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NEET & AIIMS - 2019

M-CAPS-15 : BOTANY
(Medical-Classroom Assessment Practice Sheet)
Topics covered : Plant Kingdom : Bryophyte Classes, Economic Importance,
Pteridophytes-General Characters, Classes, Economic Importance

1. Which of the following form dense mats on the soil 6. Statement-A : The mosses have an elaborate
and play major role in preventing soil erosion? mechanism of spore dispersal.

(1) Liverworts (2) Hornworts Statement-B : Leafy stage in mosses develops

from secondary protenema, as an apical bud.
(3) Mosses (4) Algae
(1) Both statement-A and statement-B are
2. How many among the following are haploid incorrect
structures of bryophytes? (2) Both statement-A and statement-B are correct
Gametophyte, Zygote, Sporophyte, Seta, (3) Statement-B is incorrect
Rhizoid, Antheridium, Protonema, Antherozoid,
(4) Statement-A is incorrect
Spore, NCC, Archegonium, Oosphere
7. How many among the following are mosses and
(1) 6 (2) 11
liverworts, respectively?
(3) 9 (4) 8 Sphagnum, Riccia, Polysiphonia, Fucus,
3. Gemmae are Marchantia, Sargassum, Funaria, Porphyra,
Porella, Polytrichum
(1) Non green, multicellular, asexual buds
(1) 4, 4 (2) 4, 5
(2) Green, multicellular, asexual buds
(3) 3, 2 (4) 3, 3
(3) Non green, unicellular, asexual buds
8. Which bryophyte was used as a surgical dressing
(4) Non green, multicellular, sexual buds during World War I?
4. In Marchantia and Riccia, antheridia and (1) Sargassum (2) Funaria
archegonia are produced on ______ and ______
thalli, respectively. (3) Sphagnum (4) Porella

(1) Same, same (2) Same, different 9. Select the odd one w.r.t. economic importance of
bryophyte.
(3) Different, same (4) Different, different
(1) Helps in water retention
5. Which of the following features are true for
bryophytes? (2) Used as ornamental
(A) Zygotic meiosis. (3) Have medicinal uses
(B) Zygotic mitosis. (4) Helps in overcoming soil alkalinity
(C) Sporic meiosis. 10. Select the odd one w.r.t. the moss which is a good
(D) Vegetative reproduction by fragmentation. manure and has great water holding capacity.

(1) (A), (B) & (C) (2) (B), (C) & (D) (1) Bog moss (2) Peat moss
(3) Only (A) & (D) (4) (A), (B) & (D) (3) Cotton moss (4) Irish moss

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11. Which bryophyte was employed in removing kidney 18. Megaspores and microspores germinate to give rise
stones? to ________ and ________, respectively.
(1) Sphagnum (1) Female and male sporophytes
(2) Polytrichum commune (2) Male and female sporophytes
(3) Porella (3) Female and male gametophytes
(4) Funaria (4) Male and female gametophytes
12. Which of the following is a dioecious bryophyte?
19. Gametophyte of Dryopteris is
(1) Riccia (2) Marchantia
(1) Monoecious (2) Dioecious
(3) Funaria (4) Polytrichum
(3) Trioecious (4) Heterosporous
13. Select the incorrect match w.r.t. pteridophyta.
20. Which of the following has dominant diploid
(1) Small leaves - microsporophyll in ferns generation and produces motile sperms?
(2) Large leaves - macrophylls in pteropsida (1) Funaria
(3) Compactly arranged sporophylls - strobili
(2) Selaginella
(4) Leaflets & leaves having sporangia - sporophylls
(3) Marchantia
14. Prothallus is
(4) Both (1) and (3)
(1) Small, multicellular, free living, photosynthetic
thalloid sporophyte 21. Statement-1 : In heterosporous pteridophytes,
development of zygote into young embryo takes
(2) Small, multicellular, free living, photosynthetic place within the female gametophyte.
thalloid gametophyte
Statement-2 : Heterospory is one of the
(3) Large, multicellular, free living, photosynthetic essentiality for seed habit in plants.
thalloid gametophyte
(1) Only statement-1 is correct
(4) Large, multicellular, free living, non-
photosynthetic sporophyte (2) Only statement-2 is correct
15. Read the following statements w.r.t. pteridophytes. (3) Both the statements are incorrect
(a) They are soil binders (4) Both the statements are correct
(b) First terrestrial plants 22. Select the correct option w.r.t. Marsilea.
(c) First tracheophytes (1) Heterosporous vascular spermatophyte
(d) Dominant phase is differentiated into true (2) Heterosporous vascular cryptogam
stem, leaves and roots
(3) Homosporous vascular cryptogam
(e) Sporophyte is an independent plant
(4) Heterosporous non-vascular embryophyte
Choose the correct answer.
23. Select the odd one w.r.t. members of class
(1) a, b, c & d (2) All except d
'Pteropsida'.
(3) All except b (4) b, c, d & e
(1) Dryopteris
16. Which of the following pteridophytes bear strobili?
(2) Pteris
(1) Equisetum (2) Selaginella
(3) Adiantum
(3) Dryopteris (4) Both (1) & (2)
(4) Selaginella
17. Morphologically different types of spores are
produced by 24. Simplest type of stele is
(1) Lycopodium and Dryopteris (1) With pith, siphonostele
(2) Lycopodium and Salvinia (2) Without pith, protostele
(3) Equisetum and Dryopteris (3) Without pith, siphonostele
(4) Selaginella and Salvinia (4) With pith, protostele

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25. Which of the following statement is incorrect w.r.t. 26. Which of the following pteridophyte is the source
Azolla? of anthelmintic drug?
(a) It is an aquatic water fern (1) Selaginella

(b) It is used as biofertilizer (2) Equisetum

(3) Marsilea
(c) It is homosporous vascular cryptogam
(4) Dryopteris
(d) It shows symbiotic association with alga
Anabaena which fixes atmospheric nitrogen 27. ________ stems are used in scouring and polishing
of metals
(1) All except (c) (2) (a) & (b)
(1) Azolla (2) Equisetum
(3) (c) only (4) (d) only
(3) Psilotum (4) Selaginella

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NEET & AIIMS - 2019

M-CAPS-15 : BOTANY
(Medical-Classroom Assessment Practice Sheet)

ANSWERS

1. (3) (E) 2. (3) (VD) 3. (2) (M) 4. (3) (M) 5. (2) (M)
6. (3) (M) 7. (4) (D) 8. (3) (E) 9. (2) (E) 10. (4) (M)
11. (2) (M) 12. (2) (E) 13. (1) (E) 14. (2) (D) 15. (3) (D)
16. (4) (E) 17. (4) (M) 18. (3) (M) 19. (1) (M) 20. (2) (M)
21. (4) (M) 22. (2) (M) 23. (4) (E) 24. (2) (E) 25. (3) (VD)
26. (4) (E) 27. (2) (E)

Question Level Questions Number

Easy (E) – 10 1,8,9,12,13,16,23,24,26,27

Moderate (M) – 12 3,4,5,6,10,11,17,18,19,20,21,22

Difficult (D) – 3 7,14,15

Very Difficult (VD) – 2 2,25

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