Bio1151b
Chapter
29
Plant Diversity I: How Plants Colonized Land
Land plants (kingdom
) evolved from
algae,
and are most closely
related
to the
. Five innovations among the
Plantae
are:
Apical
in root and shoot systems.
Alternation
of
.
Walled
spores produced in
.
Multicellular
which produce gametes.
Multicellular,
dependent
.
Bryophytes
lack
tissue with three
phyla
of small herbaceous plants:
(Hepatophyta),
(Anthocerophyta), and
(
Bryophyta
).
The
large
produce gametes which fuse to yield small
.
Sporophytes
produce haploid
which grow to become the
.
Male gametes are
flagellated
that
short distances to fertilize the
egg.
Vascular
plants evolved in the
period,
and have
life
cycles with dominant
; their
spores develop into
bisexual
.
Vascular plants possess specialized
vascular
tissues called
and
.
Xylem
contains dead cells called
and
elements which carry water and minerals up from the
system through the
system.
Phloem
includes living cells arranged into tubes that distribute
and other organic products from the
.
Seedless vascular plants form two phyla.
Lycophyta
includes
mosses,
mosses, and
.
Pterophyta
includes
,
, and
ferns and their relatives.
Seedless vascular
plants
grew to great heights during the
period and may have led to global
cooling.
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Bio1151b
Chapter
30
Plant Diversity II: The Evolution of Seed Plants
Seed
plants
are
: different kinds of spores produce reduced male and female
,
which
in turn produce
.
Megaspores develop into
which contain female
gametophytes,
microspores develop into
grains which contain male gametophytes.
When a pollen grain is transferred to the part of a plant containing the
, it can
germinate
and discharge two
into the female gametophyte within the ovule.
This process of
is called
and
results
in a
containing a sporophyte
.
The pollen eliminates the need to swim through water and allows for wide
by
or
animal
.
Gymnosperms
(conifers) bear “naked”
, typically on
, and include four phyla:
Cycadophyta,
Gingkophyta,
Gnetophyta,
and
Coniferophyta.
The gymnosperm
life
cycle
shows a dominant
generation,
grains transferring
to ovules, and the development of
from fertilized
.
Angiosperms
are seed plants that possess reproductive structures called
and
.
A
flower
is a specialized
with modified leaves.
A
Fruit
typically consists of a mature
with seeds. Fruits are adapted for seed
by
,
, or animals to new locations.
The angiosperm
life
cycle
includes a
fertilization which produces a food-storing
in addition to the
.
Most
angiosperms
are
and
, classified by the number of seed leaves.
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