FERNS
SEED PLANTS
CLUB MOSSES & HORSETAILS
ANATOMY OF PLANTS
100
What phylum of plants are considered true land plants?
Tracheophyta
100
What type of evolution did seed plants undergo?
Adaptive radiation
100
What type of jungles do club mosses and horsetails make up?
Tropical jungles
100
This organ is used to absorb water and nutrients and anchor the plant in the ground?
Roots
200
True roots have vascular tissues gathered in a ceteral area called?
Vascular cylinder
200
This subphylum exhibits numerous adaptations that allow them to survive the difficulties of life on land, which is?
Spermopsida
200
What is the scientific name for mosses?
Lycophytes
200
What organ is used to capture the suns energy?
Leaves
300
Some botanist believe that ferns are a type of extinct plant, which one?
Psilophytes
300
Spermospida's key adaptation is a form a sexual reproduction that doesnt require what?
Standing water
300
What leads to the extinction of club mosses and horsetails?
Climate change
300
This waxy covering helps prevent water loss by evaporation?
Cuticle
400
True leaves are photosynthetic organs that contain one or more bundles of tussue gathered in what?
Veins
400
What structures were evolved that enabled seed plants to survive anywhere?
Roots, stems and leaves
400
This common club moss is also known as club pine?
Lycopodium
400
This tissue is specialized to carry the products of photosynthesis and certain substances from one part of a plant to another?
phloem
500
The switching back and forth between the production of diploid and haploid cells is known as?
Alternation of generation
500
What tissue was developed that was able to conduct water and nutriennts between roots and leaves?
Vascular tissue
500
This genus contains crystals of silica?
Equisetum
500
this tissue is primarily responsible for carrying water and dissolved nutrients from the roots to the stems and leaves?
Xylem
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