NEET Biology Multiple Choice Questions – Gymnosperms 

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NEET Biology Gymnosperms Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Which one of the features is true for Pinus

  1. Pivsenee of antheridia
  2. Double fertilization
  3. Biciliated sperms
  4. Haploid endosperm.

Answer: 4. Haploid endosperm.

Question 2. Needles of finns possess meristem at:

  1. Apical portion
  2. Intercalary portion
  3. Basal portion
  4. Lateral portion.

Answer: 3. Basal portion

Question 3. Pinewood consists almost entirely of:

  1. Tracheids with bordered pits
  2. Vessels
  3. Tracheids and vessels both in equal amount
  4. More vessels than tracheids.

Answer: 1. Tracheids with bordered pits

Question 4. In the embryo of pinus, rosette cells lie :

  1. Above suspensor cells
  2. Between suspensor and embryonal cells
  3. Between primary and secondary suspensor cells
  4. Between embryonal cells and apical cells.

Answer: 1. Above suspensor cells

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Question 5. The resin duct of a gymnospermous stem is an example of:

  1. Intercellular space
  2. Schizogenous cavity
  3. Lysigenous cavity
  4. Big vacuole.

Answer: 2. Schizogenous cavity

Question 6. The time required between formation in pinus is :

  1. Three months
  2. Six months
  3. nine months
  4. Twelve months.

Answer: 4. Twelve months.

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Question 7. The gametophytes of pinus are protected from desiccation by living in

  1. Moist soil
  2. Moist tissue of sporophyte in the cone
  3. Bogs and marshes
  4. The rainy season only.

Answer: 2. Moist tissue of sporophyte in the cone

Question 8. Which statement out of the following is correct regarding pinus?

  1. Pinus forms deciduous trees in temperate regions
  2. Pinus grows in deserts and exhibits xerophytic characters
  3. Pinus is cosmopolitan in distribution
  4. Pinus is of great economic value.

Answer: 4. Pinus is of great economic value.

Question 9. Which is the smallest gymnosperm among the following?

  1. Cerberus
  2. Dalbergia
  3. Pinus
  4. Guest

Answer: 3. Pinus

Question 10. In gymnosperms, archegonia lack :

  1. Neck canal cells
  2. Venter cells
  3. Both
  4. None of these.

Answer: 4. None of these.

Question 11. The megasporangium is also known as:

  1. Fruit
  2. Endosperm
  3. Micropyle
  4. Ovule.

Answer: 3. Micropyle

Question 12. Which one is common between funaria and pinus?

  1. No fruits are produced
  2. No seeds are produced
  3. Anthcridia and archegonia are present
  4. A pollen tube is formed.

Answer: 1. No fruits are produced

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Question 13. In pinus, the terminal portion of the ovuliferous scale is called :

  1. Embryo sac
  2. Bract scale
  3. Ovule
  4. Apophysis.

Answer: 4. Apophysis.

Question 14. Which of the following sets of structures in pinus belong entirely to the gametophytic generation?

  1. Ovuliferous scale, embryo, bract scale
  2. Bract scale, urothelial cells in pollen, integument
  3. Embryo, endosperm, pollen
  4. Endosperm, sperm, megaspore.

Answer: 4. Endosperm, sperm, megaspore.

Question 15. The edible part of the seed of the pinus :

  1. Epispore
  2. Endosperm
  3. Perisperm
  4. Pericarp.

Answer: 4. Pericarp.

Question 16. The group of phanerogams which have naked seeds or which produce ovules and seeds exposed on open sporophytes are called:

  1. Phanerogams
  2. Angiosperms
  3. Gymnosperms
  4. Spermatophyta.

Answer: 2. Angiosperms

Question 17. The roots of gymnosperm are:

  1. Taproot
  2. Adventitious roots
  3. Rhizoid
  4. Rhizophores.

Answer: 3. Rhizoid

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Question 18. In which of the following manners do gymnosperms differ from angiosperms?

  1. Formation of endosperm before fertilization
  2. Formation of pollen tube
  3. Production of ovules
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 1. Formation of endosperm before fertilization

Question 19. Angiosperms and gymnosperms resemble in having:

  1. Vessels in wood
  2. Mode of fertilization
  3. Siphonogamy
  4. Nature of endosperm.

Answer: 1. Vessels in wood

Question 20. The nucellus in a gymnosperm has 24 chromosomes, the number of chromosomes in its endosperm cells will be:

  1. 48
  2. 36
  3. 24
  4. 12.

