Seedless Plants Flashcards
What are nonvascular land plants that have no xylem or phloem to transport water and sugar?
Mosses
Are mosses haploid or diploid?
haploid
Where are swimming sperm produced?
antheridia
Where are eggs produced?
archegonia
The fertilized spores in mosses before meiosis are?
diploid, then split back to haploid
What are the 1st land plants on fossil record, that have no phloem or xylem, and have a cuticle to prevent dehydration?
Liverworts
What anchors plant?
Rhizoids
Where are the sperm and egg produced in Liverworts?
the same areas
When liverworts asexually reproduce, where does it occur?
Gemmae Cups
Hornwarts are _________ and __________.
nonvascular and haploid
Since Cooksonia are sporophyte dominate, they are?
diploid
Are cooksonia extinct?
yes
Phylum Lycophyta contains?
Club moss
What is lycopodium?
Ground pine
Where does lycopodium (Ground pine) grow?
On top of other plants
How are fireworks produced?
using the spores from the ground pine
What is called the ‘ressurection’ plant?
Selaginella
What is Phylum Pteridophyta made up of?
Wisk ferns, horsetails and true ferns
Are wisk ferns haploid or diploid?
Diploid
Horsetails are sometimes called _____________.
scouring rushes
Horsetails contain what in the stem for defense and support?
silica
What is the only living genus of horsetails?
Equisetum
What the most successful spore bearing plants?
Ferns
When spores are dropped from true ferns what do they grow into?
Heart shaped gametophyle called a protrialli
What initially grows from a fungal spore?
A haploid hypha
What has a gametophyte dominate lifestyle?
liverworts
What is the name of a young fern frond?
a fiddlehead
What plant are given credit for being the first plant to live on land?
liverworts
Which of the following is given credit for having the first leaves and roots
Club Moss
What does sporophyte dominate mean and what is an example of a sporophyte dominate seedless plant?
It means its diploid, and cooksonia is an example
What is in Phylum Bryophia?
Liverworts, Mosses, Hornwarts
What is in Phylum Lycophyta?
Club Moss
What is in Phylum Ptendophyta?
Ferns
What were the 1st Vascular land plants?
Cooksonia
What was the 1st vascular land plant with true roots and leaves?
Club Moss
What are Wisk ferns? Sporophyte dominate or Gametophyte dominate?
Sporophyte dominate
What is a protenoma?
An algea like extention that grows from spores in mosses
Where do spores form in mosses?
Sporophyte Capsule
