What's binomial nomenclature?
Species and Genus
Best environment for fossils?
wetlands, bogs, river mouths, floodplains
What are the 2 types of plants?
Nonvasular and Vascular
Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms that do not contain
a nucleus
Under which kingdom would mushrooms fall under?
Fungi
How are genus and species always written?
Italicized
smallest unit, lasts several million years
epochs
Which vascular tissue in plants transports water from roots to shoot?
Xylem
What are the male organ of the flower called?
Stamen
What kingdoms have cell walls? And made out of what?
Protista and Plantae - cellulose
Fungi - chitin
BACTERIA = Peptidogylcan
Name Linnaeus’s 7 levels of organization
Which experiment showed that organic molecules could be formed from inorganic molecules
Miller-Urey Experiment
Monocots vs dicots
1 cotyledon (seed leaf) in the seed embryo
Parallel leaf veins
Flower petals in multiples of 3
Net-like/fibrous root system
2 cotyledons in the seed embryo
Branching leaf veins
Flowers petals in multiples of 4 or 5
Taproot root system
Angiosperms vs Gymnosperms
Have seeds
Flowering plants
Reproductive structure = flowers
Seeds enclosed in an ovary (fruit)
Seed dispersal via animals
Have seeds
No flowers or fruit
Reproductive structure = cones
Seed dispersal via wind
What 2 kingdoms are unicellular?
Eubacteria and Archaebacteria?
diagram based on patterns of shared derived traits that show evolutionary relationships
Cladogram
atoms of an element with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons
Isotopes
What is the purpose of the stomata?
prevent water loss through transpiration
Instead of seeds what do novascular plants produce?
SPORES
Examples of nonvascular plants?
Mosses, Liverworts, Hornworts
evolutionary relationships among a group of species
Derived characters
What type of fossil is this: nests, burrow, imprints, footprints
-record activity not organism
trace fossils
What are the 3 ground tissues in a plant?
Parenchyma cells
Collenchyma
Sclerenchyma
What's the function of leaves?
Absorbs light and carries out photosynthesis
What are the 3 domains of life?
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.