May Flashcards

1
Q

Where dis plant life started

A

Water

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2
Q

Plants and _____ _____ have many common traits

A

Green algae

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3
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What are the common traits beetween green algae and plants?

A

are photosyntetic eukaryotes
same types of clorophyll
use starch as a storage product
have cell walls and cellulose

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4
Q

It points to the common ancestor of all plants

A

Genetic analysis

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5
Q

important plants caracteristics likely originated in

A

charophyceans

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6
Q

True plants evolved through:

A

natural selection

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7
Q

Plants have ___________ that allow plants to live on land

A

adaptations

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8
Q

allows plants to retain moisture, and it is a waxy waterproof layer

A

a cuticle

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9
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Are tiny holes in the cuticle that can open and close to allow air to move in and out

A

Stomata

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10
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allows resources to move to different parts of the plant

A

vascular system

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11
Q

allows plants to grow upright

A

lignin

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12
Q

allow reproduction without free-standing water

A

pollen

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13
Q

is a storage device for a plant embryo

A

a seed

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14
Q

is an interaction in which 2 species benefit

A

mutualism

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15
Q

Some adaptations that plants have for preventing animals from eating them are:

A

spines, thorns, and chemicals

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16
Q

plants can be classified into how many phyla?

A

9

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17
Q

mosses and their relatives are

A

seedless and nonvascular

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18
Q

usually seedless and nonvascular plants are:

A

short and around water

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19
Q

Hornworts belong to what phylum?

A

Antacerophyta

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20
Q

Mosses belong to what phylum?

A

Bryophyta

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21
Q

Club mosses and ferns are:

A

seedless and vascular

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22
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Usually seedless vascular plants are:

A

taller than non-vascular but around water too

23
Q

Ferns belong to phylum:

A

Pterophyta

24
Q

Seed plants include:

A

cone-bearing plants and flowering plants

25
Gymnosperms do not have
seeds enclosed in fruit
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Gymnosperms are ____ shaped
cone
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Cyads are in phylum
Cycadophyta
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Ginkos are in phylum:
Ginkophyta
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Conifers are in phylum
Coniferophyta
30
Have seeds enclosed by some type of fruit:
Angiosperms
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Angiosperms belong to phylum
Anthophyta
32
how many levels of organization does the body have?
5
33
Specialized cells are made up from:
a single zygote
34
Zygotes first divide into:
embryotic stem cells
35
Stem cells develop in how many stages
2, determination and differentiation
36
What are tissues?
groups of similar cells working together
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What does specialized cells perform?
specific tasks
38
Some types of tissues are:
epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous
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What are organs?
different tissues working together
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What are organ systems?
organs working together
41
What si an organism?
all organ systems working together
42
how many main systems are in the human body?
11
43
Systems interact to maintain:
homoestasis
44
Each organ system affects other:
organ systems
45
Organ systems must also work together to:
keep the organism healthy
46
Homoestasis can be disrupted by:
sensors fail, targets do not recieve messages, injury, illness
47
type of disruption that May cause little or no harm:
Short term disruption
48
type of disruption that cause more damage
Long term disruption
49
The nervous system and the endocrine system provide:
the means by which organ systems communicate
50
The body's communication systems help maintain:
homoestasis
51
It controls thoughts, emotion, and movement
nervous system
52
It controls growth, development, and digestion:
endocrine system
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The nervous system works _______ by using________________
quickly, chemical and electrical signs
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The endocrine system works _________ by using __________ ___ ___ __ ___________
slowly, chemical signals that move through bloodstream