Evolution of Trees

Question 1

Dendro

Answer 1

Greek for tree

Question 2

Who proposed the theory of evolution

Answer 2

Charles Darwin, in 1859

Question 3

Four Major Periods in Plant Evolution

Answer 3

1 move onto land (425-475 mya)
-bryophytes, transitional group of plants
-small, leafy, non-vascular plants
-require access to moisture

Question 4

Four Major Periods in Plant Evolution

Answer 4

2 evolution of vascular tissues
-(408-378 mya) carboniferous period
-Xylem: vascular tissue through which water and minerals are conducted
-Phloem: Vascular tissue through which glucose and starch made during photosynthesis is transported.

Question 5

Four major periods in plant evolution

Answer 5

3 evolution of seed
-(360 mya)
Gymnosperm= Naked seed

Question 6

Four major periods in plant evolution

Answer 6

-(130 mya)
-angiosperms report back to 135 mya
-Extreme diversity

Question 7

What was the first flowering fruit

Answer 7

Archaefructus
-found in Northern China