Seedless Plants

Question 1

What are nonvascular land plants that have no xylem or phloem to transport water and sugar?

Answer 1

Mosses

Question 2

Are mosses haploid or diploid?

Answer 2

haploid

Question 3

Where are swimming sperm produced?

Answer 3

antheridia

Question 4

Where are eggs produced?

Answer 4

archegonia

Question 5

The fertilized spores in mosses before meiosis are?

Answer 5

diploid, then split back to haploid

Question 6

What are the 1st land plants on fossil record, that have no phloem or xylem, and have a cuticle to prevent dehydration?

Answer 6

Liverworts

Question 7

What anchors plant?

Answer 7

Rhizoids

Question 8

Where are the sperm and egg produced in Liverworts?

Answer 8

the same areas

Question 9

When liverworts asexually reproduce, where does it occur?

Answer 9

Gemmae Cups

Question 10

Hornwarts are _________ and __________.

Answer 10

nonvascular and haploid

Question 11

Since Cooksonia are sporophyte dominate, they are?

Answer 11

diploid

Question 12

Are cooksonia extinct?

Answer 12

yes

Question 13

Phylum Lycophyta contains?

Answer 13

Club moss

Question 14

What is lycopodium?

Answer 14

Ground pine

Question 15

Where does lycopodium (Ground pine) grow?

Answer 15

On top of other plants

Question 16

How are fireworks produced?

Answer 16

using the spores from the ground pine

Question 17

What is called the ‘ressurection’ plant?

Answer 17

Selaginella

Question 18

What is Phylum Pteridophyta made up of?

Answer 18

Wisk ferns, horsetails and true ferns

Question 19

Are wisk ferns haploid or diploid?

Answer 19

Diploid

Question 20

Horsetails are sometimes called _____________.

Answer 20

scouring rushes

Question 21

Horsetails contain what in the stem for defense and support?

Answer 21

silica

Question 22

What is the only living genus of horsetails?

Answer 22

Equisetum

Question 23

What the most successful spore bearing plants?

Answer 23

Ferns

Question 24

When spores are dropped from true ferns what do they grow into?

Answer 24

Heart shaped gametophyle called a protrialli

Question 25

What initially grows from a fungal spore?

Answer 25

A haploid hypha

Question 26

What has a gametophyte dominate lifestyle?

Answer 26

liverworts

Question 27

What is the name of a young fern frond?

Answer 27

a fiddlehead

Question 28

What plant are given credit for being the first plant to live on land?

Answer 28

liverworts

Question 29

Which of the following is given credit for having the first leaves and roots

Answer 29

Club Moss

Question 30

What does sporophyte dominate mean and what is an example of a sporophyte dominate seedless plant?

Answer 30

It means its diploid, and cooksonia is an example

Question 31

What is in Phylum Bryophia?

Answer 31

Liverworts, Mosses, Hornwarts

Question 32

What is in Phylum Lycophyta?

Answer 32

Club Moss

Question 33

What is in Phylum Ptendophyta?

Answer 33

Ferns

Question 34

What were the 1st Vascular land plants?

Answer 34

Cooksonia

Question 35

What was the 1st vascular land plant with true roots and leaves?

Answer 35

Club Moss

Question 36

What are Wisk ferns? Sporophyte dominate or Gametophyte dominate?

Answer 36

Sporophyte dominate

Question 37

What is a protenoma?

Answer 37

An algea like extention that grows from spores in mosses

Question 38

Where do spores form in mosses?

Answer 38

Sporophyte Capsule