Lab 4 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Land plants are ___ which allows for the development of larger organisms and more differentiation
multicellular
A ___ is a substance that doesn’t allow water to pass on the aboveground parts of the plant
waxy cuticle
Pores that can open and shut, regulate gas exchange
stomata
Land plants have a ___ life cycle also called an alternation of generations,
haplodiplontic
Surrounds the reproductive structures (antheridia, archegonia, and sporangia)
sterile jacket layer
Able to resist desiccation as well as go dormant
spores
The conducting tissues that transport water and other materials around the plant and allow it to grow away from immediately adjacent moisture
xylem and phloem
A group of organisms related by descent
Clade
A technique that constructs an evolutionary tree using shared derived characteristics
Cladistics
A characteristic that is unique o a particular branch or group is called a
synapomorphy
The most ancestral group of terrestrial plants. Include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts all of which live in moist environments
Bryophytes
Multicellular
Reproductive structures are surrounded by a sterile jacket layer
Plant embryo is protected by archegonium
Spores
Nonvascular land plants
Bryophytes
Root-like structures composed of one to several cells. Anchor plants, do not absorb water or other materials
rhizoids
The simple plant body of nonvascular plants is called a
thallus
The dominant generation of nonvascular plants
Gametophyte
Sexual structures of nonvascular plants include the ___ which produce swimming sperm and ___ which produces eggs
antheridia
archegonia
Earliest known land plants Include liverworts Grow in moist env Have a thallose form and leafy form Surface is cutinized Thallus contains open pores that cannot close
Phylum Hepaticophyta
Asexual reproduction is either by fragmentation or the production of gemmae cups
Liverworts
Phylum Hepaticophyta
When you are looking at the liverwort thallus you are looking at the ____ because it is the dominant generation
gametophyte
Female liverworts have ___ that bear archegonia on their lower surface. The archegonia contains ___ egg(s)
archegoniophores
one
Male liverworts have antheridiophores that bear ___ in their upper surface
antheridia
Why do liverworts produce so many sperm and so few eggs?
Eggs are energetically costly to make
The true mosses
Most grow in moist habitats
Can grow in harsh environments
Thallus is erect and radially symmetrical with thin leaf-like structures
Many have conducting cells but not xylem or phloem
Phylum Bryophyta
The archegonia are born at the tips of female gametophytes and the antheridia are born at the tips of male gametophytes
Mosses Phylum Bryophyta