Lower Plant Groups
What are three lower plant divisions?
Bryophytes, Lycophytes, and Pterophytes (Monilophytes)
Gymnosperms are often referred to as what?
"Naked Seed"
Seed bearing plants are referred to as?
"Covered Seeds"
What are four root functions?
Absorption, Anchoring, Storage, and Vegetative reproduction and competition
Seeds are enclosed in fruit for easy dispersal
True
Does Meiosis or Mitosis have a change in ploidy?
Meiosis
What are the two major changes that occur in the higher plants?
Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
What is not an example of a seed bearing plant?
Fern
What root is considered not to be a "true root"?
Adventitious Roots
An apple is classified as a Pome
True
What are four challenges of terrestrial life?
Maintain water, Obtaining resources, Support, and Reproduction and dispersal of offspring.
What are the two subdivided groups of angiosperm?
Monocotyledons (Monocot), and Dicotyledons (Dicots)
Gymnosperm cones contain both male and female reproductive structures
False
In what environment would you find small compound leaves?
South Texas (dry, hot, plenty of incoming energy)
A fruit with one seed with a stony endocarp, fleshy mesocarp, and a thin exocarp; such as plums, olives cherries etc.. can be classified as what
Drupe
Within Kingdom Plantae what are plants descendent from?
Charophytes
What is the food source for the developing sporophyte embryo?
Endosperm
Gymnosperms have what kind of tissue?
Vascular tissue
Why would a tree have compound leaflets instead of a simple leaf?
Conserve Water and less surface area (stomata and chlorophyll)
What is the proper name for the seeds on the outside of a strawberry?
Achene
What are the two distinct life stages of plants?
Diploid sporophyte generation and the Haploid gametophyte generation
Gymnosperms belong to which four phyla?
Coniferophyta, Gingkophyta, Cycadophyta, and Gnetophyta
What leaf-like structure nourishes the plant embryo?
Cotyledon
Angiosperm seeds are covered by a tissue known as fruit which protects the seeds and aids in what?
Seed Dispersal
What are some dry dehiscent fruits that split open at maturity?
Legume, and capsule