Question No:1

The two wrong statements together are

(A) A and C
(B) A and D
(C) B and C
(D) A and B

Question No:2

Which one of the following plants is monoecious?

(A) Pinus
(B) Cycas
(C) Papaya
(D) Marchantia

Question No:3

Which one of the following has haplontic life cycle?

(A) Polytrichum
(B) Ustilago
(C) wheat
(D) Funaria

Question No:4

Which one of the following is considered important in the development of seed habit?

(A) heterospory
(B) haplontic life cycle
(C) free-living gametophyte
(D) dependent sporophyte

Question No:5

Which one of the following is a vascular cryptogam?

(A) Ginkgo
(B) Marchantia
(C) Cedrus
(D) Equisetum

Question No:6

In which one of the following male and female gametophytes do not have free living independent existence?

(A) Polytrichum
(B) Cedrus
(C) Pteris
(D) Funaria

Question No:7

Spore dissemination in some liverworts is aided by

(A) indusium
(B) Calyptra
(C) peristome teeth
(D) elaters

Question No:8

Peat moss is used as a packing material for sending flowers and live plants to distant places because

(A) it serves as a disinfectant
(B) it is easily available
(C) it is hygroscopic
(D) it reduces transpiration

Question No:9

Which one of the following pairs of plants are not seed producers?

(A) Fern and Funaria
(B) Funaria and Ficus
(C) Ficus and Chlamydomonas
(D) Punica and Pinus

Question No:10

Plants reproducing by spores such as mosses and ferns are grouped under the general term

(A) cryptogams
(B) bryophytes
(C) sporophytes
(D) thallophytes

Question No:11

Which of the following plants produces seeds but not true flowers?

(A) maize
(B) mint
(C) peepal
(D) Pinus

Question No:12

Cycas has two cotyledons but not included in angiosperms because of

(A) naked ovules
(B) seems like monocot
(C) circinate ptyaxis
(D) compound leaves

Question No:13

Plant group with largest ovule, largest tree and largest gametes is

(A) gymnosperm
(B) angiosperm
(C) bryophyta
(D) pteridophyta

Question No:14

Megasporophyll of Cycas has the same nature as

(A) stamen
(B) petal
(C) sepal
(D) carpel BHU

Question No:15

Double fertilization is found without any exception in

(A) bryophytes
(B) gymnosperms
(C) angiosperms
(D) pteridophytes

Question No:16

Which of the following occurs both in fresh as well as in marine water?

(A) Oedogonium
(B) Cladophora
(C) Spirogyra
(D) none of these

Question No:17

The botanical nature of sanjeevani is

(A) Selaginella grancilis
(B) Selaginella rupestris
(C) Selaginella biformis
(D) Selaginella bryopteris

Question No:18

‘Club moss’ belongs to

(A) algae
(B) pteridophyta
(C) fungi
(D) bryophyta

Question No:19

Agar-agar is obtained from

(A) Chlorella
(B) Spirogyra
(C) Ulothrix
(D) Gelidium

Question No:20

The element present in thyroxine is obtained from

(A) Laminaria
(B) Polysiphonia
(C) Porphyra
(D) Gelidium