Unit 2: Plants Flashcards
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What does autotrophs mean?
Don’t need of other organism to get its carbon (from inorganic form)
Ancestor of plants
Green Algae
What does haploid plants produce and using what
Haploid plants produces gamete using mitosis
What does diploid plants produce and using what
Diploid organ produces spores using meiosis
Name 2 exemples of bryophytes
mosses, liverworts
3 features in all plants
waxy cuticle, stomata (holes/openings) with guard cells, alternation of generation
2 exemples of seedless vascular plants
ferns, equisetum
What is the order in which we organize the types of plants in function of their features
Bryophytes, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, angiosperms
What are the two features of seedless vascular plants
Phloem and xylem
What is the role of phloem
It transports products of photosynthesis
What is the role of xylem
It transports water and minerals
Name of polymer which xylem contains
Lignin, a material in cell walls that provides support and strengthens cells and plants
Name 2 exemples of gymnosperms
Conifers, cycads, ginko, gnetophytes
Name two new features in gymnosperms
Pollen and seed
What is pollen
a multicellular, haploid, male reproductive organ
What are the 3 parts forming the seeds
1) Embryo
2) endosperm
3) Seed coat
Name 3 facts about endosperm
1) 3n for angiosperm
2) food for the baby
3) formed by the fusion of sperm and 2 nuclei of central cell
What is the name of the flowering plants
angiosperms
Name two examples of angiosperms
monocots - grasses
dicots - trees, and most other plants
2 new features of angiosperms
1) develop from flowers
2) an ovary (the fruit which all contains seeds to which it provides protection)
From which part of the flower is the pollen produced and released
Anther
How the flower makes sure of the compatibility between the pollen and stigma
Structures on the surface of the reproductive organ recognize each other
What is the role of the 2 haploid sperm released
1) fuses with egg nucleus forms zygote (embryo)
2) fuses with 2 nuclei of central cell to form 3n endosperm
In the seed development, what process does endosperm undergoes?
Multiple nuclear divisions and cytokinesis