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4x evidence to indicate evolution from algae

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  • genome composition
  • same type of chlorophyll
  • cell wall composition
  • sperm structure
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Bryophytes

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Non vascular plants
( Mosses, liverworts, hornworts )
Absorb water and nutrients through surface

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Male bryophyte structures

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Antheridium (contains sperm)

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Female bryophyte structures

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Archegonium (contains egg cells)

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Fertilised bryophyte gametic cell

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Zygote (2n)

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Sporophyte produces…

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Spores through meiosis

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Bryophyte dominant life stage

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Gametophyte (n)

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Moss sporophyte structure, reproductive method and parts

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Dependent on gametophyte
Sporoytes undergo meiosis to give haploid sprites
Capsule (top) and Seta (stalk)
Sterile columella (the central core)

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NZ mosses

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Around 500 species, 100 endemic
Predominantly Gondwanan origin

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Spagnum moss

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9 species
Occurs in dense colonies /peat bogs
Holds 30% of worlds stored carbon

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Moss dormancy

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Survival trait that allows them to easily shut down until they get favourable conditions

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Liverworts

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Differ to mosses in structure and spore dispersal
6500/7000 species

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Gemmae cups

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Drops of water hit raised cups on liverworts surface, splashing out pieces of tissue called gemmae, which can grow a new plant

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Liverworts reproductive structures

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Gametangia - umbrella like structures elevated about the thallus

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Hornworts

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300 species globally
Name refers to long shaped sporangia (sporophyte)

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Bryophyte adaptions

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  • cuticle and stoma
  • gametangia
  • protection of spores
  • protection of embryo (feed on the mother plant)
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Innovations that led to Pteridophyte

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Development of vascular tissue

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Approx dates of pteridophyte evolution

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430 - 387 mya

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Xylem tissue

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Moves water and minerals around the plant
One way

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Phloem tissue

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Moves sucrose and amino acids through a two way sap flow

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Ferns

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11916 species
2 types : Lycopodiopsida and polypodiopsida
Fronds can be divided or undivided

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Fern stem

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Rhizome, grows below soil surface

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Fern sporophyte reproductive structures

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Sporangium (store spores) attached to the Sorus (p. Sori) through Meiosis
Once spore lands, it germinates and develops into the gametophyte

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Fern gametophyte (n) structures

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Male - Antheridium
Female - Archegonium (both exist in the same plant)
Fertilised zygote undergoes mitosis to become young sporophyte

