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72 Cards in this Set
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What are some of the differences between living in the water and living on land?
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Gas exchange, temperature, food sources, pressure, buoyancy
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Early plant ancestors would have covered what type of environments?
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moist oceanside
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The earliest organisms to try land life lived where?
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at the edge of the water
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_____ in oceans were advantageous for early plant ancestors because they wet the organisms part of the time.
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Tides
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What five things does it take to live on land?
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1. Maintain moisture
2. Obtain resources from air 3. Obtain resources from the soil. 4. Support 5. Reproduction and dispersal |
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some of the earliest organisms
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mosses, liverworts, bryophytes
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Mosses, liverworts, and bryophytes grow _______ to maintain moisture
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close to the ground
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Plants obtain resources from the air via what?
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photosynthesis and stomates
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What is the main resource plants get from the air?
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Carbon dioxide to complete photosynthese
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How do plants obtain resources from the soil?
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Root systems - Mychorizal fungi helps root systems, organisms in water have roots
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Plants have ______ to obtain nitrogen from the soil. The two types are ______ and ______.
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vascular tissue, xylem, phloem
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How are plants supported on land?
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There are lignified cells with complex carbohydrates that form wood and lignon complex carbohydrates that help provide the support they need above water
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What are plants methods of reproduction and dispersal?
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Seed production and fruit production
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What are the three primary leaps forward in plant diversity?
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1. nonvascular plants
2. seedless vascular plants 3. seed plants (vascular) |
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The novascular plants, also known as _______, are ______, ________, and ________.
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bryophytes, liverworts, hornworts, mosses
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What are the two categories of seedless vascular plants and what are some examples of each?
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Lycophytes - club mosses, spike mosses, quillworts
Ptertypes (ferns, horsetails, whisk ferns) |
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What are the two types of seed plants?
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Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
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first land plants
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bryophytes
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Characteristics of Bryophytes: No true _____ or ______. ________ cell walls (therefore they won't grow very tall). ____ is required for fertilization.
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roots, leaves, no lignified, water
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Bryphytes only reproduce if it's ____ and there's a film of _____ over the plant. They produce _____ and ______ cells that swim in a film of water on the plant for fertilization
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wet, water, eggs, flagellated sperm
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Vascular plants have cells to transport nutrients, known as ____ and ______.
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xylem, phloem
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Ferns are a _____ plant that has ____ that will carry water and nutrient throughout the plant.
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vascular, tissue
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at one point these types of plants were the dominant forms of plant life on earth
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fern allies
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Early vascular marine types of organisms, examples
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algae, mosses, ferns, trees
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The first marine types of organisms were ______, still need water for ______. The reason that they grow so tall is that they have _____ and _____.
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seedless, fertilization, roots, stems
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Early marine organisms have _____ and ______ (reproduction)
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flagellated sperm, spores
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Gymnosperms are _____ plants, and have naked _____. Examples?
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seed, seed, pinecones, conifers, cycads
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Most of the plants living today are ______, which means their seeds develop in a ______ (angion), inside a fruit, pod, or shell.
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angiosperms, chamber
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It take ____ (number of trees) to produce your oxygen everyday.
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1 adult tree
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There is a limit to the amount of trees we can get rid of and still have a ________.
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breathable atmosphere
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_____ of tropical forests were lost between 1970-2000, many animals were also lost.
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20%
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Fungi ____ food after digesting it _________.
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absorb, outside their bodies
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Fungi are absorptive ________ eukaryotes that digest their food externally and absorb the nutrients.
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hetertorophic
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Fungi have ____ that break down organic matter into component parts.
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enzymes
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Most fungi consist of a mass of threadlike _____ making up a ______.
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hyphae, mucelium
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Fungal hyphae are surrounded by a cell wall with ______.
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chitin
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Fungi produce spores in both ______ and _______ life cycles.
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asexual, sexual
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Many fungal specie can reproduce both ______ and ______.
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sexually, asexually
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Fungi produce huge numbers of asexual ____, each of which can germinate to form a new fungi
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spores
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In many fungi, sexual fusion of haploid hyphae leads to a _______ stage, in which cells contain two genetically distinct haploid nuclei.
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heterokaryotic
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Hours or centuries may pass before parental nuclei fuse to form a short-lived ____ phase.
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diploid
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Zygotes undergo meiosis inside specialized reproductive structures and disperse ______.
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haploid spores
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Fungi with no sexual stage
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imperfect fungi
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What did fungi likely evolve from?
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an aquatic, flagellated ancestor shared with animals
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the earliest lineage of fungi
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chytrids
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In ________, zygote fungi form resistant zygosporangia in which haploid spores form by meiosis.
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zygomycetes
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_______ includes black bread mold.
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Zygomycetes
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Fungi that form mycorrhizae in which invasive hyphae branch into treelike arbuscules within plant roots
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glomeromycetes
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Many plants have symbiotic partnerships with ______.
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glomerocytes
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the type of fungi whee sac fungi form saclike asci, which produce sexual spores
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ascomycetes
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yeasts, morels, cup fungi
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ascomycetes
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mushrooms, puffballs, and shelf fungi
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club fungi
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club-shaped spore producing structures
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basidia
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fungi that are important forest decomposers
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basidiomycetes
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club fungi makes up the which fungal group?
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basidiomycetes
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Hyphae reproduce ______ by producing ______ in sporangia at the tips of the upright hyphae.
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asexually, spores
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When food is depleted, the fungus reproduces ______.
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sexually
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When fungi reproduces sexually, mycelia of different mating types join and produce a ______, which develops into a thick-walled structure that can tolerate dry, harsh conditions.
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zygosporangium
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Under favorable conditions, fungi reproduce by the diploid nucleus undergoing meiosis to form ______.
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haploid spores
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____% of plant diseases are caused by fungi
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80%
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A variety of fungi infect grain crops.. examples:
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smuts, rusts
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Fungi that are parasitic on animals cause ______. