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1
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What are the characteristics of seed plants?

A

Heterosporous and greatly reduced gametophytes

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What does Heterosporous mean?

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Different spores

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3
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What are the different spores in seed plants?

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megaspores and microspores

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4
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Do seed plants follow the trend of the reduction of the gametophyte?

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yes

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5
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Male gametophyte is dispersed by _______ or ________

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wind or animals

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6
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What is a seed?

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

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7
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Most modern seed plants have no swimming _________

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Gametes

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8
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Most modern seed plants do not require _______ _______ for fertilization

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liquid water

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9
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What is the name of the nutritive tissue in a seed?

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Endosperm

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10
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What does Gymnosperms mean

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Naked Seeds

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11
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The Gymnosperms where once ____________ _________ on earth

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dominant vegetation

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12
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The Gymnosperms still dominate forests in the northern parts of the ___________ and at ___________

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Northern Hemisphere; high elevations

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13
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What are the 5 surviving gymnosperm phyla?

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Cycadophyta
Ginkgophyta
Cupressophyta
Gnetophyta
Pinophyta

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What is an example of Cycadophyta

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cycads or sago “palms”

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What is an example of Ginkgophyta

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ginkgoes

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What is an example of Cupressophyta

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redwoods, junipers, yews

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What is an example of Gnetophyta

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gnetophytes

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18
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What is an example of Pinophyta

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conifers

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19
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Ginkgophyta are ______ and _______ trees

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male; female

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20
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Ginkgophyta are all __________ from tree in Japanese temple garden, 17th century

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descended

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21
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In the Gymnosperm life cycles, what is the confider example?

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naked seeds are produced on the scales of female cones

22
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Pollen cones are ________ than seed cones

A

smaller

23
Q

How is pollen transferred in a gymnosperm?

A

Pollen is transferred by wind

24
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What is the microspore?

A

The sperm

25
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What is the megaspore?

A

The egg

26
Q

What are the flowering plants called?

A

The Angiosperms

27
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What distinguishes the the Angiosperms?

A

Double Fertilization

28
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What does double fertilization results in?

A

A triploid endosperm (nutritive tissue)

29
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Angiosperms are characterized by the production of _______ and _______

A

flowers; fruits

30
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Ovules and seeds are enclosed by a ________

A

carpel

31
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Flowers are made up of various combinations of _______ (female), ______ (male), _______, and _______

A

carpels, stamens, petals, and sepals

32
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Where are carpels found in flowering plants?

A

Female

33
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Where are stamens found in flowering plants?

A

Male

34
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“____________” have both carpels and stamens

A

Perfect flowers

35
Q

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

A

Monoecious

36
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In ___________ species, male and female plants are separate

A

dioecious

37
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What are two major lineages of flowering plants

A

Monocots and Eudicots

38
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What are monocots?

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one cotyledon; flower parts in 3s or multiples

39
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What are eudicots

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

40
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What is a cotyledon?

A

embryonic “seed leaf”

41
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What are some examples of monocots?

A

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

42
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What are some examples of dioecious?

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

43
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Do monocots have parallel veins or branching veins?

A

parallel

44
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Do eudicots have parallel veins or branching veins?

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branching

45
Q

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

A

pericarp

46
Q

Flowering plants have __________ with animals

A

coevolved

47
Q

Flowers attract pollinators with ________, __________, and ________

A

shapes, colors, and odors

48
Q

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

A

Darwin

49
Q

What are simple fruit? Example?

A

Develops from a single flower with one carpel; Cherry

50
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What are aggregate fruit? Example?

A

Develops from a single flower with many separate carpel; Blackberry

51
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What are multiple fruit? Example?

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Develops from a many flower with many carpel; Pineapple

52
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What are some examples of pollinators?

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Bees, butterflys, hummingbirds, and bats

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