MCQ Questions on Plant Kingdom
1. Which plant kingdom can survive both on land and in the water?
(a) Tracheophyta
(b) Pteridophyta
(c) Thallophyta
(d) Bryophyta
Answer
Answer: (d) Bryophyta
2. A plant that has seeds but no flowers and fruits?
(a) Bryophytes
(b) Gymnosperms
(c) Mosses
(d) Pteridophytes
Answer
Answer: (b) Gymnosperms
3. Most primitive vascular plants?
(a) Mosses
(b) Cycads
(c) Kelps
(d) Ferns
Answer
Answer: (d) Ferns
4. Plants that possess spores and embryo but lack vascular tissues and seeds?
(a) Rhodophyta
(b) Bryophyta
(c) Pteridophyta
(d) Phaeophyta
Answer
Answer: (b) Bryophyta
5. Which one is not an exception in angiosperms?
(a) Double fertilization
(b) Secondary growth
(c) Presence of vessels
(d) Autotrophic nutrition
Answer
Answer: (a) Double fertilization
6. Pteridophytes differ from mosses in
(a) Independent gametophyte
(b) Dependent gametophyte
(c) Flagellate antherozoids
(d) Independent and dominant sporophyte
Answer
Answer: (d) Independent and dominant sporophyte
7. Angiosperms are the dominant flora because of
(a) Domestication by man
(b) Power of adapting in diverse habitats
(c) Self-pollination property
(d) Property of producing a large number of seeds
Answer
Answer: (b) Power of adapting in diverse habitats
8. Plants reproducing by spores are grouped under
(a) Bryophytes
(b) Sporophytes
(c) Cryptogams
(d) Thallophytes
Answer
Answer: (c) Cryptogams
9. Plants having vascular tissue without seeds
(a) Angiosperm
(b) Pteridophytes
(c) Bryophytes
(d) Gymnosperms
Answer
Answer: (b) Pteridophytes
10. The plant group that posses largest ovule, largest gametes, and largest tree
(a) Angiosperms
(b) Gymnosperms
(c) Pteridophytes
(d) Bryophytes
Answer
Answer: (b) Gymnosperms
11. Zygotic meiosis is the characteristic of
(a) Fucus
(b) Funaria
(c) Marchantia
(d) Chlamydomonas
Answer
Answer: (d) Chlamydomonas
12. Pick the mismatched pair
(a) Cycas – Dioecious
(b) Equisetum – Homosporous
(c) Salvinia – Heterosporous
(d) Pinus – Dioecious
Answer
Answer: (d) Pinus – Dioecious
13. A colonial alga is
(a) Volvox
(b) Chlorella
(c) Ulothrix
(d) Spirogyra
Answer
Answer: (a) Volvox
14. Double fertilization is the characteristic of
(a) Algae
(b) Gymnosperms
(c) Fungi
(d) Angiosperms
Answer
Answer: (d) Angiosperms
15. Conifers can tolerate extreme environments because of
(a) Presence of vessels
(b) Thick cuticle
(c) Superficial stomata
(d) Broad hardy leaves
Answer
Answer: (b) Thick cuticle
16. First plants to inhabit the land
(a) Angiosperms
(b) Bryophytes
(c) Gymnosperms
(d) Pteridophytes
Answer
Answer: (b) Bryophytes
17. Agar is commercially obtained from
(a) Blue-green algae
(b) Red algae
(c) Brown algae
(d) Green algae
Answer
Answer: (b) Red algae
18. Which one differs from Spirogyra based on its nucleus?
(a) Azygospore
(b) Zygospore
(c) Akinete
(d) Aplnospore
Answer
Answer: (b) Zygospore
19. The cell wall of Spirogyra contains
(a) Cellulose
(b) Chitin
(c) Lignin
(d) Suberin
Answer
Answer: (a) Cellulose
20. Which of the following completely lacks cell wall?
(a) Blue-green algae
(b) Saccharomyces
(c) Sea-fan
(d) Cyanobacteria
Answer
Answer: (c) Sea-fan
21. Prothallus gives rise to sporophyte without fertilization. This is known as
(a) Apogamy
(b) Parthenocarpy
(c) Parthenogenesis
(d) Apospory
Answer
Answer: (a) Apogamy
22. Chromatophores participate in
(a) Photosynthesis
(b) Respiration
(c) growth
(d) Movement
Answer
Answer: (a) Photosynthesis
23. Which one is responsible for the formation of peat?
(a) Riccia
(b) Sphagnum
(c) Marchantia
(d) Funaria
Answer
Answer: (b) Sphagnum
24. Isogamous condition with non-flagellated gametes is found in
(a) Chlamydomonas
(b) Volvox
(c) Spirogyra
(d) Fucus
Answer
Answer: (c) Spirogyra
25. The exine of pollen grain comprises
(a) Pectin and cellulose
(b) Lignocellulose
(c) Pollenkit
(d) Sporopollenin
Answer
Answer: (d) Sporopollenin
26. Meiosis occurs in
(a) Conidia
(b) Meiocyte
(c) Megaspore
(d) Gemmule
Answer
Answer: (b) Meiocyte
27. An evolutionary important character of Selaginella is
(a) Strobili
(b) Rhizophore
(c) Heterosporous nature
(d) Ligule
Answer
Answer: (c) Heterosporous nature
28. Which is the common characteristic of multicellular fungi, filamentous algae and protonema of mosses?
(a) Mode of nutrition
(b) Diplontic life cycle
(c) Multiplication by fragmentation
(d) Members of Plant Kingdom
Answer
Answer: (c) Multiplication by fragmentation
29. Vascular bundles are not found in
(a) Gymnosperms
(b) Pteridophytes
(c) Angiosperms
(d) Bryophytes
Answer
Answer: (d) Bryophytes
30. The transport of male gametes in bryophytes and pteridophytes occurs through
(a) Wind
(b) Water
(c) Birds
(d) Insects
Answer
Answer: (b) Water