Chapter 14

Question 1

What is the event that leads from the haploid stage in the aternation of generations?

Answer 1

Fertilization

Question 2

What are the benefits of plants having the ability to reproduce sexually and aesexually?

Answer 2

Genettic recombination can occur and plants can adapt to different environments

Question 3

Name the different divisions of Bryophytes or non-vascular plants

Answer 3

Liverworts or marchantiophyta, Hornworts or anthocerotophyta, and Mosses or bryophyta

Question 4

Organisms from which division of Bryophytes slows down erosion, provides food for small and large animals, and are often used to monitor air quality?

Answer 4

Mosses

Question 5

What is the function of xylem?

Answer 5

Responsible for long-distance transport and storage of water and nutrients

Question 6

What is the function of pholem?

Answer 6

The tissues transports sugars, proteins, and other solutes through the plant.

Question 7

What is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms?

Answer 7

Gymnosperms have naked seeds with no flowers or fruit; angiosperms are flowering plants that may also contain fruit

Question 8

Name the male reproductive parts of the flower

Answer 8

Stamen or androecium

Question 9

Name the female reproductive parts of the flower

Answer 9

Carpel or gynoecium

Question 10

What are monocots?

Answer 10

Have one cotyledon, ex. corn

Question 11

What are dicots?

Answer 11

Have to cotyledons, ex. beans

Question 12

What are stomata?

Answer 12

Pores that open and close to regulate the traffic of gases and water vapor

Question 13

What are the advantages that land/terrestrial ecosystems offer to plant?

Answer 13

Sunlight is abundant, CO2 more readily available, land plants evolved befor animals so no predators