Kingdom Plante Flashcards
Xylem
Transport water
Phloem
Transports sugars
Lower plants (non-vascular)
Very short/ small in size
Very moist environment
Reproduce with spores
Lower plant example
Mosses and liverworts
Liverworts
Worts= plant
They kind of look like a liver
Higher plants- vascular
Primitive plants
Advanced vascular plants
Primitive Vascular Plants
Moist environment
Reproduce w/ spores
No roots (do have stems)
Primitive Vascular Plants GROUPS
Whisk ferns Club mosses -lycopodium (ground pine) -seleginella (resurrection plant) Equisetum Ferns
Advanced Vascular Plants
Reproduce w/ seeds
Pollen
Vascular system
Transports materials through out organ system
Gymnosperm
Gym- naked, sperm- seed
Seeds produce cones
Gymnosperm groups
Cycads (sego palms) Ginkgo Gnetophyta -ephedra -welwitschia Conifers (coni- cone, fer-bare)
Angiosperm
Angio- covered (they are covered with fruit)
Angiosperm groups
Monocots- 1 cotyledon
Dicots- 2 cotyledon
Plante; Common representatives
Trees, flowers, grass, ferns, moss
Plante; Prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Eukaryotic (they have a nucleus)
Plante; Number of cells?
Many
Plante; Cell wall?
Yes (cellulose)
Plante; Autotrophic or heterotrophic?
Autotrophic (they do photosynthesis)