Bryophytes

Question 1

Are bryophytes vascular or nonvascular?

Answer 1

nonvascular

Question 2

Do bryophytes have specialized conductive tissues?

Answer 2

no

Question 3

How to bryophytes take in water?

Answer 3

through osmosis

Question 4

How to bryophytes transport minerals?

Answer 4

through diffusion

Question 5

Nonvasular plants need what for reproduction?

Answer 5

water

Question 6

Bryohpytes includee what types of plants?

Answer 6

mosses, hornworts, and liverworts

Question 7

How many species of bryophytes are there?

Answer 7

Over 24,000

Question 8

What is the method that bryophytes use to reproduce?

Answer 8

Alternation of Generations

Question 9

What is the dominant generation in byrophytes?

Answer 9

Gameotophytes

Question 10

Does the gameotophyte generation produce haploid or diploid cells?

Answer 10

haploid cells

Question 11

Is the sporophyte generation haploid or diploid?

Answer 11

diploid

Question 12

Bryophyte sperm have ___ flagella

Answer 12

two

Question 13

Sporophyte generation is created after what?

Answer 13

sperm and egg fuse

Question 14

Are sporophytes sexual or asexual?

Answer 14

asexual

Question 15

The sporophyte generation produces spores in part?

Answer 15

the sporangium

Question 16

Are spores in the sporangium diploid or haploid?

Answer 16

haploid

Question 17

Sporophytes are dependent on what for survival?

Answer 17

Gameotophytes

Question 18

Are sporophytes male or female?

Answer 18

female only

Question 19

Are gameotophytes male or female?

Answer 19

some are male, some are female

Question 20

How do male gameotophytes make sperm?

Answer 20

through mitosis

Question 21

Where are sperm in male gameotophytes made?

Answer 21

the antheridia

Question 22

How do female gameotophytes make their egg?

Answer 22

through mitosis

Question 23

Where is the egg in female gameotophytes made?

Answer 23

the archegonia

Question 24

What does the sperm need in order to travel to the female gameotophyte?

Answer 24

water

Question 25

What happens when the sperm reaches the female gameotophyte?

Answer 25

the two fuse into a diploid zygote

Question 26

What does the diploid zygote grow into?

Answer 26

a sporophyte

Question 27

What happens after the sporophyte is created?

Answer 27

it grows in the mother plant until it cracks open and then the sporophyte sends up a long stalk with a capsule on top

Question 28

What is the capsule on the stalk called?

Answer 28

the calyptra

Question 29

What does the capsule contain?

Answer 29

thousands of diploid spores

Question 30

The capsules will release spores due to ________ levels

Answer 30

humindity