Plants Flashcards
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400 million years ago…
A
Moss developed: They lack vascular tissue
1
Q
Why do we have to understand plants?
A
- Plants from the bottom of the food chain and are a limiting factor in the ability if animals to survive
- Plants evolve no less than do animals, in response to plant eating animals
- Plants from the framework of the physical environment in which animals live
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Q
390 million years ago…
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Vascular plants developed (tissue made of tubes for water and nutrients)
3
Q
Seedless vascular plants
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Horsetails
Lycopods
Ferns
4
Q
Horsetails
A
A seedless vascular plant
Identified by straight segmented stems, spores resembling cones
5
Q
Lycopods
A
Seedless vascular plant
Diamond shaped scars on trunks
6
Q
Ferns
A
Same as they look today and are seedless vascular plants
