Test 5

Question 0

Alternation of generation

Answer 0

A pattern of reproduction occurring in the life cycles of many plants

Question 1

Bryophyte

Answer 1

A small flower less green plant of the division bryophyta

Question 2

Gamete

Answer 2

Sex cell

Question 3

Spore

Answer 3

Asexual reproduction unit

Question 4

Moss

Answer 4

A small flowerless green plant the lacks true roots and grows in a damp enviorment

Question 5

Liverwort

Answer 5

A small flowerless green plant with lead-like stems or lobed leaves

Question 6

Sporophyte

Answer 6

The asexual phase that produces spores from which the gametophyte arises

Question 7

Gametophyte

Answer 7

The gamete producing phase that produces the zygote from which the sporophyte arises

Question 8

Polytrichium

Answer 8

A genus of mosses which contains 70 species

Question 9

sphagnum

Answer 9

A plant of a genus that comprises the peat mosses

Question 10

Funaria

Answer 10

A genus of about 200 species of moss

Question 11

Marchantia

Answer 11

A genus of a group of liverworts without roots or vascular systems

Question 12

Protonema

Answer 12

A threadlike chain of cells that forms the earliest stage of a bryophyte life cycle

Question 13

Antheridium

Answer 13

The male sex organ of algae, mosses, ferns, fungi, and other non flowering plants

Question 14

Archegonium

Answer 14

The female sex organ of algae, mosses, ferns, fungi, and other non flowering plants

Question 15

Gemmae cup

Answer 15

Vegetative reproduction, small groups of cells that become detached

Question 16

Rhizoid

Answer 16

A root hair on the underside of the thallus to anchor the plant and conduct water

Question 17

Thallus

Answer 17

A plant body that is not differentiated into stem and leaves and lacks true roots and vascular system

Question 18

Zygote

Answer 18

A diploid cell resulting from the fusion of 2 haploid gametes

Question 19

Sporangia

Answer 19

A receptacle in which spores are formed

Question 20

Capsule

Answer 20

The spore producing structure of mosses and liverworts typically borne on a stalk

Question 21

Operculum

Answer 21

A structure that closes or covers an aperture

Question 22

Calyptra

Answer 22

Describes a feature in plant morphology

Question 23

Bog

Answer 23

Wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body

Question 24

Pioneer plant

Answer 24

Hardy plants which are the first to colonize damaged or disrupted ecosystems

Question 25

Ecological succession

Answer 25

The observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time