C29 Flashcards
What is the alternation of generations for plants?
Plant life cycles that alternate between diploid and haploid stage.
What did the plants have to adapt to when coming on land?
Scarcity of water and lack of structural support.
What are adaptations that plants moving to land have? (important)
- Walled spores, Sporopollenin on walls of the spores.
- Epidermis, Waxy cuticle.
- Stomata, support exchange.
- Mycorrhizae.
What are major groups of nonvascular and seedless vascular plants?
What is a gametophyte? What is a sporophyte?
Gametophyte: gamete producing plant
Sporophyte: spore producing plant
What are Derived traits of land plants? What are they?
They are traits that were absent in the common ancestor, green algae, but instead evolved as derived traits of plants.
Multicellular Dependent Embryos, Walled Spores Produced in Sporangia, Alternation of Generations, Multicellular Gametangia
Where are spores produced?
In the Sporangia, the organ of the sporophyte
What is the Life cycle of plants?
- Gametophyte, produces a gamete
- Gamete pairs with another gamete (fertilizes), creates diploid zygote.
- Zygote develops into a sporophyte.
- Sporophyte produces spores.
- spores develop into gametophyte.
How are spores produced? Are they diploid or haploid?
Spores are produced when the sporophyte undergoes meiosis. The result of meiosis are spores. The result of meiosis are always haploid.
How are gametes produced?
Gametes are produced in the gametangia.
The difference between spore and a gamete?
The spore grows into a gametophyte
Gametophyte produces a gamete
What is the gametangia?
The location where the gametes are produced.
What is a bryophyte?
A Non-vascular Plants (with NO SEEDS) (Most BASIC)
Are bryophytes dominant
Gametophyte dominant
Why are bryophytes small?
They lack vascular tissue