Plant Basics
This term indicates that plants use photosynthesis to make their own food.
What is an autotroph?
This is the common name used for most seedless, non-vascular plants, such as liverworts, hornworts, and mosses.
What is a bryophyte?
This compact structure evolved to protect a developing plant embryo and provide it with energy stores.
What is a seed?
All animals exhibit this trait, the capacity for movement, at some phase of their life cycle.
What is motile?
This is the name of the large opening in the top of a sponge which water exits through as they filter feed.
What is an osculum?
These "root and shoot" areas of plants contain the fastest-dividing cells, allowing the plant to grow both up towards the sun and down to establish root systems.
What are apical meristems?
Non-vascular seedless plants require environments with a lot of this since they do not have xylem to transport water, and their sperm must swim to their eggs.
What is moisture?
This substance evolved to protect the male gamete (sperm) in seed plants, and allows for efficient distribution by wind and animals.
What is pollen?
This is the type of symmetry exhibited by jellyfish, corals, and their relatives.
What is radial symmetry?
This is the name of the phylum which contains the sponges.
What is Porifera?
This type of vascular tissue transports carbon and sugars from the leaves down to the roots.
What is phloem?
This moss, sometimes known as "peat moss", is economically important to humans.
What is sphagnum?
These plants include cycads, ginkgo, gnetophytes, and the conifers.
What are gymnosperms?
These are specialized cells grouped together to perform a specific function. Nervous and connective in animals are two examples.
What are tissues?
This bell-shaped body plan, named for the mythical snake-haired monster, is dominant in jellyfish but only temporary in corals and anemones.
What is a medusa?
What is the Carboniferous?
These "big leaves" first evolved in ferns and horsetails but not in lycophytes.
These vertebrate organisms tend to pollinate flowers at night and prefer large white flowers with lots of nectar.
What are bats?
Vertebrates and Echinoderms fall into this category.
What are deuterostomes?
These stinging cells are found in jellyfish and their relatives and are named after the phylum to which they belong.
What are cnidocytes?
Many medicines and drugs are derived from these compounds plants produce to defend themselves against predators. Caffeine and Nicotine are just two examples.
What are secondary compounds?
This is the haploid phase of a plant's life cycle and is the dominant plant form in mosses and other non-vascular, seedless plants.
What is a gametophyte?
These plants have one cotyledon, parallel leaf veins, flower petals in groups of three, and are mostly grasses.
What are monocots?
This "extra cavity" in the developing embryos of certain animals is derived from mesoderm and will eventually house the circulatory system.
What is the coelom?
What time (on the clock) does your instructor playfully refer to as "comb jelly time"?
What is 10:04?