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Chapter 20 Flashcards

1
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What do plants and green algae have in common?

A

Photosynthetic eukaryotic dame type of chlorophyll starch as storage product cell walls with cellulose

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2
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What is the common ancestor of all plants?

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Chariphceae

Green algae

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3
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What is stomata and cuticle?

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Stomata is an opening to allow gas exchange (co2 enter o2 leave)
Cuticle is waterproof

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4
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What does the vascular system do?

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Vascular system brings water and nutrients from the roots to the rest of the body

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5
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What does lignin do?

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Lignin gives the cell walls support and conduct fluids

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6
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What is pollen and seeds?

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Pollen contains speed

Seeds protect and provide nutrients

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7
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What is mutualism?

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Both benefit

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8
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What is Plant-Herbivore interactions?

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Defense from herbivores

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9
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Characteristics of seedless non vascular plants

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Grow close to the ground need free standing water for reproduction and to absorb water and nutrients

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10
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Seedless nonvascular phylums

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Hepatophyta- Liverwort
Anthocerophyta- Hornworts
Bryophyta- mosses

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Seedless vascular plants characteristics

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Depend on water for reproduction

Have vascular system to grow up off the ground

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12
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Seedless vascular plants phylums

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Lycophyta- Club Mosses

Pyerophyta- Ferns

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Cone bearing seed plants characteristics

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Aka Gymnosperms
Have seeds but no fruit
Don’t need free tanning water

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Cone bearing seed plants phylum

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Cycadophyta- cycads
Ginkgophyta- Ginkgoes
Coniferophyta- Conifers

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15
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Flowering seed plants characteristics

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Aka angiosperms

Have seeds enclosed in fruit

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16
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Flowering seed plants phylum

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Anthophyta- flowering plants

17
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Flowering plants adaptation: Flowers

A

Flowers allow for more effective pollination use animal pollinators

18
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Flowering plants adaptation: Fruit

A

Fruit allows for more efficient seed dispersal

19
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How are flowering plants classified?

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Using cotyledons

20
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What is cotyledons

A

Number of seed leaves

21
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What are monocots?

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Monocots are one cotyledon
Parallel leaf veins
Flowering in parts of 3’s

22
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What are Dicots?

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Dicots are two cotyledons
Netlike leaf veins
Flowers part in 4’s or 5’s

23
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Other ways to categorize plants: Stem type

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Woody (dead cells high in lignin and cellulose)

24
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Other ways to cater for is flowering plants: Lifespan

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Annual- Matures from seed, flowers and dies in same year
Biennial- takes to years to complete life span
Perennial- lives more than 2 years

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