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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Plant Kingdom

Question:

Gemmae are multicellular green structures for vegetative propagation. These are found inside gemma cups in

Options:

Funaria capsule

Funaria protonema

Marchantia thallus

Fern prothallus

Correct Answer:

Marchantia thallus

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option is (3) - Marchantia thallus

The liverworts grow usually in moist, shady habitats such as banks of streams, marshy ground, damp soil, bark of trees and deep in the woods. The plant body of a liverwort is thalloid, e.g., Marchantia. The thallus is dorsiventral and closely appressed to the substrate. The leafy members have tiny leaf-like appendages in two rows on the stem-like structures.
Asexual reproduction in liverworts takes place by fragmentation of thalli, or by the formation of specialised structures called gemmae (sing. gemma). Gemmae are green, multicellular, asexual buds, which develop in small receptacles called gemma cups located on the thalli. The gemmae become detached from the parent body and germinate to form new individuals.