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TEST
ALGAE AND LICHEN
1. Mention four examples of
freshwater habitats.
2. Mention 5 criteria for classifying
algae
3. Classify algae according to
flagella and type of chlorophyll
present.
4. What are the common names of
the following algae:
chlorophyta, phaeophyta,
bacillariophyta, rhodophyta,
xanthophyta and cyanophyta?
5. Explain the process of sexual
reproduction in spirogyra.
6. One difference
between Anabaena and Oscillat
oria is ___
7. Why are diatoms resistant to
acid?
8. Differentiate between the two
types of diatoms.
9. Mention 4 uses of diatomites
10.Give the photosynthetic
products of each of the algae
listed in no. 5 above.
11.What are the functions of algae
and fungi in lichen?
12.Mention 3 types of lichens and
give e.g of each of them.
13.Mention 4 uses of lichens.
14.Give the names of the two
chemicals that make Cladonia
unpalatable to man.
15.What element helps blue-green
algae in fixing atmospheric
nitrogen.
BRYOPHYTES
1. What is poikilohydrism?
2. What is the function of the
rhizoids of bryophytes?
3. What is alternation of
generation?
based on what?
5. Explain how bryophytes monitor
air pollution.
6. List the different stages present
in the haploid phase of the
lifecycle of bryophytes in the
correct sequence.
7. Give one similarity and two
differences between rhizoids
and protonema.
8. Give two examples of
stegocarpous and
cleistocarpous mosses each.
9. Mention 4 uses of bryophytes.
10.Give 2 examples each of leafy
and thalloid-like liverworts.
FLOWERS
1. What are the two types of
inflorescences?
2. Mention the types of racemose
and cymose inflorescences.
3. What is racemose
inflorescence?
4. What is a flower?
5. Mention the 4 whorls of a flower
and give the individual parts for
each of them.
6. Define the following terms:
bract, bracteole, ebracteate,
pedicellate, subsessile and
sessile.
7. Differentiate between staminate
and pistillate flowers.
8. Explain the following terms:
monoecious, dioecious and
polygamous plants.
LEAF
1. Explain the two types of leaves
in terms of light illumination and
plants they are found in.
2. Illustrate the distribution of
stomata in different parts of the
epidermis.
3. Mention two types of mesophyll.
 4. A modification of the isolateral
leaf is ___.
5. What is a compound leaf?
6. Mention the types of pinnate
leaf.
7. Mention the parts that make up
the vegetative parts of a plant.
8. What is a palmately compound
leaf?
9. Explain the types of palmately
compound leaf.
10.List the different shapes of
leaves.
11.Give the scientific names for the
following: onion, potato and
bamboo.
12.Explain the different types of
leaf apices.
13.List the types of leaf margins.
14.Give examples for each of the
types of palmately compound
leaf.
PLANT CLASSIFICATION AND
EVOLUTION
1. Mention the orders under
Dicotyledonae.
2. Define the following:
identification, classification and
systematics.
3. Differentiate between artificial
classification and natural
classification.
4. What is ICBN?
5. Mention five problems faced by
terrestial plants.
6. What are gametangia?
7. What are the four major periods
of plant evolution and the years
in which they existed?
8. Explain what happened in each
of the periods of plant
evolution.
9. What are three similarities
between terrestial plants and
green algae?
10.What is alternation of
generation?
PLANT TISSUES
1. What is histology?
2. Mention 5 ways of classifying
tissues.
3. Differentiate between simple
and complex tissues and give
examples of each.
4. Why do parenchyma cells retain
the ability to divide?
5. Why are parenchyma tissues
considered primitive both
phylogenetically and
ontogenetically.
6. Mention 6 parts of the plant that
contain parenchyma.
7. Mention different shapes of
parenchyma and parts of the
plant they can be found in.
8. Mention four functions of
parenchyma cells.
9. What does the presence of
living protoplast in collenchyma
cells indicate?
10.Explain the different types of
collenchyma tissue.
11.What is sclerenchyma tissue?
12.What is collenchyma?
13.What are the types of
sclerenchyma cells?
14.What is the basis of
classification of the types of
fibres and mention the types of
fibres?
15.Give two economic importance
of fibres.
16.Mention six types of sclereids.
17.Explain the types of sclereids.
18.Define tracheary elements.
19.What is a xylem vessel?
20.Explain the types of
perforations in xylem tissue.
21.List the main components of the
epidermis.
22.Mention three types of
modifications of the epidermis.
23.Give the other names for root
covering instead of epidermis.
PTERIDOPHYTES
1. List all the cryptogamic plants
in the correct evolutionary
order.
2. What is the crozier or
fiddlehead?
3. Why are the crozier not usually
consumed even though they are
succulent and edible?
4. Mention 3 examples of ferns.
5. What are sterile and fertile
fronds?
6. Give specific e.g of
pteridophytes and places they
grow.
7. Mention 3 economic importance
of pteridophytes.
8. Mention 5 chemicals used for
phytochemical screening.
9. What is the name of the plant
from which cocaine is
extracted?
10.Give one difference between
Selaginella and other ferns.
SPERMATOPHYTA
1. The two groups that produce
seeds are ___ and ___
2. What is inflorescence?
3. What is the function of the
synergids in the female
gametophyte?
4. Give one difference between
sepals and petals.
5. Define corolla and calyx.
6. Explain the process of
microsporogenesis in
angiosperms and
gymnosperms.
7. List the different parts of a
pollen grain.
8. What is an ovule?
9. Give the names of each of the 8
nuclei formed after mitosis in
the megaspore.
10.What is the purpose of meiosis
in plants?
11.What is the chromosome
number of the endosperm?
12.Explain the process of double
fertilization in angiosperms.
13.Give 4 common e.g of
gymnosperms.
14.What are the economic
importance of gymnosperms
(4)?
15.Explain the process of cell
division in the female
gymnosperm.
STEM AND ROOTS
1. What are the functions of the
stem?
2. List the regions seen from the
transverse section of the stem.
3. Mention 3 layers of the cortex.
4. What is the pericycle in a dicot
stem?
5. What is the stele?
6. The vascular bundles of dicot
stems are separated from each
other by ___
7. What are the components of
each vascular bundle in the
dicot stem?
8. List the organs seen in the
transverse section of the root.
9. What is the piliferous layer?
10.Mention the components of the
xylem.
11.Classify plants according to the
presence or absence of stems.
12.Mention the general types of
stems.
13.Explain the 5 types of sub-aerial
stems and give examples for
each of them.
14.Explain the types of sub-
terranean stems and give
examples for each of them.
15.What is phylloclade?