Gbio 107 exam 3 Southeastern
Louisiana University questions well
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Palm trees - correct answer ✔✔belong to the family Aceraceae, monocots (largest),
approximately 181 genera and 2600 species.
Ordovician Period - correct answer ✔✔plants evolved on land during the
green algae - correct answer ✔✔closest relatives to plants are
Silurian Period - correct answer ✔✔first vascular plant evolved in the
cretaceous period - correct answer ✔✔flowering plants diversified in the
roots, shoots, and leaves - correct answer ✔✔Plants have three basic organs
roots - correct answer ✔✔Absorption of water and inorganic nutrients, anchoring and support,
food storage, and vegetative reproduction
shoots - correct answer ✔✔structural support for other organs, transport fluid, storage of
nutrients, and production of new tissues
leaves - correct answer ✔✔primary site of photosynthesis
,Cuticle - correct answer ✔✔A waxy covering on the surface of stems and leaves that acts as an
adaptation to prevent desiccation in terrestrial plants.
stomata - correct answer ✔✔Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen
and carbon dioxide can move
Xylem - correct answer ✔✔Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals
from the roots of a plant to its leaves
Phloem - correct answer ✔✔transports sugars produced during photosynthesis to roots
alteration of generations - correct answer ✔✔plant life cycle in which the plant alternates
between haploid and diploid phases
sporophyte - correct answer ✔✔diploid generation that develops from a zygote and forms
when gametes come together at fertilization
gametophyte - correct answer ✔✔gamete-producing plant; multicellular haploid phase of a
plant life cycle
pollen - correct answer ✔✔seed plants are fertilized by ____ which consists of the male
gametophyte.
seed plants - correct answer ✔✔have a seed, which is a dormant plant embryo packaged with a
food supply.
Bryophytes - correct answer ✔✔nonvascular plants
liverworts, hornworts, mosses - correct answer ✔✔bryophytes include
, liverworts - correct answer ✔✔characterized by flattened, leaf like structures.
Hornworts - correct answer ✔✔smallest group, they are characterized by their horned shaped
leaves.
Mosses - correct answer ✔✔the most recognizable, they resemble tiny versions of vascular
plants with leaf like structures wearing a stem.
seedless vascular plants - correct answer ✔✔dominated the carboniferous period.
club mosses - correct answer ✔✔Lycopodium, characterized by simple leaves that resemble
scales or needles, and have a club.
whisk fern - correct answer ✔✔plants that have rhizones but not roots, with no obvious leaves
horsetails - correct answer ✔✔Equisetum, called scouring rushes because of abrasive silica
particles in their tissue.
true ferns - correct answer ✔✔largest group with around 11,000 species, have broad like leaves.
swimming sperm - correct answer ✔✔seedless vascular plants have (sex cell)____
Gymnosperms - correct answer ✔✔first seed plant that evolved 300 million years ago. Some
800 species remain today.
cycads - correct answer ✔✔characterized by broad, palm like leaves with a large cone in the
center.
Louisiana University questions well
answered passed
Palm trees - correct answer ✔✔belong to the family Aceraceae, monocots (largest),
approximately 181 genera and 2600 species.
Ordovician Period - correct answer ✔✔plants evolved on land during the
green algae - correct answer ✔✔closest relatives to plants are
Silurian Period - correct answer ✔✔first vascular plant evolved in the
cretaceous period - correct answer ✔✔flowering plants diversified in the
roots, shoots, and leaves - correct answer ✔✔Plants have three basic organs
roots - correct answer ✔✔Absorption of water and inorganic nutrients, anchoring and support,
food storage, and vegetative reproduction
shoots - correct answer ✔✔structural support for other organs, transport fluid, storage of
nutrients, and production of new tissues
leaves - correct answer ✔✔primary site of photosynthesis
,Cuticle - correct answer ✔✔A waxy covering on the surface of stems and leaves that acts as an
adaptation to prevent desiccation in terrestrial plants.
stomata - correct answer ✔✔Small openings on the underside of a leaf through which oxygen
and carbon dioxide can move
Xylem - correct answer ✔✔Nonliving vascular tissue that carries water and dissolved minerals
from the roots of a plant to its leaves
Phloem - correct answer ✔✔transports sugars produced during photosynthesis to roots
alteration of generations - correct answer ✔✔plant life cycle in which the plant alternates
between haploid and diploid phases
sporophyte - correct answer ✔✔diploid generation that develops from a zygote and forms
when gametes come together at fertilization
gametophyte - correct answer ✔✔gamete-producing plant; multicellular haploid phase of a
plant life cycle
pollen - correct answer ✔✔seed plants are fertilized by ____ which consists of the male
gametophyte.
seed plants - correct answer ✔✔have a seed, which is a dormant plant embryo packaged with a
food supply.
Bryophytes - correct answer ✔✔nonvascular plants
liverworts, hornworts, mosses - correct answer ✔✔bryophytes include
, liverworts - correct answer ✔✔characterized by flattened, leaf like structures.
Hornworts - correct answer ✔✔smallest group, they are characterized by their horned shaped
leaves.
Mosses - correct answer ✔✔the most recognizable, they resemble tiny versions of vascular
plants with leaf like structures wearing a stem.
seedless vascular plants - correct answer ✔✔dominated the carboniferous period.
club mosses - correct answer ✔✔Lycopodium, characterized by simple leaves that resemble
scales or needles, and have a club.
whisk fern - correct answer ✔✔plants that have rhizones but not roots, with no obvious leaves
horsetails - correct answer ✔✔Equisetum, called scouring rushes because of abrasive silica
particles in their tissue.
true ferns - correct answer ✔✔largest group with around 11,000 species, have broad like leaves.
swimming sperm - correct answer ✔✔seedless vascular plants have (sex cell)____
Gymnosperms - correct answer ✔✔first seed plant that evolved 300 million years ago. Some
800 species remain today.
cycads - correct answer ✔✔characterized by broad, palm like leaves with a large cone in the
center.
