped zoospores are found
1) Volvox, Ulothrix, Chara in life cycle of 'A' Class of algae. Which of the
following members belong to 'A' class -
2) Fucus, Dictyota, Sargassum
1) Volvox 2) Dictyota
3) Ectocarpus, Laminaria, Porphyra
3) Gelidium 4) Chara
4) Gracillaria, Gelidium, Polysiphonia
11. Ectocarpus and ______ belong to same Class
5. Which of the following algae belongs to
of algae.
different class?
1) Fucus 2) Porphyra
1) Sargassum 2) Laminaria
3) Nostoc 4) Chlamydomonas
3) Fucus 4) Chara

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12. Incorrect about life cycle of Bryophytes -
1) Gametophyte is photosynthetic.
2) Biflagellated antherozoids are produced
3) Sporophyte is dependent phase.
4) Unicellular antheridia are present.
13. All of the following belong to same class of
algae except one -
1) Sargassum 2) Spirogyra
3) Ulothrix 4) Chara
14. Bryophytes have ________ and __________
gametophytic generation.
1) Photosynthetic, independent
2) Non-photosynthetic, independent
3) Photosynthetic, dependent
4) Non-photosynthetic, dependent
15. ___________(also known as Bog moss) and
_________ belong to same Class of Bryophyta
1) Sphagnum, Funaria 2) Sphagnum, Riccia
3) Riccia, Sphagnum 4) Riccia, Marchantia
16. Select the correct statement -
1) Liverworts asexually reproduce
fragmentation and gemmae formation.
2) Protonema stage is found in Riccia.
3) Funaria, Sphagnum and Marchantia are mosses
4) Bryophytes are truly terrestrial.
17. Incorrect about liverworts -
1) Plant body : Thalloid
2) Sporophyte - Divided into foot, seta and
capsule.
3) Sexual reproduction - Present.
4) Asexual reproduction - Budding and
fragmentation.
18. Bryophytes are classified into A and B. A
possess Funaria as member while B possess
Riccia. A and B are respectively -
1) Liverworts and Mosses
2) Mosses and Liverworts
3) Mosses and Horsetails
4) Horsetails and Ferns
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19. Select the incorrect statement -
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1) Selaginella is homosporous pteridophyte
2) Polytrichum is a type of moss
3) Rhizoids in bryophytes can be unicellular or
multicellular
4) Sphagnum is peat moss
20. Sporophyte of Pteridophytes is differentiated
into all except:
1) Rhizoids 2) Stems
3) Leaves 4) Stem
21. Uniform sized spores are produced by -
1) Equisetum, but not by Dryopteris
2) Dryopteris, but not by Equisetum
3) Neither Dryopteris nor Equisetum
4) Both Dryopteris and Equisetum
22. What is the fate of spore in mosses?
1) It develops into thalloid body
by
2) It develops into protonema stage
3) It develops first into leafy stage, then
protonema stage
4) It degenerates
23. Incorrect about Selaginella -
1) Homosporous
2) Possess microphylls
3) Both (1) and (3)
4) Main plant body is sporophytic
24. Strobili or cones are compact structures
observed in -
1) Selaginella but not in Equisetum
2) Equisetum but not in Selaginella
3) Both Selaginella and Equisetum
4) Neither Selaginella nor Equisetum
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25. Read the following statements- 30. Incorrect about gymnosperms -

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A. Ferns produce macrophylls. 1) Main plant body is sporophytic
B. Archigonia is flask shaped and multicellular 2) Seeds are covered by fruit walls
in bryophytes
3) Heterosporous mostly
C. Sequoia is tallest angiosperm.
4) Usually anemophilous.
D. Most of algae show haplontic life cycle
31. Which of the following algae are used by
How many statements are incorrect? space travellers as food suppliments?
1) One 2) Two 1) Gracillaria, Gellidium
3) Three 4) Four 2) Volvox, Ulothrix
26. Select correct statement- 3) Spirogyra, Kelps
1) Giant Redwood tree is a plant with naked seeds 4) Spirullina, Chlorella.
2) Stem of Cycas is branched. 32. Which of following class /group is not matched
3) Equisetum belongs to Class Lycopsida. with appropriate members?

