Nonvascular and Seedless Vascular Plants Lab Flashcards
When does meiosis occur in the plant life cycle?
Production of spores.
When does meiosis occur in the animal life cycle?
Production of Gametes
Which generation produces gametes in plants?
Gametophyte
Gametophyte (Nonvascular Plants)
Dominant & Conspicuous
Sporophyte (Nonvascular Plants)
Dependent upon gametophyte
Phrases that describe nonvascular plants.
- No vascular tissue to transport water
- Flagellated sperm that swim to egg
- Dominant gametophyte
What features are because nonvascular plantsare low-lying?
- No vascular tissue
- Flagellated sperm
In nonvascular plants, windblown spores are dispersal agents, and some species forcefully expel their spores. How are windblown spores an adaptation to reproduction on land?
Don’t have to have water for dispersal.
The leafy green shoots of a moss.
Are said to lack true roots, stems, & leaves because, by definition, roots, stems, & leaves are structure that contain vascular tissue.
By what process are the spores being produced?
Meiosis
When spores germinate, what generation begns to develop?
Gametophyte
Why is it proper to say that spores are dispersal agents?
Wind can carry them.
Phrases that describe seedless vascular plants.
- Independent gametophyte
- Flagellated sperm
Are seedless vascular plants fully adapted to living on land?
No
Gametophyte (Vascular Seedless Plants)
- Independent
- Photosynthetic
- Reduced
Sporophyte (Vascular Seedless Plants)
Dominant