Plant Characteristics (Ch.26)

Question 1

What are plants classified as in terms of food?

Answer 1

• photoautotrophs (use CO2 and sunlight and organic molecules to make their own food)
• some are heterotrophs (able to do this through colonizing fungus)

Question 2

Tue or False: land plants eukaryotes?

Answer 2

true

Question 3

Characteristics of plants

Answer 3

• multicellular
• eukaryotes
• Each cell contains a cell wall that is made up of cellulose

Question 4

are plants able to move?

Answer 4

plants are sessile/stationary

Question 5

Alteration of Generations

Answer 5

• the regular mode of reproduction in the life cycle of an organism, such as alteration between diploid and haploid phases in plants

Question 6

Sporophyte

Answer 6

diploid phase and produces spores

Question 7

Gametophyte and function?

Answer 7

• haploid phase and produces gametes

- nourish and protect the fourth coming sporophyte generation

Question 8

Spores

Answer 8

single haploid cells with fairly thick walls, when they germinate it divides by mitosis to produce a multicellular haploid gametophyte

Question 9

unique about plant embryos?

Answer 9

The sporophyte generation is retained INSIDE the gametophyte tissue