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JIPMER 2012
Exam
JIPMER
Year
2012
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Plant Kingdom

JIPMER 2012 · Botany · Plant Kingdom

In which one of the following, the male and female gametophytes...

In which one of the following, the male and female gametophytes don't have free-living independent existence?

Options

  1. APteris
  2. BFunaria
  3. CPolytrichum
  4. DCedrus

Correct answer

A. Pteris

Step-by-step solution

In Pteris (also Dryopteris), the spore germinates to produce the prothallus. The prothallus is a small, green, flat, surface loving, thallus-like object. It is monoecious and bears sex organs on the ventral side. The antheridia (male sex organs) arise among the rhizoids towards the posterior side of the prothallus and are emergent. The archegonia develop in central cushion behind the apical notch. In these plants, male and female gametophytes do not have free living independent existence. All species of Polytrichum are dioecious. The antheridia and archegonia are borne on different gametophore. The plant body is an errect leafy shoot but is not the entire gametophyte. The leafy shoot arise from protonema (the juvenile stage). The leafy gametophore of Funaria reproduces sexually by formation of antheridia and archegonia. The antheridia are formed at the summit of a relatively small, thin, leafy shoot, which develops first. The female branch arises later as a lateral outgrowth from the base of parent male shoot.
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