4) Gymnosperms exhibit haplodiplontic life cycle. 1) Monocotyledons - Wheat, Rice

27. Selaginella and Adiantum belong to _______ 2) Phaeophyceae - Ectocarpus, Laminaria

and _____ Class of Pteridophytes, respectively. 3) Rhodophyceae - Porphyra, Polysiphonia
1) Sphenopsida, Sphenopsida 4) Liverworts - Sphagnum, Polytrichum.
2) Sphenopsida, Pteridopsida 33. Identify the correct statement:
3) Lycopsida, Lycopsida 1) Cyanobacteria is a bacteria
4) Lycopsida, Pteridopsida 2) In 5-kingdom classification, algae is involved
28. Select the incorrect match : in Protista.

Class Members 3) Phylogenetic classification of plants was given

by Bentham and Hooker.
1) Lycopsida Lycopsida
4) Blue green algae is studied under Plantae.
2) Chlorophyceae Chlamydomonas
34. Artificial classification of plants on the basis
3) Psilopsida Equisetum
of structure of androecium, was given by -
4) Mosses Funaria
1) Aristotle
29. Which of the following belongs to same class
2) Linnaeus
of Pteridophytes -
3) Bentham and Hooker
1) Psilotum, Selaginella
4) Eichler.
2) Equisetum, Pteris
35. Which classification give equal weightage to
3) Selaginella, Lycopodium
vegetative and sexual characteristics in plants?
4) Lycopodium, Psilotum
1) Artificial 2) Natural
3) Phylogenetic 4) Both (2) and (3).

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36. Identify the algae and select the correct option, 42. Incorrect about green algae :

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which is having members of same class to
1) Members possess pyrenoids as storage bodies
which it belongs :
in chloroplasts.
2) Cell wall consists of outer layer of cellulose
and inner layer of pectose.
3) Spores for asexual reproduction are produced
in zoosporangia and are flagellated.
4) Dominant photosynthetic pigments are
chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b.
1) Sargassum, Dictyota 43. Stored material in the class of algae to which
2) Fucus, Polysiphonia Fucus and Dictyota belong, is :
3) Ectocarpus, Chara 1) Floridean starch
4) Volvox, Ulothrix. 2) Starch
37. Natural classification of plants given by 3) Mannitol and Laminarin
Bentham and Hooker is based on all of the
following except : 4) Algin

1) Anatomy and embryology 44. Photosynthetic organ in the plant body of

brown algae -
2) Ultrastructure
1) Roots 2) Holdfast
3) Evolutionary relationship
3) stipe 4) Frond.
4) Phytochemistry.
45. During asexual reproduction in most of brown
38. Which of the following is autotrophic and
aquatic with thalloid body? algae, zoospores are produced which are

1) Algae 2) Bryophytes 1) Elongated with no flagella

3) Pteridophytes 4) Gymnosperms. 2) Elongated with one flagella

39. Which of the following pair of algae is 3) Pear shaped with one flagella
filamentous? 4) Pear shaped with two flagella.
1) Volvox, Chlamydomonas
46. In bryophytes, antheridum produces :
2) Spirogyra, Ulothrix
1) Non-flagellated antherozoids
3) Ulothrix, Volvox
2) Uni- flagellated antherozoids
4) Fucus, Chlamydomonas.
3) Bi-flagellated antherozoids
40. Which of the following algae forms the passive
plant bodies? 4) Multi-flagellated antherozoids.

1) Kelps 2) Chlamydomonas 47. Mosses and liverworts are also known as

amphibians of plant kingdom because :
3) Spirogyra 4) Volvox.
1) these are aquatic
41. Fucoxanthin pigment is found in the class of
algae, whose member is? 2) these depend on water for sexual reproduction
1) Sargassum 2) Chlamydomonas 3) these can also survive in flooded conditions
3) Gelidium 4) Ulothrix 4) these play important role in succession.

