Flashcards in Seedless Plants Deck (38)
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What are nonvascular land plants that have no xylem or phloem to transport water and sugar?
Mosses
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Are mosses haploid or diploid?
haploid
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Where are swimming sperm produced?
antheridia
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Where are eggs produced?
archegonia
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The fertilized spores in mosses before meiosis are?
diploid, then split back to haploid
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What are the 1st land plants on fossil record, that have no phloem or xylem, and have a cuticle to prevent dehydration?
Liverworts
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What anchors plant?
Rhizoids
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Where are the sperm and egg produced in Liverworts?
the same areas
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When liverworts asexually reproduce, where does it occur?
Gemmae Cups
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Hornwarts are _________ and __________.
nonvascular and haploid
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Since Cooksonia are sporophyte dominate, they are?
diploid
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Are cooksonia extinct?
yes
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Phylum Lycophyta contains?
Club moss
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What is lycopodium?
Ground pine
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Where does lycopodium (Ground pine) grow?
On top of other plants
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How are fireworks produced?
using the spores from the ground pine
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What is called the 'ressurection' plant?
Selaginella
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What is Phylum Pteridophyta made up of?
Wisk ferns, horsetails and true ferns
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Are wisk ferns haploid or diploid?
Diploid
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Horsetails are sometimes called _____________.
scouring rushes
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Horsetails contain what in the stem for defense and support?
silica
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What is the only living genus of horsetails?
Equisetum
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What the most successful spore bearing plants?
Ferns
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When spores are dropped from true ferns what do they grow into?
Heart shaped gametophyle called a protrialli
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What initially grows from a fungal spore?
A haploid hypha
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What has a gametophyte dominate lifestyle?
liverworts
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What is the name of a young fern frond?
a fiddlehead
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What plant are given credit for being the first plant to live on land?
liverworts
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Which of the following is given credit for having the first leaves and roots
Club Moss
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