Q1_Plants_Autotrophs_and_Phylogeny

Question 1

Ferns, brown algae, cyanobacteria, diatoms, red algae, and flowering plants are all___?

Answer 1

Autotrophs

Question 2

What is the primary criterion used to classify organisms or to describe how closely or distantly they are related?

Answer 2

Both evolutionary relationships and phylogeny (they mean the same thing)

Question 3

According to the phylogenetic tree on slide 7 of our presentation ‘01_plants_autotrophs..’ Magnolids are

Answer 3

more closely related to Eudicotyledons than to Austrobaileyales because they share a more recent (higher) branch on the tree with them.

Question 4

Plants belong to the Eukarya supergroup

Answer 4

Archeaplastids

Question 5

Plants (embryophytes) and green algae

Answer 5

are closely related and together form a lineage called the viridophytes

Question 6

Viruses, (according to the paper by Nasir & Caetano-Anollés 2015 cited in our notes) are descended from

Answer 6

some of the very earliest life-forms

Question 7

The evolutionary lineage or ‘clade’ of viridophytes that includes the embyophyte (‘higher’ or ‘land’) plant branch is called

Answer 7

Streptophyta (Streptophytes)

Question 8

There are about ____ species of mosses worldwide, making them, after the flowering plants, the second largest embryophyte group.

Answer 8

12,000

Question 9

Ferns

Answer 9

All of the above

Question 10

The familiar pine trees of east Texas are

Answer 10

Conifer gymnosperms

Question 11

The largest group of flowering plants is the

Answer 11

Eudicots (=Eudicotyledons)

Question 12

Grasses, palm trees, sedges, orchids, lilies, and greenbriar vines are all

Answer 12

Monocots