Chapter 20 Introduction to the Plant Kingdom: Bryophytes

Chapter 20 Introduction to the Plant Kingdom: Bryophytes

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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which characters shared by members of Kingdom Plantae and Phylum Chlorophyta indicate that they share an ancient common ancestor?
   A. chlorophyll a and b
   B.  primary food reserve stored as starch
   C.  cell walls primarily cellulose
   D.  orange and yellow carotenoids as accessory pigments
   E.  all of the above

2.   A unique feature of plants in the plant kingdom that is NOT shared with the green algae is _____.
   A. chlorophyll a and b
   B.  cell walls primarily of cellulose
   C.  multicellular gametangia
   D.  primary food reserve stored as starch
   E.  All of the features above are found in both the plant kingdom and green algae.

3. The transition from an aquatic environment to a terrestrial environment required the development of _______________, which kept plants from drying out when exposed to air.
   A. cuticle
   B.  photosynthesis
   C.  sexual reproduction
   D.  flagellated, motile cells
   E.  cell division

4. All members of the plant kingdom have _______________.
   A. multicellular embryos
   B.  egg cells surrounded by a jacket of sterile cells
   C.  oogamous sexual reproduction
   D.  life cycle that includes both gametophyte and sporophyte generations
   E.  All of the above

5. Bryophytes have an alternation of generations in which the _____ is the dominant generation, unlike vascular plants where the _____ is the dominant generation.
   A.sporophyte; gametophyte
   B. gametophyte; haplophyte
   C. gametophyte; sporophyte
   D. sporophyte; diplophyte
   E. sporophyte; sporophyte