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Plant Kingdom: NEET questions with solutions
This chapter tests the algal classes with their pigments and reserve food, bryophyte and pteridophyte life cycles, heterospory and the seed habit, and gymnosperm features. NEET marks are lost on which phase is dominant, on look-alike products (algin, agar, carrageen), and on assigning pigments or examples to the wrong class.
Also called: algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes · gymnosperms and angiosperms
Questions
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- Q1Several algae provide commercially useful hydrocolloids. Which of the following is obtained from brown algae?
Why algae matterEasySingle correct
- Q2In the life cycle of a bryophyte such as a moss or liverwort, which phase is the main, dominant plant body?
Bryophytes: amphibians of the plant kingdomEasySingle correct
- Q3Sexual reproduction in algae is classified by the type of gametes that fuse. Match each type of sexual reproduction with the NCERT example.
Algae: body and reproductionMediumMatch the following
- Q4Mosses show a clear alternation between two phases. Evaluate the following statements.
Liverworts and mossesMediumStatement based
- Q5The horsetail Equisetum is a pteridophyte. Under NCERT's grouping of pteridophytes, to which class does it belong?
PteridophytesMediumSingle correct
- Q6Most pteridophytes produce spores of one kind, but a few produce two kinds of spores, large and small. Which pair of genera is…
Homospory, heterospory and the seed habitMediumSingle correct
- Q7In some pteridophytes the female gametophyte stays on the plant that produced it. Evaluate the Assertion and Reason.
Homospory, heterospory and the seed habitMediumAssertion–Reason
- Q8Roots of some gymnosperms live in association with other organisms. Which pair of genus and association is correct?
Gymnosperms: naked seedsHardSingle correct
- Q9Sphagnum, a moss, is of great economic importance. It is the source of which material used as fuel and packing for live plants?
Liverworts and mossesEasySingle correct
- Q10Four features are listed for the class Rhodophyceae. Identify the one that does NOT belong to this class.
Green, brown and red algaeHardSingle correct
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