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Plant Diversity I Flashcards

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What was the process that lead up to the greening of the earth?

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  • For the first 3 billion years, land surface was largely lifeless
  • Cyanobacteria existed on land ≈1.2 billion years ago
  • Only ≈500 million years ago (mya), small plants, fungi, and animals emerged on land
  • Now ≈290,000 living species plants
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What are the advantages of living on land rather than in the water?

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- In a world of water, moving onto land had distinct advantages …
» Bright sunlight, unfiltered by water
» More CO2 in air than in water
» Soil rich in mineral nutrients
» Less competition, no “predators”
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What were some challenges for animals adapting to living on land? What was the result of these challenges?

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» Scarcity of water
» Lack of structural support against gravity
- Plants diversity is a reflection of different adaptations to these challenges

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are all plants related to algea?

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Land plants are related to green algea

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What is the “alternation of generations?

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  • an adaption in plants
  • Plants alternate between two multicellular stages (“alternation of generations”)
    » Includes both multicellular haploid and multicellular diploid organisms
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How does the “alternation of Generations” work?

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  • Plants, likewise, have sperm and eggs in their life cycles, but these are produced by an intermediate stage between the adult and the offspring
  • The adult generation produces spores (sporophyte), while the spore generation produces sex cells (Gametophyte)
  • The spores then develop into the gametophyte generation.
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How do plants protect gametes, zygotes and spores?

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  • Adaption of land plants
    » Specialised organ for gamete production (gametangia)
    • Archegonium in female plants
    • Antheridium in male plants
    » Multicellular, dependent embryos (“embryophytes”)
    • Grow protected within the parent plant
    » Tough and protected spores
    • Walls more resistant to drying (thanks to sporopollenin)
    • Produced protected within specialized organs (sporangium)
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What is apical meristems?

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  • Plants need to grow above ground (CO2, light) AND below ground (water, mineral nutrients) → apical meristems
    » Specialised tissue at growing tips of plant where cells divide repeatedly
    » Cells produced by the apical meristem then differentiate into outer epidermis or various types of internal tissues
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Give a brief summary of a plant

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» Photosynthetic organisms that have adapted to life on the land
• Most live in terrestrial habitats, but a few have returned to aquatic habitats (eg, seagrass)
» Eukaryotes
» Cell walls
» Photosynthetic autotrophs
• Sunlight as source of energy for metabolism (chloroplast)
• Fix carbon from CO2 to create organic compounds
- Life on land owes its existence to plants
- Live in all but the harshest terrestrial habitats

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How many forms of plants are there?

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Two distinct forms:
» Vascular plants
» Non-vascular plants

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How many phyla of plants are there?

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What are the 3 phyla of Nonvascular plants (Bryophytes)?

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  • Bryophytes represented today by three phyla of small herbaceous (nonwoody) plants:
  • Mosses (phylum Bryophyta)
  • Liverworts (phylum Hepatophyta)
  • Hornworts (phylum Anthocerophyta).
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What are the two different types of Vascular plants?

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Seedless and Seeded plants

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What are the different phylums of Vascular seedless plants?

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  • Lycophytes (Phylum Lycophyta)

- Monilophytes (Phylum Monilophyta)

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What are the different types of Vascular seeded plants?

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Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

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What are the different phylums of vascular seeded Gymnosperms?

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  • Ginkgo (phylum Ginkophyta)
  • Cycads (phylum Cycadophyta)
  • Gnetophytes (phylum Gnetophyta)
  • Conifers (phylum Coniferophyta)
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What are the different phylums of vascular seedless angiosperms?

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  • Flowering plants (phylum Anthophyta)
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What is the predicted ancestor of all plants?

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An ancestral green Alga

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How long ago was the origin of land plants?

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  • about 470 mya
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how long ago was the origin of vascular plants?

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  • about 425 mya
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What type of plant originated 305 mya?

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  • extant seed plant
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provide a summary of non-vascular plants

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Primitive land plants
» Simple structure
» Need abundance of water
» Lack specialised conductive tissues

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give a summary of liverworts

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  • Non-vascular plant
  • About 9000 species
  • Usually small (<2 cm)
  • Mostly found in humid environments
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Give a summary on Hornworts

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  • non-vascular plant
  • About 100 species
  • Most small, grow in humid places; some larger, grow on trees
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Give a summary on mosses

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  • Non-vascular plant
  • About 15,000 species
  • The “carpet” is mostly gametophytes (haploid multicellular organism)
  • Sporophytes are elongated, visible to the naked eye
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What is the difference between a vascular plant life cycle and a non-vascular plant life cycle?

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Unlike vascular plants, non-vascular plant life cycles are dominated by the gametophyte (haploid)

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What is the life cycle of moss?

