Chapter 15-18

Question 1

Identify, name, and classify organisms.

Answer 1

Taxonomists

Question 2

Evolutionary processes to sort out natural relationships.

Answer 2

Systematists

Question 3

Species defined by morphology

Answer 3

Morphologist species concept

Question 4

Species is population able to breed and is reproductively isolated from other groups.

Answer 4

Interbreeding species concept

Question 5

A species is a group of related individuals that occupy a unique ecological niche.

Answer 5

Ecological species concept.

Question 6

Single criterion not sufficient to identify species.

Answer 6

Eclectic species concept

Question 7

Species do not exist.

Answer 7

Nominalistic species concept

Question 8

What kinds of species do bryophytes include?

Answer 8

Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

Question 9

What is a male gametophyte called?

Answer 9

Antheridiophore

Question 10

What is a female gametophyte called?

Answer 10

Archegoniophore

Question 11

Phylum hepaticophyta

Answer 11

Liverworts

Question 12

Phylum bryophyta

Answer 12

Mosses (peat mosses, true mosses, and rock mosses)

Question 13

Phylum anthocerophyta

Answer 13

Hornworts

Question 14

Phylum psilotophyta

Answer 14

Whisk ferns

Question 15

Phylum lycophyta

Answer 15

Ground pines (selaginella - spike mosses, isoetes - quillworts

Question 16

Phylum equisetophyta

Answer 16

Horsetails and scouring rushes (hollow central cavity)

Question 17

Phylum polypodiophyta

Answer 17

Ferns

Question 18

Crozier

Answer 18

Conspicuous phase of the sporophyte (fiddlehead)

Question 19

Ginkgophyta

Answer 19

only the ginkgo tree

Question 20

Phylum pinophyta (or coniferophyta)

Answer 20

conifers

Question 21

Phylum cycadophyta

Answer 21

cycads (tropical and slowgrowing)

Question 22

Phylum gnetophyta

Answer 22

vessels in xylem

Question 23

Phylon

Answer 23

Common names