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What organism have cell walls made of cellulose?

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Green algae, dinoflagellates, brown algae and plants

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Do algae have cell walls made of cellulose?

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Yep

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In what organisms are chloroplasts with chlorophyll a and b seems?

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Green algae, euglenids, plants and a few dinoflagellates

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What did land plants evolve from?

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Charophyte algae.

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What suggests that land plants evolved form charophyte algae?

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They share 4 basic characteristics: rings of cellulose-synthesising proteins, peroxisome enzymes, similarly structured flagellated sperm and the formation of a phragmoplast.

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How are charophyte algae similar to land plants in terms of rings of cellulose-synthesising proteins?

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The cells of both land plants and charophytes have distinctive circular rings of proteins in the plasma membrane. These protein rings synthesize the cellulose microfibrils of the cell wall.

Noncharophyte algae have linear sets of proteins that synthesize cellulose.

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How are charophyte algae similar to land plants in terms of peroxisome enzymes?

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The peroxisomes of both land plants and charophytes contain enzymes that help minimize the loss of organic products resulting from photorespiration.

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How are charophyte algae similar to land plants in terms of the formation of a phragmoplast?

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In land plants and certain charophytes, a group of microtubules called the phragmoplast forms between the daughter nuclei of a dividing cell.

A cell plate then develops in the middle of the phragmoplast, across the midline of the dividing cell. The cell plate, in turn, gives rise to a new cross wall that separates the daughter cells.

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What is a phragmoplast?

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A group of microtubules that forms between the daughter nuclei of a dividing cell in plants and charophyte algae.

A cell plate develops in the middle of the phragmoplast and eventually becomes a cell wall.

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How are the zygotes of charophytes protected form desiccation?

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They are surrounded by a layer of a durable polymer called sporopollenin that prevents the exposed zygotes from drying out.

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What is sporopllenin?

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A durable polymer that surrounds the zygotes of charophytes to prevent them from desiccation.

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What are the main challenges of life on earth?

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  • Need more structural support - note how jellyfish flops when out of water
  • Desiccation
  • Distribution of gametes.
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What are land plants most closely related to?

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Charophytes

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What does ’viridiplantae’ refer to?

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A proposed kingdom that would include chlorophytes, charophytes and embryophytes (land plants) but not red algae

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What does ’streptophylta’ refer to?

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A proposed kingdom that would include charophytes and embryophytes (land plants) but not red algae or chlorophytes

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What are land plants also known as?

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Embryophytes

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What are embryophytes?

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Land plants

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What are the derived characteristics of land plants?

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Alternation of generations & Multicellular, dependant embryos,

Walled spores produced by Sporangia

Multicellular gametangia

Apical meristems

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Do algae have apical meristems?

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No, this is a derived trait of land plants

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In what organisms does alternation of generations occur?

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In some algae but not charophytes (analogy)

Obviously in land plants etc.

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What is the basic idea of alternation of generations in plants?

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The multicellular haploid gametophyte produce haploid gametes (eggs and sperm) by MITOSIS that fuse during fertilisation, forming diploid zygotes.

To zygote undergoes mitosis to multicellular diploid sporophyte. Meiosis in a mature sporophyte produces haploid spores, eproductive cells that can develop into a new haploid organism without fusing with another cell.

Mitotic division of the spore cell produces a new multicellular gametophyte, and the cycle repeats

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How do plant embryos differ from algae?

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Multicellular plant embryos develop from zygotes that are retained within the tissues of the female parent (a gametophyte).

The parental tissues provide the developing embryo with nutrients, such as sugars and amino acids.

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How does the plant embryo receive nutrients from the parent?

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It has specialised ‘placental transfer cells’ to transfer sugars etc.

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What are placental transfer cells?

