ch. 30 Flashcards
In addition to seeds, what is common to all seed plants (4)
1) Reduced Gametophytes
2) Heterospory
3) Ovules
4) Pollen
Reduced Gametophytes characteristics (2)
1) Gametophytes of seed plants are microscopic
2) Develop within walls of spores retained within the tissue of parent sporophyte
Giant Gametophyte
Gametophyte: Dominant
Sporophyte: Reduced, depends of gametophyte for nutrition
Mosses and nonvascular plants
Small Gametophyte
Gametophyte: Reduced, independent
Sporophyte: Dominant
seedless vascular plants
Tiny Gametophyte
Gametophyte: Reduced, microscopic, dependent on sporophyte, in ovulate and pollen
Sporophyte: Dominant
Seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Homosporous
Plants that produce one kind of spore, usually produces bisexual gametophyte
Ex. Ferns
Heterosporous
Produce two types of spores, which develop to either male or female gametophytes
Ex. Seed plants
Microsporocytes (2n) give rise to
microspores (n) (meiosis)
Gametophyte (n) produces
Gametes (mitosis)
Megasporangia
1) produce megaspores that give rise to female gametophytes
2) develop on megasporophylls
microsporangia
1) produce microspores that give rise to male gametophytes
2) develop on microsporophylls
Chain of mega
Megasporophylls contain megasporangia containing megasporocytes which make megaspores
chain of micro
microsporophylls contain microsporangia containing microsporocytes which make microspores
Ovules consists of? (3)
Consist of:
1) Megasporangium (2n)
2) megaspore (n)
3) Integument (2n)
- 1 integument for gymnosperm
- 2 integument for angiosperm
What is a pollen grain
a developed microspore that contains a male gametophyte
What is pollination?
transfer of pollen to ovules
Germinated pollen grain produces
Pollen tube that discharges sperm into female gametophyte in ovule
Where are Gymnosperms seeds located?
Exposed on sporophylls that form cones
Where are Angiosperm seeds located?
Found in fruits, mature ovaries