MCQs For NCERT Class 11 Biology Chapter 3 Plant Kingdom

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Plant Kingdom Class 11 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Question. Match the following:

A. Red algae	1. Marchantia
B. Liverworts	2. Pinus
C. Walking fern	3. Polysiphonia
D. Gymnosperm	4. Adiantum

a. A-3 B-4 C-1 D-2
b. A-1 B-2 C-3 D-4
c. A-3 B-1 C-4 D-2
d. A-1 B-1 C-4 D-3

Question. Calyptra develops from
a. Ventral wall of oogonium
b. Ventral wall of archegonium
c. Outgrowth of gametophyte
d. Neck wall of archegonium
e. Paraphysis of the archegonial branch.

Question. Which of the following is known as a “bog moss”?
a. Polytrichum
b. Funaria
c. Sphagnum
d. Porella

Question. Positive evidence of aquatic ancestary of bryophytes is indicated by
a. Ciliated sperms
b. Gametophytic body
c. Biflagellate gametes
d. Paristomial teeth

Question. Mosses are attached to substratum by
a. Roots
b. Capsule
c. Rhizoids
d. Main axis

Question. Number of peristomial teeth in moss is
a. 16+16
b. 16+32
c. 8+16
d. 32+32

Question. “Sanjeevani booti” is
a. Selaginella kraussiana
b. Selaginella chrysocaculos
c. Selaginella bryopteris
d. None of these

Question. Incorrect about Marchantia is :
a. Sporophyte is differentiated into foot, seta and capsule
b. It can asexually reproduce through gemmae
c. Gametophyte as protonema stage
d. Flagellated antherozoids are produced

Question. Bryophytes are also called amphibians of the plant kingdom because
a. They require water to complete their life cycle
b. They require land to complete their life cycle
c. They require both land and water for survive
d. They require only marine water to complete their life cycle

Question. Club moss belongs to
a. Algae
b. Pteridophytes
c. Fungi
d. Bryophyta

Question. Plants commonly called vascular cryptogams are:
a. Bryophytes
b. Pteridophytes
c. Algae
d. Angiosperms

Question. Pteridophytes are also called
a. Phanerogams
b. Vascular cryptogams
c. Amphibians of the plant kingdom
d. Spermatophytes

Question. In pteridophytes, phloem is without:
a. Sieve cells
b. Sieve tubes
c. Companion cells
d. Bast fibre

Question. The kidney shaped covering of sorus is
a. Placenta
b. Ramentum
c. Sporophyll
d. Indusium

Question. Ramenta is the characteristic of:
a. Marchantia
b. Funaria
c. Dryopteris
d. None of these

Question. Which one of the following is called maiden – hair fern?
a. Dryopteris
b. Pteris
c. Adiantum
d. Lycopodium

Question. Characteristic of ferns is:
a. Circinate venation
b. Reticulate Venation
c. Parallel venation
d. None of these

Question. Plants having (spores), xylem and phloem but lacking seeds are:
a. Pteridophytes
b. Gymnosperms
c. Bryophytes
d. Angiosperms

Question. Neck canal cell is absent in the archegonium of:
a. Funaria
b. All pteridophytes
c. Dryopteris
d. Cycas

Question. Walking ferm is named so as:
a. It spreads and propagates vegetatively by its leaf tips.
b. It is dispersed through walking.
c. Its spores are able to walk.
d. It known walking.

Question. Seed habit is linked with:
a. Homospory
b. Heterosposy
c. Parthenogenesis
d. Parthenocarpy

Question. Vascular cryptogams are:
a. Gymnosperms
b. Angiosperms
c. Bacteriods
d. Pteridophytes/Ferns

Question. Which one of the following is not common between Funaria and Selaginella?
a. Roots
b. Embryo
c. Flagellate sperms
d. Archegonium

Question. Fruits are not found in gymnosperms because:
a. They are seed less
b. They are not pollinated
c. They have no ovary
d. Fertilisation does not take place

Question. A mature pollen grain of Pinus has:
a. 2 cells
b. 3 cells
c. 4 cells
d. 5 cells

Question. In Cycas, pollination occurs at______ celled stage?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four

Question. Flagellated male gametes are present in all the three of which one of the following sets?
a. Anthoceros, Funaria and Spirogyra
b. Zygnema, Saprolegnia and Hydrilla
c. Fucus, Marsilea and Calotropis
d. Riccia, Dryopteris and Cycas

Question. Coralloid roots of Cycas possess a symbiotic alga:
a. Anabaena
b. Spirogyra
c. Ulothrix
d. Aulosira

