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Plants evolved how many years ago in aquatic environments? |
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Land plants evolved how many years ago? |
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How many extant species are there in the plant kingdom? |
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What percent of extant species are angiosperms? |
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Def: The opening in the leaves of plants. |
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def:The waxy coat on plants that prevent dessication. |
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Multicellular sex organs are called ________. |
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The male gametangium is called ________. |
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The female gametangium is called the ________. |
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Name the 4 Major groups of plants. |
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Non vascular seedless vascular seedless vascular naked seed vascular protected seed |
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Bryophytes (the oldest of plants) include _______. |
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hornworts, liverworts, mosses |
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In vascular plants, what does the phloem and xylem transport? |
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How does non vascular plants transport water and nutrients? |
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What is lignin and why is it important? |
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Its a part of the cell wall and provides strength. |
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Seedless plants that produce 2 different types of spores. |
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The complete body of a plant is considered a ___________. |
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A sporophyte is __________. |
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Megasporangium is considered the ________ part and houses the ________. |
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Microsporangium is considered the _________ and houses the _________. |
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Which generation produces the gametes? |
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Do spores grow into sporophytes or gametophytes? |
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What do zygotes grow into? |
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The Hepaticophyta Life Cycle |
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The Phylum Bryophyta Life Cycle |
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def: the small embryonic plant enclosed in a coat with food sometimes surrounding it |
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What are the four parts of a flower? |
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Sepal, petal, stamen, carpel |
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What is the male part of a flower? |
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What is the female part of a flower? |
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What are the parts of the male portion of a flower? |
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What are the parts of the female portion of the flower? |
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def: when two sperm from the male fuses with two eggs from the female to form a zygote and an endosperm |
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In what two phyla do you see double fertilization? |
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Gnetophyta and Magnoliophyta |
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These two phyla are dioecious |
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Cycadophyta and Ginkgophyta |
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This phylum is facing possible extinction because it is so popular as house plants. |
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This Asian native phylum wouldn't exist if it wasn't cultivated. |
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The extracts from this phylum are said to improve brain function by increasing blood flow. |
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What are the 3 reasons that scientist believe the phylum gnetophyta is a transitioning phylum in between gymnosperms and angiosperms? |
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special water-conducting cells (vessel elements) are present in this phylum and angiosperms, the cone clusters resemble flower clusters, and double fertilization occurs |
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This phylum includes conifers |
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All of our major food crops come from this flowering phylum |
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What are the 5 unique features of angiosperms? |
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Fruit, Vessel elements, Sieve Tube elements, Flowers, Double Fertilization |
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What is an imperfect flower? |
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A flower that doesn't have both a stamen and pistil. |
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