AMU Medical AMU Solved Paper-2013

  • question_answer
    Flowering plants might have originated from

    A)  chlorophyte ancestors

    B)  tracheophyte ancestors

    C)  Rhynia type plants

    D)  psilophytes

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

                     Flowering plant (angiosperm) evolved about 140 million year ago in Coenozoic era. These flowering plants might have originated from psilophytes (primitive vascular plant). The fossil history of plants shows the following Processing plant life through the ages in the following arrangement from below to upwards Angiosperms \[\uparrow \] Psilophyton \[\uparrow \] Rhynia type plant \[\uparrow \] Tracheophyte ancestors                 \[\uparrow \] Chlorophyte ances


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