Plants Flashcards
Multicellular plants evolved from _________ (algae)
marine charophytes
MC
Seedless, avascular
Bryophytes
liverworts, hortworts and mosses
Bryophytes
seedless, vascular,
pteryphytes
club mosses, horesetails, and ferns
pteryphytes
seeds, vascular
gymnosperms
cycads, ginkophytes,
conifers & gnetophytes
gymnosperms
Seeds, vascular
angiosperms
Flowering plants
angiosperms
most plants are ________ and a few are __________
autotrophic, parasitic
Plants exhibit ___________, which means that they continue to grow body mass until they die.
Indeterminate growth
________ is abundant and not filtered out by water or competing photosynthetic species in the water column above.
sunlight
carbon dioxide has a _________ concentration in air than in water
Higher
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
dry land was colonized by animals
vascular tissues
Xylem and Phloem