30 Flashcards
seed
consists of an embryo and nutrients surrounded by a protective coat
what are common to all seed plants?
- Reduced gametophytes
- Heterospory
- Ovules
- Pollen
Gymnosperm
refers to the exposed nature of the seeds
“naked seed” not enclosed by ovaries and are exposed to sporophylls that usually form cones
Seeds produced on surface of _____ or similar structures, instead of enclosed within a fruit as in flowering plants.
sporophylls
Phylum Coniferophyta
This phylum is by far the largest of the gymnosperm phyla (~600 species)
• Most conifers are evergreens and can carry out photosynthesis year round and dominate northern forests
Three key features of the gymnosperm life cycle are:
- Dominance of the sporophyte generation
- Development of seeds from fertilized ovules
- The transfer of sperm to ovules by pollen
The gymnosperms have “naked” seeds not enclosed by ovaries and consist of four phyla:
– Cycadophyta (cycads)
– Gingkophyta (one living species: Ginkgo biloba)
– Gnetophyta (three genera: Gnetum, Ephedra, Welwitschia)
– Coniferophyta (conifers, such as pine, fir, and redwood)
Phylum Cycadophyta
• Individuals have large cones and palmlike leaves (but are not palms!)
– Slow-growing plants of tropics and subtropics
– Tall unbranched trunks
– Crown of large pinnately
divided leaves
• Thesethrivedduringthe Mesozoic, but relatively few species exist today
Phylum Ginkophyta
Only one living species:Ginkgo biloba (maidenhair trees)
• Only exists in cultivation
– Notched, broad, fan-shaped leaves
• Leaves on short, slow-growing spurs.
– No midrib or prominent veins – Hair-like veins branch
dichotomously. – Dioecious!
what is pollination?
is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma
what is a fruit
Matured ovary and its accessory parts
– Contains seeds
– All fruits develop from flower ovaries and accordingly are found exclusively in flowering plants.
double fertilization
occurs when the pollen tube discharges two sperm
into the female gametophyte within an ovule
____ and ___ are key adaptations for life on land
seeds and pollen grains
a microspore develops into a
pollen grain
in gymnosperms, the seeds are produced where? as opposed to flowering plants
produced on sporophylls as opposed to inside of a fruit in flowering plants
the pine tree is the ____ and produces ____
sporophyte and produces sporangia in male and female cones
Small cones produce _____ called ____ each of which contains a ____ gametophyte
microspores; pollen grains; male
familiar larger cones contain ,which produce _____ that develop into _____ gametophytes
ovules; megaspores; female
It takes nearly ___ years from cone production to mature seed
three
what are the four phyla of the gymnosperms?
– Cycadophyta (cycads)
– Gingkophyta (one living species: Ginkgo biloba)
– Gnetophyta (three genera: Gnetum, Ephedra, Welwitschia)
– Coniferophyta (conifers, such as pine, fir, and redwood)
Dioecious
Male and female structures on separate trees.
phylum gingkophyta
angiosperms
seed plants with reproductive structures called flowers and fruits; They are the most widespread and diverse of all plants
All angiosperms are classified in a single phylum, _____ (aka Anthophyta)
Magnoliophyta
exocarp
skin
endocarp
inner boundary around seed
mesocarp
Tissue between exocarp and endocarp
Three regions collectively called
pericarp
True fruits contain only______ ; accessory fruits are those that contain any _______
ovarian tissue; nonovarian tissue
fleshy
mesocarp is at least partly fleshy at maturity.
Simple fleshy fruits develop from a flower with a single pistil
Are eaten during the natural seed distribution process
dry
mesocarp is dry at maturity
Is typically not eaten by the natural seed- distributing animals
what are fruit adaptations that enhance seed dispersal?
wind, animal transportation, animal ingestion
flower of the sporophyte is composed of ______
both male and female structures
____ are contained within pollen grains produced by the
microsporangia of anthers
male gametophytes
The female gametophyte, or _____ , develops within an ovule contained within an ovary at the base of a stigma
embryo sac
The ovule is entered by a pore called the
micropyle
_____ occurs when the pollen tube discharges two sperm
into the female gametophyte within an ovule
double fertilization
One sperm fertilizes the egg, while the other combines with two nuclei in the central cell of the female gametophyte and initiates development of food- storing _____
endosperm
The _____ nourishes the developing embryo
endosperm
More than _____ of world’s plants face extinction
1/5
flower
a unique angiosperm structure specialized for sexual reproduction
ovary matures into a ____
fruit
monocot
species with one cotyledon (an embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating seed.)