Characteristics of Seed Plants
Where can the gametophyte be found
What is on the sporophyte
The sperm of seed plants are flagellate (true or false).
What is false?
Phylum containing the sago palm
What is Phylum Cycadophyta?
Successful or unsuccessful group of land plants
What is successful?
Male and Female reproductive structures are separate (true or false)
What is true?
The embryo is packed with a food supply inside of a protective coating
What is the endosperm?
Where sperm and egg can be found in gymnosperms
This organism has deciduous fanlike leaves
Surrounds the seed
What are petals?
The four benefits of seeds
What is:
1. Dispersal
2. Dormancy
3. Nourishment
4. Endosperm
Transports sperm to egg producing parts, water is not required for fertilization, and can travel great distances via wind etc.
What is pollen?
The largest gymnosperm phylum
What is Phylum Coniferophyta?
Function of fruit
What is seed diserpsal?
Male part of the flower + its parts and functions
What is the stamen?
Anther: produce pollen
Filament: where animals collect pollen
Surface area increased by _____ to aid in H20 uptake
What are root hairs?
What are flowers?
This phylum grows male and female cones on the same plant
What is phylum Ginkgophyta?
Parallel leaf veins, scattered vascular bundles in the stem, flower parts in multiples of 3, fibrous roots with vascular tissue in a ring patterm
What is a monocot?
Female part of the flower + its parts and functions
What are Carpels?
Ovary: produce eggs
Stigma: sticky and grabs onto pollen
Style: links stigma to ovary and allows sperm to travel to egg
What is farther away from water?
Break down the word gymnosperm:
Gymnos=?
Sperma=?
Naked
Seed
Draw the life cycle of a Pine tree on the board
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Branches leaf veins, vascular bundles arranged in a ring in the stem, flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5, taproot with vascular tissue in a X pattern
What is a eudicot?
Formed following fertilization of angiosperm egg by angiosperm egg