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The timing of angiosperms Flashcards

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Describe angiosperm characteristics

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  • stigmatic pollen germination (pollen tube growth through carpel tissue)
  • stigma/style/ovary (carpel)
  • seeds (ovules) enclosed in carpel
  • carpel(s) becomes the fruit
  • ovules bitegmic
  • bithecate
  • highly reduced gametophytes
  • pollen mostly tectate/columellate
  • phloem and companion cells derived from same mother cell
  • mostly vessels rather than tracheids
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Bithecate

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  • two thecae
  • 2 sporangia in each thecae
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Describe the pollen grain of an angiosperm

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  • nucleated vegetative cell
  • exine
  • pore
  • 2x gametes
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4
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Describe pollen apertures

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  • monosulcate
  • tricolpate
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bitegmic

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two integuments

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Describe Dicotyledons

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  • two cotyledons in embryo
  • primary root persists as a strong taproot, with similar secondary roots
  • herbaceous or woody
  • tricolpate pollen
  • ring of vascular primary bundles with cambium; secondary growth in stem diameter
  • stem differentiated into cortex and stele
  • net-veined broad leaves (seldom sheathing)
  • petiole bearing stipules
  • flowers: 4s or 5s
  • 78%
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List some Dicotyledons

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  • buttercups
  • carnations
  • magnolias
  • water lilies
  • cacti
  • Leguminosaea
  • Asteraceae
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List some Monocotyledons

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  • grasslike flowers
  • petaloid monocots
  • palm trees
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List some grasslike flowers

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grasses, sedges, rushes

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List some petaloid monocots

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orchids, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, snowdrops

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cotyledons

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seed leaves

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12
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tricolpate

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having three furrows or pores

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net-veined leaves

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pinnate or palmate

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petiole

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stalk

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Describe Monocotyledons

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  • one cotyledon in embryo
  • endosperm likely
  • primary root has short duration (replaced by adventitious roots; fibrous or fleshy bundle system)
  • mostly herbaceous (few arborescent)
  • monocolpate pollen
  • numerous scattered vascular bundles; no definite arrangement in ground parenchyma
  • cambium only exceptionally present
  • no differentiation into cortical and stelar regions in stems
  • leaves parallel-veined; oblong or linear and sheathing at the base
  • petiole seldom developed
  • stipules absent
  • threes or multiples petals
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Describe Magnoliids - the basics

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Dicots with monocot pollen

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17
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Summarise angiosperm phylogeny

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  • extant gymnosperms
  • ANA
  • monocots
  • Ceratophyllaceae
  • Chloranthaceae
  • magnoliids
  • eudicots
18
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ANA

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  • Amborellaceae
  • Nymphaeaceae
  • Austrobaileyales
19
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When did angiosperms radiate?

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  • Cretaceous
  • 0-75%
20
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Describe pollen grain indicators

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  • more widely dispersed
  • occur in greater quantities
  • higher preservation potential in a wider range of sediments
  • directionality
21
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Summarise the angiosperm fossil record

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  • 144Mya: K-T boundary; no evidence
  • 135Mya: Valangian/Hauterivian; monosulcate pollen
  • 125Mya: Barremian; triaperturate pollen
  • 120Mya: Barremian/Aptian; leaves, flowers, carpels
22
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Describe the Cretaceous origin of angiosperms

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  • rapid rise in angiosperms
  • steady increase in species numbers
  • stepwise increase in the number of morphological types
  • fossil record congruent with tree
  • absence of angiosperm pollen in pre-Cretaceous rocks
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Describe the congruence between fossil record and phylogenetic angiosperm tree

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monosulcate magnoliid dicots appear first in fossil record, magnoliid flowers also present

24
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Describe Axelrod’s Hypothesis

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Upland Hypothesis

25
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Describe the Upland Hypothesis

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  • long cryptic period of evolution in the Triassic and Jurassic followed by major diversification in the Cretaceous
  • upland habitats lack depositional environments suitable for fossilisation
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Describe the Cretaceous Origin theory of Angiosperms

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  • no pre-Cretaceous angiosperm fossils
  • appearance of flowering plants in the Cretaceous fossil record reflects the time of their appearance
27
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Describe the main approaches to understand the timing of Angiosperms

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  • search for pre-Cretaceous fossils
  • find the closest relatives of angiosperms
  • Time Calibrated Phylogenies
28
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Archaefructus liaoningensis

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A Late Jurassic Angiosperm

29
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Archaefructaceae

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  • new basal angiosperm family
  • minimum age: 124.6 mya
  • A. liaonigensis, A. sinensis
30
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Describe the Late Triassic Crinopolles pollen group

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  • reticulate tectum
  • monosulcate pollen with columellae
  • lamellated endexine
  • nexine consists of laminated endexine of uniform thickness as in gymnospermous pollen
  • convergent gymnospermous group or angiosperm stem relatives
  • Newark sequence of Virginia
  • enigmatic, disputed
31
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Describe endexine in Early Cretaceous and extant monosulcate angiosperms

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  • lacking
  • nonlaminated, except under the sulcus
32
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Describe the ancestral tectum in angiosperms

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unknown whether continuous or reticulate.

33
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Describe one use of phylogenetic trees

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estimate stratigraphic incompleteness

34
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List the extant Spermatophyte lineages

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  • Angiosperms = Magnoliophyta (370,000 species)
  • Cycads = Cycadophyta (120 species)
  • Conifers = Coniferophyta (600 species)
  • Gnetales = Gnetophyta (90 species)
  • Ginkgo = Ginkgophyta (1 species)
35
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List the extinct Spermatophyte lineages

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  • Caytoniales
  • Bennettitales
  • Pentoxylon
  • Corystosperms
  • Glossopterids
  • et al
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Gnetales

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  • Gnetum: 28 spp.
  • Ephedra: 35spp.
  • Welwitschia: 1 spp.
37
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Describe the Ephedra

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  • functionally dioecious
  • male and female ‘flowers’
  • hermaphrodite unit with non-functional ovules
  • Switch Plant, source of ephedrine
38
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Describe the Gnetum

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  • functionally dioecious
  • female ‘flowers’
  • male ‘flowers’ with non-functioning ovules
39
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Describe the Welwitschia

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  • functionally dioecious
  • male flowers with non-functional ovule
40
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Siphonogamy

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transfer of the male cells to the eggs via pollen tube

41
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Describe Gnetales nesting within extant monophyletic gymnosperms

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8 gene dataset
- 4 plastid
- 3 mitochondrial
- 1 nuclear

42
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Angiosperms have a

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long phylogenetic fuse

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