Plant Stuff Vol. 1
This is the common ancestor for all modern plants!
What is green algae?
This was the first struggle that plants faced when leaving an aquatic environment.
What is drying out/desiccation?
This is the kingdom that a Paramecium would be found in.
What is protist/protista?
Every virus has genetic material and this other thing.
What is a protein coat/capsid?
This term means 2 sets of chromosomes.
Diploid
Gymnosperms create this specific type of seed.
What is naked seed?
This plant structure produces sperm in moss and ferns.
What is antheridium?
This term describes the string like structures that form Fungi.
What are hyphae?
This term describes a bacteria with a rod shape.
What is a bacillus?
This generation of the plant life cycle includes the production of eggs and sperm and fertilization.
What is the gametophyte generation?
This is the vascular tissue that carries water.
What is xylem?
This is the sporophyte part of a fern and sori are produced on the bottoms of them.
What is a fern frond?
This is the term for a "fake foot" or how an Amoeba would move.
What is a pseudopod?
This viral infection is transmitted through sexual intercourse or contaminated blood products/needle sticks.
What is HIV?
During the sporophyte generation of the plant life cycle, the plant grows in size due to this cellular process.
What is mitosis?
This evolutionary trait in plants occurred after the formation of vascular tissue.
What is a monocot?
This is the phylum of Fungi that contains mushrooms.
What is Basidiomycota?
This bacterial infection caused by foods that have been contaminated and symptoms include stomach pain and diarrhea.
What is E. coli food poisoning?
This is the name for the heart shaped gametophyte of the fern.
What is the prothallus?
These are small openings on the underside of a leaf that allow for gas to come in and out.
What are stomata?
This term would be used to describe a pine tree having the male and female gametophyte on the same plant.
What is monoecious?
This protist is the cause for African sleeping sickness and travels in the bloodstream after being transmitted by the Tsetse fly.
What is a Trypanosome?
What is lysis of host cell?
This group of plants undergoes double fertilization where one sperm fertilizes the egg and the other produces endosperm.
What are angiosperms?