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Why are there so many angiosperms? Flashcards

1
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Describe angiosperm description rate

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2000 species per year being described for about the last 40-50 years

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Angiosperm species estimate

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231,413 - 369,4334

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3
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What percentage of Embryophytes are the angiosperms?

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89.4%

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4
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Describe Eucalyptus regnans

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  • swamp gum / Mountain Ash
  • tallest flowering plant
  • > 100m
  • 17m girth
  • Tasmania and S Australia
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5
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Cymbalaria muralis

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Ivy leaved toadflax

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6
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Wolffia

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Duckweed

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7
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List the three angiosperm habits

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trees, shrubs and herbs (herbaceous)

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8
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Describe trees and shrubs

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  • woody
  • secondary thickening (herbs do not)
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9
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Eucalyptus regnans

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100m

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10
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Describe the diversity of angiosperm fruits

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  • dry: poppy
  • fleshy: tomato
  • dehiscent: Indian balsam
  • indehiscent: sycamore
  • apocarpy: beans & buttercups
  • syncarpy: oranges, apples, tomatoes
    false fruits: strawberry
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11
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Describe the habit and life history diversity of angiosperms

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Epiphytes
Climbers/Lianas
Switch plants
Succulents
Terrestrial
Aquatic
Ephemerals
Annuals
Biennials
Perennials
Bulbs
Corms
Rhizomes

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12
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Describe plant construction

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roots, leaves, stems and flowers

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13
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The world is dependent on angiosperms for

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food, clothing, medicine and energy

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14
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Angiosperms co-exist in

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high-diversity assemblages relative to other plant groups

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15
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Describe biotic pollination

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  • entomophily
  • ornithophily
  • chiropterophily
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16
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List three co-inciding biological phenomena

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  • floral innovation
  • insect diversification
  • angiosperm diversification
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17
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Describe wind-pollination

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  • anemophily
  • evolved repeatedly from insect pollinated ancestors
  • Graminioid monocots (grasses, sedges & rushes) & Fagaceae
  • conifers (gymnosperms)
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18
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Entomophily has been argued to decrease extinction rates by

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maintaining gene flow in small, sparse populations and so ensuring their survival.

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19
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Entomophily can act as a driver of speciation based on

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  • selection for pollinator specialisation
  • e.g. orchids
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20
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Describe Gymnosperms

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  • Conifers, Gnetales, Cycads, Ginkgo
  • exclusively woody, no herbs or annuals
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21
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Describe cycads

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  • gymnosperms
  • obligate entomophiles
  • not especially species-rich group
22
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Describe Gnetales

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  • gymnosperms
  • degree of adaptation to entomophily
23
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Describe Bennettitales

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  • fossil gymnosperms
  • evidence of beetle pollination
24
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Describe Hymenoptera

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  • most important group of insect pollinators
  • first appear in the early Triassic
25
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Angiosperms arose after

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the origin of entomophily in one or more Gymnosperms

26
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Early entomophilous plants generalists and specialized plant pollinator relationships appeared

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relatively late within the angiosperms.

27
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Describe the carpel

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synapomorphy

28
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Carpel evolution prompted

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  1. pollen tube competition
  2. incompatibility systems
  3. many fruit types
29
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Paedomorphosis

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precocious reproductive maturation

30
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Is lignification a synapomorphy

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  • no
  • many basal angiosperms are woody
31
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Describe angiosperms relative to Gymnosperms

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  • paedomorphic trends
  • faster life cycles (Arabidopsis)
  • increased rate of speciation and/or reduced extinction
32
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Diversification relies up

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  • unique key character innovations
  • ecological opportunity (extrinsic environmental factors)
33
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Two sister lineages differences may be

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stochastic

34
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Describe SR

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  • species My-1
    = [ln n1 – ln n0] / t
35
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SR

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speciation rate

36
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Describe TFS

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My species-1 = t / ln n1

37
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TFS

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time for speciation

38
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n1 =

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number of species in a monophyletic clade

39
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Describe time calibrated phylogeny

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  • uses known fossil records
  • background rate of diversification used to calculate expected number of species in each clade over the time since the clade’s origin
40
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High diversification rates in various independent clades

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  • Cyperales
  • Poales
  • Fabales
  • Rosaceae
  • Apiales
  • Asterales
  • Boraginales
  • Solanales
  • Gentianales
  • Lamiales
41
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Describe the Succulent Karoo

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  • arid region of the Cape
  • onset of recent aridity: c. 5Mya
  • adjacent areas experiencing aridity on and off since Cretaceous
  • 5000 species, 40% endemism
42
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Describe the Aizoaceae

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– South African desert ice plants
- monophyletic Core Ruschioideae with 1,563 species
- Age of clade = 3.8-8.7Myr
- SR = 0.84-1.93 species Myr-1

43
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Describe the putative innovations of the Aizoaceae

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  • wide band tracheids
  • cylindrical or trigonous shaped leaves
  • hygrochastic capsules
44
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Describe wide band tracheids

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  • prevent collapse of primary wall and associated with adaptions to prevent water stress
  • adaptations to withstand water stress
45
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Describe cylindrical or trigonous shaped leaves

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  • reduced leaf surface area
  • reducing water loss under dry conditions
46
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Describe hygrochastic capsules

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fruits open only when moistened to release a portion of their seeds in rain

47
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Describe Andean Páramo

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  • High elevation grasslands: 3200-5000m
  • 3,400 species
  • 60% endemism
  • most species-rich flora of any tropical mountain massif
48
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Describe Andean Lupinus

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  • clade of 81 species
  • age = 1.47 +/- 0.29 Myr
  • coincides with first appearance of cold upland habitats in last 2-4 Myr following final uplift of the Andes 3-5 Mya
  • SR = 2.49 – 3.72 species Myr-1
49
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synnovation

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synergistic interactions among traits

50
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confluence

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multiple interacting causal agents assembled step-wise through a tree.

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