Answer: 3. 24

Question 21. Microsporophyll of pinus is equivalent to :

  1. Pollen grain of angiosperms
  2. Stamen
  3. Male gamelophyte
  4. Inflorescence.

Answer: 4. Inflorescence.

Question 22. Transfusion tissue replaces the veins in:

  1. Cycas
  2. Ferns
  3. Pinus and years
  4. Selaginella.

Answer: 2. Ferns

Question 24. The giant tree among the pines belongs to the genus:

  1. Cedrus
  2. Pinus
  3. Calbcrgia
  4. Sequoia.

Answer: 4. Sequoia.

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Question 25. Canada balsam is an oleoresin obtained from:

  1. Abies balsamea
  2. Impatiens balsamic
  3. Finns
  4. Helianthus

Answer: 1. Abies balsamea

Question 26. Plant of pine is:

  1. Annual herb
  2. Biennial herb
  3. Evergreen tree
  4. Deciduous tree.

Answer: 3. Evergreen tree

Question 27. The megasporophyll of pinus consists of :

  1. Both bract and ovuliferous scales
  2. Only bract scales
  3. Only ovuliferous scales
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 1. Both bract and ovuliferous scales

Question 28. The neck of the archegonium in pinus:

  1. Five tiers of cells
  2. Six to eight tiers of 4 cells
  3. Two tiers of 4 cells
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 3. Two tiers of 4 cells

Question 29. The seed of pinus is:

  1. A monocotyledonous
  2. Dicotyledonous
  3. Polycotyledonous
  4. Tetracotyledonous.

Answer: 3. Polycotyledonous

Question 30. The wing of the seed of pinus develops from ;

  1. The outer layer of the integument and basal part of the ovuliferous scale
  2. The inner layer of the integument and basal part of the ovuliferous scale
  3. Only from the outer layer of the integument
  4. From ovuliferous scale.

Answer: 4. Frorn ovuliferous scale.

Question 31. In pinus, female gametophyte develops only from :

  1. Uppermost haploid megaspore
  2. The lowermost haploid megaspore
  3. Penultimate megaspore
  4. The megaspore.

Answer: 2. The lowermost haploid megaspore

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Question 32. The foliage leaves or needles irc pinus are borne by:

  1. Branches of unlimited growth
  2. Branches of limited growth
  3. Branches of limited and unlimited growth
  4. Female cones.

Answer: 2. Branches of limited growth

Question 33. What nature does, the acicular nature of the pinus needle depict?

  1. Mesophytic
  2. Xerophytic
  3. Xerophytic
  4. Sporophytic.

Answer: 2. Xerophytic

Question 34. Female gametophyte (endosperm) in pinus is formed :

  1. Before fertilization
  2. After pollination
  3. After fertilization
  4. None of the above,

Answer: 1. Before fertilization

Question 36. Gymnosperms originated in:

  1. Cenozoic
  2. Palaeozoic
  3. Precambrian
  4. Mesozoic.

Answer: 2. Palaeozoic

Question 37. Gymnosperms differ from angiosperms in :

  1. Having seeds
  2. Having naked ovules
  3. Showing heterospory
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 2. Having naked ovules

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Question 38. Turpentine is obtained from:

  1. Curcuma longa
  2. Bryophyte
  3. Pinus australis
  4. Ophioglossum.

Answer: 3. Pinus australis

Question 39. In pinus only the lower part of the oospore is concerned with the development of the embryo, such development is :

  1. Periblastic
  2. Holoblastic
  3. Meroblastic
  4. None of these.

Answer: 3. Meroblastic

Question 40. The mature embryo of the pinus consists of :

  1. Radicle and plumule
  2. 1 + 10 Cotyledons
  3. Radicle, plumule and many cotyledons
  4. 3 + Endosperm.

Answer: 3. Radicle, plumule and many cotyledons

Question 41. The wood obtained from the pinus plant is used for:

  1. Furniture
  2. Building purposes
  3. Matchboxes
  4. All the above.

Answer: 4. All the above.

