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
Why in particular does sexual reproduction require moisture?
Because of the flagellated sperm requiring water to get to the egg.
Frond
Leaves of ferns
Sori
Produce spores
How do ferns disperse offsprings?
Wind blown spores
Spore is asexual
What is being produced in the sporangia?
Spores
What generation is dominant in ferns?
Sporophyte
How are ferns dispersed from one area to another?
Wind blown spores
Is either generation in the fern dependent for any length of time on the other generation?
No
Name & describe the life cycle of plants.
- Alteration of Generations
- Two generations, Alterate between gametophyte and sporophyte
Plants (Typical Life Cycle)
Alteration of Generation
Animals (Typical Life Cycle)
Diploid Life Cycle
Plants (Resulting structure from meiosis)
Spore
Animals (Resulting structure from meiosis)
Gametes
Plants (Occurrence of mitosis)
Zygote→Sporophyte
Sporophyte→Spore
Spore→Gametophyte
Gametophyte→Gamete
Gamete→Zygote
Animals (Occurrence of mitosis)
Zygoyte to individual
Moss (Dominant Generation)
Gametophyte
Fern (Dominant Generation)
Sporophyte
Moss (Vascular Tissue)
No
Fern (Vascular Tissue)
Yes
Moss (Flagellated sperm)
Yes
Fern (Flagellated sperm)
Yes
Moss (Method of Offspring Dispersal)
Windblown spores
Fern (Method of Offspring Dispersal)
Windblown Spores
How is the gametophyte in ferns similar to that of mosses?
Both photosynthetic
Both independent
Compare & contrast moss & fern sporophytes.
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Moss
- Inconscipuous
- Small
- Dependent
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Fern
- Dominat
- Conspicuous
- Independent