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NEET 2014
Exam
NEET
Year
2014
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Plant Kingdom

NEET 2014 · Botany · Plant Kingdom

Which of the following is responsible for peat formation?

Which of the following is responsible for peat formation?

Options

  1. AMarchantia
  2. BRiccia
  3. CFunaria
  4. DSphagnum

Correct answer

D. Sphagnum

Step-by-step solution

Sphagnum is also called a peat moss, is responsible for the formation of peat. The older dead parts of moss gets slowly carbonized, compressed and fossilized over thousand of years to form a spongy mass called peat.
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