Plants

Question 1

Which of the following is the one characteristic that distinguishes all members of the Kingdom Plantae from the Kingdom Protista?
a) vascular tissue b) leaves c) roots d) an embryo e) seeds

Answer 1

a) vascular tissue

Question 2

Which of the following best describes an ovule?

a) a young embryo b) a immature ovary c) an immature seed
d) the first leaf-like structures produced during early embryonic development
e) the outer layers of cells that enclose the developing seeds in angiosperms

Answer 2

c) an immature seed

Question 3

Which of the following best describes an ovary?

a) a young embryo b) an immature seed
c) the part of the embryo that will develop into the root of a young plant
d) the first leaf-like structures produced during early embryonic development
e) the outer layers of cells that enclose the developing seeds in angiosperms

Answer 3

e) the outer layers of cells that enclose the developing seed in angiosperms

Question 4

Of the following groups of plants, which evolved about 145 million years ago at the beginning of the Cretaceous period?
a) mosses b) ferns c) gymnosperms d) angiosperms e) algae

Answer 4

d) angiosperms

Question 5

Which of the following groups of plants are the most diverse (species rich) on the planet today?
a) mosses b) ferns c) gymnosperms d) angiosperms e) algae

Answer 5

d) angiosperms

Question 6

During the Carboniferous Period (ca. 300 million years ago) which of the following groups of plants formed part of the dominant forests of that time?
a) mosses b) ferns c) gymnosperms d) angiosperms e) algae

Answer 6

c) ferns

Question 7

Which of the following groups of plants have vascular tissue, but no seeds?
a) bryophytes b) seaweeds c) ferns d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

Answer 7

c) ferns

Question 8

Which of the following groups have neither vascular tissue nor seeds, but do have a cuticle layer?
a) bryophytes b) seaweeds c) ferns d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

Answer 8

a) bryophytes

Question 9

Which of the following groups have both vascular tissue and seeds, but not an ovary?
a) bryophytes b) seaweeds c) ferns d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

Answer 9

d) gynosperms

Question 10

Which of the following groups do not have vascular tissue, seeds, nor form an embryo?
a) bryophytes b) seaweeds c) ferns d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

Answer 10

a) bryophytes

Question 11

Which group is characterized by having “naked seeds?”

a) bryophytes b) seaweeds c) ferns d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

Answer 11

d) gynosperms

Question 12

Which of the following groups develop fruit?

a) ferns b) gymnosperms c) angiosperms d) b & c e) all of the above

Answer 12

c) angiosperms

Question 13

Which of the following groups do not have vascular tissue?

a) bryophytes b) ferns c) gymnosperms d) angiosperms
e) a & b

Answer 13

a) bryophytes