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(Adv. Bio) Ch. 18 Plants & Fungi Review

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Plant that produces sex cells   Gametophyte  
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Wet ground made of dead, non-decaying plants   Bog  
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Plant that produces spores   Sporophyte  
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Root-like filament   Rhizoid  
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Underground fern stem   Rhizome  
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Capsule made up of spore cases   Sorus  
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Plant containing vascular tissue   Vascular Plant  
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Plant group including mosses and liverworts   Nonvascular Plant  
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The first plants to grow in new environments   Pioneer Species  
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Waxy layer on stems and leaves   Cuticle  
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Roots, cell walls of cellulose, and having many cells are examples of ________________ characteristics   Plant  
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Plants probably evolved from ____________   Protists  
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____________ are plants only a few cells thick   Bryophytes  
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___________ plants are plants with vessels   Vascular  
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Nonvascular plants do not have ____________   Leaves  
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Plants without vascular tissue are ______________   Nonvascular  
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Plants with vascular tissue are ________________   Ferns  
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Ferns reproduce by forming ___________   Spores  
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____________ are seedless vascular plants   Horsetails  
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Ferns to not have ____________   Rhizoids  
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All plants have a life cycle with _______________   Alternation of Generations  
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(true/false) All plants are green because of the chlorophyll they contain   False  
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(true/false) Some plants have a variety of different pigments within their cells   True  
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(true/false) Most plants have roots or root-like structures that hold them in the ground   True  
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(true/false) Some plants are capable of growing in extreme environments such as Antarctica or severely dry deserts.   True  
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(true/false) About 285,000 species of plants have been identified   True  
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(true/false) Many plants live on land, but most live in or near the water   False  
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(true/false) Without green plants, life on earth would go on as usual   False  
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_______________ are the red, yellow, and orange pigments found in plastids and in all cyanobacteria.   Carotenoids  
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(true/false) Because most plants decay before they fossilize, the fossil record has to be pieced together with several 'gaps'   True  
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______________ are mutations in an organisms DNA that allow it to better survive in its environment   Adaptations  
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_______________ is a major problem that plants face on land   Loss of Water  
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In ____________, water molecules diffuse through a membrane from higher concentration to lower concentration   Osmosis  
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Organic compound made up of long chains of sugar molecules   Cellulose  
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Some woody plants are made up of up to _______ % cellulose   50  
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Plants evolved from organisms that reproduced in ____________   Water  
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___________ plants still need water in order to reproduce   Simple  
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One advantage of living on land is there's more direct sunlight available for __________.   Photosynthesis  
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_________________ is a gas that plants use to produce food   Carbon Dioxide  
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Plants are classified into major groups called ______________   Divisions  
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Simplest plants - mosses and liverworts - are placed in the division ________________   Bryophyta  
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Plants in the more complex divisions of the Plant Kingdom have systems containing __________________   Vascular Tissue  
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Club mosses are placed in the division _______________   Lycophyta  
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Ferns are placed in the division ______________   Pterophyta  
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All plants are many-celled and most contain a green pigment called _____________   Chlorophyll  
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Plants range in size from tiny ___________ to the giant Sequoias   Water Ferns  
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The ending -wort, in liverworts for instance, means ____________   Herb  
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There are approximately _______________ species of nonvascular plants   20,000  
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_____________ are the most diverse group of simple plants   Ferns  
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The _____________ stage is the diploid stage in the moss life cycle   Sporophyte  
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The ____________ stage is the haploid stage in the moss life cycle   Gametophyte  
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When the male and female sex cells unite, a ____________ forms   Zygote  
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Mosses also reproduce _____________, when new moss plants develop when a small piece of the parent plant breaks off.   Asexually  
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In vascular plants,like ferns, the sporophyte and gametophyte (do/do not) depend on one another   Do Not  
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In nonvascular plants, like mosses, the sporophyte and gametophyte (do/do not) depend on one another for water and nutrients   Do  
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______________ are often the first species to grow in a new environment or a recently disturbed environment   Mosses  
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The grow of mosses and liverworts begins the _________________ process, slowly turning rocks into new soil.   Weathering  
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Seedless vascular plants differ from other vascular plants because the produce ____________ rather than seeds   Spores  
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__________________ can grow bigger and thicker because each cell gets water and nutrients through vascular tissue.   Vascular Plants  
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There are about 12000 species of ___________ are known   Ferns  
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In the Paleozoic era, some species of horsetails grew ______ meters tall!   15  
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One species of spike moss, the_____________________, adapted to desert living conditions   Resurrection Plant  
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The process by which petroleum is made takes ___________ of years   Millions  
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Bogs are made up mostly of ___________ and ferns   Bryophytes  
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_______________ is the common name for the Horsetail   Equisetum  
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The leaf of a fern is called a ________   Frond  
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The gametophyte, ___________, of a fern produces sex cells that unite to from the zygote   Prothallus  
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Ferns have ___________, stems, and roots   Leaves  
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Composes the cell walls of plants   Cellulose  
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All plants are ...   Eukaryotes  
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Scientists think that plants evolved directly from the __________ kingdom   Protist  
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Mosses and liverworts are...   Bryophytes  
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Nonvascular plants lack stems, roots, and _____________   Leaves  
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Moss plants are held in place by threads made up of only a few long cells called   Rhizoids  
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The first plants to grow in new environments are most often...   Mosses  
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Ferns are the most abundant of the ___________ plants   Seedless Vascular  
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____________ have unique jointed stem structures   Horsetails  
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Peat is actually the earliest stage of _______   Coal  
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The ______________ is an adaptation to prevent the plant cells from drying out.   Cell Wall  
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Spores are produced by the process of ___________   Meiosis  
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The threadlike structure produced when a haploid spore lands on wet soil or rocks and germinates is called a ________________   Protonema  
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The ________________ produces both male and female sex cells   Gametophyte  
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When gametes unite they form a(n) ____________   Zygote  
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