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1
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What are two ways that bryophytes deal with water loss?

A

Avoid or tolerate

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What adaptations are present in bryophytes for dealing with evaporation?

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Biochemical adaptations. Thin cuticle

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Why couldn’t bryophytes have a thick cuticle to deal with water loss?

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They need to absorb water and dissolved nutrients over the surface since they don’t roots, and it would limit gas exchange

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What supporting structures are present in bryophytes?

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Rhizoids

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Why is there a limit to how big bryophytes can get?

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They rely on diffusion for water and nutrient transfer

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How do bryophytes have mechanical support?

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Turgor pressure

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How do bryophytes disperse their gametes?

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Sperm are motile and require water to swim through and reach the egg

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How do bryophytes disperse their spores?

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Wind or projectile mechanisms

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Which generation is dominant in bryophytes?

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Gametophyte

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What are the 3 phyla in the bryophytes?

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Phylum Hepatophyta - liverworts
Phylum Antocerophyta - hornworts
Phylum Bryophyta - mosses

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What are the characteristics of liverwort gametophytes?

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Morphology can be thalloid or leafy, separate male and female gametophytes

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What are archegoniophores?

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Structure that supports the female reproductive parts

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What are antheridiophores?

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Structure that supports the male reproductive parts

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Are bryophytes homosporous or heterosporous?

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Homosporous-ish. The spores all look the same but they have separate male and female gametophytes

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How do liverworts spread their spores around?

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Use elaters, which coil up and then fling the spores into the air when they get wet

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What are the traits of the sporophyte in hornworts?

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Tall, narrow, and horn-like. Grows slowly

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What are the traits of gametophyte in hornworts?

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Thalloid, unicellular rhizoids

18
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How do you differentiate a liverwort from a hornwort?

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The sporophyte. Liverworts also have multiple chloroplasts per cell and hornworts only have one chloroplast per cell

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What are the traits of the gametophyte in the mosses?

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Leafy morphology, multicellular rhizoids. Has a “mop head” in the Sphagnidae

20
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What are the traits of the sporophyte in the mosses?

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Parasitic, non-photosynthetic

21
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What is a protonema?

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Thin strands of cells that grow into multiple gametophytes from the same spore

22
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What does the sporophyte look like in the Sphagnidae? How are spores dispersed?

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The sporangium at the top is dark and round, and disperses spores through the explosive operculum mechanism. It pulls itself tight, creates pressure inside then explodes

23
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What are hydroids and leptoids?

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Tissues found in the Bryidae that have similar functions to xylem and phloem, but are unrelated evolutionary

24
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Are the gametophytes produced by a protonema genetically identical or different?

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Genetically identical, they all come from the same spore

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What does the sporophyte look like in the Bryidae?

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The foot stays attached to the gametophyte, the seta is the “stem” and a capsule containing sporangium is at the top of seta. They aren’t photosynthetic. Spores are dispersed when the capsule dries out, so the peristome opens and releases the spores

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What are gemmae?

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Asexual reproductive structures of bryophytes

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What is a thallus?

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A simple gametophyte morphology structure that is flat, thin, and undifferentiated

28
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What is a rhizoid?

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Anchoring structures that attach the bryophyte to the substrate, but don’t participate in water and nutrient absorption

29
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What is a capsule?

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The sporangium of bryophytes

30
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What are gametophores?

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The antheridiophores and archegoniophores

31
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What are gametangia?

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Gamete producing structures. Antheridia and archegonia

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