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A term that signifies multiple genomes.
What is polyploidy?
this plant might grow on top of another plant in the tropical rainforest.
What is an epiphyte?
a form of photosynthesis that helps plants in arid lands synthesize sugars
What is CAM photosynthesis?
Most diverse lineage of land plants.
What are angiosperms?
This ecosystem type is known for having the lowest level of precipitation on Earth.
What are arid ecosystems?
Gametophytes produce haploid cells that fuse to form this.
What is a zygote?
Ecologists use this to develop an understanding of complicated features in the environment.
What is a model?
A haploid life stage.
What is a gametophyte?
Liverworts, hornworts, mosses.
What are bryophytes?
Features that define ecosystems.
What are temperature and precipitation?
A form of a flower that can form viable offspring on its own via self-fertilization.
What is hermaphroditic/cosexual?
This type of ecology examines interactions among communities.
What is ecosystem ecology?
What are glucose and oxygen?
Whorls of a flower, outside to inside.
What are Sepals, Petals, Stamens, Pistils?
(Calyx, Corolla, Androecium, Gynoecium)
The ecosystem with the lowest mean annual temperature.
What is a Tundra?
What is convergent evolution?
This land plant produces an acidic environment that prevents decomposition.
What is peat moss?
This reproductive strategy is often characterized by plants w/ unisexual flowers that are small and with smooth, round pollen.
What is wind pollination?
Land plants that spend most of their lives diploid.
What are vascular plants?
What is population ecology?
Fern sporophytes go through this type of cell division to make spores.
What is meiosis?
This group of gymnosperms was a typical food for herbivorous dinosaurs.
What are cycads? (Or cycads and lycophytes)
Plants have evolved to have a larger number of these in the lower CO2 environments at present.
What are stomata?
Plants made up of fronds, fiddleheads, and sporangia.
What are ferns?
A billion years ago, cyanobacteria marked this turning point in Earth's history.
What is the great oxidation event?