Seed Plants Flashcards
—: consists of an embryo and nutrients surrounded by a protective coat
* Changed the course of plant —, enabling their bearers to become the — producers in most terrestrial ecosystems
- Seed
- Evolution
- Dominant
Key adaptations have aided success of seed plants:
- Cope with environmental conditions such as — and ——
- Free from requirement of water for —, enabling reproduction under broader range of conditions
- Seeds can disperse over long distances by — or other means
- Drought & UV Radiation
- Fertilization
- Wind
Traits common to all seed plants:
- —
- ——
- —
- —
- —
- Seeds
- Reduced gametophytes
- Heterospory
- Ovules
- Pollen
The gametophytes of seed plants are —
Microscopic
Allows development within the sporangia of the parent sporophyte
- Protects gametophytes from ——
- Enables gametophytes to obtain nutrients from — sporophyte
- Environmental stresses
2. Parental
In contrast to most seedless vascular plants, seed plants are —
Heterosporous
— produce — that give rise to female gametophytes(within ovule)
- Megasporangia
2. Megaspores
— produce — that give rise to male gametophytes (pollen grains)
- Microsporangia
2. Microspores
—: consists of a megasporangium, megaspore, and one or more protective —
- Ovule
2. Integuments
Gymnosperm megasporangia have — integument
One
Angiosperm megasporangia usually have — integuments
Two
Microspores develop into ——, which contain the male gametophytes
Pollen grains
Pollen and Production of Sperm:
* Eliminate need for a ——— and can be dispersed great distances by — or —
- Film of water
- Air
- Animals
— is the transfer of pollen to the part of a seed plant containing the ovules
Pollination
If a pollen grain germinates, it gives rise to a —— that discharges sperm into the female gametophyte within the ovule
Pollen tube
A — is a sporophyte embryo, along with its food supply, packaged in a protective coat derived from the integument(s)
Seed
Seeds can remain dormant for — to —, until conditions are favorable for —
- Days to years
2. Germination
Seeds provide a supply of ——
Stored food
Seeds can be transported by — distances by wind or animals
Long
Living seed plants can be divided into two Claude:
- —
- —
- Gymnosperms
2. Angiosperms
Gymnosperms (“naked seeds”)
- Seeds are exposed on — leaves(sprorophylls) that unusually form —(Stromboli)
- Most gymnosperms are cone-bearing plants called —, such as pines, firs, and redwoods
- Modified
- Cones
- Conifers
Angiosperms:
* Seeds are found in —, which are — ovaries
- Fruits
2. Mature
3 key features of the life cycle of all seed plants are:
- — of their gametophytes
- Development of seeds from ——
- The transfer of sperm to ovules by —
- Miniaturization
- Fertilized ovules
- Pollen
The pine tree is the sporophyte and produces — in male and female cones
Sporangia
Pollen cones (male) * small cones produce Microspores called —, each of which contains a male gametophyte
Pollen grains
Ovulate Cones (female) * familiar larger cones contain ovules, which produce — that develop into female gametophyte ~ Takes — years from cone production to mature seed
- Megaspores
2. Three
Pine Life Cycle:
1. Microsporophytes produce Microspores by — that develop into ——
- Meiosis
2. Pollen grains