Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one of the following is a saprophytic bryophyte?

  • Riccia fluitans

  • Buxbaumia aphylla

  • Funaria hygrometrica

  • Sphagnum


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Buxbaumia aphylla

Bryophytes usually grow in moist and shady places. Some bryophytes grow in diverse habitats such as aquatic (eg. Riccia jluitans), epiphytic (eg. Dendroceros and many mosses), saprophytic (eg. Buxbaumia aphylla) and in dry habitats such as dry sites (eg. Polytrichum juniperinum) deserts (eg. Tortula desertorum) and dry rocks (eg. Porella platyphylla).


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Largest moss is

  • Pogonatum

  • Funaria

  • Dawsonia

  • Polytrichum


Agar-agar is obtained from

  • Chlorella

  • Spirogyra

  • Ulothrix

  • Gelidium


In Funaria, stomata are present on the

  • stem

  • leaves

  • capsule

  • apophysis


Which one of the following is categorised under living fossils?

  • Selaginella

  • Metasequoia

  • Pinus

  • Cycas


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Chlorenchyma is known to develop in the

  • spore capsule of a moss

  • pollen tube of Pinus

  • cytoplasm of Chlorella

  • mycellium of a green mould such as Aspergillus


Phycobilins absorb light of wavelength

  • 670-700 nm

  • 610-650 nm

  • 500-650 nm

  • 420-520 nm


Iodine is obtained from

  • Laminaria 

  • Chlorella

  • Polysiphonia

  • Porphyra


Funaria gametophyte is

  • dioecious

  • heteroecious

  • autoecious

  • monoecious and autoecious


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The character found only in halophytes is

  • sunken stomata

  • vivipary

  • velamen tissue

  • heterophylly


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