Exam 2 Flashcards
What is the taxonomic name for all seed plants?
spermatophytes
What is the dominant generation of seed plants?
Sporophyte
Where are male gametophyte found in seed plants?
in pollen made by microsporangia of anthers
What is the taxonomic name for all ferns?
Monilophytes
What is the taxonimic name for mosses?
Bryophytes
What taxonomic groups need to have a moist environment for reproduction?
Bryophytes (non vascular plants) and seedless vascular plants
What is the plant reproductive structure that contains an unfertilized egg and an integument that was derived from the parent plant?
Ovary
What is the plant reproductive structure that contains a fertilized egg and the integument that was derived from the parent plant?
Seed
Is a flower a type of shoot?
Yes
Is a hickory nut a fruit?
Yes
Is a strawberry a fruit?
Yes
What do the 2 sperm do in a pollen grain (long answer)?
In an angiosperm (flowering plant), 1 sperm fertilizes the egg and the other fertilizes the central cell. The egg cell becomes an embryo and the central cells becomes the endosperm (nutrition for the embryo).
What are characteristics of monocots?
- one seed leaf
- scattered vascular bundles
- parallel leaf veins
- has spores
- has cotyledons
- has seeds
- has fruit
- seed enclosed in chamber
what are the characteristics of eudicots/dicots?
- two seed leaves
- vascular bundles arranged in a circle
- branching leaf veins
- has spores
- has cotyledons
- has seeds
- has fruit
- seed enclosed in chamber
What are cotyledons?
a leaf within embryo of seed
What are the 2 types of angiosperms
Monocots and eudicots/dicots
Examples of gymnosperms?
Conifer, ginkophyta, spruce, and pine
Examples of monocots?
water lily, cycad, bamboo, grass, fern, coconut
Examples of eudicots/dicots?
pea, magnolia, maple
What is adaptive radiation?
1 lineage splits into many different lineages
What are the factors that lead to radiation of gymnosperms (long answer)?
Very little land habitat had been used by plants because they used to rely of the availability of moist substrate. The gymnosperms expanded into many new habitats without the competition of other plants, which led to the radiation of different types of gymnosperms.
What are the factors that led to the adaptive radiation of angiosperms (long answer)?
Angiosperms had flowers so they could produce food for animals. Many species developed flower traits to attract specific groups of animals. Using animals for pollination allowed the plant to waste less resources on pollen because there is now a higher chance to fertilize another plant rather than using the wind and only having luck. This relationship with animals gave angiosperms an advantage and dominated the gametophytes. The largest reason for vast angiosperm diversity is their co-evolution with insects.
5 traits that are common to all seed plants (long answer)?
- Reduced gametophytes. Gametophytes of seed plants are microscopic and develop inside spore. This protects developing gametophyte from environmental stress like lack of water and allows it to obtain nutrients from the sporophyte.
- Heterospory = produce 2 types of spores to develop either male or female gametophytes
- Ovules are made of megasporangium, megaspore, and two protective integuments that are made from parent sporophyte tissue. Megasporangium makes egg, and egg is contained in ovule. Megaspore develops into gametophyte, which is in sporangium.
- Pollen. Pollen grain is a male microspore that develops in male gametophyte which produces sperm
- A sperm fertilizes egg of a seed plant. Ovule develops into seed
What is the first root to form from the seed?
Primary roots
What is the primary function of tap root in most land plants? and what they do
Anchor. Go deep and straight down. And food storage.
What is the primary function of lateral roots in most land plants?
Anchor and water absorptions
What is included in vegetative shoot?
Everything except roots and reproductive shoot
- stems
nodes
axil
axillary bud
leaf
apical bud
What is the axil? What does it have?
Angle that is formed by a leaf and stem. Has axillary bud
what is the axillary bud?
structure in the angle between leaf and stem. Place of start of a new stem on shoot.
What is the apical meristem?
Cluster of cells at the tip of a shoot where cell division occurs
What is the blade?
Major photosynthetic portion of leaf. Captures sunlight
What is included in dermal tissue?
epidermis, trichomes, guard cells, periderm
What is included in vascular tissue?
Stele, xylem, phloem. vascular bundle
What is included in ground tissue?
pith, cotex
What is the epidermis? What does it prevent?
Single layer of surface cells in non-woody organs that are tightly packed to prevent water loss/
What is the periderm?
Single layer of surface cells in woody organs that are tightly packed to reduce water loss
What are guard cells?
Cells that open and close the stomata
What are trichomes?
outgrowths of special surface cells of shoots that look like hairs or scales
What are xylem?
Vessels that transport water and minerals from roots to shoots (UP)
What are phloem?
Vessels that transport from leaves to roots and other parts of shoots (DOWN)
What is a steele?
Any collection of vascular tissue of roots and stems
What are the types of steeles?
Vascular bundle in shoots and vascular cylinder in roots
What is the cortex?
All ground tissue exterior of vascular tissue (towards epidermis)
What is pith?
All ground tissue around and between vascular bundles (toward center of root or shoot)
What are parenchyma cells?
Ground tissue cells that are most basic type of plant cell that does photosynthesis and storage. It has thin, primary cell walls. Large empty storage vacuole or have chloroplasts filled with green chlorophyll
What are collenchyma cells?
Ground tissue cells that provide flexible support. Thickened cell walls in places that contain extra pectin (jelly like polysaccharide)
What are prosenchyma cells?
ground tissue cells the provide rigid support. Thickened secondary cell walls containing lignin (strong polysaccharide)
What are storage roots? example
root with lots of sugars that are saved to provide energy and molecules for growth later on (beet)
What are rhizomes? example
not actually roots. Horizonatal shoots that sit just below surface. vertical shoots and roots emerge from axillary buds along horizontal shoots (ginger)