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48. Rhizoids in bryophytes are : 55. All gymnosperms are ________ and pollinated

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by ___________.
1) Unicellular
1) homosporous, wind
2) Multicellular
2) heterosporous, water
3) Absent
3) homosporous, water
4) Unicellular or multicellular.
4) heterosporous, wind.
49. A and B are two bryophytes. Gametophyte of
A is thalloid while that B is having two stages 56. Select the incorrect information given about
- protonema and leafy stage. A and B may be the algae shown in the given diagrams :
respectively
1) Marchantia, Polytrichum
2) Sphagnum, Funaria
3) Sphagnum, Polytrichum
4) Funaria, Polytrichum.
50. Fragmentation of thalli as asexual mode of
reproduction is found in? 1) All of them have cellulose in their cell wall.

1) Liverworts 2) Mosses 2) Two of them are having floridean starch as

stored material.
3) Pinus 4) Both (1) and (2).
3) At least one of them is having chlorophyll b.
51. Select the wrong set of features regarding the
prothallus of pteridophytes 4) Two of them are having phycoerythrin as
photosynthetic pigment.
1) Multicellular and free-living
57. During asexual reproduction, Fucus produces
2) It is a gametophytic stage. zoospores which are :
3) Usually non-photosynthetic and well- 1) Non-motile 2) Uniflagellated
differentiated
3) Biflagellated 4) Multiflagellated
4) Small and inconspicuous
58. Two pteridophytes are shown in diagram (A
52. How many of the given pteridophytes are and B). Select the option with correct
heterosporous - Equisetum, Pteris, Adiantum information
Lycopodium, Selaginella, Dryopteris?
1) 1 2) 2
3) 3 4) 4
53. Select the pair of heterosporous pteridophytes
1) Selaginella, Salvinia
2) Selaginella, Lycopodium
3) Equisetum, Adiantum
4) Dryopteris, Lycopodium
54. Gemma - the green, multicellular, asexual 1) A and B both are homosporous.
buds develop in : 2) A and B both are heterosporous
1) Marchantia 2) Funaria 3) A is homosporous while B is heterosporous
3) Selaginella 4) Polytrichum 4) A is heterosporous while B is homosporous.

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59. Isogamous reproduction is observed in : 66. Which of the following event in pteridophytes

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1) Volvox, Spirogyra act as precursor to seed habit in evolution?

2) Spirogyra, Fucus 1) Heterophylly

3) Volvox, Fucus 2) Development of zygotes into young embryos

within female gametophytes
4) Spirogyra, Chlamydomonas.
3) Heterosporous nature
60. Flagellated gametes which are similar in size
are produced in : 4) Development of prothallus as gametophytic
generation.
1) Chlamydomonas 2) Volvox
67. Conifers belong to that group of plants to
3) Fucus 4) Spirogyra
which one of the following pair belongs :
61. Fusion of a small motile male gamete with a
1) Sequoia and Wolffia
large sized non motile female gamete is
observed in : 2) Cedrus and Eucalyptus
1) Anisogamy, Example - Fucus 3) Pinus and Cedrus
2) Anisogamy, Example - Chlamydomonas 4) Wolffia and Cycas.
3) Oogamy, Example - Volvox 68. How many of the following features are related
4) Oogamy, Example - Spirogyra to gymnosperms?

62. Vegetative reproduction found in algae : 1. Mostly homosporous.

1) Binary fission 2) Fragmentation 2. Sporopryte - main plant body.
3) Budding 4) Multiple fission. 3. Archegonia and antheridia present.
63. Read the features that have been given : 4. Seeds are naked
A. Usually grow in damp and shady places. 5. Ovules absent
B. Xylem and phloem as vascular tissues. 1) One 2) Two
C. Presence of strobili (or cones). 3) Three 4) Four
D. Meiosis in life cycle. 69. Which structure is equivalent to pollen in
E. Absence of rhizoids. gymnosperms?