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Firstly the spore germinates into a gametophyte (protonema + gametophore, anchored by rhizoid) → gametes by mitosis → fuse in archegonium → zygote → embryo → sporophyte → spores by meiosis

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What is the difference between a Gametophyte and a Sporophyte?

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  • Gametophytes are larger and longer-living than sporophytes

» Sporophytes are typically present only part of the time

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What is the first step in the general life cycle of all three phylum of Bryophyte?

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  • A spore germinates into a gametophyte composed of a protonema and gamete-producing gametophore
    » Rhizoids anchor gametophytes to substrate
    » The height of gametophytes is constrained by lack of vascular tissues
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What is the 2nd step in the general life cycle of all three phylum of Bryophyte?

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  • Mature gametophytes produce flagellated sperm in antheridium and egg in archegonium
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What is the 3rd step in the general life cycle of all three phylum of Bryophyte?

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  • Sperm swim through a film of water to reach and fertilise the egg
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What is the 4th step in the general life cycle of all three phylum of Bryophyte?

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  • Bryophyte sporophytes grow out of archegonium, and are smallest and simplest sporophytes of all extant plant groups
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What is the 5th step in the general life cycle of all three phylum of Bryophyte?

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  • Each sporophyte releases enormous number of spores

» A single moss capsule can generate over 5 million spores!

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What are the parts of a Sporophyte?

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» Foot
» Seta (“stalk”)
» Sporangium (“capsule”)

35
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Draw a diagram of a Sporophyte

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36
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What is the Ecological significance of moss?

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  • Mosses colonise bare soil and rocks, and help retain nitrogen
  • Peat bogs cover 3% of land surface but contain 30% of soil carbon
    » Good storage, but higher temperature due to global warming is likely to dry peat moss globally, causing it to decompose → release its CO2
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What are the main traits of modern vascular plants?

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» Life cycles with dominant sporophyte
» Transport in specialized vascular tissues called xylem and phloem
» Well-developed roots and leaves

38
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Draw the diagram of the xylem and pholem

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What is the life cycle of a Vascular plant?

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  • Still undergo alternation of generations, but gametophyte much reduced and sporophyte greatly increased
  • Dominant sporophyte
40
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What are the two types of vascular tissues?

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Xylem and Phloem

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What is Xylem?

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» Xylem
• Includes dead tube shaped cells (“tracheids”) that carry water and minerals up from roots
• Cell wall strengthened by lignin, provides support → enables vascular plants to grow tall

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What is Phloem?

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» Phloem

• Living cells that distribute sugar, amino acids and other organic products

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What are the benefits of Xylem and Phloem?

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  • Evolutionary edge: structural support + ability to carry water and nutrients high above the ground → plants could grow higher
    » Outcompete shorter plants for sunlight
    » Disperse spores further
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What are the leaves?

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» Primary photosynthetic organ of vascular plants

» Greatly increases the surface area of vascular plants → capture more sunlight energy for photosynthesis

45
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What are the roots of a plant used for?

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» Anchor the plant, like rhizoids

» But also absorb water and nutrients from the soil

46
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What is Phylum Lycophyta

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  • (“lycophytes”)
  • seedless vascular plants
    » Includes club mosses, spike mosses, and quillworts
    • Although they’re NOT mosses!
    » Most herbaceous today, but during Carboniferous period (359-299 mya), included 40 m high trees!
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What is Phylum Monilophyta?

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  • (“monilophytes”)
  • Seedless vascular plants
    » Includes ferns, horsetails, and whisk ferns and their relatives
    » Most widespread seedless vascular plants (12,000 species)
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what is the anatomy of a Fern sporophyte?

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  • Horizontal stem (“rhizome”)
  • Large leaves (“fronds”; leaflets called “pinnae”)
    » Spore producing
    sporangia on underside
  • Roots (can be part of the stem)
49
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draw diagram of a fern sporophyte

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book

50
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What is unique about fern leaves?

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  • Unique manner of unfurling leaves (“circinate vernation”)

- Sporangia on underside (“sori”), protected by scale (“indusium”)

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In relation to plants, what happened during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods?

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  • Ancestors of modern lycophytes, horsetails, and ferns grew to great heights during the Devonian (419-359 mya) and Carboniferous (359 299 mya), forming the first forests
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What was the result of the forests that formed during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods?

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  • Increased growth and photosynthesis removed CO2 from the atmosphere and may have contributed to global cooling at the end of the Carboniferous period
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How are the forests that formed during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods affecting us today?

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  • The decaying plants of these Carboniferous forests eventually became coal … burning coal is now contributing to global warming
54
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What are three types of local fern?

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- (Platycerium bifurcatum)
Elk horn
- (Cyanthea cooperi)
Straw treefern
- (Platycerium superbum)
Staghorn
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What are the four main groups of plants?

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» Bryophytes
» Seedless vascular plants
» Gymnosperms
» Angiosperms

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