Multiple Choice Quiz on Bryophytes | Plant Science Quiz

Bryophytes are most primitive of land plants and they stand as intermediate group between green algae and higher vascular plants. Since algae are aquatic and higher plants shows a semi aquatic habitat and hence they can grown on moist places where water is available through exceptionally some forms are adapted to live as epiphytes on rocks and trees and also adapted to live in deserts. Read more>>

1. Bryophytes flourish is moist and shady environments because
They cannot grown on land
They lack vascular tissues
They lack roots and stomata
Their gametes fuse in water
2. Which one of the following statements is not true of Bryophyta?
Their spores germinate producing gametophytes
Their zygote undergoes meiosis and then produces the sporophyte
They are photosynthetic
They lack tracheids and sieve tubes
3. Spore mother cell in Bryophytes is
Haploid
Diploid
Triploid
Tetraploid
4. Which of the following species of Riccia is aquatic
Riccia discolor
Riccia fluitans
Riccia himalayensis
Riccia crystallina
5. Elaters are present in sporogonium of
Riccia
Marchantia
Sphagnum
Selaginella
6. Sporogenous tissue is of amphithecial origin in
Riccia
Anthoceros
Marchantia
Funaria
7. Funaria is a bryophyte because
it lacks xylem
it lacks roots
Sporophyte is attached to gametophyte
It has heteromorphic alternation of generations
8. The air cavities in the capsule of moss are partitioned with delicate strands of cells. These are called
Septa
Trabeculae
Compartments
Partitions
9. The dehiscence of moss capsule takes place by the rupture of the following
Calyptra
Operculum
peristome
Annulus
10. In moss sporophyte, following is absent
foot
seta
columella
elaters
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