Characteristics of Plants
Plants are made from what type of cells?
eukaryotic cells
What is the common ancestor of land plants?
Green algae
What are the tubelike cells that transports water and nutrients in some plants?
Scientist refer to all nonvascular seedless plants as what?
Bryophytes
Where can vascular tissue be found in a plant?
Stem, roots, and leaves
How does a plant cell differ from an animal cell?
Chloroplasts, cell wall, and vacuoles
Cuticle
Give two examples of nonvascular plants.
Liverworts, Mosses, Hornworts
What do bryophytes lack to transport water and nutrients?
Vascular Tissue
What are the leaves of ferns called?
Fronds
What do plant vacuoles store?
What strengthens cellulose and makes it more rigid?
Lignin
Give two examples of vascular plants.
Ferns, Club Mosses, Horsetails, Conifers, Ginkgo, Cycads, Tulips, and Grass Flowers.
What are the rootlike structures that bryophytes have?
Rhizoids
The spores from what plant make fine powder that is flammable?
Club Mosses
What are organisms that use an outside energy source, such as the Sun, to make their own food?
Producers
What is it called when water and other materials dissolved in water move from areas of a plant where they are more concentrated to areas where they are less concentrated?
Diffusion and/or osmosis
What type of plant do we use for most of our food?
Seed Plants
Mosses have leaflike structures that grow on a stem like structure called?
Stalk
Horsetail stems are hollow, and the tissues contain what?
Silica
What is the simple sugar that is made during photosynthesis?
Glucose
What are three methods of seed dispersal?
Water, Wind, and Animals
The plant kingdom is organized into groups called what?
Divisions
Years ago what was one plant that people thought could treat a disease?
Liverworts
What type of natural resource come from the remains of ancient plants?
Fossil Fuels