How many of the above features are true in 1) Strobili 2) Microsporangia

concern with bryophytes and pteridophytes 3) Microspore 4) Male gametophyte.
respectively?
70. In pteridophytes, antherozoids released from
1) 2 and 4 2) 3 and 4 antheridia reach the mouth of archegonia by
3) 4 and 3 4) 3 and 3 1) Air 2) Water
64. Dictyota belongs to a class of algae to which
3) Insects 4) Birds
following algae also belongs :
71. In gymnosperms, mycorrhiza and coralloid
1) Fucus 2) Volvox
roots can be observed respectively in :
3) Chlamydomonas 4) All of the above.
1) Cedrus and Pinus
65. Which algae possess floridean starch as stored
2) Cycas and Pinus
food?
3) Sequoia and Cedrus
1) Gelidium 2) Ectocarpus
3) Ulothrix 4) None. 4) Pinus and Cycas.

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72. Male and female sporophylls grow on 79. Cell wall is covered over by algin, a gelatinous

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different trees in : substance in :
1) Pinus 2) Cycas 1) Brown algae 2) Green algae
3) Selaginella 4) Adiantum. 3) Red algae 4) Golden algae.

73. Pollen grains in gymnosperms and antherozoids 80. Which of the following feature, is found in
in pteridophytes respectively spread through : angiosperms but not in gymnosperms?
1) Presence of ovule 2) Tap root system
1) Water, Water 2) Wind, Water
3) Absence of rhizoids 4) Fruits.
3) Animals, Wind 4) Wind, Animals
81. In gymnosperms, megaspore mother cell divides
74. Algin and carrageen are.obtained respectively meiotically to form four megaspores. Out of four
from : megaspores, one develops into a multicellular
1) Red algae and brown algae structure termed as :
2) Brown algae and red algae 1) Female gametophyte
3) Green algae and brown algae 2) Archegonium

4) Brown algae and green algae. 3) Ovule

75. Which set of algal members belong to same 4) Strobili.

class? 82. Male and female gametophytes do not have
1) Porphyra, Gelidium, Polysiphonia independent existence in :
2) Fucus, Ulothrix, Dictyota 1) Bryophytes
3) Volvox, Spirogyra, Chara 2) Pteridophytes and gymnosperms
4) Sargassum, Chlamydomonas, Laminaria. 3) Gymnosperms
76. Which of the following set of algae belongs to
4) Gymnosperms and Bryophytes.
class phaeophyceae?
1) Fucus, Dictyota 83. Peat moss is:
2) Polysiphonia, Gelidium 1) Sphagnum 2) Laminaria
3) Chara, Spirogyra 3) Funaria 4) Adiantum.
4) Ulothrix, Fucus. 84. In bryophytes number of antherozoids and
77. Floridean starch is the stored food material in eggs produced from antheridium and
1) Volvox 2) Fucus archigonium are respectively:
3) Laminaria 4) Gelidium 1) One, One 2) One, Many
78. Volvox and Polysiphonia are member of algal 3) Many, One 4) Many, Many.
class A and B respectively. Which of the
85. In bryophytes, sporophyte is :
following statement is correct?
1) Cellulose and algin are cell wall components 1) Dominant phase
of members of A. 2) Non-dominant but free living
2) Floridean starch is stored material in B. 3) Not free living but attached to non-
3) Chlorophyll a, c and fucoxanthin are the photosynthetic gametophyte .
photosynthetic pigments found in class A.
4) Not free living but attached to photosynthetic
4) Two unequal flagella are found in members gametophyte.
of B.