Question. Fern gametophyte is nutritionally:
a. Photoautotroph
b. Parasite
c. Chemoautotroph
d. Saprophyte

Question. Female cone of Pinus develops seeds in:
a. One year
b. 2-3 year
c. Two years
d. Four years

Question. The phylogenetic classification was put forth by:   
a. Carolus Linnaeus
b. Aristotle
c. Adolf Engler and Karl Prantl
d. Theophrastus

Question. Cytotaxonomy is based on     
a. Chemical constituents
b. Morphological characters
c. Structure and behaviour of chromosomes
d. Both (a) and (b)

Question. Tracheophyta consists of:     
a. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms
b. Pteridophytes only
c. Gymnosperms and angiosperms
d. Bryophytes only

Question. Which of these is mismatched   
a. Bryon – liverworts
b. Kryptos – concealed
c. Gymno – naked
d. Phaneros – visible

Question. Trichoderma erythrium which gives colour to red sea is:   
a. Green alga
b. Blue – Green alga
c. Red alga d.
Brown alga

Question. Algae which forms motile colony is:       
a. Volvox
b. Nostoc
c. Spirogyra
d. Chlamydomonas

Question. Non – motile, greatly thickened, asexual spore in Chlamydomonas is:   
a. Carpospores
b. Aplanospores
c. Akinetes
d. Hypnospores

Question. The cell wall of algae is chemically composed of:       
a. Hemicellulose, pectins, proteins
b. Chitin
c. Cellulose, galactans, Mannan
d. Pectins, cellulose, proteins

Question. Pyrenoids are made up of:       
a. Core of starch surrounded by sheath of protein
b. Core of protein surrounded by fatty sheath
c. Proteinaceous centre and starchy sheath
d. Core of nuclei acid surrounded by protein sheath

Question. Which of the following is known as Pond Silk?     
a. Spirogyra
b. Ulothrix
c. Nostoc
d. Anabaena

Question. A natural antibiotic is provided by:     
a. Chlorella
b. Ulothrix
c. Dictyota
d. Chlamydomonas

Question. Meiosis in Spirogyra, Ulothrix, Chlamydomonas and most of the algae / thallophyta is:   
a. Sporic
b. Zygotic
c. Gametic
d. Unequal

Question. A group of plants which are autotrophs their sex organs are non-jacketed and whose zygotes secretes thick wall are called:   
a. Phycophytes
b. Lichens
c. Bryophytes
d. Thallophytes

Question. Ulothrix releases zoospore during:   
a. Evening
b. Morning
c. Night
d. Noon

Question. Algae known for biological activity bioluminescence:   
a. Spirogyra
b. Chlorella
c. Cyclotella
d. Noctiluca

Question. Which algae is chew as tobacco in Scotland?   
a. Porphyra
b. Rodimenia palmata
c. Chlorella
d. Spirogyra

Question. Phycology is the study of:     
a. Algae
b. Fungi
c. Bryophytes
d. Lichens

Question. Which is Mermaid’s tresses?   
a. Nostoc
b. Ulothrix
c. Anabaena
d. Spirogyra

Question. Moss protonema can be differentiated from filamentous alga in:     
a. Long rhizoids
b. Oblique septa
c. Coenocytic nature
d. Absence of chloroplasts

Question. Number of peristomial teeth in moss is     
a. 16+16
b. 16+32
c. 8+16
d. 32+32

Question. About 7% of total world production of iodine is obtained by which algae?   
a. Ulothrix
b. Polysiphonia
c. Spirogyra
d. Laminaria

Question. Spirogyral lateral conjugation takes place in:     
a. Heterosporous species
b. Homosporous species
c. Heterothallic species
d. Homothallic species

Question. Zygote of Spirogyra produces four haploid nuclei in which:     
a. One is functional
b. Two are functional
c. Three are functional
d. All are functional

Question. Which of the following propagates through leaf-tip?     
a. Walking fern
b. Sprout – leaf plant
c. Marchantia
d. Moss

Question. “Sanjeevani booti” is   
a. Selaginella kraussiana
b. Selaginella chrysocaculos
c. Selaginella bryopteris
d. None of these

Question. Ulothrix is:       
a. Nonmotile colonial alga lacking reproductive stages       
b. Filmaentous alga with nonflagellated reproductive stages
c. Membranous alga producing zoospores
d. Filamentous alga with flagellated reproductive stages

Question. ‘Nonflagellate’ gametes occur in:     
a. Ulothrix
b. Funaria
c. Spirogyra
d. Selaginella

