Seed Plants

Question 1

What are the characteristics of seed plants?

Answer 1

Heterosporous and greatly reduced gametophytes

Question 2

What does Heterosporous mean?

Answer 2

Different spores

Question 3

What are the different spores in seed plants?

Answer 3

megaspores and microspores

Question 4

Do seed plants follow the trend of the reduction of the gametophyte?

Answer 4

yes

Question 5

Male gametophyte is dispersed by _______ or ________

Answer 5

wind or animals

Question 6

What is a seed?

Answer 6

a well-protected resting stage that often contains food for the embryo

Question 7

Most modern seed plants have no swimming _________

Answer 7

Gametes

Question 8

Most modern seed plants do not require _______ _______ for fertilization

Answer 8

liquid water

Question 9

What is the name of the nutritive tissue in a seed?

Answer 9

Endosperm

Question 10

What does Gymnosperms mean

Answer 10

Naked Seeds

Question 11

The Gymnosperms where once ____________ _________ on earth

Answer 11

dominant vegetation

Question 12

The Gymnosperms still dominate forests in the northern parts of the ___________ and at ___________

Answer 12

Northern Hemisphere; high elevations

Question 13

What are the 5 surviving gymnosperm phyla?

Answer 13

Cycadophyta
Ginkgophyta
Cupressophyta
Gnetophyta
Pinophyta

Question 14

What is an example of Cycadophyta

Answer 14

cycads or sago “palms”

Question 15

What is an example of Ginkgophyta

Answer 15

ginkgoes

Question 16

What is an example of Cupressophyta

Answer 16

redwoods, junipers, yews

Question 17

What is an example of Gnetophyta

Answer 17

gnetophytes

Question 18

What is an example of Pinophyta

Answer 18

conifers

Question 19

Ginkgophyta are ______ and _______ trees

Answer 19

male; female

Question 20

Ginkgophyta are all __________ from tree in Japanese temple garden, 17th century

Answer 20

descended

Question 21

In the Gymnosperm life cycles, what is the confider example?

Answer 21

naked seeds are produced on the scales of female cones

Question 22

Pollen cones are ________ than seed cones

Answer 22

smaller

Question 23

How is pollen transferred in a gymnosperm?

Answer 23

Pollen is transferred by wind

Question 24

What is the microspore?

Answer 24

The sperm

Question 25

What is the megaspore?

Answer 25

The egg

Question 26

What are the flowering plants called?

Answer 26

The Angiosperms

Question 27

What distinguishes the the Angiosperms?

Answer 27

Double Fertilization

Question 28

What does double fertilization results in?

Answer 28

A triploid endosperm (nutritive tissue)

Question 29

Angiosperms are characterized by the production of _______ and _______

Answer 29

flowers; fruits

Question 30

Ovules and seeds are enclosed by a ________

Answer 30

carpel

Question 31

Flowers are made up of various combinations of _______ (female), ______ (male), _______, and _______

Answer 31

carpels, stamens, petals, and sepals

Question 32

Where are carpels found in flowering plants?

Answer 32

Female

Question 33

Where are stamens found in flowering plants?

Answer 33

Male

Question 34

“____________” have both carpels and stamens

Answer 34

Perfect flowers

Question 35

__________ plant species have both female and male flowers on one plant

Answer 35

Monoecious

Question 36

In ___________ species, male and female plants are separate

Answer 36

dioecious

Question 37

What are two major lineages of flowering plants

Answer 37

Monocots and Eudicots

Question 38

What are monocots?

Answer 38

one cotyledon; flower parts in 3s or multiples

Question 39

What are eudicots

Answer 39

two cotyledons; flower parts in 4s, 5s, or multiples

Question 40

What is a cotyledon?

Answer 40

embryonic “seed leaf”

Question 41

What are some examples of monocots?

Answer 41

palm trees, grasses (corn, wheat, rye, barley) lilies, and orchids

Question 42

What are some examples of dioecious?

Answer 42

cactus, rose, flowering, dogwood, apple, peas, sunflower

Question 43

Do monocots have parallel veins or branching veins?

Answer 43

parallel

Question 44

Do eudicots have parallel veins or branching veins?

Answer 44

branching

Question 45

As fruits mature, the ovary wall develops into a _________ that surrounds the seed or seeds.

Answer 45

pericarp

Question 46

Flowering plants have __________ with animals

Answer 46

coevolved

Question 47

Flowers attract pollinators with ________, __________, and ________

Answer 47

shapes, colors, and odors

Question 48

_________ predicted this orchid would be pollinated by a moth with a very long proboscis

Answer 48

Darwin

Question 49

What are simple fruit? Example?

Answer 49

Develops from a single flower with one carpel; Cherry

Question 50

What are aggregate fruit? Example?

Answer 50

Develops from a single flower with many separate carpel; Blackberry

Question 51

What are multiple fruit? Example?

Answer 51

Develops from a many flower with many carpel; Pineapple

Question 52

What are some examples of pollinators?

Answer 52

Bees, butterflys, hummingbirds, and bats