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Biology: Introduction to Plants

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Plants with seeds can produce those seeds by cones or...   Flowers  
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Plants can be divided first on the presence of ___.   Tissues  
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A(n) _____ for plants includes a haploid gametophyte generation and a diploid sporophyte generation.   Alternation of generations  
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The ___ generation produces eggs and sperm.   Gametophyte  
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The ___ generation arises from the union of sperm and egg and produces spores that can become the next generation.   Sporophyte  
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Moss is in the division....   Bryophyta  
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Liverwort is in the division...   Hepaticophyta  
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Mosses and liverworts have root-like ___ that anchor them to the soil.   Rhizoids  
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Liverworts are the most ___ of land plants.   Primitive  
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Liverworts are classified as either ___ or leafy.   Thallose  
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Includes club or spike mosses...   Lycophyta  
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Includes ferns and horsetails....   Pterophyta  
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Fern spores form in a __...   Sporangium  
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Organism (protist) believed to be an ancestor of lands plants...   Algae  
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Structure which protects the developing embryo of a beech tree...   Seed  
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Division which includes daisies...   Anthophyta  
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Division which includes the white pine tree...   Coniferophyta  
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Land plants appeared approximately ___ mya.   Four hundred  
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A Major obstacle for plants to overcome in order to live on land was obtaining enough ___...   Water  
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Structure which contains clusters of sporangia...   Sorus  
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Unlike true mosses, the ___ generation of lycophytes is the dominant generation.   Sporophyte  
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Limits competition with parent plants and other offspring...   Seed dispersal  
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Spores are (haploid/diploid)...   Haploid  
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Half the number of chromosomes within a developed adult...   Haploid  
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Plant that lives anchored to another plant or object...   Epiphyte  
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Spore bearing structures that form a compact cluster...   Strobilus  
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Enable gas exchange in plants...   Stomata  
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Grows/develops and then dies within two growing seasons...   Biennial plants  
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Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms...   Limiting factor  
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Waxy layer on the surface of plants that is an adaptation to land...   Cuticle  
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Individual who studies plant life...   Botanist  
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Relationship in which two organisms live together in a close association...   Symbiosis  
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Plants that complete their life cycle in one growing season...   Annual plants  
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Gym. with cones containing reprod. structures, male and female, but on different plants; large divided leaves, tropics and subtropics...   Cyadophyta  
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Gym, Tropical trees and climbing vines, source of ephedrine   Gnetophyta  
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Gym., one living species left, fan shaped leaves, thrive in smog filled and polluted areas...   Ginkgophyta  
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Gym, shrubs to huge trees, used for lumber, adapted to many environments, deciduous and evergreens...   Coniferophyta  
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Flower plants   Anthophyta  
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Provides nutrients for the see when it sprouts...   Cotyledon  
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Transport tissue...   Vascular tissue  
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Adaptations to ___ on Earth contributed to the evolution of plants...   Environmental changes  
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The ____ protects the embryo- the new sporophyte generation...   Seed coat  
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Most immediately noticeable...   Dominant  
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Lack specialized transport tissues...   Nonvascular plants  
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The __ plant divisions are placed into two groups - vascular and nonvascular...   Twelve  
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Nonvascular plants are small and usually grow in ___ environments...   Damp  
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Having a juicy or pulpy texture...   Fleshy  
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Reproductive haploid cell with a hard outer coat...   Spore  
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Inherited characteristic that results from response to an environmental factor...   Adaptation  
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An individual who is involved in one or more aspects of converting wood to wood products...   Wood scientist  
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Plants that can live for several years and usually produce flowers and seeds yearly...   Perennial plants  
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