Plant Kingdom Question 610
Question: Assertion : ?Upper Carboniferous? period is also called ?Age of Ferns?. Reason : Ferns dominated during the period.
Options:
A) If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
B) If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
C) If the assertion is true but the reason is false
D) If both the assertion and reason are false
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Answer:
Correct Answer: C
Solution:
Very little gymnosperm material form the Devonian has been studied.
Most of the fossil material has come from the upper carboniferous strata, the coal measures.
One reason why so much material has come from the upper carboniferous is that this is the age of coal.
It has been called the ?Age of Ferns?, because the early gymnosperms looked so much like ferns that they were mistaken for them.
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