Plant Biology
This tissue type developed in plants as a response to selective pressures such as the need to transport water and nutrients in terrestrial environments.
What is vascular tissue?
These plants are important to humans for a variety of reasons, such as providing timber, paper, and other resources.
What are gymnosperms?
This animal characteristic describes an organism that remains attached to a surface and doesn’t move.
What is being sessile?
These symbiotic algae live within coral tissues, contributing to the coral's health and providing it with nutrients through photosynthesis.
What are zooxanthellae?
Coral reefs are made by organisms belonging to this phylum, which includes species like corals and sea anemones.
What is the phylum Cnidaria?
These plants, which lack seeds but have vascular tissue, play important ecological roles in environments like forests and wetlands. They also have economic uses, such as being used in horticulture or as ornamental plants.
What are seedless vascular plants?
Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, use this method to transfer pollen between flowers to facilitate reproduction.
What is pollination?
This type of cell, found in sponges, helps to filter food particles from water.
What is a choanocyte?
The loss of zooxanthellae due to temperature stress, often caused by rising ocean temperatures, leads to this phenomenon.
What is coral bleaching?
This phylum includes organisms with bilateral symmetry and a complete digestive system. Examples include flatworms and roundworms.
What is the phylum Platyhelminthes?
This process in gymnosperms involves alternating between a diploid sporophyte generation and a haploid gametophyte generation. It's also seen in seedless vascular plants, but differs in that seedless vascular plants lack seeds.
What is alternation of generations?
In this type of flower, both male and female reproductive organs are present in the same flower.
What is a perfect flower?
This body form of cnidarians has a bell-like shape and is typically free-swimming.
What is the medusa form?
These bristle-like structures help certain invertebrates, such as earthworms, with locomotion.
What are setae?
The first animals to develop flight belong to this phylum, which includes birds and some extinct species like dinosaurs.
What is the phylum Chordata?
This is the name for the appearance of pine pollen, which looks like this due to its structure meant to aid in dispersal by wind.
What is the "Mickey Mouse Ears" appearance?
These flowers are typically brightly colored, have a strong fragrance, and are designed to attract these pollinators.
What are bee-pollinated flowers?
This is the stationary body form of cnidarians, often found attached to the substrate.
What is the polyp form?
This hard external structure is found in arthropods and provides protection and support.
What is an exoskeleton?
This system, found in echinoderms like sea stars, is responsible for movement and feeding.
What is the water vascular system?
Gymnosperms are typically pollinated by this method, although not all gymnosperms are pollinated in the same way.
What is wind pollination?
The "Mickey Mouse Ears" structure of pine pollen aids in its dispersal, but these pollinators are attracted to angiosperms with certain traits, like red coloration and tubular flowers.
What are bird-pollinated flowers?
These specialized cells in cnidarians contain stinging structures used for defense and capturing prey.
What are cnidocytes?
These structures, found in echinoderms like starfish, help with movement and feeding by utilizing hydraulic pressure.
What are tube feet?
The seven classes of chordates include birds, mammals, and reptiles. Be able to match the class with its representative group.
What is the classification of Chordata?