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What are homosporous plants?

Important Questions on Plant Kingdom

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In which of the following groups do the male and female gametophytes have independent, free-living existence?
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Match the following lists:
  List-I   List-II
(A) Siphonostele (I) Dissected siphonostele with overlapping leaf gaps
(B) Solenostele (II) Siphonostele with scattered leaf gaps
(C) Dictyostele (III) Central core of xylem surrounded by phloem
(D) Protostele (IV) Medullated protostele

The correct match is:

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Choose correct pair from the following
I) Primary producers: Important step in evolution

II) Specific water requirement for fertilization of Pteridophytes: Restricted to narrow geographical regions

III) Growth of young embryo in female gametophyte: Food cycle of aquatic animals

IV) Colonization of mosses and Lichens on rocks: Ecological significance

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Salient features like Embriophytic Tracheophytic, Cryptogams refers to ____.
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Assertion: In Bryophytes & Pteridophytes, the number of male gametes produced is several thousand times the number of female gametes produced.

Reason: A large number of male gametes fail to reach the female gametes during transport.

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Assertion (A): In pteridophytes, the gametophytes require cool, damp, shady places to grow.

Reason R: Specific requirement and the need for water for fertilization, the spread of living pteridophytes is limited and restricted to narrow geographical regions.

The correct answer is:

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Genera like Selaginella and Salvinia produce two kinds of spores. Such plants are known as:
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From the evolution point of view, retention of the female gametophyte with developing young embryo on the parent sporophyte for some time, is first observed in:
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Arrange the following plants with their respective classes in the same order. Sphenopsida, Psilopsida, Pteropsida, Lycopsida, Gnetopsida

A) Selaginella
B) Equisitum
C) Sphagnum
D) Adiantum
E) Psilotum
F) Gnetum

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Assertion (A): The development of zygote into young embryo with in female gametophyte indicates the precursor for the seed habit.

Reason (R) : In pteridophytes, the gametophyte requires cool, damp, shady place to grow.

The correct option among the following is:

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Identify the pair of heterosporous pteridophytes among the following: 
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Pteriodophytes, especially ferns possess the following characteristics

i) Circinate vernation

ii) Ramenta

iii) Eustele

iv) Paraphysis

The correct combination is 

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Read the following five statements (A to E) and select the option with all correct statements:

(a) Mosses and lichens are the first organisms to colonize bare rock.
(b) Selaginella is a homosporous pteridophyte.
(c) Coralloid roots in Cycas have VAM.
(d) Main plant body in bryophytes is gametophytic, whereas in pteridophytes it is sporophytic.
(e) In gymnosperms, male and female gametophytes are present within sporangia located on sporophytes.
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Character of Pteridophyte considered as an important step in evolution
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Assertion: Homosporous pteridophytes are exosporic.

Reason: Heterosporous pteridophytes are endosporic.
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Origin of seed habit or its foundation was laid down in some pteridophytes, but seed formation did not occur because of

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Which of the given features are common for the following plants?

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