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Chapter 25: Q. 17 (page 667)
Microphylls are characteristic of which types of plants?
a. mosses
b. liverworts
c. club mosses
d. ferns
Option (c) club mosses is the correct answer.
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A botanist travels to an area that has experienced a long, severe drought. While examining the bryophytes in the area, he notices that many are in the same life-cycle stage. Which life-cycle stage should be the most common?
a. zygote
b. gametophyte
c. sporophyte
d. archegonium
Ferns are simultaneously involved in promoting rock weathering, while preventing soil erosion. Explain how a single plant can perform both these functions, and how these functions are beneficial to its ecosystem.
Which of the following statements of the fern life cycle is false?
a. Sporangia produce haploid spores.
b. The sporophyte grows from a gametophyte.
c. The sporophyte is diploid and the gametophyte is haploid.
d. Sporangia form on the underside of the gametophyte.
The dominant organism in fern is the ________.
a. sperm
b. spore
c. gamete
d. sporophyte
Bryophytes form a monophyletic group that transitions between green algae and vascular plants. Describe atleast one similarity and one difference between bryophyte reproduction and green algae reproduction.
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