Unit 2 Flashcards
- What Supergroup does Kingdom Plantae Belong to + Characteristics?
Archaeoplastica: Engulfed a Cyanobacteria
- Characteristics Specific to the plants
- Multicellular
- Autotrophs
- Nutrients by Photosynthesis
- Plastids: Chlorophyll A & B & Carotenoids
- Cell Walls: Cellulose
- Adaptations to move onto Land
- Sporopollenins: Prevents Drying Out
- Waxy Cuticles
- Gametangia
- When Did Plants first show up in fossil records?
500 million years ago
- How is the thallus flattened in Hepatophyta?
Dorsoventrally
- What generation is Hepatophyta?
Gametophytes
- The function of the upper section of the thallus
Photosynthesis
- The function of the lower section of the thallus
Water Absorption
- Rhizoid vs Scale
Single-Celled vs. Multicellular
- The function of the air chambers surrounding the chlorophyll-bearing Cells
Water Absorption
- What does Antheridia Produce?
Sperm
- What does Archegonia Produce?
Egg
- The Function of the Elaters? How do they work?
Dispersal: Humidity flings the spores away
- Hepatophyta n / 2n?
Diploid
- Sporophyte is attached to a gametophyte. What is its sex?
Female
- How are Gemmae Dispersed in Hepatophyta?
Rains & Water splashes the gemmae out of the cup
- Is there vein system in the Leaves for Bryophyta?
No
- What generation is Bryophyta
Gametophyte
- Conducting tissues of Vascular Plants:
Xylem and Phloem, Found 385 Million Years Ago
- Lycophtya Characteristics
True Stems, Roots, Leaves
- What generation is Lycophyta?
Sporophytes
- Microphylls
Small leaves with One Vein
- Sporophylls
Specialized leaves that produce sporangia
- Pterophyta Characteristics
Only have True Stems
- Pterophyta Generation
Sporophyte
- Vascular characteristics in Pterophyta- Sphenophyta
True Roots, Stems, Leaves
- Generation of Sphenophyta
Sporophytes
- Substance Found
Silica
- Strobili
Small Cones at the tips of stems
- Vascular characteristics in Pterophyta- Ferns
True Roots, Stems, Leaves
- Generation of Ferns
Sporophytes
- Megaphylls
Larger Leaves with more than one vein
- Fiddle heads, Circinate Vernation
Rolled up Leaves / Type of Coiling
- Heavy Walled Brownish Cells
Annulus
- Cells that are open ends of the Annulus
Lip Cells
- Prothallus
Single Type but develop into a gametophyte with both sex organs
- Monoecious
What Ferns give Rise to
- Rhizoids
Absorption and Anchorage
- Archegonia grow
Sporophyte
- What happens to gametophyte prothallus after sporophyte begins to grow?
Eventually die off
- Characteristics of Seed Plants
- All multicellular Eukaryotes
- Autotrophs
- Plastids
- Walls Consisting of Cellulose
- When did seed plants first appear in the fossil record?
360 million years ago
- Cycadophyta shows
the first true secondary growth
- Ginkgophyta
Only male are planted because its messy with foul smell. Originally from China
- Gnetophyta
Produces Epinderine, Raises heart and blood pressure. Has Vessel Elements
- Male Cones
Produce 4 Haploid microspores
- Wings serve as
Dispersal
- Which cell produces 2 Sperm Cells
Spermatogeneous Cell
- What does Megaspore Produce?
4 Megaspores
- Function of Nucellus?
Nutrition
- What do the megaspores develop into?
Female Gametophyte
- Which structure are haploid?
Archegonium & 2 Eggs
- Which structures are diploid?
Nucellus and Integument
- Function of the Nucellus
Food Source
- Function of the Cotyledons
Food Source
- What does Hypocotyl Develop into?
Shoot System
- What does Radicle Develop into?
Root System
- Epigynous
Over
- Perigynous
Side
- Hypogynous
Under
- Parietal
Top
- Axile
Middle
36.Free-Central
Bottom
- Cross Pollination
Transfer of pollen from one individual plant to another
- Most Common Method to prevent flowers from pollinating themselves
Self-incompatibility
- Three Nuclei may be seen at
The Style
- What happens to the antipodals after fertilization?
Disappears
- What happens to the polar nuclei after fertilization?
Join with a sperm to produce endosperm
- What happens to synergids after fertilization
Disappears
- Why is it called double fertilization
Fertilizes twice
- Different Types of Dispersal Mechanisms
Animals / Humans