Plants

Question 0

Primitive Vascular Plants

Answer 0

Have vascular and support tissue
Have true roots, stems, and leaves
Produce spores
Sexual reproduction requires water
Ex:Whisk ferns, club mosses, horsetails/scouring rushes, and ferns

Question 1

Lower/Nonvascular Plants

Answer 1

Lack or have poorly developed vascular or support tissue
Lack true roots, stems, and leaves
Sexual reproduction requires water
Ex:Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts

Question 2

Advanced Vascular Plants

Answer 2

Have vascular and support tissue
Have true roots, stems, and leaves
Produce seeds
Sperm is encased in pollen grains and transferred by wind or animals
Ex:Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

Question 3

Gymnosperms

Answer 3

Naked-seeded plants
Produce seeds that are naked, often in cones
Have no flowers
Ex:Cycads, ginkgos, gnetophytes, mormon tea, wellwitschia, conifers, pines, and spruces

Question 4

Angiosperms

Answer 4

Have flowers
Have covered seeds (seeds are surrounded by fruit derived from ovary wall or receptacle tissue
Ex:Monocots and dicots

Question 5

Alternation of Generations

Answer 5

Sporophyte:2n, diploid&raquo_space; meiosis&raquo_space; gametophyte:1n, haploid&raquo_space; fertilization (handout)

Question 6

Dominant part of life cycles

Answer 6

Mosses-Gametophyte
Liverworts-Gametophyte
Ferns-Sporophyte

Question 7

Raising Mosses and Liverworts

Answer 7

Fill plastic cup half full with potting soil and a small piece of moss and liverwort. Don’t overwater

Question 8

Raising Ferns

Answer 8

Soak peat pellet. Place peat pellet in bottom half of petri dish. Sprinkle dusting of spores from fern. Place cup over petri dish. Keep watered

Question 9

What is Fertilization?

Answer 9

The process of fertilizing an egg involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote

Question 10

What is Pollination

Answer 10

The process by which pollen is transferred from the anther/male to the stigma/female. Results in fertilization and reproduction.
Takes place in angiosperms