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Thallophyta - class-IX

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The characters of thallophyta is/are

  1. Plant body is thallus.

  2. Non-vascular plant.

  3. Sex organs are unicellular and without jacket of sterile cell.

  4. All of the above.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Thallophytes lack differentiation of plant body into the stem and leaves. The plant body is called as a thallus. They lack vascular tissue, the sex organs are unicellular and when multicellular, all are fertile. Thus, the correct answer is option D.

The name 'Thallophyta' was coined by

  1. Endlicher

  2. Linneaus

  3. Christenson

  4. Hackel


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The term Thallophyta was coined by Endlicher. The organisms included in Thallophyta are algae, fungi, slime mould and bacteria.
Linneaus gave biological classification.
Hackel contributed in the history of evolutionary theory. He proposed a link between ontogeny and phylogeny.
Christensen contributed in physics in diagnostic radiology.

Thus, the correct answer is option A.

Plants without well differentiated stem, root and leaf are kept in 

  1. Thallophyta

  2. Angiosperm

  3. Pteridophyta

  4. Gymnosperm


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Thallophyta is the simplest of plants that do not have a well-differentiated body design. For example, Algae do not have leaves, stems or roots.
Pteridophyta includes fern plants which possess the plant body differentiated into stem, leaves, and roots. They also possess naked embryos in the form of spores underneath the leaf.
Gymnosperms were the first plants to have a seed habit. These are the plants which possess naked seeds. For example, Pinus, cycas and other coniferous trees are gymnosperms.
Angiosperms are highly evolved plants with flowers, fruits, and seeds. They are also called as flowering plants. These plants possess seeds enclosed inside the fruit. The seed germinates develops into a new plant. Angiosperms are divided into two groups, namely, monocots and dicots based on the number of cotyledons that they have.

Life cycle is haplontic in

  1. Funaria

  2. Ulothrix

  3. Selaginella

  4. Pinus


Correct Option: B

The chloroplast in Ulothrix is

  1. Spiral

  2. Laminate

  3. Star shaped

  4. Girdle shaped


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is the principal pigment of Phaeophyceae?

  1. Phycocyanin

  2. Phycoerythrin

  3. Fucoxanthin

  4. Chlorophyll


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Fucoxanthin is a xanthophyll, with formula CHO. It is found as an accessory pigment in the chloroplasts of brown algae and most other heterokonts, giving them a brown or olive-green color. It is the principal pigment of Phaeophyceae.
Phycocyanin is a pigment-protein complex from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin. It is an accessory pigment to chlorophyll. All phycobiliproteins are water-soluble, so they cannot exist within the membrane-like carotenoids. 

Phycoerythrin (PE) is a red protein-pigment complex from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, present in red algae.
Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

Spirogyra is commonly called as pond silk because

  1. Silk is manufactured from it

  2. It looks like a thread

  3. It is slimy to touch

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Pond silk is the common name of Spirogyra (algae) because it is very slimy.
Spirogyra is a  genus (about 400 species) of freshwater green algae which are found in shallow ponds, ditches and amongst vegetation at the edges of large lakes, generally growing free-floating.
Cells are joined end-to-end in an unbranched, largely unspecialised, stiff filament and are cylindrical with one or two spirally-wound chloroplasts on which many pyrenoids are borne. The cell wall is of two layers, the outer of cellulose and the inner of pectin. Filaments can be several centimeters in length. It generally has a rather silky feel and a shiny green colour.

Plants with hidden reproductive organ are called as

  1. Gymnosperms

  2. Cryptogamae

  3. Phanerogams

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Cryptogamae means hidden reproduction, referring to the fact that no seed is produced, thus cryptogams represent the non-seed bearing plants. A cryptogam is a plant that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. 

Gymnosperm are any vascular plant that reproduces by means of an exposed seed, or ovule. Unlike angiosperms, or flowering plants, whose seeds are enclosed by mature ovaries, or fruits, the seeds of many gymnosperms are borne in cones and are not visible until maturity. 
Phanerogams are any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
Therefore, the correct answer is option B.

