Chapter 14 Flashcards
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Viridiplantae
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Land plants and green algae
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Green algae split into 2 major clades
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- Chlorophytes – Never made it to land
- Charophytes – Did
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Land plants have two major features
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- Protected embryos
2. Multicellular haploid and diploid phases
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Adaptations to terrestrial life
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- Protection from desiccation by a waxy cuticle and stomata
- Evolution of leaves which increase photosynthetic surface area
- Shift to a dominant vertical diploid generation
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Plant life cycles
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- Humans have a diplontic life cycle
- Plants have a haplodiplontic life cycle
- Multicellular diploid stage = Sporophyte
- Multicellular haploid stage = Gametophyte
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As more complex plants evolved:
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- Diploid stage became the dominant portion of the life cycle
- Gametophyte became more limited in size
- Sporophyte became nutritionally independent
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Green algae have two distinct lineages
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- Chlorophytes – Gave rise to aquatic algae
- Streptophytes – Gave rise to land plants
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Chlamydomonas
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- Unicellular chlorophyte with two flagella
- Have eyespots to direct swimming
- Reproduces asexually as well as sexually
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Volvox
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- Colonial chlorophyte
- Hollow sphere of a single layer of 500-60,000 cells
- A few cells are specialized for reproduction
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Ulva
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- Multicellular chlorophyte
- Haplodiplontic life cycle
- Gametophyte and sporophyte have identical appearance
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Charophytes
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Green algae related to land plants
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Two clades of Charophytes
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- Charales
- Choleocaetales
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Charales
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- Macroscopic
- Plant-like plasmodesmata
- Sister clade to land plants
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Choleocaetales
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- Microscopic
- Plant-like mitosis
- Next closest plant relatives
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Bryophytes
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- The closest living descendants of the first land plants
- Called nontracheophytes because they lack tracheids (specialized transport cells)
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Liverworts (bryophyte)
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- Have flattened gametophytes with liver-like lobes
- Form gametangia in umbrella-shaped structures
- Also undergo asexual reproduction
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Hornworts (bryophyte)
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- Sporophyte has stomata
- Sporophyte is photosynthetic
- Cells have a single large chloroplast
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Vascular tissues are two types
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- Xylem – Conducts water and dissolved minerals upward from the roots
- Phloem – Conducts sucrose and hormones throughout the plant
- These enable enhanced height and size in the tracheophytes
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Vascular plants (Tracheophyte)
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Have gametophytes reduced in size and complexity relative to sporophytes
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Seeds (Tracheophyte)
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- Highly-resistant structures that protect the plant embryo
- Occur only in heterosporous plants
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Fruits (Tracheophyte)
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- In flowering plants add a layer of protection to seeds
- Also attract animals that disperse seeds
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Vascular plants include seven extant phyla grouped in three clades:
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- Lycophytes (club mosses)
- Pterophytes (ferns and their relatives)
- Seed plants
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Club mosses (Lycophytes)
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- Are the earliest vascular plants
- They lack seeds
- Superficially resemble true mosses but they are not related
- Homosporous or heterosporous
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Whisk ferns (Pterophytes)
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- Saprophyte consists of evenly forking green stems without leaves or roots
- Some gametophytes develop elements of vascular tissue
- Only one known to do so
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Horsetails (Pterophytes)
- All 15 living species are homosporous
- Constitute a single species, Equisetum
- Consist of ribbed, jointed photosynthetic stems that arise from branching rhizomes
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Ferns (Pterophytes)
- The most abundant group of seedless vascular plants with about 11,000 species
- The conspicuous sporophyte and much smaller gametophyte are both photosynthetic
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Fern morphology
- Sporophytes have rhizomes
- Fronds (leaves) develop at the tip of the rhizome as tightly rolled-up coils
- They unroll and expand
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Fern reproduction
- Most fern are homosporous
- Produce distinctive sporangia in clusters called sori on the back of the fronds
- Diploid spore mother cells in sporangia produce haploid spores by meiosis
- At maturity, the spores are catapulted by snapping action
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Seed plants
-Evolved from spore-bearing plants known as progymnosperms
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The seed represents an important advance
1. Protects the embryo
2. Easily dispersed
3. Introduces a dormant phase in the life cycle
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Seed plants produce 2 kinds of gametophytes
- Male gametophytes
- Pollen grains
- Dispersed by wind or a pollinator
- Female gametophytes
- Develop within an ovule
- Enclosed within diploid sporophyte tissue
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Gymnosperms
Plants with naked seeds
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Conifers (gymnosperm)
The largest gymnosperm phylum
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Pines (gymnosperm)
- Leaves have:
1. Thick cuticle and recessed stomata
2. Canals into which cells secrete resin
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Cycads (gymnosperm)
- Slow-growing gymnosperms of tropical and subtropical regions
- Sporophytes resemble palm trees
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Gnetophytes (gymnosperm)
-Only gymnosperms with vessels in their xylem
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Ginkgophytes (gymnosperm)
-Only one living species remains
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Dioecious
-Male and female reproductive structures form on different trees
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Angiosperm
The flowering plants
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Archaefructus
The oldest known angiosperm in the fossil record
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Amborella
The closest living relative to the original angiosperm
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Flower morphology
- Primordium develops into a bud at the end of a stalk called the pedicel
- Pedicel expands at the tip to form a receptacle, to which other parts attach
- Flower parts are organized in circles called whorls
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Flower morphology continued
- Outermost whorl = Sepals
- Second whorl = Petals
- Third whorl = Stamens (androecium)
- Each stamen has a pollen-bearing anther and a filament (stalk)
- Innermost whorl = Gynoecium
- Consists of one or more carpels that house the female gametophyte
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Carpel structure
- Three major regions
- Ovary = Swollen base containing ovules
- Later develops into a fruit
- Stigma = Tip
- Style = Neck or stalk
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Pollination
The mechanical transfer of pollen from anther to stigma
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Angiosperms include:
Eudicots- Use flowers to attract insect pollinators
| Monocots- Some rely on wind for pollination