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Specialised cells found in the plant embryo to help it acquire nutrients from the parent

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Why are plants called embryophytes?
They have multicellular embryos that are dependant on the parent.
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What is unique about land plant spores?
They are walled and produced by sporangia
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Where are land plant spores produced?
In multicellular organs called sporangia
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What do sporangia produce?
Land plant spores
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How are land plant spores produced?
Within a sporangium, diploid cells called sporocytes ('spore mother cells'), undergo meiosis and generate the haploid spores. The outer tissues of the sporangium protect the developing spores until they are released
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What structure within the sporangia forms the spores?
Sporocytes
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What are sporocytes also know as?
'Spore mother cells'
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What are spore mother cells?
Sporocytes
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Where are gametes produced in land plants?
Gametangia
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What are gametangia?
The multicellular organs in land plants that form gametes
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What are the types of gametangia?
Archegonia and antheridia
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What is archegonia?
The type of gametangia that produces female gametes (eggs)
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What is antheridia?
The type of gametangia that produces male gametes (sperm)
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What is the form of gametangia that produces male gametes?
Antheridia produces sperm
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What is the form of gametangia that produces female gametes?
Archegonia produces eggs
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What is a key adaptation of land plants to prevent desiccation?
A waxy cuticle
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What were the roots of early land plants like?
Short and not well developed
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How did early land plants survive with primitive roots?
They formed symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizae
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What are ’secondary compounds’?
Products that are produced by plants from secondary metabolic pathways. These include alkaloids, terpenes, tannins and flavonoids which serve many purposes such as discouraging herbivores. Note that secondary metabolic pathways are side branches of the primary metabolic pathways that produce lipids, carbohydrates and amino acids etc.
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What are the products of ancillary metabolic pathways in plants called?
'Secondary compounds’ | note that ancillary metabolic pathways is not a technical term
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What are ’secondary metabolic pathways’?
Those that branch off from the primary metabolic pathways such as those that produce carbohydrates and amino acids.
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What are ‘primary metabolic pathways’?
The basic ones that are fundamentally important for plant life. They include the synthesis of lipids, amino acids and carbohydrates.
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Why are secondary compounds important to the plant?
Various alkaloids, terpenes, and tannins have a bitter taste, strong odor, or toxic effect that helps defend a plant against herbivores and parasites. Flavonoids absorb harmful UV radiation, and some related compounds deter attack by pathogens.
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What is is the most basal group of land plants?
Bryophytes
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What are bryophytes?
Non-vascular plants
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What are nonvascular plants called?
Bryophytes
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What groups of organisms does bryophyte include?
Moss, liverworts and hornworts
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What is a ‘grade'?
A group of biological organisms that share a key trait
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What is a group of biological organisms that share a key trait called?
A 'grade'
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What are vascular plants divided into?
'Seedless vascular plants' and 'seed plants'
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What groups of plants are seedless vascular plants?
Lycophytes and Pterophytes
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What group are lycophytes in?
Seedless vascular plants.
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What organisms are lycophytes?
Club mosses, spike mosses and quilworts (not normal mosses)
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What group are club mosses in?
Lycophytes and thus seedless vascular plants (not bryophytes)
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What group are spike mosses in?
Lycophytes and thus seedless vascular plants (not bryophytes)
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What groups of organisms are pterophytes?
Ferns, horsetails and whisk ferns
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What groups of organisms are ferns?
Pterophytes and thus seedless vascular plants.
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What groups of organism are seed plants?
Gymnosperms and angiosperms
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What type of organism are gymnosperms?
Seed plants
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What is the fundamental trait of gymnosperms?
They do not have enclosed chambers in which seeds mature
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What is the fundamental difference between angiosperms and gymnosperms?
Angiosperms have enclosed chambers in which seeds mature, gymnosperms do not.
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What are the steps in the reproductive lifecycle of a moss?
Spores develop into small threadlike haploid ‘protonemata’ The protonemata produce ”buds” that divide by mitosis and grow into gametophores. The gametaphores of males produce sperm that travel in a film of moisture to reach the female egg, which remains in the archegonia of the female gametophore. Fertilisation takes place in the archegonium of the female to produce a diploid zygote. The zygote develops into the sporophyte embryo. The sporophyte grows a long stalk (seta) that emerges from the archegonium. Attached by its foot, the sporophyte remains nutritionally dependant on the gametophyte. Meiosis occurs and haploid spores develop in the capsule. When the capsule is mature, its lid pops off, and the spores are released.
