Ferns

Question 1

Ferns

Answer 1

swimming sperm, vascular, seedless

Question 2

why are ferns more advanced than moss

Answer 2

have vascular tissue - helps mvmt in bulk over distance

Question 3

4 major groups of plant kingdom

Answer 3

moss, ferns, gymnospores, angiosperms

Question 4

2 tissue types

Answer 4

xylem, phloem

Question 5

Xylem

Answer 5

takes water up

Question 6

Phloem

Answer 6

sugar water down

Question 7

Pteridophyta (Monilophyta)

Answer 7

ferns and horsetails, homosporous

Question 8

tissue in pteridophyta (ferns and horsetails)

Answer 8

all primary tissue/ NO secondary

Question 9

in ferns/horsetails is the sporophyte or gametophyte dominant

Answer 9

sporphyte

Question 10

Fronds

Answer 10

large leaves of Pteridophyta (Monilophyta) (ferns and horsetails)

Question 11

Circinate vernation

Answer 11

tightly coiled, ring shaped form of a budding fern

Question 12

Fiddle heads

Answer 12

baby ferns; lots of people eat these

Question 13

sorus (sori)

Answer 13

cluster of sporangia, spore producing structures on underside of fern leaf

Question 14

annulus

Answer 14

located on outer ring of sporangium, spore dispersial

Question 15

T-shaped indusium

Answer 15

tissue flap that protects sori in some ferns (umbrella like)