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Read the following five statements (A to E) and select the option with all correct statements:
(A) Mosses and Lichens are the first organisms to colonise a bare rock
(B) Selaginella is a homosporous pteridophyte
(C) Coralloid roots in Cycas have VAM
(D) Main plant body in bryophytes is gametophytic, whereas in pteridophytes it is sporophytic
(E) In gymnosperms, male and female gametophytes are present within sporangia located on sporophyte(B) is incorrect: Selaginella is a heterosporous pteridophyte, producing microspores and megaspores.
(C) is incorrect: coralloid roots of Cycas have cyanobacteria (Nostoc and Anabaena in the cortical region), not VAM.
(A), (D) and (E) are correct. -
In which of the following gametophyte is not independent free livingFunaria and Marchantia are bryophytes and Pteris is a pteridophyte; in these the gametophyte is independent and free living.
Pinus is a gymnosperm: the gametophytes are retained on the sporophyte and are not free living. -
Which one of the following statements is wrong?Mannitol is the stored food of Phaeophyceae (brown algae).
In Rhodophyceae (red algae) food is stored as floridean starch, so this statement is wrong. -
Male gametes are flagellated inEctocarpus is a brown alga whose male gametes are motile with two unequal flagella.
Polysiphonia (red alga) has non-flagellated male gametes.
Anabaena reproduces vegetatively or asexually by spores.
Spirogyra shows isogamous reproduction with non-motile gametes.
