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Question 1

What is the type of cytokinesis in animals/other vs plants? What else has the same type of cytokinesis as plants?

Answer 1

In animals/other- furrowing
In plants- cell plate formation

Charophytes (green algae) also have cell plate formation like plants do

Question 2

Okay so how are charophytes and land plants different then? What’s the magic word

Answer 2

The magic word is “multicellular.”

Land plants have multicellular sporangia, diploid sporophyte, multicellular gametophyte? multicellular embryos

Question 3

What things do charophytes and land plants have in common?

Answer 3

Made of cellulose cell walls, similar photosynthetic properties?

Question 4

What developments helped land plants prevent water loss?

Answer 4

Sporopollenin- coating around spores to keep from drying out

Waxy cuticle

MULTICELLULAR MULTICELLULAR MULTICELLULAR gametangia

Question 5

Are land plants gametophyte or sporophyte dominant? What is the exception to this

Answer 5

Land plants are sporophyte dominant. The exception to this is bryophytes, which are gametophyte dominant.

Question 6

How are bryophytes different from other land plants?

Answer 6

Bryophytes:

are not vascular plants (no vascular tissue)

Gametophyte dominance!

only have one sporangium

No lignin

Question 7

What weird ass places can moss be found?

Answer 7

Lol Antarctica and the desert, lots of different types of places

Question 8

Two biggest differences between liverworts and hornworts?

Answer 8

Hornworts have stomata, liverworts don’t

HOWEVER

Liverworts have gemmae cups (for asexual reproduction), hornworts don’t