In Ulothrix, meiosis takes place in 

  1. Cells of the filament

  2. Holdfast

  3. Zygote

  4. Zoospores


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Ulothrix being an haploid organism, shows zygotic meiosis. Zygote is the only diploid structure which undergoes meiosis to form four cells. Each develops into Ulothrix.

Which of the following is an example of division Thallophyta?

  1. Ulothrix

  2. Funaria

  3. Riccia

  4. Adiantum


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ulothrix is an example of division Thallophyta, while Funaria and Riccia are example of Bryophyta and Adiantum is an example of Pteridophyta. 

Which of the following alga shows a heterogeneous habit?

  1. Oedogonium

  2. Chlamydomonas

  3. Ulothrix

  4. Stigeoclonium


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Stigeoclonium shows heterogeneous habit which differentiated into prostrate and erect system.

Coenobium occurs in

  1. Spirogyra

  2. Ulothrix

  3. Volvox

  4. Chlorella


Correct Option: C

After liberation of daughter colonies, the parent colony of Volvox

  1. Undergoes sexual reproduction

  2. Forms a new set of daughter colonies

  3. Undergoes fission

  4. Disintegrates


Correct Option: D

A daughter colony is formed in Volvox by

  1. Fission

  2. Gonidium

  3. Budding

  4. All the above


Correct Option: B

Calcium deposition and larvicidal properties are found in

  1. Diatoms

  2. Oscillatoria

  3. Chara

  4. Caulerpa


Correct Option: C

Which one grows over molluscan shell

  1. Characium

  2. Spirogyra

  3. Cladophora

  4. Protoderma


Correct Option: C

Sea Lettuce is

  1. Laminaria

  2. Chlorella

  3. Sargassum

  4. Ulva


Correct Option: D

Alga forming a motile colony is

  1. Nostoc

  2. Spirogyra

  3. Volvox

  4. Chlamydomonas


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

  1. Chlamydomonas - Unicellular flagellate

  2. Volvox - Colonial, non-flagellate

  3. Laminaria - Flattened leaf like thallus

  4. Chlorella - Unicellular, non-flagellate

  5. Spirogyra - Filamentous structure


Correct Option: B

Non flowering plants belong to 

  1. Monocots

  2. Dicots

  3. Cryptogams

  4. Phanerogams


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Non flowering plants are those plants which cannot produce flowers. They reproduce mainly through spores. Examples of non flowering plants include ferns, mosses and liverworts. They belong to cryptogams. Cryptogams are non flowering and seedless, spore-bearing plants. 

Thus, the correct answer is option C.

A nonflowering plant of submerged stage is 

  1. Vallisneria

  2. Ceratophyllum

  3. Chara

  4. Hydrilla


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Chara is a streptophytic algae that grows underwater. It does not produce flowers and remains in a submerged stage.

So the correct option is C.

Coloured petals of some flowers indicate the presence of acid or base in a solution. Example of such flowers is

  1. Hydrangea

  2. Petunia

  3. Geranium

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Litmus solution is a purple dye, which is extracted from lichen, a plant belonging to the division Thallophyta, and is commonly used as an indicator. 
There are many other natural materials like red cabbage leaves, turmeric, coloured petals of some flowers such as Hydrangea, Petunia and Geranium, which indicate the presence of acid or base in a solution. These are called acid-base indicators or sometimes simply indicators.

Which of the following statements are incorrect about thallophyta?

(i) Sex organs are unjacketed and one-celled gametangia.
(ii) The vascular system is well developed.
(iii) An embryo stage is absent.
(iv) The plant body is differentiated into root, stem, and leaves.

