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Plant Kingdom

ICSE · Class 11 · Biology

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Card 1Plant Kingdom Overview

What organisms are included in the plant kingdom?

Answer

Plant kingdom comprises multicellular, autotrophic organisms. It includes major groups such as algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.

Card 2Plant Kingdom Overview

From which algal group did land plants probably arise?

Answer

Plants probably arose from the algal division Chlorophyta. Green algae are especially close to land plants in their pigments, food storage, and cell wall composition.

Card 3Algae Classification

Why are blue-green algae not treated as algae anymore?

Answer

Cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, are not algae any more. They are placed in Monera because they are prokaryotic, unlike true algae which are eukaryotic.

Card 4Algae General Features

What are algae?

Answer

Algae are chlorophyll-containing thalloid autotrophic plants of the simplest type. They lack true roots, stems, leaves, or leaf-like organs and commonly live in aquatic habitats.

Card 5Algae Classification

What are the three major divisions of algae?

Answer

Algae are divided into three major divisions: Rhodophyceae, Phaeophyceae, and Chlorophyceae. These groups are mainly distinguished by their pigments, storage food, and other structural features.

Card 6Rhodophyceae

Why are red algae called red algae?

Answer

Red algae contain the water-soluble red pigment r-phycoerythrin, which masks the green colour of chlorophyll a. This pigment also helps them live at greater depths in the ocean than other algal groups

Card 7Rhodophyceae

What are the main features of Rhodophyceae?

Answer

Rhodophyceae are mostly marine algae with no flagellated cells at any stage of the life cycle. Their reserve food is floridean starch, and their pigments include chlorophyll a and d, carotenes, xantho

Card 8Rhodophyceae

Give examples of red algae and their uses.

Answer

Common examples include Batrachospermum, Polysiphonia, Porphyra, Gracilaria, and Gelidium. Porphyra and Rhodymenia are used as food, agar is obtained from Gelidium, Gracilaria, Chondrus, and Gigartina

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