Phylogeny

Question 1

Original traits in a clade are those that __________.

Answer 1

Are found in the ancestral species and are still found now

Question 2

Derived traits in a clade are those that ___________.

Answer 2

Are new and found within the daughter species

Question 3

Plants belong in the super group ________. Within that super group, plants are most closely related to the __________ (Phylum).

Answer 3

Archaeplastida

Charophytes

Question 4

Within this phylum, one group, the _________ are actually more closely related to land plants than other green algae.

Answer 4

Charophyceans

Question 5

Within the green algae, the ________ formed.

Answer 5

Chloroplast

Question 6

Some of their descendants adapted to life on land as the _________ and _________ around 475 MYA.

Answer 6

Mosses

Liverworts

Question 7

These gave rise to the ferns around _________ MYA, which evolved _________ tissues and became woody.

Answer 7

425

Vascular

Question 8

The various _________ groups arose around 305 MYA, which reproduce by making ________ in _________.

Answer 8

Gymnosperms

Seeds

Fruit

Question 9

_________ are the most recent group to form at around ________ MYA which reproduce by making ________ in ________.

Answer 9

Angiosperms

140

Pollen

Flowers

Question 10

A trend in evolution along most of the phylogeny was increasing independence from _________.

Answer 10

Water (for reproduction)

Question 11

What is some of the evidence that links the charophyceans to land plant origins?

Answer 11

Many key traits in plants appear in algae:
Such as rings of protein
Flagellated sperm
Phragmoplast- cell plate formation