Question 42. Winged seeds are found in :

  1. Cycas
  2. Pinus
  3. Papaver species
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 2. Pinus

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Question 43. Integument in pinus ovule is :

  1. Haploid
  2. Diploid
  3. Triploid
  4. Tetraploid.

Answer: 2. Diploid

Question 44. Sclerenchyma of the hypodermis of the pinus needle helps in:

  1. Photosynthesis
  2. Increasing absorption
  3. Providing support
  4. Checking transpiration,

Answer: 3. Providing support

Question 45. Perisperm is :

  1. Haploid
  2. Diploid
  3. Polyploid
  4. Triploid.

Answer: 2. Diploid

Question 46. The number of archegonia in the pinus ovule is generally

  1. 1 To 4
  2. 2 To 5
  3. 2 To 6
  4. 1 To 8.

Answer: 2. 2 To 5

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Question 47. Ovules in the pinus are generally:

  1. Anatropous with three integuments
  2. Anatropous with one integument
  3. Amphitropous with three integuments
  4. Orthotropous with one integument.

Answer: 2. Anatropous with one integument

NEET Biology Plant Kingdom Questions Question 48. In pinus, megaspores on germination forms :

  1. Pollen tube with two motile sperms
  2. Endosperm with archegonia
  3. Endosperm with sperms
  4. Endosperm with embryo core.

Answer: 2. Endosperm with archegonia

Question 49. Among the following which docs do not belong to sporophyte generation in pinus?

  1. Roots
  2. Endosperm
  3. Dwarf shoot
  4. Long shoot.

Answer: 2. Endosperm

Question 50. In pinus sylvestris spur is:

  1. Trifoliar
  2. Bifoliar
  3. Multifoliar
  4. Tetrafoliar.

Answer: 2. Bifoliar

Question 51. Chailgoza is obtained from:

  1. Pinus roxburghii
  2. Pinus gerardiana
  3. Pinus wallichiana
  4. Pinus longifolia

Answer: 2. Pinus gerardiana

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Question 52. The girdle loaf traces in Cyrus go to leaves :

  1. After making a semi-circle
  2. After making a complete circle
  3. After making two concentric circles
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 1. After making a semi-circle

Question 53. The male cone of the pinus is a modification of

  1. Simple polyembryony
  2. Cleavage polyembryony
  3. Both simple and cleavage polyembryony
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 2. Cleavage polyembryony

NEET Biology Plant Kingdom Questions Question 54. The female cone of the pinus is a modification of

  1. Branches
  2. Dwarf shoot
  3. Long shoot
  4. Leaf

Answer: 3. Long shoot

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Question 55. In cycas, megasporangia are located on its megasporophyll

  1. Dorsally
  2. Ventrally
  3. Laterally
  4. Apically

Answer: 3. Laterally

Question 57. Seed of finns shows three generations as :

  1. Parent sporophyte, gametophyte and future sporophyte
  2. Parent gametophyte, sporophyte and future gametophyte
  3. Parent sporophyte, sporophyte, future gametophyte
  4. All three sporophytes.

Answer: 1. Parent sporophyte, gametophyte, and future sporophyte

Question 58. Finns seed shows:

  1. Hypogeal germination
  2. Epigeal germination
  3. Dormancy
  4. None of the above

Answer: 2. Epigeal germination

Question 59. Monkey puzzle is common name of:

  1. Araucaria auracana
  2. Finns raxburghii
  3. Taxodium
  4. Cedrus deodora.

Answer: 1. Araucaria auracana

Question 60. The female cone of the pinus can be compared to which part of the plant:

  1. Flower
  2. Mcgasporophyll
  3. Inflorescence
  4. Microsporophyll.

Answer: 3. Inflorescence

Question 61. Female cone of finns forms seed in:

  1. One year
  2. Two years
  3. Three years
  4. Four years.

Answer: 3. Three years

Question 62. The male gametophyte of cycas differs from that of an angiosperm in:

  1. Producing two male gametes
  2. Producing a pollen tube with a tube nucleus and two ciliated motile male gametes
  3. Producing a pollen tube and a nucleus
  4. Starting its formation in situ.
  5. Answer: 2. Producing a pollen tube with a tube nucleus and two ciliated motile male gametes

Question 63. In which portion of Cyrus are found diplomatic vascular bundles?

  1. Root
  2. Stem
  3. Leaflet
  4. Racltis and leaflet.

Answer: 4. Racltis and leaflet.

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Question 64. In which of the following regions of cyras the algal zone is found?

