Plant Evolution
Maintaining water, Obtaining resources, Support, Reproduction and Dispersal of offspring.
What are the challenges of terrestrial life?
He is the father of Taxonomy.
Who is Carolus Linus?
Absorption, Anchoring, Storage, Vegetative reproduction & competition
What is the purpose of roots?
Protective cells, pollen grains
What are gametes?
One has two cotyledons and the other only has one.
What is the difference between monocots and eudicots?
Charophytes- Green algae, spirogyra
What is the common ancestor of plants?
The process of naming specific species usually with the genus name first and the specific epithet second.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Fibrous, Tap, Adventitious
What are the different types of roots?
Fertilized egg develops and nourished while attached to the parent plant.
What is an embryo?
Leaves usually have parallel veins, petals are in multiples in threes, vascular bundles in stem are scattered.
What is a monocot?
Roots, Stems, Leaves, and Vascular Tissue
How do plants obtain resources?
A group of actually or potentially breeding natural groups that are reproductively isolated from other groups.
What is Biological species concept?
Evaporation, Cohesion, Adhesion, Absorption
What are the types of Transpiration?
Spore-Gametes-Zygote-Sporangium
What is the process of alternation of generation?
Leaves usually have net-like veins, petals are in multiples of four or fives, vascular bundles in stem are in a circle.
What is a eudicot?
Haploid produces egg and sperm, Diploid produces spores.
What is the alternation of generations?
Organisms that don't have a common ancestor but share similar traits.
What is convergent evolution?
They grow in bunches and are spread out and shallow.
What are fibrous roots?
Antheridia
What is a male gametophyte called?
Have fibrous root system.
What is a monocot?
Lycophytes and Pterophytes
What are seedless vascular plants?
The simplest solution that fits the evidence.
What is parsimony?
These roots branch out from a thick center root that goes deep underground.
What are tap roots?
Archegonia
What is a female gametophyte called?
Have tap root systems
What is a eudicot?