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Plant Diversity Flashcards

Chapter 29

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1
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what is the closest relative of land plants?

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green algae called “charophytes”

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what four characteristics do land pants share with ONLY charophytes

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1) rings of cellulose-synthesizing complexes
2) peroxisome enzymes
3) flagellated sperm with similar structure
4) formation of phragmoplast

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what’s a phragmoplast?

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microtubules formed along the midpoint during division

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4
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why are charophytes considered the closest living relative between plant and algae?

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similarities between nuclear and chloroplast genes

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what is sporopellenin?

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layer of polymer that prevents zygotes form drying out in charophytes and is also found in plant spore walls

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what happened when charophytes moved onto land

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  • unfiltered sun
  • more plentiful CO2
  • nutrient-rich soil
  • few herbivores and pathogens
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what challenged did land present?

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lack of structural support, scarcity of water

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what five traits appear in nearly all land plants but are absent in the charophytes

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1) alternation of generations and multicell embryos
2) walled spores produced in sporangia
3) multicellular gametangia
4) multicellular embryo
5) apical meristems

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9
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what is alternation of generations?

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plants alternate between two multicell stages, the reproductive cycle is alt of gen.’s

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what is a gametophyte?

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haploid; produces two haploid GAMETES via MITOSIS

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what is a sporophyte?

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fusion of gametes produces a diploid sporophyte which produces haploid SPORES via MEIOSIS

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12
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what are placental transfer cells?

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they transfer the nutrients from parent to embryo

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13
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what are land plants called embryophytes?

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the dependency of the embryo on the parent

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14
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where do sporophytes produce spores?

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sporangia

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what are sporocytes?

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diploid cells that undergo meiosis to generate haploid spores

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16
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what organs are used to produce gametes in plants?

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gametangia

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17
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male gametangia? female gametangia?

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male: antheridia
female: archegonia

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18
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what are apical meristems?

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plants sustain continual growth there and the apical meristems differentiate into various tissues

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what’s a cuticle?

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a waxy covering of the epidermis

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20
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what’s mycorrhizae

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symbiotic associations between fungi and land plants that may have helped plants without true roots to obtain nutrients

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21
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fossil evidence says plants were on land how long ago?

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475 million years ago

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22
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non-vasc plants

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bryophytes
- liverworts
- mosses
- hornworts

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seedless vasc plants

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  • lycophytes (club mosses)
  • monilophytes (ferns)
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24
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seed vasc plants

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  • gymnosperms
  • angiosperms
25
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how can land plants be informally grouped?

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presence of vascular tissue

26
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what are non-vasc plants commonly called?

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bryophytes

27
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bryophytes are what type of group?

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not a monophyletic

28
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seedless vascular plants can be divided into what two clades?

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lycophyta, monilophyta

29
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lycophyta

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club mosses and relative

30
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monilophyta

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ferns and their relatives

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gymnosperms

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“naked seed” plants including conifers

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angiosperms

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the flowering plants

33
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bryophytes three phyla

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liverworts, hornworts, mosses

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bryophyte vs. bryophyta

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  • byrophyte: non-vasc plants
  • bryophyta: phylum of mosses
35
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which ____phytes are longer-living and larger?

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gametophytes are larger and longer-living than sporophytes

36
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rhizoids

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anchor gametophytes to substrate

37
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height of gametophytes constrained by…

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lack of vascular tissue

38
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what does a sporophyte consist of?

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foot, seta (stalk), capsule (sporangium), peristome (capsule discharges spores via this)

39
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moss environments?

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capable of inhabiting extreme environments but are common in moist forests and wetlands

40
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benefits of moss?

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some help retain nitrogen in soil, used to insulate structures, used as footwear

41
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peat

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used as source of fuel; extensive decayed amterial

42
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sphagnum

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important global resovoir of organic carbon

43
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what were the prevalent vegetation during the first 100-million years of plant evolution?

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bryophytes and bryophyte-like

44
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when did vasc plants begin to diversify?

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devonian and carboniferous

45
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how can plants grow tall?

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vasc tissue

46
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seedless vasc plants restricted to what environments

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moist environments; flagellated sperm

47
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how are living vasc plants characterized?

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  • life cycles with dom. sporophytes
  • vasc tissue (xylem and phloem)
  • well-developed roots and leaves
48
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xylem

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conducts water and minerals and includes tracheids

49
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trachieds

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dead cells in xylem

50
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lignin

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strengthen water-conducting cells

51
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phloem

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living cells and distributes sugars, amino acids, and other organic products

52
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two types of leaves

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  • microphylls: single vein
  • megaphylls: highly branched vasc system
53
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evolution of microphylls

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outgrowth of stems

54
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evolution of megaphylls

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evolved webbing between flatted branches

55
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club mosses and spike mosses not “true mosses?”

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have vasc tissue

56
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most diverse seedless vasc plants

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ferns (120,000+), diverse in tropics also thrive in forests

57
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horsetails

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diverse during carboniferous now restricted to genus equisetum

58
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whisk ferns

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resemble ancestral vasc plants but are closely related to modern ferns

59
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decaying plants of carboniferous forests…

A

coal

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