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What is the capsule?
The organ at the end of the seta which consists of sporangium that produces spores.
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What is the structure of a moss?
It has a root called a rhizoid, a “stalk” called the ’seta’ which terminates in the capsule
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What is the seta of a moss?
Its “stalk"
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What is at the end of a moss’s seta?
Its capsule
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What is the “stalk” of a moss called?
Its seta
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What are the “roots” of mosses called?
Rhizoids
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How do mosses gain the water needed for life processes?
Not through their rhizoids
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What is the role of rhizoids?
Anchoring They lack specialised water conducting cells and thus do no play a primary role in water and mineral absorption
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Why are rhizoids not heavily involved in mineral and water absorption?
They lack specialised water conducting cells
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What is the structure of rhizoids?
Long, tubular single cells (in liverworts and hornworts) or filaments of cells (in mosses). Unlike roots, which are found in vascular plant sporophytes, rhizoids are not composed of tissues.
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What are the groups of bryophytes (common names)?
Liverworts, hornworts and mosses Technical name:
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What are the groups of bryophytes (scientific names)?
Hepatophyta, anthocerophyta and bryophyta
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What are liverworts technically called?
Hepatophyta
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What are hornworts technically called?
Anthocerophyta
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What are mosses technically called?
Bryophyta
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What does ’hepatophyta’ refer to?
The bryophyte phylum that consists of liverworts.
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What does ’anthocerophyta’ refer to?
The bryophyte phylum that consists of hornworts.
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What does ’bryophyta’ refer to?
The bryophyte phylum that consists of mosses.
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What does ’thalloid’ refer to?
When describing plants it means that they do not have a distinct stem and leaves.
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What is the structure of liverworts?
Many have liver shaped leaves (technically thalluses) that are the gametophytes. In some the gametophore emerges and branches out like a little plan tree. Sporophytes dangle form this structure.
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What is the structure of hornworts?
They are basically just tall tubes. This sporophyte can grow up to 5 cm tall and consists entirely are sporangium, with no seta produced.
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What structures make up the sporophyte of a moss?
The capsule and seta.
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What does ’brood bodies’ refer to?
Some mosses reproduce asexually by forming brood bodies, small plantlets that detach from the parent plant and grow into new, genetically identical copies of their parent.
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How are spores released from the capsule?
In most mosses, the seta becomes elongates to elevate the capsule. Typically, the upper part of the capsule features a ring of interlocking, tooth-like structures known as the peristome. These “teeth” open under dry conditions and close again when it is moist. This allows spores to be discharged gradually, via periodic gusts of wind that can carry them long distances.
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What are ‘peristomes’?
Teeth-like structures around the capsule that can be opened and closed to allow the controlled release of spores
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What structure in the capsule allows spore release to be regulates?
The ‘periostomes'
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Why are peristomes important?
They allow the spores to be slowly released. They also allow the plant to control when they are released such. For example it is advantageous to release them during dry days with high winds.
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In what organisms are stomata found?
Plants but also mosses and hornworts
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Do mosses have stomata?
Yes
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Do liverworts have stomata?
No
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Do hornworts have stomata?
Yes
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Why are stomata important for mosses and hornworts?
They support photosynthesis by allowing the exchange of CO2 and O2 between the outside air and the sporophyte interior They also provide evaporative cooling
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What is peat?
A large deposit of partially decayed organic material such as dead moss
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What were the first tall plants?
Ferns and other seedless vascular plants.
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What are the stages in the reproductive cycle of ferns?
Sporangia release spores. Most fern species produce a single type of spore that develops into a bisexual photosynthetic gametophyte. Each gametophyte develops spermproducing organs called antheridia and egg-producing organs called archegonia. Sperm use flagella to swim to eggs in the archegonia of a different gametophyte. An attractant secreted by archegonia helps direct the sperm. Fertilisation occurs to produce a zygote that develops into a new sporophyte. The young plant grows out from an archegonium of its parent, the gametophyte. On the underside of the sporophyte‘s reproductive leaves are spots called sori. Each sorus is a cluster of sporangia that produces spores through meiosis
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What is the sporangium of ferns found?
In dots on the underside of the leaves called ’sori’ (singular: sorus)
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What does ’sorus’ refer to?