  1. Stem
  2. Normal roots
  3. Coralloid roots
  4. Leaflet.

Answer: 3. Coralloid roots

Question 65. Male cone of pinus replaces:

  1. Ncedlcs
  2. Scales
  3. Dwarf shoots
  4. Long shoots.

Answer: 3. Dwarf shoots

Question 66. Pollen grains in cycas arc shed at:

  1. 1-Celled stage
  2. 2-Celled stage
  3. 3-Celled stage
  4. 4-Cellcd stage.

Answer: 3. 3-Cellcd stage

Question 67. In cycas, the pollen lube is:

  1. Haustorial in nature
  2. Sperm carrier
  3. Carrier of ovule
  4. Carrier of archegonia.

Answer: 2. Sperm carrier

Question 68. Pinus is:

  1. Deciduous
  2. Dioecious
  3. Monoecious
  4. None of these.

Answer: 3. Monoecious

Question 69. Antherozoids of cycas are :

  1. Aflagellate
  2. Dinoflagellate
  3. Triflagellale
  4. Multiflagellate.

Answer: 4. Multiflagellate.

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Question 70. In cycas ovules are :

  1. Orthotropous and unitegmic
  2. Anatropous and unitegmic
  3. Orthotropus and tritegniic
  4. Anatropous and tritegmic.

Answer: 1. Orthotropous and unitegmic

Question 71. The largest sperms are found in:

  1. Cycas
  2. Gnetum
  3. Pinus
  4. Welwitschia.

Answer: 1. Cycas

Question 72. Which of the following is a living fossil?

  1. Ginkgo
  2. Abies
  3. Pinus
  4. Cedrus.

Answer: 1. Ginkgo

Question 73. Gymnosperms do not form fruits because they lack:

  1. Pollination
  2. Fertilization
  3. Seeds
  4. Ovary.

Answer: 4. Ovary.

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Question 74. In gymnosperms, pollination is carried through:

  1. Insects
  2. Birds
  3. Wind
  4. Bats.

Answer: 3. Wind

Question 75. Which of the following is the best explanation for excurrent (pyramidal shape of pinus tree.)?

  1. Effect of auxins on the growth of stem tip
  2. Competition between adjacent trees for sunlight
  3. Efficiency for water transport
  4. Adaptation for wind pollination.

Answer: 4. Adaptation for wind pollination.

Question 76. Turpentine is obtained from:

  1. Ferns
  2. Gymnospemious wood
  3. Angiospermous flowers
  4. Angiospermous wood.

Answer: 2. Gymnospemious wood

Question 77. The seeds of cycas are :

  1. Enclosed by fruit wall
  2. Enclosed within flower
  3. Naked and no fruit wall
  4. Absent.

Answer: 3. Naked and no fruit wall

Question 78. Dwarf shoot of pinus is :

  1. Shed every year
  2. Shed after 2—3 years
  3. Shed after five years
  4. Never shed.

Answer: 2. Shed after 2—3 years

Question 79. Cycas occurs commonly in :

  1. South america
  2. North america
  3. Southeast Asia
  4. Europe.

Answer: 3. Southeast Asia

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Question 80. Secondary wood in cycas is devoid of or (wood in cycas does not have the following):

  1. Protoxylem
  2. Vessels
  3. Metaxylem
  4. Tracheids.

Answer: 2. Vessels

Question 81. In pinus, the male gametes are :

  1. Non-ciliate
  2. Multiciliate
  3. Biciliate
  4. Uniciliate.

Answer: 1. Non-ciliate

Question 82. Multiciliated antherozoids occur in:

  1. Riccia and funeral
  2. Pteris and cycas
  3. Riccia and pteris
  4. Marchantia and riccia.

Answer: 2. Pteris and cycas

Question 83. Sulphur shower refers to :

  1. Sulphur springs
  2. The yellow colour of pollen grains
  3. Pollen dust of pinus
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 3. Pollen dust of pinus

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Question 84. In cycas:

  1. Male strobilus (cone) and megasporophylls occur on separate individuals
  2. Male strobilus and megasporophylls occur on the same individual
  3. The same cone consists of both micro-and mega-sporophylls
  4. The same sporophyll bears micro-sporangia and ovules.

Answer: 1. Male strobilus (cone) and megasporophylls occur on separate individuals

Question 85. Tracheids of cycas are with :

  1. Uniseriate bordered pits
  2. Biseriate bordered pits
  3. Multiseriate bordered pits
  4. None of the above.

Answer: 3. Multiseriate bordered pits

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