  1. (i) and (iii)

  2. (i) and (iv)

  3. (ii) and (iii)

  4. (ii) and (iv)


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Thallophyta: salient features are- most primitive and simple plants. They do not possess a vascular system. The plant body is not differentiated into stem roots and leaves. The whole plant body remains in the form of an undivided mass of cells called thallus. The mode of nutrition is photosynthetic, parasitic or saprophytic. They reproduce both sexually and asexually. Asexual reproduction usually reproduction takes place by spore formation. Fertilization is not followed by embryo formation. The division Thallophyta includes two major classes, algae and lichens. 

Eyespot or stigma is present in__________

  1. Spirogyra

  2. Ulothrix

  3. Nostoc

  4. Chlamydomonas


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The eyespot or stigma is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate of green algae like Chlamydomonas and some other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenoids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it by swimming either towards the light (positive phototaxis) or away from the light (negative phototaxis). A related response occurs when cells are briefly exposed to high light intensity, causing the cell to stop, briefly swim backward, then change swimming direction. Eyespot-mediated light perception helps the cells in finding an environment with optimal light conditions for photosynthesis. Eyespots are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature, composed of photoreceptors and areas of bright orange-red pigment granules. Signals relayed from the eyespot photoreceptors result in alteration of the beating pattern of the flagella, generating a phototactic response.

The end product of photosynthesis in green algae, like Chlamydomonas and Spirogyra include

  1. Starch grains

  2. Starch and oil droplets

  3. Proteins

  4. Starch and proteins


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Green algae have chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll a and b, giving them a bright green color, as well as the accessory pigments beta carotene and xanthophylls, in stacked thylakoids. The cell walls of green algae usually contain cellulose, and they store carbohydrate in the form of starch. The end products of photosynthesis in these green algae are starch and proteins.

The basal cell of Ulothrix is devoid of

  1. Chloroplast

  2. Pyrenoid

  3. Nucleus

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The plant body consists of unbranched, uniseriate filaments. The cells of the filaments are arranged end to end. They are barrel-shaped or cylindrical in shape. The apical cell is somewhat rounded at its terminal end whereas, the basal cell is elongated and does not have chlorophyll. It is also called as the basal holdfast, which attaches the filament to the substratum.

Algae and other submerged green plants often float in water during daytime and sink at night because

  1. They lose weight at night because fish and other animals eat away at their parts.

  2. They become buoyant due to accumulation of oxygen as a result of photosynthesis.

  3. They become light due to consumption of food.

  4. They come up to enjoy sunlight.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

During the process of photosynthesis, phytoplankton produces oxygen as a byproduct. Due to their vast and widespread populations, algae and cyanobacteria are responsible for approximately half of all the oxygen found in the ocean and in our atmosphere. During day time they float, due to the accumulation of oxygen. Whereas the reverse happens during the night, which is explained below.
In addition to providing food and oxygen for nearly all life on Earth, phytoplankton help to regulate inorganic carbon (carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere. During photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water molecules are used to make sugar for energy. The process of incorporating inorganic carbon into organic carbon (glucose and other biologically useful compounds) is called carbon fixation and is part of the biological carbon pump.
As carbon fixation and oxygen production are part of the same process, the extent of phytoplanktons participation is on the same scale. Phytoplankton consumes a similar amount of carbon dioxide as all land plants combined. While phytoplankton can pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or the ocean, it will have a similar effect. Carbon dioxide that is taken from the water is replaced by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Fucoxanthin is found in

  1. Gelidium

  2. Volvox

  3. Sargassum

  4. Ulothrix


Correct Option: C

Embryo is not formed in thallophyta due to:

  1. Zygotic meiosis

  2. Zygotic mitosis

  3. Sporangial meiosis

  4. Gametic meiosis


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Thallophyta (algae) reproduce sexually when male gametes and female gametes fuse to form zygote. Zygote immediately undergoes meiosis and it gives haploid gametes. Thus, embryo is not formed.
So, the correct option is 'Zygotic meiosis'
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