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86. A plant was studied. Its gametophyte stage 93. Microspore and megaspore respectively

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was found to be dominant and consist of two germinate to male and female gametophytes,
stages -protonema and leafy stage. It may be : in life cycle of:

1) Marchantia 2) Funaria 1) Selaginella 2) Equisetum

3) Adiantum 4) Lycopodium.
3) Selaginella 4) Pinus.
94. Why spread of pteridophytes is restricted to
87. Brown algae produces biflagellated zoospores
small geographical region?
during asexual reproduction. These flagella
are : 1) These grow in cool, shady and damp places
2) These require water for fertilization
1) equal and medially attached
3) Thalloid body
2) equal and laterally attached
4) Both (1) and (2).
3) unequal and medially attached
95. Incorrect information regarding the members
4) unequal and laterally attached. of Rhodophyceae :
88. Gametophytic phase is dominant in : 1) Habitat - Marine mostly
1) Bryophytes 2) Pteridophytes 2) Thallus - Multicellular

3) Gymnosperms 4) Angiosperms. 3) Vegetative reproduction - Fragmentation

89. Which of the following belongs to 4) Sexual reproduction - Anisogamous type.
pteridophytes? 96. Diagram of female thallus of Marchantia is
1) Mosses 2) Horsetails shown. Select the option with correct
identification of labeled part A and its
3) Liverworts 4) Cycads.
function :
90. Choose the option with tallest plant and the
group to which it belongs -
1) Pinus, Pteridophyte
2) Pinus, Gymnosperm
3) Sequoia, Gymnosperm
4) Sequoia, Angiosperm
91. Tallest and smallest angiosperm are 1) A is capsule, sexual reproduction.
respectively?
2) A is capsule, asexual reproduction.
1) Eucalyptus regnans, Wolffia
3) A is gemma cups, sexual reproduction.
2) Sequoia, Calotropis
4) A is gemma cups, asexual reproduction.
3) Eucalyptus regnans, Calotropis
97. In angiosperms, embryo sac is highly reduced
4) Sequoia, Wolffia
female gametophyte and is produced as a
92. Chlorophyll a and phycoerythrin, both are result of 'A'. It is found in 'B'.
found abundant in members of:
1) A = Mitosis, B = Ovule
1) Green algae
2) A = Meiosis, B = Ovule
2) Brown algae
3) A = Meiosis, B = Seed
3) Blue green algae
4) A = Mitosis, B = Seed.
4) Red algae.

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98. Select the option which is having members 99. Each embryo sac in angiosperm possess __A___

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belonging to same group of plants to which celled egg apparatus, __B__ antipodal cells and
the given plant (in diagram) belongs : C polar nuclei.
1) A = 3, B = 3, C = 2 2) A = 3, B = 2, C = 2
3) A = 2, B = 3, C = 2 4) A = 3, B = 3, C = 1
100. Most common type of asexual spore in algae
is :
1) Zoospore 2) Basidiospore
3) Conidia 4) Ascospore.
1) Equisetum, Salvinia
2) Pinus, Polytrichum
3) Adiantum, Cycas
4) Marchantia, Pteris.

Answer Key
1 4 11 1 21 4 31 4 41 1 51 3 61 3 71 4 81 1 91 1
2 3 12 4 22 2 32 4 42 2 52 1 62 2 72 2 82 3 92 4
3 4 13 1 23 1 33 1 43 3 53 1 63 1 73 2 83 1 93 1
4 3 14 1 24 3 34 2 44 4 54 1 64 1 74 2 84 3 94 4
5 4 15 1 25 1 35 1 45 4 55 4 65 1 75 3 85 4 95 4
6 2 16 1 26 1 36 1 46 3 56 3 66 2 76 1 86 2 96 4
7 3 17 4 27 4 37 3 47 2 57 3 67 3 77 4 87 4 97 2
8 3 18 2 28 3 38 1 48 4 58 3 68 2 78 2 88 1 98 1
9 4 19 1 29 3 39 2 49 1 59 4 69 4 79 1 89 2 99 1
10 2 20 1 30 2 40 1 50 4 60 1 70 2 80 4 90 3 100 1

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