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Plants Flashcards

1
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Multicellular, Photosynthetis Eukaryotes

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Plants

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2
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Producers of our ecosystem

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Plants

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3
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Plants provide living things with (2)

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Food
Oxygen (needed to break down nutrient molecules and produce ATP)
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4
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Source of fuel to keep us warm

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Plants

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5
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We get this from plant to make our own clothes

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Fibers

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6
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Advantage of land environment

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Plentiful light for photosynthesis

CO2 is present in higher conc. and diffuses more readily in air than in water

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7
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A group of freshwater green algae

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Charophytes

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8
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Examples of Charophytes

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Spirogyra
Charales (Chara or Stoneworts)
Coleochaete

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9
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Chrarophytes features that exisit in land plants

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Cellulose cell walls
Apical cells
Plasmodesmata
Placenta (disgnated cells)

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10
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It develops into a multicellular 2n generation

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Zygote

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11
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Process of producing spores in multicellar sporangia

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Meiosis

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12
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It produces gametes within a multicellular gametangia

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Gametophyte generation

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13
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Other derived traits of land plants

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The multicellular 2n embryo are retained and protected from drying out (Embryophyta)

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14
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It produces at least one, perhaps several, multicellular, sporangia

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2n generation (sporophyte)

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15
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Produces spores by meiosis

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Sporangia

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16
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A molecule that prevents drying out

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Sporopollenin

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17
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Have an outer layer of sterile cells

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Multicellular gametangia

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18
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Inner mass of cells

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Gametes

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19
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Male gametangium

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Antheridium

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20
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Female gametangium

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Archegonium

21
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Bryophytes include

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Liverworts
Hornworts
Mosses

22
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First plants to colonize land

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Bryophytes

23
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Suffix that means “herb”

24
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Other features of Bryophytes

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No true vascular tissues

Remain low-lying

25
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Liverworts

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Thallose

Leafy

26
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Flattened bodies of Thallose Liverworts

27
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Liverworts that superficially resemble mosses

Comprises majority of liverwort species

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Leafy liverworts

28
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Present in disk-shaped structures

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Antheridia

29
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Present in umbrella-shaped structures

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Archegonia

30
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A structure in liverworts that can detach and start a new plant

31
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Scientific name of liverworts

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Marchantia

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Scientific name of hornworts

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Anthoceros

33
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It grows as a thin rosette or ribbonlike thallus between 1 and 5 cm in diameter

34
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Largest phyla of nonvascular plants, with over 15,000 species

35
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Groups of Mosses

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Peat mosses
Granite mosses
True mosses

36
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Types of Vascular Plants

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Non-flowering or non-seed-forming

Flowering or seed plants

37
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Types of Lycophytes

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Ground pines (Lycopodium)
Spike mosses (Selaginella)
Quillworts (Isoetes)
38
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Roots that come off a branching, underground stem

39
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Microphylls that bear sporangia

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Sporophylls

40
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Grouped sporophylls that is club-shaped

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Strobili (accounting to the name club mosses)

41
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Seedless vascular plants that include ferns, horsetails, and whisk ferns

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Pterydophytes

42
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2 groups of flowering or seed plants

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Gymnosperms

Angiosperms

43
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Naked seed and are not enclosed within fruits; instead produce cones

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Gymnosperms

44
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Examples of Gymnosperms

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Pine trees

Cycads

45
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Seeds are found within fruits

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Angiosperms

46
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Examples of Angiosperms

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Tomato
Mango
Avocado

47
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Consists of over 80% of all living plants

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Angiosperms

48
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2 classes of angiosperms

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Monocotyledons (monocots)

Dicotyledons (dicots)

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