Introduction to Kingdom Plantae

Question 1

What defines a plant?

Answer 1

being a eukaryotic, multicellular, photosynthetic autotroph

Question 2

Gametophytes

Answer 2

multicellular haploid stage formed by haploid spores that have undergone cell division, and produce gametes

Question 3

Sporophytes

Answer 3

the product of haploid gametes that produces spores which form into gametophytes

Question 4

Homosporous

Answer 4

produce one type of spore that grows into a gametophyte containing both male and female parts

Question 5

Heterosporous

Answer 5

produce two types of a spores, a megaspore (female) and microspore (male)

Question 6

Nonvascular plants

Answer 6

bryophytes; mosses, liverworts, and hornwarts

Question 7

Vascular plants

Answer 7

plants besides nonvascular that contain vascular systems

Question 8

Two types of vascular plants

Answer 8

seedless and seeded

Question 9

Two types of seeded plants

Answer 9

gymnosperms and angiosperms

Question 10

Gymnosperm traits

Answer 10

“naked seeds” (contained in cones”, single fertilization, and use primarily wind pollination

Question 11

Angiosperm traits

Answer 11

covered seeds (contained in fruit), double fertilization, and use wind and animal pollination

Question 12

Two types of angiosperms

Answer 12

monocots and eudicots

Question 13

Monocots

Answer 13

one cotelydon

Question 14

Eudicots

Answer 14

two cotelydons

Question 15

Monocot leaf vein pattern

Answer 15

usually straight

Question 16

Eudicot leaf vein patter

Answer 16

usually net like

Question 17

Monocot vascular tissue arrangement

Answer 17

scattered

Question 18

Eudicot vascular tissue arrangement

Answer 18

usually arranged in a ring

Question 19

Monocot root system

Answer 19

usually fibrous

Question 20

Eudicot root system

Answer 20

taproot, have a main root