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| a flower's ripened ovary, which surrounds or protects the see or seeds |
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| What are three main ways in which seeds are dispersed? |
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1. animal eats the seed and disperses it with its fecal fertilizer (poop)
2. seeds in a form of a burr that will cling to passing wildlife
3. seeds take the form of fibers that help spread seed by wind |
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| embryonic leaf inside of a leaf |
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| What types of flowering plants have embryos with only one seed leaf? |
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| What types of flowering plants have embryos have two seed leaves? |
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Catergorize each characteristic as either monocot or dicot:
a. parallel veins
b. flower parts in mulitples of four or five
c. ringed vascular tissue
d. scattered vascular tissue
e. flower parts in multiples of three
f. netlike veins |
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monocot:
a, d, e
dicot:
b, c, f |
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| What is a fibrous material made up of dead cells that are part of the vascular system of some plants called? |
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| What two susbstances does wood have high concentrations of? |
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| What are herbaceous plants? |
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| plants that don't produce wood |
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| How long do annual flowers last for? |
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one year
that was easy!
:D |
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a. produces short stem
b. leaves are close to the ground
c. underground food reserves
Which year during the biennial flower life cycle do these thinks occur? |
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produce taller stem, leaves, flowers, and seeds
Which year in the biennial flower life cycle does this happen? |
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| What type of angiosperm, in terms of lifespans, is woody plants a common example of? |
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| What makes up the corianth? |
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| What are sepals and what is their function? |
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| Sepals are modified leaves whose functions are to protect the developing flower |
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| What are petals and what is their function? |
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| Petals are modified leaves whose function are not only to protect the developing flower, but also to help attract animal pollinators. |
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| [image]What is the stamen and the carpel? |
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stamen - male reprodctuive structures
carpel - female reproductive structure |
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| What parts make up the stamen and what are their functions? |
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anther - produce pollen grains
filament - stalk that supports anther |
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| What parts make up the carpel and what are their functions? |
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stigma - often covered in a sticky substance that holds pollen when they land
style - tube that leads from stigma to ovary
ovary - where female gametophytes (egg) are reproduced |
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| What is the name of the structure that fuses several carpels? |
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| How are small inconspicious flowers most likey to spread their seeds? |
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| How are brightly colored and sweet smelling flowers most likely to spread their seeds? |
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| True or False: Animal pollinators increase genetic diversity. |
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What process makes four male spores?
What process makes two haploid cells? |
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| How many female spores survive of the original four? |
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| only one survives, the rest die :( |
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What process is used to divided the last spore?
How many times does it divide? |
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| How many nuclei exist in the mulitnucleate cell in the ovary? |
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| How many cells are created once the membranes split the cell? |
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| What becomes of the seven cells created in the ovary? |
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one is used to act as the egg :)
two are used to form the embryo sac :)
five degenerate :( |
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| Is the fertilized egg haploid/diploid/triploid? |
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| Is the endosperm haploid/diploid/triploid? |
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| What is double fertilization? |
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| process where one sperm ferilizes the egg and the other formes a triploid endosperm |
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| What are the male gametophytes of flowering plant? |
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| By the end of microspore development, how many nuclei exist in the spore? |
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three:
one is used to make the pollen tube
one is used to fertilize the egg
one is used to make the endosperm |
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Analogy:
Male is to microspore as female is to..... |
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megaspore
Yea, that's right, women are bigger than men! |
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| What becomes of the ovule after fertilization? |
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