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Life Science Ch. 8A

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study of plants botany
What are characteristics of plants? Eukaryotic, multicellular, have plastids and tissues, cell walls of cellulose, multi-stage life cycle
the waxy coating of leaves cuticle
Two main characteristics for plant classification whether they have vascular tissues and whether they produce seeds
tissue that conducts water and materials in some plants vascular tissues
Two types of vascular tissue xylem and phloem
3 Major categories of plants Nonvascular, Seedless vascular, Seed-bearing vascular
Another name for nonvascular plants bryophytes
Necessary structures to be classified as true roots, stems or leaves vascular tissues
How do nonvascular plants reproduce? with spores
lower part of a bryophyte gametophyte
upper part of a bryophyte sporophyte
Two parts of a nonvascular sporophyte stalk and capsule
Three examples of bryophytes liverworts, hornworts, moss
type of environment for bryophytes moist and shady
One obvious difference between vascular and nonvascular plants vascular plants can grow much larger
3 examples of seedless vascular plants ferns, club mosses, horsetails
fern leaf frond
fern leaf when it emerges from the ground fiddlehead
Most familiar type of plant seed plants
What produces egg cells and pollen in seed plants? spores
difference between seeds and spores seeds are multicellular including an embryo.
What grows into the embryo? zygote
the young plant that grows into the sporophyte embryo
2 main groups of seed plants angiosperms and gymnosperms
2 unique characteristics of angiosperms Produce flowers and fruit
Difference between angiosperms and gymnosperms angiosperm seeds are fully covered and they produce flowers
gymno- means not fully covered
Many gymnosperms produce seeds in ______. cones
Three groups or examples of gymnosperms cycads, gingkos, conifers
How is a seed different from a spore? spores are unicellular, seeds are multicellular
Formed when the egg and pollen combine zygote
rootlike structures of bryophytes rhizoids
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