Lecture 22- PLANTS Flashcards
Vitidiplantar/chlorobionta chloroplast
United by chloroplast containing organisms
Embryophytes
Plants that live in terrestrial environments, have waxy cuticle, specialized gametangia to protect eggs, alt. of gen
Tracheophytes
Plants that have vascular tissue, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, angiosperms
key ancestral traits with charophytes
rings of cellulose synthesizing complexes, structure of flagellated sperm, polymer sporopollenin, similarities in nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial sequencing
cell wall
cellulose synthase, intense netting of fibers
difference between water and land
WATER: Whole algae performs photosynthesis, holdfast, all nutrients from water
LAND: Leaf performs photosynthesis, stem can grow tall, cuticle WATER, stomata GAS, roots anchor plant and provide nutrients
FOUR KEY TRAITS
Alternation of generations, apical meristems, multicellular gametangia, walled spores in sporangia
Alternation of generations
the life cycle of all land plants, alternates between two generations of distinct multicellular organisms GAMETOPHYTE (n) and SPOROPHYTE (2n)
Gametophyte
produce haploid gametes, fuse to form diploid zygote
Sporophyte
Spore producing plant, meiosis in sporophyte produces haploid spores; motoríceme division of spore cell produces new multicellular gametophytes
Apical meristems
how plants sustain continual growth, cell from social meristems differentiate into various tissues
Parenchyma
solid mass formed by cells derived from the apical meristem region, enable plants to alter growth in response to the environment
cuticle
waxy covering of the epidermis, reduces intensity of the sun and reduced water loss
stomata
pores that facilitate gas exchange between outside air and internal plant tissues
gametophyte trend
is reduced in higher plants, sporophyte becomes more dominant