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Lecture 13 - Seedless Vascular Plants Flashcards

1
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What prevents desiccation?

A

Protective wall surrounding spores

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2
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What prevents evaporation?

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Waxy cuticle

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3
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What do seedless vascular plants have for gas exchange?

A

Stomata

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4
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How is water and food conducted throughout the plant body?

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Xylem and phloem

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5
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What do these plants have for support?

A

Lignin

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6
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Phenolic deposited in secondary cell wall does what?

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Gives compressive strength and waterproofing

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7
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What are roots for in seedless vascular plants?

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Roots for anchorage and water and mineral absorption

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8
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What generation is dominant in vascular plants?

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Sporophyte dominant

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9
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What do more advanced vascular plants have?

A

A much reduced gametophyte

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10
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Most primitive vascular plants are?

A

Homosporous

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11
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What does homosporous mean?

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Produce only one type of spore

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12
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Primitive vascular plants spores develop into:

A

Bisexual gametophytes

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13
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More advanced vascular plants are typically:

A

Heterosporous

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14
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Define heterosporous

A

Produce microspores and megaspores

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15
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Microspores develop into?

A

Male gametophytes

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16
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Megaspores develop into?

A

Female gametophytes

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17
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When were seedless vascular plants dominant?

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~ 400-300 mya (from the Devonian to the Carboniferous periods)

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18
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What are the seedless vascular plants of today?

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Ferns and fern allies

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19
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3 types included in lycophytes

A

Club moss, spike moss, quillwort

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20
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Another name for club moss

A

Lycopodium

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21
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Club mosses resemble large mosses but have what at their apex?

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Have an elongate strobilus at their apex

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22
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Club Moss: Strobilus has ___________ that bear the sporangia

A

Sporophylls

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23
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What kind of sporous is lycopodium? Club moss

A

Homosporous

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24
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What is lycopodium’s (club moss) leaf type?

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Leaves are microphylls

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25
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What does leaf type microphyll mean?

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Small leaves that contain a single strand of vascular tissue

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26
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Another name for spike moss

A

Selaginella

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27
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What is Selaginella sporous type? spike moss

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Heterosporous

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28
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Selaginella: where does the male gametophyte develop? spike moss

A

Inside the microspores

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29
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Selaginella: where does the female gametophyte develop? spike moss

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Inside the megaspores

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30
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What’s another name for quillwort?

31
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What type of plant is club moss?

32
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What type of plant is spike moss?

33
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What type of plant is quillwort?

34
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What is isoetes? quillwort

A

Small aquatic plant

35
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Isoetes leaves resemble what? quillwort

A

Porcupine quills

36
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Another name for whisk ferns?

37
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Psilotum: describe leaves, roots, and branches

whisk ferns

A

No leaves or roots, dichotomously divided branches

38
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Psilotum: where is sporangia produced? whisk ferns

A

At the ends of short lateral branches

39
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Psilotum: what is whisk ferns sporous type? whisk ferns

A

Homosporous

40
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Psilotum: what is the prothallus? whisk ferns

A

A nutritionally independent gametophyte

41
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Psilotum: what does the prothallus produce? whisk ferns

A

Antheridia and archegonia

42
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Psilotum: where do sperm swim from and to? whisk ferns

A

From antheridia to eggs inside archegonia

43
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Psilotum: sperm is inside where? whisk ferns

A

Antheridia

44
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Psilotum: eggs are inside where? whisk ferns

A

Archegonia

45
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Psilotum: what does the diploid zygote develop into? whisk ferns

A

Develops into the sporophyte

46
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Another name for horsetails?

47
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horsetails Equisetum: the shoot is comprised of sections __________ ___ _________

A

Sections joined at nodes

48
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Equisetum: what do sterile shoots have at each node? horsetails

A

Whorls of long, narrow leaves at each node

49
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Equisetum: what does the fertile shoot lack? horsetails

A

Chlorophyll

50
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Equisetum: the fertile shoot has a strobilus that bears what? horsetails

51
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Equisetum: what do shoots have in their outer tissue? horsetails

A

Silica in outer tissue

52
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What’s an important fact about ferns?

A

Largest group of seedless vascular plants

53
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What is the most conspicuous generation of ferns?

A

Sporophyte

54
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Most of fern stem is an?

A

Underground rhizome

55
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What is the leaf type of ferns?

A

Megaphylls and often pinnately compound

56
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What is on the underside of fern leaves?

57
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In ferns, each sorus consists of what?

A

Many sporangia

58
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ferns: within each sporangium, what do spore mother mother cells undergo and produce?

A

Undergo meiosis, produce four haploid spores

59
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ferns: what do sporangia have a layer of?

A

Unevenly thick walled cells called annulus

60
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How do ferns expel spores?

A

Humidity drops, sporangium cracks, annulus snaps back and expels spores

61
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What are ferns sporous type?

A

Homosporous

62
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When do fern spores germinate and what do they grow into?

A

In moist location, grow into gametophyte

63
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Describe fern gametophytes shape and sexuality

A

Heart-shaped, bisexual

64
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Another name for fern gametophytes

65
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What is one trait of fern prothalli?

A

Photosynthetic

66
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What anchors the fern gametophyte?

67
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Where is archegonia in ferns?

A

On underside of prothalus at notched end

68
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A single ________ is produced in each archegonium

69
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Where are antheridia found in ferns?

A

On underside of prothallus but are scattered at The apex

70
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What do fern antheridia contain?

71
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Where do fern sperm swim to start fertilization? Where do they fertilize?

A

Swim to archegonia, usually fertilize a different prothallus

72
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ferns: what develops after fertilization?

A

A new diploid sporophyte

73
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ferns: what develops a foot that penetrates the prothallus?

74
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ferns: what does the sporophyte use the gametophyte for?

A

For nourishment until it becomes self-sufficient

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