EEMB 3: Plants Flashcards
Scientific name for land plants
Embryophytes
Common feature that ALL land plants share
protected embryos
Name the groups of vascular plants
LycophytesHorsetailsWhisk fernsLepto fernsGymnospermsFlowering plants
Name the groups of Euphyllophytes
LycohpytesHorsetailsWhisk fernsLepto fernsGymnospermsFlowering Plants
What does Euphyllophytes mean?
“true leaves”
Name the groups of Monilophytes
HorsetailsWhisk fernsLepto ferns (basic ferns)
Name the groups of Seed Plants
GymnospermsFlowering Plants (Angiosperms)
More in depth description of lycophytes
club mosses and relatives
What are the only phylum that have Microphylls
lycophytes (club mosses and relatives)
What is the one trait of plants that completely separates it from protists, bacteria, etc?
Embryos protected by tissues of the parent plant; do not need an external water source to growEmbryophytes
A plant is a _____ eukaryote that uses chlorophylls ____, stores ____, and develops from an ______ protected by tissues by the parent plant
photosythetica & bembryo
Plants are referred to as empbryophytes because
they develop from embryos
The kingom plantae is ____ which forms how many branches of the evolutionary tree?
monophyleticone branch only
List the groups of the kingdom Plantae
GlaucophytesRed AlgaeChlorophytes”other’ green algaeColeochaetalesCharophytesLand Plants (embryophytes)
Green plants are also called
streptophytes
The most closely related group to land plants
charophytes
List the close slimilarities between land plants (embryophytes) and charophytes (algae)
chlorophyll a,bbeta-carotene as accessory pigmentthylakoid stacks (grana)store starchcellulose for cell wallsuse cell plate for divisiongenetic similarity (cpDNA and other genes)
Development of new physiology led to an ______ shift to land
ecological
The major plant cell composition needed for water retention
cuticle
Major plant part needed for gas exchange and retention of water
stomata
What physiological change came about to allow transportation between mediums
division into subterranean & aerial organs
What is composes the main support for the outside of plants (“woody portions”)
Lignin
What is function is the protection of gametes from desiccation?
Gametengia
What is needed for protection from desiccation and damage?
sporopollenin/thick spore walls
One reason for the ecological shift to land
mutual association with a fungus
Embryos protect
young sporophytes
Non-tracheophyte groups
LiverwortsMossesHornworts
T/F: Knowing the dominant generation (in alternation of generations) helps classify plants
True!
In the generic alternation of generations cycle, what processes are at the transition between haplontic and diplontic
meiosis and fetilization
In the generic alternation of generations cycle what stages are in the haplonic cycle
Sporemulti-cellular gametophytegametes
In the generic alternation of generations cycle what stages are in the diplontic cycle
zygotemulti-cellualr sporophyte
Class of plants that has the most species
angiosperms
non-tracheophytes (non-vascular) plants are the decendents of the ____ lineages of plants
oldest
the sporophyte develops from the
embryo
the embryo is dependent on and protected by the
gametophyte
Non-tracheophytes are found usually in _____ climate
moist
What generation stage is most dominant in non-tracheophytes (non-vascular plants)
gametophyte / haplonitc
Describe the moss life cycle
Starting from haploid-ungerminated spore-germinating-protonema (rhizoid, bud, photo filament)-gametophytes-archegonium/antheridium-sperm/egg-eggDiploid stage-embryo-sporophyte/casule (spreads spores)(gametophyte still present)Cycle starts over
Specialized cells that transport water and nutrients
tracheids
Tracheids are what shape
spindle shaped
What connects tracheids
pits
Tracheids also provide what other function?
structural support
Tracheids are formed through what?
programmed cell death (for empty space to transport nutrients and water)
In non-tracheophytes the sporophyte (2n) is the ______ and gametophyte (n) is the ___
capsule”leaf”
In treacheophytes the sporophyte is the ___ and gametophyte is ____
leavessome of small underground thing
The first tracheophytes lacked
“true leaves”roots
Rhynia fossils are what?When were they found?
the first tracheophytes foundDevonion Period
Tracheophytes were a product of what reproductive cycle
meiosis
What era were the first ferns & fern allies found? (Monilophytes)
Devonian Period
Monilophytes showed first signs of what 3 things that showed evolution of plants?
true roots/leavesheterospory”overtopping” growth pattern
what might have allowed the evolution of specialized root and shoot axes?
dichotomous branching
T/F: Lycophyta have root/shoot systems that both branch dichotomously
True
What is dichotomous branching?
equal division of two branches at a terminal bud
Simple leaves are called (scientific)
microphylls
Scientifically define a leaf
a flattened photosynthetic structure emerging laterally from a main axis/stem and has “true” vascular tissue
Simple leaves are characteristic of which phylum
Lycophytes (club mosses)
Megaphylls are
complex leaves
Megaphylls are thought to have evolved from what growth process?
overtopping (branched vascular strands that flattened and developed tissue in-between)
Different between simple and complex leaves
multiple vascular strands
Describe the haploid portion of a homosporic cycle
meiosis -> spore -> gamtophyte ->-> achegonium ->eggsOR-> antheridium -> sperm
archegonium is what part of a plants reproductive haploid cycle
female part
atheridium is what part of a plants haploid reproductive cycle
male part
Describe the diploid portion of a homosporic cycle
zygote -> embryo -> sporophyte -> sporangium -> spore of a mother cell
In the heterospory cycle the prefix mega- refers to which gender
Female
In the heterospory cycle the prefix micro- refers to which gender
male
Describe the haploid part of heterosporic life cycle
meiosis ->spore -> gametophyte -> sperm/eggs
Describe the diploid part of heterosporic life cycle
same as homosporic cept micro/mega sporangiums
Heterospory promotes
outcrossing
Heterospory provides _____ flexibility
developmental flexibility
In heterospory the megagametophyte undergoes
endosporic development
What is endosporic development
when the megagametophyte does not leave the megaspore to grow
Sporangia are
containers in which asexual spores are formed
Two dispersal mechanisms
spore and seed
T/F: the gametophyte is reduced less in seed plants than non-seed tracheophytes
FALSE
T/F: Water is sometimes needed for sexual reproduction
FALSE. no need at all
How does the haploid megagametophyte develop in seed plants
Develops partially or entirely attached and is nutritionally dependent to the diploid sporophyte
In seed plants, the male gametophyte is a
gene dispersal stage (pollen)
Seeds contain what, what sort of stage is it, and are a means of what?
contain the new sporophyte generationa resting stagea means of dispersal
What are strobilus?
a cluster of modified leaves with sporangia
Microspores divide by mitois into what?
pollen grains (microgametophyte)
Two cell parts of the pollen grain
generative celltube cell
Pollen is what type of reproductive form
microgametophyte
Creating pollen is a method for what two things?
dispersalavoiding inbreeding
Ovule is the structure that contains the
female gametophyte
The ovule is surrounded by what?
nucellus (megasporangium)
In a seed the embryo is the ___-phyte
sporophyte
What type of plants are angiosperms?
Flowering plants
Angiosperms (flowering plants) undergo ______ fertilization
double