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NEET 2021
Exam
NEET
Year
2021
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Plant Kingdom

NEET 2021 · Botany · Plant Kingdom

Genera like Selaginella and Salvinia produce two kinds of spores....

Genera like Selaginella and Salvinia produce two kinds of spores. Such plants are known as:

Options

  1. AHomosorus
  2. BHeterosorus
  3. CHomosporous
  4. DHeterosporous

Correct answer

D. Heterosporous

Step-by-step solution

A heterosporous life history occurs in some pteridophytes and in all seed plants. It is characterised by morphologically dissimilar spores produced from two types of sporangia: microspores, or male spores, and megaspores (macrospores), or female spores. Some genera of division Pteridophyta like Selaginella and Salvinia produce two kinds of spores, macro (large) and micro (small) spores, which are known as heterosporous.

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