Plants I Review Answers

 1)  embryos are not retained within parental tissues in green algae.

 2)  Charophycea

 3)  sporopollenin

 4)  tissues performing nuclear division without intervening cytokineses

 5)  lignin.

 6)  alternation of generations 

 7)  glycolate oxidase-an enzyme of peroxisomes that is associated with photorespiration 

 8)  charophyceans

 9)  presence of embryos

 10)  samples B and E

 11)  Meiosis in sporophytes produces haploid spores.

 12)  plants evolved alternation of generations independently of green algae.

 13)  lignified vascular tissue.

 14)  apical meristem

 15) specialized placental transfer cells surrounding the zygotes.

 16)  Plantae

c 17)  protection from predators 

d 18)  protection from desiccation

b 19)  transport of water, minerals, and nutrients

a 20)  reproduction away from water

 21)  predation

 22)  rosette cellulose-synthesizing complexes.

 23)  increased number of chloroplasts in roots.

 24)  adenosine triphosphate 

 25)  the rise of herbivory

 26)  Viridiplantae

 27)  early bryophytes

 28) gametophytes.

 29)  They may temporarily contain sporophyte embryos.

 30) Both male and female bryophytes produce gametangia.

 31)  3, 4, 1, 2

 32)  stomata

 33)vascular tissue.

 34) gametes are directly produced by meiosis.

 35)  4, 5, 2, 1, 3

 36) microphylls.

 37)  broadcast of spores

38)  a lower pH. .. lower numbers of bacteria. .. reduced rates of decomposition.

 39) foot

 40) they lack lignified vascular tissue.

 41)  moss

 42)  whisk fern

 43)  1, 2, 4, 5

 44)  a dominant gametophyte.

 45) ferns.

 46)  cones (strobili) of gymnosperm sporophytes

 47) increased spore production

 48) pterophytes 

 49) pine trees

 50) belongs to a species that is homosporous.

 51) club moss sporophyte.

 52)  sporopollenins 

 53)  strobili; sporophylls 

 54) Lycophyta

 55)  lignified vascular tissues.

 56)  3, 2, 4, 1

 57) horsetails and lycophytes

 58)  Whole forests were once dominated by large, seedless vascular plants.

 59)  2, 1, 3, 4

 60)  gymnosperms.

 61)  gymnosperms 

 62) chloroplasts

 63)  diploid; meiosis; haploid

 64)  on the underside of the gametophyte

 65)  similar cell wall structure

 66) alternation of multicellular generations

 67)  seedless vascular plants and seed plants

 68)  reproductive cells in gametangia; embryos

 69) the development of seeds

 70) produces microspores and megaspores, which give rise to male and female gametophytes.

 71)  a cell that is part of the stalk (set(A) of a moss sporophyte

 72) lycophytes

 73) giant lycophytes, horsetails, and ferns.

 74)  fern