2nd Set Flashcards
Differences with sporophyte and gametophyte
Sporophyte: long lived/ dominant stage
Gametophyte: short lived
Stages are completely seperate
What are the four types of spore bearing vascular plants?
Club mosses
Quillworts
Ferns and
Horsetails
Do they have seeds? Spores? Flowers? Fruit?
They only have spores
What are the male parts called?
Female?
Antheridium
Archegonium
3 Adaptations
Proper xylem and phloem
Evolution of true leaves
True roots
4 phyla
Fern
Whisk fern
Horsetail
Lycophyte: club mosses and quillworts
In ferns where are the spores located
What are these called
Underside of leaf
Sori
Uneven thickenings which causes line of weakness, breaks and catapults spores
Annulus
Leaf stalk
Rachis
When young ferns are curled
Crozier
Gymnosperms produce
Seeds, not flowers
What are coleochaete and charophtes?
Algae that are particularly related to land plants
- cells that resemble parenchyma
- similarities in cell division
- protective covering around zygote
- lignin-like compound
Soil just under topsoil
Subsoil
What are bands of soils called
Letter horizons
What is loan
Silty soil