Diversity Flashcards
1
Q
Sporopollenin
A
prevents exposed zygotes from desiccation, found in charophytes and plant spore walls
2
Q
seed
A
embryo and nutrients surrounded by a protective coat
3
Q
lycophytes
A
club moss, spike moss and quilworts
4
Q
monilophytes
A
fern, horsetails, whisk fern
5
Q
reduced gametophytes
A
gametophytes of seed plants develop within the walls of spores that are retained within tissues of the parent sporophyte
6
Q
heterospory
A
having two kinds of spres, microscpres
7
Q
conifers
A
cone bearing gymnosperms
8
Q
basal angiosperms
A
less derived and include the flowering plants belonging to the oldest lineages
9
Q
monocots
A
one cotyledon
10
Q
eudicot
A
true dicots, two cotyledon
