QUIZ ON BRYOPHYTES

Fun Quiz

AMAL KUMAR MONDAL & DR. SANJUKTA MONDAL (PARUI)

1. Which of these make up 6. You know its a moss when

the Bryophyta division of a. It has a long stem with tiny leaves
the Plantae Kingdom? b. No stem, appears to be fuzzy and dangles from
a. Ferns & Mosses trees and appears to be
b. Mosses & Liverworts light and thin
c. Mosses & Horsetails c. It has long leaf and
d. Horsetails & Ferns short stem
d. It has both small leaf
and short stem

2. Bryophytes are called

7. How does moss
Amphibians of the Plant
reproduce?
Kingdom because
a. Asexually
a. They require water to
b. Sexually
complete their life cycle
c. None of the above
b. They require land to
complete their life cycle
c. They require both land
and water for survive
8. How do liverworts reproduce?
d. None of the above
a. Asexually and sexually
b. Vegetatively and sexually
3. Where can you find moss? c. Asexually and vegetatively
a. In dry places and on the d. None of the above
south side of a tree or rock
b. In damp places and on
the north side of trees and
rocks
c. In very cold places
d. None of the above

4. Liverworts are most

commonly found
a. In very cold areas 9. Which bryophyte has no air pores in the
b In dry areas adaxial surface
c. In damp areas a. Marchantia
d. In the water b. Riccia
e. In extremely hot areas c. Plagiochasma
d. Dumortiera
e. Funaria

5. You know its a liverwort when

a. It tastes like liver
b. It has plants
shaped like
human livers
c. It smells like
liver 10. Bryophytes have roots, stems and
d. It has hundreds a vascular system
of tiny leaves a. False
b. True

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17. Club moss is
11. At one stage of their life cycle, mosses
called
and liverworts reproduce asexually by
a. Funaria
producing spores.
b. Lycopodium
a. True
c. Equisetum
b. False
d. Pogonatum

18. Stomata first occurred in which group of

12. The archegonium bryophytes
produces a. Liverworts b. Hornworts
a. An egg cell c. Stonewort d. Bladderworts
b. A spore cell
b. Sperm cells
a. A seed

13. The common

characters of Liverworts
& Hornworts
a. All are leafy types
b. Have Rhizoids and
Gametophyte is the
dominant life cycle
c. These are homosporus 19. Hydroids and Leptoids compare with
d. Ovules are not enclosed a. Phloem
b. Xylem
14. Gamma cup and gamma is the character of c. Xylem and phloem
a. Asexual reproduction d. None of the above
b. Sexual
c. Vegetative
d. Both of the above

15. Irish moss is 20. In Anthoceros gametophytic thallus

called has a symbiotic association with
a. Pogonatum a. Nostoc
b. Funaria b. Anabaena
c. Polytricum c. Gleotria
d. Red algae d. None of the
above

16. Reindeer moss is called

a. Lichen
ANSWERS:
b. Read algae
1. b 2 . a 3. b 4. c 5. b 6. b 7. b 8. b 9. d 10. a
c. Brown algae
11. b 12. a 13. b 14. c 15. d 16. a 17. c 18. b 19. c 2 0 . a
d. Pogonatum
Contributed by Dr. Amal Kumar Mondal is Associate Professor of Botany and
Former HOD, Department of Botany & Forestry, Plant Taxonomy, Biosystematics
and Molecular Taxonomy Laboratory, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore-
721102, West Bengal; Email: amalcaebotvu@gmail.com;
amalcae_botvu@yahoo.co.in
Dr. Sanjukta Mondal (Parui) is Associate Professor of Zoology, WBES,
Department of Zoology, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata-700017, West
Bengal; Email: sajuktaparui@gmail.com; sanjukta1969@yahoo.in
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