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What was needed for photosynthetic plants to move into land?

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The evolution of chloroplasts

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What is the Primary endosymbiosis derived from?

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Plantae

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First Clades to branch off after primary endosymbiosis?

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Aquatic (algae)

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Three key characteristics of the evolution of land plants:

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Protected embryos, vascular tissues, and seeds

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Ancestor of Plantae

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Unicellular, similar to modern glaucophytes

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Chloroplasts retain:

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Peptidoglycan between membranes (as cyanobacteria)

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Key synapomorphy of land plants:

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Embryo that is protected by tissue.

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Land plants are also called:

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Embryophytes

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Ten major clades:

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Liverworts
Mosses
Hornworts
Lycophytes

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Vascular plants

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Tracheophytes, called tracheids (7 clades)

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Nonvascular plants:

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Some have conduction cells, but no tracheids

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Classifications of Land Plants:

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  • Nonvascular Land Plants
  • Vascular Plants
  • Seed Plants
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Land Plants develop

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  • Transport systems
  • Structural support
  • New ways to disperse gametes and progeny.
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Adaptations of Land Plants

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-Cuticle
-Stomata
-Gametangia
-Embryos
Pigments and Spores

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Cuticle

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Waxy coating that slows water loss

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Stomata

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Closable opening that regulate gas exchange and water loss

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Gametagia

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Organs that enclose gametes and prevent them from drying out

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Embryos

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Young plants contained within a protective structure

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Pigments

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Protect against UV radiation

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Spores

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With thick walls containing a polymer that prevents drying and resists decay

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Land plants have alternation of generations:

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  • Multicellular diploid stage and multicellular haploid stage
  • Gametes produce by mitosis
  • Spores produced by meiosis
  • Spores develop haploid organisms.
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Diploid zygote:

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Develops by mitosis and cytokinesis

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Multicelluar diploid plant is called :

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sporophyte

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Spores develop into

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Gametophyte, multicellular haploid plant

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Gametophyte produces

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Haploid gametes

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Fusion of gametes produces:

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Diploid Zygote, which then develops into sporophyte

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Nonvascular Plants

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Liverworts, mosses, hornworts

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Charateristics of nonvascular plants:

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  • Live in moist habitats
  • Small
  • No vascular system to transport water
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Liverworts

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  • Green
  • Sporophyte attached to gametophyte
  • Can reproduce asexually or sexually
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Mosses

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  • Stomata-important for gas exchange and water retention

- Cells called hydroids which die and leave a channel through water can move.

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Hornworts:

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  • Sporophytes look like small horns.
  • Cells have one chloroplast
  • Sporophyte
  • Symbiotic relationships with cyanobacteria and fix nitrogen.
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Nonvasular plants, gametophyte is:

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Photosynthetic

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What does the sporophyte depend on:

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Gametophyte

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Where are Gametes produced:

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Gametangia (antheridia and archegonia)

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Sperm must:

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Swim or be splashed by water to reach the egg

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36
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What must be present for reproduction

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Water

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Vascular system consists:

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Tissues for transport of water and materials

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How did evolution help Vascular tissue:

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Allowed plants to spread to new environments and diversify

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Xylem conducts:

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Water and minerals

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40
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Phloem conducts:

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Products of photosynthesis

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Tracheid:

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Evolved in sporophytes and critical for invasion of land.

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Tracheid includes;

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Transport, the lignin provides support and allowing taller growth, which means more sunlight and disperse spores.

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43
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Vascular plants also developed:

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Branching

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44
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What does branching do:

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Spore production

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45
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Sporophyte of a vascular plant

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Independent of the gametophyte

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46
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Invasion of land by vascular plants:

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Made environment more hospitable to animals

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47
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What moved to land after vascular plants

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Arthropods, vertebrates, and animals

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48
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When did trees appeared:

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Devonian

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49
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When did trees dominate:

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Carboniferous, when huge club mosses, horsetails, and tree ferns

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50
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What transformed into coal

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Buried plant material

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51
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What happend in the Permian:

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Gymnosperms replaced loycophyte - fern forests

52
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Rhyniophytes

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Earliest vascular plants

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Rhyniophytes include:

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No roots, anchored in soil by rhizomes with rhizoids ( ferns today) and dichotomous

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Lycophytes

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Club mosses, spike mosses and quilworts

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Lycophytes include:

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Microphylls and Strobili

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Monilophytes

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Horsetails and ferns. All have different main stem and side branches

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Horsetails

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Independent sporophyte and gametophyte

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When did ferns appeared:

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Devonian period, terrestrial

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How long can sporophyte live:

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Hundreds of years

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Why is water so important:

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Needed to transport of male gametes to female gametes so ferns are inhabit shaded, moist woodlands and swamps.

