Pteridophytes Heterospory
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In the prothallus of a vascular cryptogam, the antherozoids and eggs mature at different times. As a result:
| 1. | there is no change in the success rate of fertilization |
| 2. | there is a high degree of sterility |
| 3. | one can conclude that the plant is apomictic |
| 4. | self-fertilization is prevented |
1. Dryopteris
2. Salvinia
3. Adiantum
4. Equisetum
Which one of the following is considered important in the development of seed habit?
| 1. | Dependent sporophyte | 2. | Heterospory |
| 3. | Halplontic life cycle | 4. | Free-living gametophyte |
| 1. | larger but to have smaller sex organs |
| 2. | larger and to have large sex organs |
| 3. | smaller and to have smaller sex organs |
| 4. | smaller but to have larger sex organs |
From an evolutionary point of view, retention of the female gametophyte with developing young embryo on the parent sporophyte for some time, is first observed in:
| 1. | Gymnosperms | 2. | Liverworts |
| 3. | Mosses | 4. | Pteridophytes |
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