Plant Kingdom Flashcards
Alga that shows diplontic lifestyle
Fucus
Alga that shows haplo diplontic lifestyle
Ectocarpus, polysiphonia
Roots of gymnosperms are generally?
Tap roots
Cycas are associated with
coralloid
Unbranched gymnosperms
Cycas
In Cycas the ________ leaves persist for a few
years.
pinnate
The two kinds of
spores are produced within sporangia that are borne
on sporophylls which are arranged ________ along an axis to form lax or compact strobili or cones
spirally
Megasporangium is the _________? It’s borne on megasporophyll
ovary
Name the pteridophyte with strobilus
Equistem, Selaginella
Pteridophyte with long roots?
Salvinia
Pteridophytes are used for medicinal purposes and as ___________
soil-binders
Selaginella leaves?
microphylls
Heterosporous pteridophytes
Salvinia and Selaginella
Four kinds of pteridophytes?
Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Sphenopsida, Pteropsida
Name two Lycopsids
Selaginella, Lycopsidum
Name a Sphenopsid
Equistem
Name a Pteropsid
Adiantum
Bryophyte antherozoids have __ flagella
bi
Bryophyte archegonium is ____ shaped
flask
The thallus of Marchantia is? (dorsiventral/ isobilateral)
dorsiventral
In secondary protonema stage, vegetative propagation is by?
budding
Most common form of spores in algae?
zoospores
Ulothrix gametes are?
Spirogyra gametes are?
Both similar in size, ulothrix flagellated, spirogyra not
Algae with anisogamous gametes?
Eudorina