Chapter 28: Plants without Seeds: From Water to Land

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

Multiple Choice

 

1. Which of the characteristics below links the “green algae” with land plants?
2. The use of chlorophylls a and b
3. Active stomata
4. Starch as a major storage compound
5. Cellulose in cell walls
6. a, c, and d

Answer: e

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2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of land plants?
3. Development from embryos protected by tissues of the parent plant
4. Cell walls containing cellulose
5. Chloroplasts containing chlorophylls a and b
6. Starch as the storage carbohydrate
7. Anaerobic respiration

Answer: e

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3. The plants classified as embryophytes include which of the following?
4. Red algae
5. Chlorophytes
6. Charales
7. Land plants
8. Coleochaetales

Answer: d

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4. Much evidence indicates that _______ are a sister taxon to land plants.
5. mosses
6. liverworts
7. red algae
8. Charales
9. chlorophytes

Answer: d

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5. You find a green “leafy” bryophyte growing on your neighbor’s front lawn. It is a
6. liverwort.
7. hornwort.
8. moss.
9. whisk fern.
10. fern.

Answer: c

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