Topic 9-14 Flashcards
Three main shared characteristics between green algae and land plants
Cellulose synthesizing proteins, flagellated sperm structure, and the formation of a cell plate
What phyla of algae is most similar to land plants
Charophyta
Five shared derived characteristics of land plants
Alternation of generations (haplontic life cycle), Apical meristem, Multicellular gametangia, Walled spores in sporangia, and multicellular dependent embryos
Three plant organ types
Stems (Shoots), Leaves, and roots
Plant gametes
Antheridium (sperm) and Archegonium (egg)
What process creates plant gametes
Mitosis in the gametangia
Spore Creation process
Meiosis in the Sporangia
Most abundant plant phyla
Anthophyta
Thallus
A thallus is an alternate plant body form for plants without organs like Bryophyta and Monilophyta
Plant life cycle order of events
Gametophyte, gamete creation, fertilization, zygote, sporophyte, creation of two spores, spores germinate into gametophyte
What are Sporocyte
An intermediate between sporangia and sporess
What is germination
A spore turning into a gametophyte
Sporopollenin
The chemical which the outer protective layer of plant spores are made of
Protonema
thread like structures in Bryophyta gametophyte
Three types of tissue
Ground tissue, Dermal tissue and vascular tissue
Two types of vascular tissue
Xylem and phloem
Type of dermal tissue
Waxy cuticle, epidermal secretions
Kind of plants in Monilophyta
Ferns, horsetails and whisk ferns
Kind of plants in Bryophyta
Mosses
What is another name for monilophyta
Seedless vascular plants
What is another name for Bryophyta
Non-vascular plant
Dioecious
Having a distinct female and male versions separated and on different plants
Heterospory
producing both female mega spores and male microspores
Name of a Female Megaspore/gametophyte
Ovule
Name of male microspore/gametophyte
Pollen grain
Types of plant life span length
Annuals (A year), biennials (two years), perennials (Multi - Year)
Gymnosperm
Coniferophyta
Angiosperm
Anthophyta
Types of Angiosperm
Basal angiosperm, Magnoliids, Monocots, Eudicots
What modified leaves make up a flower
Sepals, Petals, Stamen and Carpel
What does a stamen consist of
Antheridium and Filament
What does carpel consist of
Stigma, style, and ovary
What are fronds and fiddle heads
Compound sporangia growing leaves in Monilophyta
Special cells in angiosperm megagametophyte
Prothallial cell (antipodal), synergids, eggs, polar nuclei
Special cells in angipsperm microgametophyte
tube cell and generative cell
Special cells in gymnosperm megagametophyte
2 to 6 eggs
Special cells in gymnosperm microgametophyte
tube cell, prothallial cells (2), generative cell
Exine coat
the exterior coat for seed plant gametophytes
Which plants depend on water to transfer gametes
Bryophyta and Monilophyta
How do seed plants transfer gametes
Through wind and animals
What does self fertilization do in some flowers
Creates incomplete or dimorphism flowers
Types of incomplete flowers
Staminate flower (only stamen) and carpellate flowers (only carpel)
Stamen
Male reproductive organ in flowers
Carpel
Female reproductive organ in flowers
Type of dimorphism flowers
Thrum individuals and pin individuals.
What is in the embryo cleavage of an angiosperm
Terminal cell (most of the embryo) and Basal Cell (suspensor)
Type of embryonic organs in an angiosperm
Cotyledons, Epicotyl (growing SAM), Hypocotyl and Radicle (growing RAM)
What does Hypocotyl do
Elongates the embryo
Seed dispersal methods for gymnosperm
Seed coat extension and wind
Seed dispersal methods for angiosperm
Fruit, water, wind, animals
What is in a seed
Embryo (2N) and Endosperm (3N), Seed coat (2N) made of hard sclerenchyma cells
What do cotyledons do
Provide nutrients to a plant embryo
What does an endosperm do
Store starch, protein, and lipids for an embryo
What causes induced dormancy in seeds
Dehydration or temperature, lack of nutrients or oxygen required for germination
Imbibition process
Ruptures coat, Radicle emerges, Shoot emerges (epicotyl), cotyledons stay above or below soil
What happens to the radicle and epicotyl after imbibition
Radicle and epicotyl turn into meristems which grow produce adult tissues
What causes increase in length
Primary growth, Shoot apical meristem and Root apical meristem
What causes increase in girth
Secondary growth, Vascular cambium, Cork cambium
What are the functions of roots
Anchorage, Absorption, Storage, Transport, Primary root (Embryonic radicle)
Type of root systems
Fibrous and Tap
Type of roots
Lateral roots and Adventitious roots
Zones of Root Growth
Root Cap, Zone of division (Root Apical meristem) and (Meristem cells), Zone of elongation (Pushes root tip), Zone of differentiation (Primary tissues)