Bot Lec (Quiz 2) Flashcards
What is saprophytic?
obtaining Nourishments from the dead (decay)
Fungi is?
Saprophytic
Ancestor of plants
Charophytes
Algae has?
Chlorophyll
Chlorophlasts resembles charophytes because-
Its DNA and rRNA are similar to plants.
What are the general characteristics?
- Multi-cellular eukaryotes are photosynthetic autotrophs.
- Contains chloroplasts, chlorophyll A and B
- Cellwalls contains cellulose.
- Food reserve is starch stored in plastids.
- Aerial parts w/ waxy cuticle to avoid desiccation.
- has stomata for gas exchange.
- repro. adaptations necessary as plants move from aquatic to terrestrial.
Protective jacket of gametes.
Gametangia
Plants are?
hydrostatic systems. defends themselves without moving.
Essential characteristics?
- photosynthetic
- multi-cellular.
- growth is indeterminate and adapted to gather diffuse resources.
- shoots consist of simple repeated units exhibiting serial homology.
Causes primary growth, leaves, flowers, occurs shoot roots
Apical Meristem
Causes secondary growth, barks on trees, cambium
Lateral Meristem
tissue layer found between xylem and phloem
Cambium
Example of non-vascular
Liverworts, Hornworts, Mosses
Vascular?
- Non-seed bearing
- seed-bearing
Seed-bearing?
- Gymnosperms
- Angiosperms
Angiosperms?
- Monocot
- Dicot
In damp moist areas
Non-vascular
Moss? 1-10 cm
Bryophytes
Liverworts? lobes 2-20 cm
Hepatophyta
Hornworts?
Anthocerophyta
transports water and soluble minerals
Xylem
Translocates sugars to storage organs like roots, tubers or bulbs
Phloem
Leaves with a single unbranded vein
Microphylls
Sphenophyta
Horsetails : equisetum genus ; species
Psilotophyta
Whisk Ferns, No true root, may rhizomes
Lycophyta
Selaginella
Pterophyta
Ferns
Fronds??
Leaves of ferns
Sori??
Clustered sporangia
Coniferophyta
Conifers ; 550 species, most widespread e.g. pine trees
Cycadophyta
Cycas
Ginkgophyta
Ginkgo e.g Ginkgo biloba
Gnetophyta
- Gnetum
- Ephedra
- Welwitschia
- with xylem, shrubs, and lianas
- Ephedra sinica, medicinal
- Welwitschia mirabilis (Tree tumbo)
Angiosperms
- Antophyta?
Bearing flower-like structures
Study of evolutionary history of taxonomic groups
Phylogenetics
Classification and naming of organisms
Taxonomy
Involved in the determination of evolutionary relationships of organism
Systematics
Arrangement of organism
Classification
added in taxonomy For gardening?
Cultivar
same species, different places
subspecies
Simplest cells; w/o nucleus
Monera
Eukaryotes; has nucleus but no tissues e.g Algae, Fungi
Protista
Tissues; Photosynthesis
Vegetabilia
Tissues! Hunting and digestion of food
Animalia
pieces of DNA/RNA na naligaw
VIRI
Racemose
Centripetal
Cymose
Centrifugal
One petal
Gamopetalous
Many petals
Polypetalous