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How does fertilisation of fern gametophyte occur
Antheridia swim through film on gamete to fertilise archegonia
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Fern dominate life stage
Sporophyte (2n)
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Gymnosperms
Naked seed, cone bearing plants Cones are male or female Plants can be male/female/hermaphroditic Sporophyte life stage is dominant Gametophyte is microscopic and dependant
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Angiosperms
Encased seeds, bear flowers or fruit. Flowers and plants can be male/female/hermaphroditic Sporophyte life stage is dominant Gametophyte is microscopic and dependant
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Gametophyte location gymnosperms
Female gametophyte is within female seed/ovule cone Male gametophyte is within pollen cone
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Gametophyte location Angiosperms
Female gametophyte housed within female flower structures (carpal) Male gametophyte housed within male flower parts (stamen)
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Advantages of reduced gametophyte
Develops within parent plant - protection from UV, water loss, temperature Easily supported by parent sporophyte - gains nutrients etc
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Gymnosperm types
- Pinophyta / Coniferophyta (conifers) - Ginkgophyta (Gingko) - Cycadophyta (Cycads) - Gnetophyta (Gnetophytes) 83 genera
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Gymnosperm dominant life stage
Mature sporophyte
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Cones structure
Modified leaves Male - pollen cones, produce microsporangia which develops microgametophyte Female - ovulate cones, produce megasporangia which develops megagametophyte
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Stroboli
Conifer cone structure
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Male cones
Have microsporangial tissue, produce micro spores through mitosis and then undergoes meiosis to become pollen structure (three celled) Moves by wind to female cone
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Female cone structure/process
Megasporangial tissue houses megasporocyte (2n), whichundergoes meiosis to produce megagametophyte material (megaspores, 4x produced but one survives) Megastore goes through mitosis and develops into a female gametophyte and ovule, which then produces archegonia (contain one egg, n)
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Integument
Outer woody structure on female cone parts
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Gymnosperm fertilisation
Pollen is carried by wind to the female cone; pollen tube cell elongates through female gametophyte, allowing sperm to reach egg
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Gymnosperm embryonic structures
- Cotyledon (seed leaves) - shoot apical meristem tissue - root apical meristem tissue + root cap
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Diapause
Dormancy while waiting for correct conditions to grow and survive
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Native pinophyta
4/8 conifer families have nz species Eg Kauri, Kawaka, Totora, Rimu, Tānekaha, Toa Toa
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Kauri trees
Agathis Australis, soil engineers so modify environment to suit them
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Tānekaha
Phyllocladus trichomonoides Mature specimens have no true leaves
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Totora
Podicarpus Totora Cones resemble fruit - bird dispersed
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Rimū
Dacridium cupressinum Fine leaves, ineffective individually but effective as a whole
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Angiosperms
300,000 species, 400 families, 14,000 genera
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Sepel
Modified leaves that protects flower when a bud and later petals
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Petal
Modified leaves that help attract and guide pollinators
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Stamen
Consists of a stalk (filament) and an anther (contains microsporangium - sperm)
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Carpel
Consists of stigma, style and ovary. Contains megasporangia (eggs)
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Receptacle
Thickened part of stem (penduncle( which flower organs grow from
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Flower structures (outside in)
Receptacle, sepal, petal, stamen, carpel,
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Fruit parts (+flower part)
- Endocarp (core, from ovary) - Pedicel (stalk, from penduncle) - mesocarp (fresh, from receptacle) - Exocarp (skin) - seed (from ovule)
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Basal angiosperms
Relics of earlier groups of flowering plants
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Monocotyledons
One seed leaf plants
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Eudicotyledons
Two seed leafed plants
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Cotyledons
First emerging leaves of a plant (not true leaves) capable of photosynthesis and stores/supplies the nutrition a plant embryo needs to germinate and establish
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Monocot features
- one cotyledon - veins run parallel - vascular tissue scattered - root systems fibrous - one pollen grain opening - floral organs in multiples of 3
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Eudicots
- two cotyledons - veins netlike - vascular tissue arranged in a ring - taproot present - pollen grain has three openings - floral organs in multiples of four or five
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Angiosperm dominant life stage
Sporophyte
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Male gametophyte in angiosperms
Microsporangial tissue undergoes meiosis to produce microspores. These undergo mitosis to produce pollen structures
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Female gametophyte in angiosperms
Megasporangial tissue within the ovule undergoes meiosis to produce a mega spore, which undergoes mitosis to produce 8 cells (which include an egg cell and 2 polar nuclei) within the megaspore
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Double fertilisation
Pollen tube cell elongates down into the stigma to fertilise the egg - sperm fertilises egg - other spent fuses with the two polar nuclei to form the endosperm
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Endosperm
Endosperm provides nutrients for the growing plant
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True fruits
Fruits where the ovary tissue turns into the fruit
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Diversity in angiosperms
- floral morphology - pollen morphology - pollination strategies - dispersal strategies
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Floral morphology
- number of whorls - position of ovary - symmetry - inflorescences
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Self pollination types
Autogamy - same flower Geitogamy - different flower, same plant
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Cross pollination
Allogamy- different plants
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Plants avoid self pollination by
- Herkogamy - Dichogamy - placement of sexual structures - pollen release - gendered plants
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Wind pollination features
- 10% of flowering plants - flowers small grouped and unisexual - large anthers with dry pollen - large feathery or sticky stigma
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Wind pollinated plants examples
- Zea mays (corn) seperate female and male flowers - Coprosma Robusta - Piper excelum (Kawakawa) female or male inflorescences
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Animal pollinated plant features
- co-evolution - conspicuous flowers - more efficient - uv nectar guides
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Advantages for animals
- food - nectar / pollen - floral oils - nursery pollination
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Bird pollinated flower features
- prefer yellow or red flowers - odourless flowers - produce more nectar - can change colour to indicate to birds eg fuchsia
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Mammal pollinator example
Short nose bat and Dactylanthus taylorii

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