Nonvascular Plants

Question 1

What is the Latin name for nonvascular plants?

Answer 1

Bryophyte

Question 2

List the nonvascular plants.

Answer 2

Mosses, hornworts, liverworts

Question 3

What is the phylum of moss?

Answer 3

Bryophyta

Question 4

What is the phylum of hornworts?

Answer 4

Anthoceraphyta

Question 5

What is the phylum of liverworts?

Answer 5

Marchantiophyta, Hepatophyta

Question 6

What is the dominant life cycle for nonvascular plants?

Answer 6

Gametophyte (n)

Question 7

What is the function of rhizoids?

Answer 7

Provides anchorage for gametophyte, pseudo-root

Question 8

Why are nonvascular plants generally short?

Answer 8

Lack of true vascular tissues

Question 9

Where is the sperm produced?

Answer 9

Antheridia

Question 10

Where are the eggs produced?

Answer 10

Archegonia

Question 11

Where does meiosis occur?

Answer 11

Sporangium

Question 12

What replaces the ovule in nonvascular plants?

Answer 12

Venter

Question 13

What is the gametophyte precursor?

Answer 13

Protonema

Question 14

What is the calyptra and what is its function?

Answer 14

Maternal structure protecting sporophyte

Question 15

What is the gemma cup?

Answer 15

Receptacle on bryophyte surface

Question 16

What is the function of gemma cups?

Answer 16

Asexual reproduction via fragmentation

Question 17

What is the most advanced nonvascular plant?

Answer 17

Mosses

Question 18

What replaces the phloem in nonvascular plants?

Answer 18

Leptoids

Question 19

What replaces the xylem in nonvascular plants?

Answer 19

Hydroids

Question 20

What makes up the sporophyte?

Answer 20

Foot, seta, sporangium, and stomata

Question 21

What is the most primitive nonvascular plant?

Answer 21

Liverworts

Question 22

What is the characteristics of the sporophyte

Answer 22

Dependent on gametophyte, very temporary

Question 23

How do rhizoids work

Answer 23

osmosis

Question 24

What kind of sperm do nonvascular plants have

Answer 24

flagellated

Question 25

what does the antheridia need to fertilize

Answer 25

water for sperm

Question 26

Where does the sperm fertilize the egg in the nv plant

Answer 26

Venter

Question 27

3 components of the sporophyte

Answer 27

capsule, seta, foot (placenta)

Question 28

ploidy of protonema

Answer 28

haploid

Question 29

What is a plant with separate male and female plants

Answer 29

diecious

Question 30

What plants have male and female structure on same plant

Answer 30

monoecious

Question 31

Mosses latin name

Answer 31

bryophyta

Question 32

most advanced nonvascular plant

Answer 32

mosses/bryophyta

Question 33

feature of moss spores

Answer 33

homosporous can develop into male or female

Question 34

What features make mosses so advanced

Answer 34

hydroid and leptoids presence

Question 35

Where would the sporophyte grow

Answer 35

On top of female gametophyte

Question 36

What is a unique feature of the bryophyta and anthocerophyta

Answer 36

Presence of stomata

Question 37

Types of mosses

Answer 37

Polytrichum (haircaps) and sphagnum (peat moss)

Question 38

Haircaps latin name

Answer 38

Polytrichum

Question 39

Peat moss latin name

Answer 39

sphagnum

Question 40

Function of peat moss

Answer 40

Abundant global reservoir of organic carbon

Question 41

Liverworts

Answer 41

Marchantiophyta or hepatophyta

Question 42

What is the oldest nonvascular plant

Answer 42

liverworts