Plant Anatomy
Fungal Evolution
Plant Evolution
Moss Anatomy
Evolutionary Innovations
100

This structure on the angiosperm flower is responsible for attracting pollinators due to its flashy display.

What are petals?

100

This is the earliest diverging lineage of the fungi.

What are the chytrids (Phylum: Chytidomycota)?

100

This term is used to describe the presence of both a haploid and diploid stage in a plant's life cycle.

What is alteration of generation?
100

This lineage of moss is more closely related to land plants than any other lineage of moss.

What are the hornworts (Phylum: Anthocerophyta)?

100
This is an adaptation that plants evolved in order to avoid drying out on land.

What is a waxy cuticle.

200

This structure produces and holds pollen on angiosperms.

What is the anther?

200

These lineages of fungi form large fruiting bodies.

What are the basidiomycetes and ascomycetes?

200

This type of tissue allows plants to conduct water from their root systems to the rest of their cells.

What is vascular tissue?

200

This lineage is the earliest divererging lineage of land plants.

What are the liverworts (Phylum: Hepatophyta)?

200

This structure is used to attract pollinators and is responsible for the radiation of the angiosperms.

What is the flower?

300

The common name for mature, ripe ovaries in seed plants.

What is a fruit?

300
This characteristic makes chytrids unique from other fungi.

What is flagellated spores?

300

Gymnosperm means this in Greek.

What is "naked seed"?

300

This structure release spores from the sporophyte of mosses.

What is a sporangium (capsule)?

300

This structure on flowers protects the petals from predation, UV light, and other damaging environmental factors.

What are the sepals?

400

This structure is found at the tip of a carpel and is used as a sticky substrate to catch pollen grains.

What is a stigma?

400

This refers to the fusion of plasma membranes between two separate fungal individuals.

What is plasmogamy?

400
This term refers to a group of organisms that are not a monophyletic group but are group based on shared characters.

What is a grade?

400

This structure produces spores on gametophytes.

What is the antheridium?

400

This structure is only found in some ferns and all seeded plants, allowing them to access nutrients from the ground.

What are roots?

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