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4 types of land plants - Answer ✔✔- Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and
Angiosperms
What types of plants fall under the umbrella of Bryophytes - Answer ✔✔- Mosses
What types of plants fall under the umbrella of Pteridophytes - Answer ✔✔- Ferns
What types of plants fall under the umbrella of Gymnosperms - Answer ✔✔- Pines and
other conifers
What types of plants fall under the umbrella of Angiosperms - Answer ✔✔- Flowering
plants
What is the epidermis covered in? - Answer ✔✔- Polyesters and waxes
What do polyesters and waxes do for a plant? - Answer ✔✔- Protects against microbes
Land plants share peroxisomes and ________________ _________________with algal
charophyceans (old plants that live in water - Answer ✔✔- Plasma membranes (with
rosette cellulose-synthesizing complexes)
What do peroxisomes do? - Answer ✔✔- Minimize loss from photorespiration
Rosette cellulose-synthesizing complexes make cell wall and ____ - Answer ✔✔-
Produce cellulose
Haploid multicellular gametophytes produce - Answer ✔✔- Gametes
Fusion of egg and sperm forms: - Answer ✔✔- Diploid zygote
Mitosis in the diploid zygote produces: - Answer ✔✔- Multicellular sporophyte
Meiosis produces haploid _________ - Answer ✔✔- Spores
A spore is a cell that can ________________ - Answer ✔✔- Grow alone
When meiosis occurs in a spore, a ________________ is created - Answer ✔✔-
Gametophyte
, ________________ are sporophyte dominant - Answer ✔✔- Gymnosperms,
angiosperms, and pteridophytes (GAP)
What are the 3 phyla of bryophytes? - Answer ✔✔- Hepatophyta, Anthocerophyta,
Bryophyta (HAB)
Bryophytes that fall under hepatophyta are called - Answer ✔✔- Liverworts
Bryophytes that fall under anthrocerophyta are called - Answer ✔✔- Hornworts
Bryophytes that fall under bryophyta are called - Answer ✔✔- Mosses
Bryophytes are a monophyletic group (T/F) - Answer ✔✔- False
Liverworts and hornworts may resemble ______________ plants - Answer ✔✔- Early
Mosses are most closely related to ______________ - Answer ✔✔- vascular plants
______________ is dominant in bryophytes - Answer ✔✔- Gametophytes
A new gametophyte is a ______________ - Answer ✔✔- Protonema
Anchored by ______________ - Answer ✔✔- Rhizoids
Hornworts and most liverworts grow ______________ while some mosses and some
liverworts are more ______________ - Answer ✔✔- Flat, leafy
What is a sphagnum - Answer ✔✔- Wetland moss
Sphagnum is abundant and widespread (T/F) - Answer ✔✔- True
Sphagnum has ______________-resistant properties that has resulted in dead bodies
being found very preserved - Answer ✔✔- Decay
Since sphagnum has large, dead cells, it has a high ______________ storage capacity
- Answer ✔✔- Water
What are the two modern phyla of seedless vascular plants? - Answer ✔✔- Lycophyta
and pterophyta
What are the members in the lycophyte group? (3) - Answer ✔✔- Club mosses, spike
mosses, and quillworths