Plants Flashcards

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1
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What are the two types of land plants?

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Bryophytes and tracheophytes

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Non-vascular land plants

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Bryophytes

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3
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Vascular land plants

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Tracheophytes

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4
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Include mosses, liverworts; non-vascular; low to ground, form “mats”; photosynthetic phase is the haploid (gametophyte) phase

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Bryophytes

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Reproduce with spores; have roots, stems, leaves; include ferns, horsetails, clubmosses

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Seedless tracheophytes (spores)

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Divided into two groups: gymnosperms and angiosperms

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Seed tracheophytes

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7
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What two groups are seed tracheophytes divided into?

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Gymnosperms and angiosperms

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Non-flower producing

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Gymnosperms

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9
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Flower producing

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Angiosperms

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Reproduces via exposed seed (ovule); seed is exposed on a reproductive structure, usually a cone (pine cone); approx 1000 species, conifers, ginkgo, cycad, mormon tea, etc…

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Gymnosperm

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Largest and most diverse group of plants (approx. 80% of all land plants); flowering plants; the ovule is fertilized and develops into a seed inside a protected ovary (ovary usually inside flower)

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Angiosperm

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12
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All plants are …?

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Eukaryotic, multicellular, have chloroplasts, use photosynthesis

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