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In which of the following characters, the angiosperms resemble gymnosperms?

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  1. Presence of ovule

  2. Absence of endosperm

  3. Presence of vessels

  4. Mode of fertilisation 

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Angiosperms and Gymnosperms resemble each other in many characteristics on of which is the presence of ovule. The difference lies in the appearance of ovule, in Angiosperm the ovule is enclosed in ovary, whereas in Gymnosperms the ovule is naked. 

"Heterosporous archegoniatae" is a name for

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  1. Fern

  2. Gymnosperms

  3. Angiosperms

  4. Both A and B

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Heterospory is the production of spores of two different sizes and sexes by the sporophytes of land plants. Gymnosperms, like all vascular plants, have a sporophyte-dominant life cycle. The gametophyte is relatively short-lived. Two spore types, microspores and megaspores, are typically produced in pollen cones or ovulate cones, respectively. 

Archegoniatae was a higher taxonomic term that indicated those embryophytes having a female sexual organ in the form of an archegonium. 
In gymnosperm megagametophytes develop from megaspores and are retained within the ovule. They typically produce multiple archegonia.

Zoodiogamy takes place in

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  1. Lower gymnosperms

  2. Higher gymnosperms

  3. Angiosperms

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Zoodiogamy is a type of fertilization in plants, wherein the male gametes or antherozoids swim in a film of water to the female gametes present in the archegonium. This type of plant reproduction relates to evolution and  is found in lower gymnosperms besides algae, bryophytes and pteridophytes.

All gymnosperms are

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  1. Heterosporous

  2. Arborescent

  3. Seed plants

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

"Gymnosperms" include all seed plants other than the angiosperms, or flowering plants. The absence of an enclosing structure is believed to be primitive, thus the first seed plants were "gymnosperms. 

Gymnosperms are heterosporous i.e., produce two types of spores- microspores (pollen grains) and megaspores.
Arborescent means having the shape or characteristics of a tree. The gymnosperms are also arborescent.

Which of the following pair of example will correctly represent the group Spermatophyta, according to one of the schemes of classifying plants?

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  1. Acacia, Sugarcane

  2. Pinus, Cycas

  3. Rhizopus, Triticum

  4. Ginkgo, Pisum

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The term Spermatophyta refers to any of a group of higher plants, that produce seeds.  

While there are many schemes of classifying plants, on a broader level the seed plants are classified as angiosperms and gymnosperms. The gymnosperms are plants with 'naked seeds', and it is because the ovule is exposed to the environment and is not covered by a protective layer. 
In contrast in angiosperms, the ovule is contained within a specialized
structure, the carpel. As examples of these two divisions, Ginkgo represents the gymnosperms, while Pisum (Garden pea) from the family Fabaceae correcty represents the angiosperms.

Plant group with largest ovule, largest tree and largest gametes is

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  1. Gymnosperm

  2. Angiosperm

  3. Bryophyta

  4. Pteridophyta

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Gymnosperms refers to the group of naked seed bearing vascular  plants. Their seeds are naked as these are not enclosed in an ovary, like that of the angiosperms. This group includes large trees, like the pines, conifers, cycads and Ginkgo. 

The reproductive structure of gymnosperms is the strobili (cone), which consists of an ovoid, cylindrical, or spherical cluster of sporophylls (cone scales) arranged around a central axis and differ largely in size from the small pollens and ovules of angiosperms.

The "endosperm" of a gymnosperm represent

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  1. Gametophytic tissue

  2. Sporophytic tissue

  3. Tissue formed by double fertilization

  4. Polyploid tissue

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The "endosperm" is a tissue in which the nutrient substances necessary for the development of the embryo are deposited. In gymnosperms the endosperm is formed in the ovule during germination of the megaspore is a gametophytic tissue, which consequently becomes the female prothallus or the gametophyte with a haploid set of chromosomes. The archegonia in gymnosperms develop from certain cells of the endosperm.

In gymnosperms, the pollen chamber represents

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  1. The microsporangium in which pollen grains develop.

  2. A cell in the pollen grain in which the sperms are formed.

  3. A cavity in the ovule in which pollen grains are stored after pollination.

  4. An opening in the megagametophyte, through which the pollen tube approaches the egg.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In gymnosperms, below micropylar beak some of the cells of nucellus of ovule disintigerate to form pollen chamber.

The process of pollination in gymnosperms involves the help of pollination droplet from the micropyle, which drops when pollen grains are shed. This droplet catches the pollen grains and carries it into the pollen chamber for fertilizing the ovule.  
After pollination the droplet evaporates and contracts, carrying the pollen grains into the pollen chamber and into contact with the ovule.

Nonflowering plants are _________.

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  1. Dicots

  2. Monocots

  3. Phanerogams

  4. Cryptogams.

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Correct Option: D

Gymnosperms are naked seeded plants because

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  1. There is no fruit

  2. There is no ovule

  3. There is no fertilization

  4. There is no ovary and fruit.

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Correct Option: D