The dots on the underside of a fern leaf that contain the sporangium (plural: sori)
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What does ’sori’ refer to?
The dots on the underside of a fern leaf that contain the sporangium (singular: sorus)
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What are the structures that produce spores in ferns called?
Sori (sing.: sorus)
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What are the dots on the underside of ferns?
Sori (produce spores)
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In ferns is the sporophyte or gametophyte dominant
Sporophyte
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Are the large fern leaves sporophytes or gametophytes?
Sporophytes
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What are the leaves of lycophytes called?
Microphylls
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What are microphylls?
The small, usually spine-shaped leaves supported by a single strand of vascular tissue that are found only in lycophytes
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What are most plant leaves?
Megaphylls (not microphyls)
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What plants have megaphylls?
All plants except bryophytes
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What are megaphylls?
Leaves with highly branched vascular systems.
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What are leaves with highly branched vascular systems called?
Megaphylls
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What are sporophylls?
Modified leaves that have sporangia
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What are modified leaves with sporangia called?
Sporophylls
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What are cones technically called?
Strobili
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What are strobili?
Groups of sporophylls (leaves with sporangia) formed into cone-like structures.
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What are sporophylls arranged into cone-like structures called?
Stroboli
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How can seedless vascular plants be divided into based on the spores they produce?
Heterosporous or homosporuos.
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What are homosporus plants?
Those that have one type of sporangium that produces one type of spore, which typically develops into a bisexual gametophyte,
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What are heterosporous plants?
Those that have two types of sporangia and produces two kinds of spores. Megasporangia on megasporophylls produce megaspores, which develop into female gametophytes Microsporangia on microsporophylls produce the smaller microspores, which develop into male gametophytes.
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What are the basic stages of homosporous spore production?
Sporangium on the sporophyll produces a single type of spore. This spore develops into a bisexual gametophyte that produces eggs and sperm
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What are the basic stages of heterosporous spore production?
Megasporangium on the megasporophyll produces megaspores that develop into female gametophytes that produce eggs. Microsporangium on the microsporophyll produces microspores that develop into male gametophytes that produce sperm
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What is megasporangium?
The tissue in heterosporous plants which produces megaspores
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What is microsporangium
The tissue in heterosporous plants which produces microspores
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What are microspores?
The spores produced by the microsporangium that develop into sperm-producing male gametophytes
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What are sporophyls?
Leaves which contain spore-producing sporangium
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What is a megasporophyll?
A leaf that contains megasporangium which produces megaspores
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What is a microsporophyll?
A leaf that contains microsporangium which produces microspores
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What are megaspores?
The spores produced by the megasporangium that develop into egg-producing female gametophytes.
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What nutritional role do many lycophytes play?
Many are epiphytes
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What do the lycophytes include?
Club mosses, spike mosses and quilworts
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In what phylum are ferns?
Pterophyta
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In what phylum are horsetails?
Pterophyta
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In what phylum are whisk ferns?
Pterophyta
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In what phylum are club mosses?
Lycophyta
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In what phylum are spike mosses?
Lycophyta
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In what phylum are quillworts?
Lycophyta
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What is a protonema?
The thin filaments formed as mosses first emerge from spores.
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What is the foot of a moss?
The part that connects it to the gametophyte (not to be confused with the rhizoid roots)
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What is the part that joins the moss gametophyte and sporophyte?
The foot
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What is the gametophyte form of a moss?
The tall green bits at the bottom
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What is the sporophyte form of a moss?
The brown bits at the top that terminate in the capsule
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Is the green bit of a moss the gametophyte or sporophyte?
Gametophyte
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What is the ploidy of moss gametophytes?
Haploid
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Are the brown bits at the top of the mosses gametophytes or sporophytes?
Sporophytes
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What is the gametophyte form of a fern?
The small little disks that have rhizoids
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Are the small disks the gametophyte or sporophyte form of ferns?
Gametophyte
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What is the sporophyte form of ferns?
The large green leaves we are familiar with
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Are the large green leaves of a fern the gametophyte or the sporophyte?
Sporophyte

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