Question. Which of the following algae are used by space travellers as food suppliments?   
a. Gracilaria, Gelidium
b. Volvox, Ulothrix
c. Spirogyra, Kelps
d. Spirulina, Chlorella

Question. During asexual reproduction, in most of brown algae, zoospores are produced which are:     
a. Elongated with no flagella
b. Elongated with one flagella
c. Pear-shaped with one flagella
d. Pear-shaped with two flagella

Question. Volvox and Polysiphonia are members of algal class, A and B respectively. Which of the following statement is correct?   
a. Cellulose and algin are cell wall components of members of A.
b. Floridean starch is stored material in B.
c. Chlorophyll a, c and fucoxanthin are the photosynthetic pigments found in class A.
d. Two unequal flagella are found in members of B.

Question. Elaters are absent in   
a. Funaria
b. Marchantia
c. Pellia
d. Porella

QuestionCyanobacteria is referred to as blue green algae due to presence of 
a. Chlorophyll a
b. Xanthophyll
c. Chlorophyll b
d. Phycocyanin

Question. Evolutionary history of an organism is known as:   
a. Phylogeny
b. Ancestry
c. Palaneotology
d. Ontogeny

Question. ‘Ordines Anomali’ of Bentham & Hooker includes:     
a. Seed plant showing abnormal form of growth and development.
b. Plant represented only in fossil state.
c. Plants described in the literature, but which Bentham & Hooker did not see in original.
d. A few orders which could not be placed satisfactorily in the classification.

Question. Calyptra develops from       
a. Ventral wall of oogonium
b. Ventral wall of archegonium
c. Outgrowth of gametophyte
d. Neck wall of archegonium
e. Paraphysis of the archegonial branch.

Question. Largest moss is:       
a. Pogonatum
b. Funaria
c. Dawsonia
d. Polytrichum

Question. Which of the following is known as a “bog moss”?   
a. Polytrichum
b. Funaria
c. Sphagnum
d. Porella

Question. Retort cells occurs in   
a. Funaria
b. Pogonatum
c. Porella
d. Sphagnum

Question. Positive evidence of aquatic ancestary of bryophytes is indicated by   
a. Ciliated sperms
b. Gametophytic body
c. Biflagellate gametes
d. Paristomial teeth

Question. In capsule of moss act as shock absorbers     
a. Trabeculae
b. Peristone teeth
c. Seta
d. Annulus

Question. Mosses are attached to substratum by   
a. Roots
b. Capsule
c. Rhizoids
d. Main axis

Question. Mosses occur in moist places because they     
a. Cannot grow on land
b. Do not need sunlight for photo synthesis
c. Lack vascular tissue
d. Lack root and stomata

Question. Ancestors of land plants/bryophytes were   
a. Bryophytes
b. Brown algae
c. Red algae
d. Green algae

Question. Incorrect about Marchantia is : 
a. Sporophyte is differentiated into foot, seta and capsule
b. It can asexually reproduce through gemmae
c. Gametophyte as protonema stage
d. Flagellated antherozoids are produced

Question. Club moss belongs to     
a. Algae
b. Pteridophytes
c. Fungi
d. Bryophyta

Question. Male gametophyte with least number of cells present in:   
a. Pteris
b. Funaria
c. Lilium
d. Pinus

Question. Plants commonly called vascular cryptogams are:   
a. Bryophytes
b. Pteridophytes
c. Algae
d. Angiosperms

Question. Pteropsida includes:   
a. Equisetum and psilotum
b. Lycopodium and Adiantum
c. Selaginella and pteris
d. Pteris and Adiantum

Question. Walking ferm is named so as:   
a. It spreads and propagates vegetatively by its leaf tips.
b. It is dispersed through walking.
c. Its spores are able to walk.
d. It known walking.

Question. Annulus occurs in:   
a. Mosses
b. Both mosses and ferns
c. Annual plants
d. Gymnosperms

Question. Seed habit is linked with:     
a. Homospory
b. Heterosposy
c. Parthenogenesis
d. Parthenocarpy

Question. Pteridophytes are also called       
a. Phanerogams
b. Vascular cryptogams
c. Amphibians of the plant kingdom
d. Spermatophytes

Question. In gymnosperms, megaspore mother cell divides meiotically to form four megaspores. Out of four megaspores, one develops into a multicellular structure termed as:   
a. Female gametophyte
b. Archegonium
c. Ovule
d. Strobili

Question. Incorrect statement about Sequoia:   
a. It is also known as red wood tree.
b. It is one of the tallest angiosperm.
c. It possess tap root system.
d. Ovules are naked.