Evolution of Seed plants

Question 1

What do seed ferns resembled and how are they different from ferns?

Answer 1

Resemble ferns

produced by using SEEDS instead of SPORES

Question 2

What are the THREE classes of GYMNOSPERMS?

Answer 2

1. Cycads —> palm like plant
2. Ginkgoes —> only one species left and found during time of dinosaurs
3. Conifers —> commonly called evergreens and is the most abundant gymnosperm

Question 3

What do gymnosperms all have?

Answer 3

SCALES

Question 4

What are scales?

Answer 4

specialized male and female reproductive structures

Question 5

How are scales grouped?

Answer 5

grouped into CONES

Question 6

What do male cones produce?

Answer 6

produce male gametophytes called POLLEN GRAINS

Question 7

What do female cones produce?

Answer 7

produce female gametophytes called MEGA GAMETOPHYTE or OVULES

Question 8

What is the seed protected by?

Answer 8

SEED COAT

Question 9

why are the seeds called NAKED SEEDS?

Answer 9

because they sit “naked” on the scales

Question 10

Conifers (cone bearers) are commonly called

Answer 10

Evergreens

Question 11

6 examples of conifers

Answer 11

pine
spruce
fir
cedar
sequoia
yew

Question 12

what are the leaves of conifers called and what do they look like?

Answer 12

NEEDLES

long and thin

Question 13

When do needles fall out? (conifers)

Answer 13

lose older needles all year round

Question 14

What do male cones/pollen cones produce? (conifers)

Answer 14

pollen grains

Question 15

What do female cones/seed cones produce? (conifers)

Answer 15

ovules

Question 16

How do conifer plants reproduce?

Answer 16

some produce both male and female cones on the SAME plant and other have SEPARATE male and female plants

Question 17

How is pollen carried

Answer 17

by wind, some caught by sticky secretion produced by the scale

Question 18

Angiosperms (flowering plants)

Answer 18

commonly called flowering plants

Question 19

how do angiosperms reproduce?

Answer 19

sexually through a process that involves pollination

Question 20

how are seeds of angiosperms contained?

Answer 20

within protective wall that develops into a structure called a fruit

Question 21

angiosperms have the most widespread of…

Answer 21

land plants

Question 22

what are the 2 orders of angiosperms

Answer 22

1. monocotyledonae (monocots)

2. Dicotyledene (dicots)

Question 23

What are 5 examples of monocots?

Answer 23

corn
wheat
lilies
palms
grasses

Question 24

What are 7 examples of dicots?

Answer 24

roses
clover
oaks
tomatoes
oaks
maples
daisies

Question 25

Monocots have how many number of cotyledons/seed leaves?

Answer 25

1 cotyledon

Question 26

Dicots have how many number of cotyledons/seed leaves?

Answer 26

2 cotyledons

Question 27

monocots veins are…

Answer 27

parallel leaf veins

Question 28

dicots veins are…

Answer 28

netlike leaf veins

Question 29

monocots flowers have…

Answer 29

floral parts in threes

Question 30

dicots flowers have…

Answer 30

floral parts in four or fives

Question 31

vascular bundles in stem of monocots…

Answer 31

vascular bundles throughout stem’s ground tissue

Question 32

vascular bundles in stem of dicot…

Answer 32

stem’s vascular bundles arranged in a ring

Question 33

vascular bundles in root of monocots…

Answer 33

arranged in a ring

Question 34

vascular bundles in root of dicot…

Answer 34

roots phloem between areas of xylem

Question 35

stem thickness monocots…

Answer 35

DO NOT grow thicker year to year

Question 36

stem thickness dicots…

Answer 36

CAN grow thicker from year to year