Chapter 5 Seedless Plants

Question 1

What kingdom do plants belong to?

Answer 1

Plante

Question 2

What type of eukaryotes are seedless plants?

Answer 2

photosynthetic eukaryotes

Question 3

What chlorophylls do seedless plants use?

Answer 3

a and b

Question 4

What are the carbohydrates store as in seedless plants?

Answer 4

starch

Question 5

Seedless plant life cycles feature alternation of ________ (haploid) and ___________ (diploid) generations.

Answer 5

gametophyte and sporophyte

Question 5

What do seedless plants develop that are protected by parental tissue?

Answer 5

embryos

Question 6

Surviving phyla of plants grouped in two main categories:

Answer 6

Nontracheophytes
Tracheophytes

Question 7

What phyla do land plants belong to?

Answer 7

Embryophytes

Question 8

Land plants arose from a common _________ ancestor

Answer 8

green algal

Question 9

What does desiccation mean?

Answer 9

Loss of water

Question 10

What thing did land plants evolve to survive on land?

Answer 10

1. Acquisition of a waxy cuticle (retards desiccation)
2. Gametangia (protective cases for plant gametes)
3. A protected embryo
   protective pigments (from UV light)
4. Thick spore walls

Question 11

Land plants are ___________: parents nourish their young

Answer 11

Embryophytes

Question 12

___________ lack a true vascular system

Answer 12

Nontracheophytes

Question 13

___________ are characterized by a vascular system

Answer 13

Tracheophytes

Question 14

In Tracheophytes what is water and mineral-conducting vascular system called?

Answer 14

xylem

Question 15

What are the different types of vascular tissue in land plants?

Answer 15

Xylem and Phloem

Question 16

In Tracheophytes what is nutrient-conducting vascular system called?

Answer 16

phloem

Question 17

The ___________ include the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses.

Answer 17

nontracheophytes

Question 18

What phylum do mosses belong to?

Answer 18

Bryophyta

Question 19

What phylum do liverworts belong to?

Answer 19

Hepaticophyta

Question 20

In nontracheophytes, the sporophyte generation is smaller than the gametophyte generation and depends on the _________________________

Answer 20

gametophyte for water and nutrition

Question 21

Prominent moss or liverwort body is the __________

Answer 21

gametophyte

Question 22

What are the Nontracheophyte sex organs ?

Answer 22

Archegonium
Antheridium

Question 23

What does the Nontracheophyte sex organ archegonium house?

Answer 23

The eggs

Question 24

What does the Nontracheophyte sex organ antheridium house?

Answer 24

The sperm

Question 25

The tracheophytes have vascular tissue with _________ and ________- designed to conduct water, minerals, and foods.

Answer 25

tracheids; specialized cells

Question 26

Present-day tracheophytes are grouped into _______ phyla that form _______ major groups

Answer 26

seven; two

Question 27

What are the two major groups of tracheophytes

Answer 27

Seedless plants and seed plants

Question 28

In tracheophytes the sporophyte generation is larger than the gametophyte and ____________________

Answer 28

independent of the gametophyte generation

Question 29

The prominent plant in tracheophytes in the life cycle is the ___________

Answer 29

sporophyte

Question 30

What is the strong trend in land plant evolution?

Answer 30

Reduction of gametophyte

Question 31

Phylum _________: Club mosses

Answer 31

Lycophyta

Question 32

Phylum __________: Whisk ferns

Answer 32

Psilophyta

Question 33

Phylum _____________: Horsetails (leaves in whorls)

Answer 33

Equisetophyta

Question 34

Phylum _____________: Ferns (complex leaves)

Answer 34

Pteridophyta

Question 35

Most ferns produce ________ on undersurface of leaves

Answer 35

sori/sorus (plural)

Question 36

Each sorus is a cluster of many ____________

Answer 36

sporangia

Question 37

Each sporangium releases many ___________

Answer 37

spores

Question 38

The ________ is dominant phase in ferns

Answer 38

Sporophyte

Question 39

Tiny, heart-shaped ____________ develops from spores in ferns

Answer 39

gametophyte

Question 40

Fertilized________ (zygote) becomes new_______________ (fern plant)

Answer 40

egg; sporophyte