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What is the example of Sphenopsida?

Important Questions on Plant Kingdom

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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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Character of Pteridophyte considered as an important step in evolution
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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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Pteriodophytes, especially ferns possess the following characteristics

i) Circinate vernation

ii) Ramenta

iii) Eustele

iv) Paraphysis

The correct combination is 

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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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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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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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Which one of the following is a correct statement?
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Match Column - I with Column  - II and select the correct option from the codes given below.
 
Column - I Column - II
A. Chlorophyta (i) Equisetum
B. Lycopsida (ii) Chara
C. Phaeophyta (iii) Selaginella
D. Sphenopsida (iv) Ectocarpus
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Selaginella has a tendency to form seed, called seed habit, because it follows ______
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In which of the following would you place the plants having vascular tissue lacking seeds?
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Which of the following propagates through leaf - tip ?
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The origin of seed habit can be traced in Selaginella as in it
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Evolutionary important character of Selaginella is
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Meiosis (reduction division) in pteridophytes takes place at the time of _____
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If the margins of sepals or petals overlap one another but not in any particular direction as in Cassia and Gulmohur, the aestivation is called _____.
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Pteridophytes differ from mosses/bryophytes in possessing
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Which pteriodophyte is called as horse-tail?