Vascular seedless plants

Question 1

What makes a plant vascular

Answer 1

Presence of xylem and phloem

Question 2

4 types of vascular seedless plants

Answer 2

equisitophyta (horsetails), lycodiophyta (lycopods), psilophyta (whisk ferns), pteridophyta (ferns)

Question 3

Equisetophyta

Answer 3

horsetails

Question 4

lycophyta

Answer 4

lycopods

Question 5

psilophyta

Answer 5

whisk ferns

Question 6

pteridophyta

Answer 6

ferns

Question 7

How do nonvascular plants reproduce

Answer 7

via spores not seeds

Question 8

What is the dominant generation in vascular seedless

Answer 8

sporophyte

Question 9

what is the second way to classify vascular seedless

Answer 9

lycophytes vs monilophytes

Question 10

what is classified under lycophytes

Answer 10

club moss, spike moss, quillworts

Question 11

What is classified under monilophytes

Answer 11

ferns, horsetails, whisk ferns

Question 12

Which is most advanced vascular seedless

Answer 12

monilophytes

Question 13

What type of sperm do vascular seedless have

Answer 13

flagellated

Question 14

Where are vascular seedless found

Answer 14

moist environments needs water for flagellated sperm

Question 15

What is well developed in vascular seedless

Answer 15

True roots and shoots

Question 16

Two names for for ferns

Answer 16

Pteridophyta, polypodiopsida

Question 17

Two names for horsetails

Answer 17

equisetophyta, arthrophyta

Question 18

Two types of true leaves

Answer 18

Microphylls vs megaphylls

Question 19

Which type of leaf is most primitive

Answer 19

microphylls

Question 20

Features of microphylls

Answer 20

Clusters of sporangia, single vein, growth directly from stem

Question 21

Where are microphyll leaves found

Answer 21

ONLY in club mosses/lycophytes and horsetails, most primitive

Question 22

Features of megaphylls

Answer 22

Develop from branches forming on stem, multi vein, attached to stem by petiole

Question 23

What is a bisexual plant

Answer 23

monoecious

Question 24

What are most vascular seedless plants

Answer 24

homosporous

Question 25

What do the homosporous spores give rise to

Answer 25

bisexual/monoecious gametophyte

Question 26

How do homosporous bryophytes differ from homosporous vascular seedless

Answer 26

Bryophytes tend to have spores give rise to male and female gametophytes on different plants whereas vascular seedless tends to give rise to monoecious plants

Question 27

What type of vascular seedless plant tends to give rise to bisexual gametophyte

Answer 27

ferns

Question 28

What is an advanced spore feature of plants

Answer 28

heterosporous

Question 29

Lycophyte sporousness

Answer 29

Homosporous

Question 30

What is necessary for lycophyte fertilization

Answer 30

water due to flagellated sperm

Question 31

What kind of leaf does lycophyte have

Answer 31

Microphyll

Question 32

What plant was the first to form true roots and leaves

Answer 32

Lycophytes

Question 33

Lycophyte stele type

Answer 33

Plectostele

Question 34

What do microphylls develop from

Answer 34

Sporangium cluster

Question 35

What is a stele

Answer 35

Vascular tissue

Question 36

Strobili

Answer 36

Sporangia where meiosis happens

Question 37

Type of lycophyte

Answer 37

lycopodium

Question 38

What do lycophytes have related to sporangia

Answer 38

Strobili

Question 39

Sporousness of equisetophyta

Answer 39

Homosporous

Question 40

What does equisetophyta need for fertilization

Answer 40

Water due to flagellated sperm

Question 41

Equisetophyta stele type

Answer 41

Siphonostele

Question 42

Where are sporangia in equisetophyta

Answer 42

Strobili

Question 43

What is a feature of equisetophyta stem

Answer 43

Jointed

Question 44

Equisetophyta example

Answer 44

Equisetum

Question 45

Vallecular canal

Answer 45

elongated tubes running along length of stem filled with air

Question 46

Function of vallecular canal

Answer 46

Air inside for support

Question 47

Which stele type has vallecular canal

Answer 47

siphonostele

Question 48

What makes the equisetum and scouring rushes so hard

Answer 48

silica storage/siliceous deposits

Question 49

Function of siliceous deposits

Answer 49

Herbivore determination

Question 50

Fern sporousness

Answer 50

homosporous

Question 51

Fern leaf time

Answer 51

megaphyll (multiveined)

Question 52

What does the fern sporophyte have

Answer 52

Compound frond leaf

Question 53

What is on the underside of the compound frond leaf

Answer 53

Sporangium clusters/sori

Question 54

What is sori

Answer 54

sporangium clusters

Question 55

Fern stele type

Answer 55

Dictyostele

Question 56

Fern example

Answer 56

Pteridium

Question 57

Spore mother cell

Answer 57

Sporocyte

Question 58

Gametophyte relationship to sporophyte in vascular seedless

Answer 58

independent