Chapter 29: Liverworts, Hornworts, Mosses Flashcards
Are named for their liver-shaped gametophytes
Liverworts
Some species of what have gametangia elevated on stalks?
Liverworts
What’s another name for Liverworts?
Phylum Hepatophyta
Some species of Liverworts have stemlike gametophytes with many leaflike ____________
Appendages
What is another name for Hornworts?
Phylum Anthocerophyta
What do sporophytes look like in Hornworts?
Long and tapered horn shaped structures, growing up to 5 cm tall
In Hornworts, when are spore released?
When the horn splits open
What do gametophytes look like in Hornworts?
1-2 cm in diameter, grow horizontally, and multiple sporophytes attached
____________ form symbioses with __________-fixing bacteria.
Hornworts; nitrogen
What is another name for Mosses?
Phylum Bryophyta
How big are Gametophytes in Mosses?
Less than 15 cm tall, range from 1 mm to 60 cm
_______________ are usually visible to the naked eye in which Bryophyte?
Sporophytes; Mosses
What color are Mosses when they are young? What color do they turn before releasing spores?
Green and photosynthetic; brown
Where are mosses most common?
Moist forests and wetlands
T/F: mosses only inhabit hot environments.
F: They also inhabit extremely cold, hot, and dry environments
“Peat moss”
Sphagnum
What forms extensive deposits of partially decaying organic material known as _______
Sphagnum; peat
Can be used as source of fuel
Peat
What 3 things inhibit decay of moss and other organisms
Low temp., pH, and O2 levels of peatlands
Peatlands cover __% of Earth’s land surface
3
Contain 1/3 of the world’s soil carbon
Peatlands
___________ were the prominent vegetation for the first 100 million years of plant evolution
Bryophytes
The earliest vascular plants fossils are _______ million years old
425
What has allowed plants to grow much taller?
Vascular tissue
This type of plants are still restricted to moist habitats where the sperm can swim to the egg
Seedless vascular plants
The ___________ sporophyte lived relatively _____________ of the gametophyte
Vascular; independent
What stimulated further evolution within the vascular plants
Competition for space and sunlight
Living vascular plants are characterized by (1)
Life cycles with dominant sporophytes
Living vascular plants are characterized by (2)
Transport in vascular tissues called xylem and phloem
Living vascular plants are characterized by (3)
Well-developed roots and leaves
Living vascular plants are characterized by (4)
Spore bearing leaves called sporophylls
Transport in vascular tissues called _________ and __________
Xylem; phloem
Spore-bearing leaves
Sporphylls
In what kind of plants are the sporophytes larger and more complex than gametophytes?
Seedless vascular plants
____________ plants have 2 types of vascular tissues: _________ and _________
Vascular; xylem; phloem
Conducts most of the water and minerals
Xylem
Xylem include tube-shaped cells called
Tracheids
Xylem cells are ________ at functional maturity and are _________
Dead; lignified