Plants Flashcards

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1
Q

Multicellular plants evolved from _________ (algae)

A

marine charophytes

MC

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2
Q

Seedless, avascular

A

Bryophytes

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3
Q

liverworts, hortworts and mosses

A

Bryophytes

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4
Q

seedless, vascular,

A

pteryphytes

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5
Q

club mosses, horesetails, and ferns

A

pteryphytes

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6
Q

seeds, vascular

A

gymnosperms

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7
Q

cycads, ginkophytes,
conifers & gnetophytes

A

gymnosperms

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8
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Seeds, vascular

A

angiosperms

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9
Q

Flowering plants

A

angiosperms

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10
Q

most plants are ________ and a few are __________

A

autotrophic, parasitic

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11
Q

Plants exhibit ___________, which means that they continue to grow body mass until they die.

A

Indeterminate growth

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12
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________ is abundant and not filtered out by water or competing photosynthetic species in the water column above.

A

sunlight

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13
Q

carbon dioxide has a _________ concentration in air than in water

A

Higher

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14
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until ________ was ____________ by ___________ no predators threatened the well-being of plants. As animals emerged from the water, plants
evolved strategies to deter predation, e.g., thorns & toxins

A

dry land was colonized by animals

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15
Q

vascular tissues

A

Xylem and Phloem

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