Lab 4
What does a haploid (2n) Produce?
Sperm & Eggs
What type of angiosperm flowering plant has striated lines in the leaves?
Monocots
What are the four functions of roots?
Absorption
Anchoring
Storage
Vegetative reproduction & competition
Is this a complete flower? (Copy url and paste into google)
Yes, as it contains all major components; sepals, petals, pistils, and stamens
What is a vegetable that you can find on a dinner plate that is also angiosperm fl?
Hint: It pairs well with melted cheese!
Broccoli
What cellular structures prevent moisture loss?
Gametes & Embryo
What is an advantage of plants that have covered seeds?
They survive in more habitats.
Corn has prop roots/fake roots coming out of it's stalk, what are these fake roots called?
Adventitious roots
Is this a female or male pine cone? (Copy url and paste into google)
Male as the components of the pine corn grow upwards and erect instead of facing downward.
What part of a tree tells you how long a tree has lived?
The rings of the trunk! You are able to see if there was a drought, fire, or the environmental condition of year by looking at the condition of the rings within the tree trunk.
What are the four challenges of terrestrial life?
Maintain water, obtaining resources, support, reproduction & dispersal of offspring.
Which is not a characteristic of a eudicot?
a. have leaf vines formed in a netlike array/pattern
b. have a single cotyledon
c. have taproots that are long
d. have vascular bundles throughout the ground tissue
b. have a single cotyledon
Eudicot have two cotyledons.
Give an example of a Pepo fruit.
Cucumber
Squash
Watermelon
Pumpkin
Looking at the image below, is the process mitosis or meiosis? (Copy url and paste into google)
Mitosis, as the image shows there is no change to the ploidy.
What Lychophyte plant has the potential to turn into coal after it's died and formed into peat?
Club Mosses
Which plant group has naked seeds?
a. Bryophytes
b. Lycophytes & Pterophytes
c. Gymnosperms
d. Angiosperms
c. Gymnosperms
In the gymnosperm male life cycle, microsporangium is in what stage, haploid or diploid?
diploid
What is it called when a fruit has many carpels on one fruit? And give an example.
Aggregate
Possible examples:
Strawberry
Pineapple
Rasberry
What plant group does this Archegoniophore belong to and does it contain female or male organs. (Copy and paste into google)
It belongs to the Bryophyte plant group and if you look at the structure that is labeled 3 on the picture those structures are ovum/eggs. Which means it has female organs.
Ginkgo biloba male and female reproductive organs are on separate plants. Is the male or female plant of the Ginkgo biloba smells like rancid butter?
What are the four main groups of plant life?
Lycophytes & Pterophytes
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Phylum Ginkgophytes belong to what plant group?
Gymnosperm
Absorb water
Seed coat bursts
Root emerges, grows absorbs water & mineral
Shoot grows and pushes upward
Cotyledon(s)
-Push out of soil
-Become green
-Begin photosynthesis
-Provide food to shoot
-True leaves grow
Identify the structure. (Copy and paste into google)
Eudicot stem.
National Geographic – found a 32,000-year-old seed which was found in Siberia 38 meters below the permafrost.
What is this process called when a plant stays dormant until it can grow in favorable conditions?
Seed Dormancy