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Sporangia

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Borne on a stalk in clusters called sori

62
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Microphylls evolved from:

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Sterile sporangia

63
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How did

Megaphylls of monilophytes arise:

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Photosynthetic tissue developed between branch pairs that were left behind as dominant branches overtopped them.

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Euphyllophytes

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Clade consisting of monilophytes

65
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A synapomorphy of euphyllophytes

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Overtopping growth

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Euphyllophytes lead to

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Megaphylls

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Seed plants

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Provide lasting dormant stage for the embryo. Can also be dormant for many years.

68
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Trend in plant evolution:

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Sporophyte became less dependent and gametophyte became smaller.

69
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Seed plants evolved:

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Independence from water for getting the sperm to the egg.

70
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Male gametophyte

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Pollen grain

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Sporopollenin

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Prevents drying and chemical damage

72
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Megaspores develop:

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Into female gametophytes

73
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What are megagametophytes are dependent:

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On sporophyte for food and water

74
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Megagametophytes develop in:

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Ovule, which later became the seed

75
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Pollination

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Arrival of a pollen grain near a female gametophyte

76
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Pollen tube

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Grows the grain and digests its way toward megagametophyte.

77
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Diploid Zygote:

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Divides to form an embryonic sporophyte, enters a dormant stage

78
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Seed contains tissues from three generation:

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A seed coat, Haploid tissue from the female gametophyte provides nutrients, and embryo is the new diploid Sporophyte.

79
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Many seeds remain:

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Viable for long periods

80
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Seed coat:

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Protects from drying, potential predators and other damage.

81
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What do the adaptiations of seeds to help:

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Aid in dispersal

82
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Where does the embryo get nutirients:

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Stored in the seed

83
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Secondary growth:

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Increasing diameter of roots and stems by growth of xylem

84
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Older wood:

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Becomes clogged with resins but provide support and allows plants to grow.

85
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Gymnosperms

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Seed plants that do not form flowers or fruits

86
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What is not protected in gymnosperms:

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Ovules and seeds.

87
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Gymnosperms have:

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Tracheids as water conducting and support.

88
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Four groups of gymnosperms:

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Cycads, Gingkos, Gnetophytes, Conifers

89
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Cycads

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Tropical, earliest diverging clade

90
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Gingkos

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Common in Mesozoic, today only species: Gingko biloba

91
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Gnetophytes

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Some characteristics similar to angiosperms; Welwitschia

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Conifers

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Cone-bearing plants

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Conifers include:

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Dominate forests at high latitudes and high elevations

94
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Cones contain:

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Megastrobilus and Microstrobilus

95
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Megastrobilus

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Female cone

96
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Microstrobilus

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Male pollen

97
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What transports pollen grains

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Wind

98
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What are the most exposed:

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Conifer Ovules

99
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Angiosperms

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Reproductive organs in flowers; seeds are enclosed in fruits

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Carpel

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Ovules and seeds enclosed in modified leaf

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What is very reduced:

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Female gametophyte

102
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Xylem of amgiosperms

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Vessel elements- water transporting cells

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Fibers

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Structural support

104
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Pholem

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Companion cells

105
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Synapomorphies of the angiosperms

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Germination of pollen on a stigma, Double fertilization, Endosperm

106
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Infloresence

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Group of flowers

107
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Stamens bear

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Male microsporangia

108
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Stamen is composed

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Filament and anther

109
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Carpels bear

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Megasporangia

110
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Carpels contain:

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Ovary, style and stigma

111
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Imperfect flowers

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two flowers types male and female

112
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Monoecious

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Male and female flowers occur on the same plant

113
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Dioecious

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Male and female flowers are produced on different plants

114
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Evolution of flowers

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Earliest diverging clades have many tepals, carpels and stamens

115
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Most angiosperms are pollinated by:

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Animals

116
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Double fetilization:

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Each pollen contains two male gametes: one combines with egg. The other combines with two other haploid nuclei to form a triploid cell, triploid cells give rise to endosperm

117
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Zygote develops:

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Into an embryo with embryonic axis and cotyledons (seed leaves)

118
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Fruits:

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Develop from ovaries after fertilization, protect seeds and aid in dispersal

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Single fruit

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Develops from a single carpel or fused by carpels ( plum or peach)

120
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Aggregate fruit

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Develops from several separate carpels of a single flower (raspberry)

121
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Multiple fruit

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Forms from a flower cluster, inflorescence (pineapples and figs)

122
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Accessory fruit

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Develop from other parts in addition to the carpel (apples, pears, strawberries)

123
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Amborella (magnoliids)

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Sister group of all other flowering plants

124
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  1. Angiosperm clades:
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Monocots (1 cotyledon) grasses, cattails, ilies, orchids and palms.

125
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  1. Angiosperm clades:
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Eudicots (2 cotyledons) majority of familiar seed plants

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