Ch 11 Review Flashcards
- What are two tissues that nonvascular do NOT contain?
Xylem and phloem
- What organisms have two kinds of every chromosome?
Diploid
- Which parts of the moss plant produce spores?
Stalk, capsule and sporophyte generation
- Give an example of a bryophyte?
True mosses
- What is the beginning of growth for a new plant?
Germination
- True or false: the largest group of plants is the gymnosperms?
False
- What is the name for plants that grow back year after year?
Perennial
- What is a cotyledon?
Form of stored food in a seed
- What is a rhizome?
Underground stem that produces roots and leaves in ferns
- An ovary, style and stigma are all part of the?
Pistil
- Name three parts of a pistil?
Ovary, style and stigma
- Name three parts necessary for pollination?
Anther, stigma, pollen
- The anther, stigma and pollen are all necessary for…?
Pollination
- Give an example of a plant that reproduces with seeds?
Giant sequoia
- Give three examples of gymnosperms?
Conifers, pines, redwood trees
- Conifers, pines and redwood trees are all examples of?
Gymnosperms
- What do angiosperms produce?
Fruit and seeds
- Why are horsetails used as abrasives?
Because of the silica in their cell walls
- Which stage of the life cycle in a fern is most easily observed?
Sporophyte
- What parts of a plant are included or needed in asexual reproduction?
Root sprouts and plant lets
- Does sexual reproduction provide genetic variation?
Yes
- What is a fern leaf called?
Frond
- The structures in ferns that produce spore?
Sori
- The name for the male reproductive part of a flower?
Stamen
- Where can the male gametes of a flower be found?
Pollen
- The roots or structures in. Misses that anchor the plant in the soil and absorb water?
Rhizoids
- A mature ovary with seeds in it?
Fruit
- Vascular plants that produce seeds that are not completely covered are called?
Gymnosperms
- What is nectar?
A sugary liquid that attracts pollinators
- The name for the life cycle in plants where there. Are two distinct stages. Called the gametophyte and the sporophyte?
Alternation of generation
- Name three parts of a seed?
Embryo, cotyledon and seed coat
- Name the two main groups of seed plants
Gymnosperms and angiosperms
- What helps the stigma retain or keep its pollen?
It is sticky
- What are the haploid cells in reproduction called?
Gametes
- Do nonvascular plants produce seeds?
No
- What is the order of plant reproduction?
Pollination
Fertilization
Seed development
- Why are mosses so short?
They transport water through diffusion because they don’t have vascular tissue to transport the water. If they were tall they couldn’t get the water up to the tips of the plant.
- What kind of plant is the pink dogwood and example of?
Angiosperm because it is a flowering plant
- Describe the differences and similarities between gymnosperms and angiosperms?
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- Give two examples of how plants are pollinated?
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