BIOLOGY
1424 SAMPLE EXAM 4
1.
Microsporogenesis
occurs in the:
a. Ovary
b.
Pistil
c. Anther
d.
Stigma
e.
Filament
2.
Gymnosperms
are:
a. Flowering plants
b. Ferns
c. Extinct
d. Cone
producing
e. None of these is
correct.
3.
The most
common and diverse group of cone producing plants are:
a.
Coniferophyta
b.
Cycadophyta
c. Gnetophyta
d.
Anthophyta
e.
Gynkgophyta
4.
A group
of cone producing plants that are palm-like in appearance. This is a very old group of mostly
tropical and suptropical species.
a. Coniferophyta
b.
Cycadophyta
c. Gnetophyta
d.
Anthophyta
e.
Gynkgophyta
5.
Which of
the following types of xylem are most advanced and thus found in more advanced
plants.
a.
Tracheids
b.
Vessels
c.
Phloem
6.
Flowers
with all four whorls of floral parts are:
a. Complete
b.
Incomplete
c. Floral
c.
Imperfect
e.
Two answers is correct.
7. The haploid phase of the
plant life cycle:
a. Tracheophyte
b.
Sporophyte
c. Chlorophyte
d. Gametophyte
e. None of these is
correct.
8. Fruit develop from
the:
a.
Stigma
b.
Stamen
c. Ovary
d.
Anther
e. Sepal
9. In flowering plants, megaspores
develop:
a. Into male gametophytes.
b. Directly into seed.
.
c. Into pollen
grains.
d. Into female
gametophytes.
e. Sporophytes
10. Which of
the following floral parts would you expect to be absent from wind pollinated
plants?
a. Ovary
b.
Carpels
c. Stamens
d.
Pistil
e. Petals
11.
Which of the following floral parts
is always absent from male flowers?
a.
Petals
b. Carpels or
pistil
c. Stamens
d. Anthers
e. Sepals
12. A set of floral parts located below
the petals which is usually leaf-like:
a. Anthers
b.
Sepals
c. Stamens
d.
Stigmas
e. Carpels
13. The portion of the flower that
contains the female gametophytes:
a. Stamens
b.
Corolla
c. Anther
d.
Ovary
e. Calyx
14. This group of gymnosperms include three genera, the general are very diverse and are adapted to unique habitats.
a. Ginkgo
b.
Coniferophyta
c. Cycadophyta
d.
Gnetophyta
e.
Psilophyta
15. Members of this group produce a
small prostrate thallus and produce sporophytes on elevated
stalks.
a.
Musci
b. Algae
c. Pterophyta
d. Hepatophyta
e. None of these are correct
16. Non-vascular
land plants:
a.
Tracheophytes
b. Bryophytes
c.
Pterophytes
d.
Gymnosperms
e. All of these
are non-vascular.
17. Cells, found in some bryophytes,
that are specialized for the transport of water:
a. Xylem
b. Phloem
c. Parenchyma
d.
Hydroids
e. Leptoids
18. Cells that fuse with a sperm
nucleus to form the endosperm of flowering plant seed:
a. antipodals
b. polar nuclei
c. synergids
d.
egg
e. lipodals
19. The gametophyte always
produces:
a. Gametes by meiosis
b. Spores by
mitosis
c. Gametes by mitosis
d. Spores by meiosis
e. None of these statements are
correct
20. Bryophytes
are:
a. Flowering
b. vascular
c. nonvascular
d. cone producing
plants
e. None of
these are correct.
21. The cuticle functions
in:
a. providing
support for the plant
b.
photosynthesis
c.
food transport
d.
water transport
e.
preventing the evaporation of water from the plant
22. In the moss lifecycle the spore
germinates and produces a filamentous growth, the:
a. sporophyte
b. protonema
c. archegonium
d. antheridium
e. None of these is
correct
23. The male organ of a liverwort is
the:
a.
sporangium
b.
archegonium
c.
antheridium
d.
capsule
e.
None of these is correct
24. Asexual reproductive structures
common to liverworts:
a.
archegonium
b.
gemmae cups
c.
antheridium
d.
sporangia
e.
strobili
25. Hornworts are in the
division:
a.
Anthocerophyta
b.
Hepatophyta
c.
Lycophyta
d.
Pterophyta
e.
Musci
26. Bryophytes and
vascular plants are alike in that:
a. both have vascular tissues
b.
in both the zygote is retained in the female sex
organ
c. neither requires water for gamete
transport
d. both reproduce by pollen
27.
The familiar green leafy moss plant is known as
the:
a. protonem
b. sporophyte
c.
gametophyte
d.
archegonium
28. This nonvascular plants characterized by
a long lived horn-like sporophyte:
a.
mosses
b. liverworts
c. hornworts
d. all of these
29.
Mosses are members of which division?
a. Sphenophyta
b. Pterophyta
c. Psilophyta
d.
Musci
e. Lycophyta
30.
Which of the following has a
dominant gametophyte generation in the life cycle?
a. mosses
b. liverworts
c. hornworts
d. all
of these
e. none of these
31.
Water on the surface of the plant is required for fertilization by
swimming sperm in:
a.
conifers
b.
monocots
c.
bryophytes
d. ferns
e. two are
correct
32. This nonvascular plant is characterized
by having nitrogen fixing Nostoc in
its tissues:
a. mosses
b. liverworts
c. hornworts
d. all of these
33. The fern gametophyte produces female
organs called:
a.
antheridia
b.
archegonia
c.
sori
d.
sporangia
34. In ferns spores are produced by _______
on the lower surface of the leaf.
a. sori
b. prothallus
c. antherozoids
d.
strobilus
35. Rhizomes of the whisk fern is
a(an).
a. modified leaf
b. underground stem
c. root
d. seed
e. flower
36. This seedless vascular plant has cell
walls impregnated with silica:
a.
ferns
b.
whisk ferns
c.
horsetails
d. club
moss
e. None of these is
correct
37. Which of
the following has dichotomous branching?
a.
ferns
b. horse
tails
c. whisk ferns
d. club
mosses
e. none of these
38. Which of these organisms, sometimes
called living fossils, is represented by
a. horsetail
b. club moss
c. cycad
d. gnetophyte
e. Ginkgo
39. ____________ is homosporous and
________________ is heterosporous.
a. Saleginella and
Lycopodium
b.
Pterophyta and Lycopodium
c. Lycopodium and
Selagenella
d.
Selagenella and Sphenophyta
e. None of these is
correct.
40. Horsetails are members of
the:
a.
Coniferophyta
b.
Sphenophyta
c.
Lycophyta
d.
Pterophyta
e.
Psilophyta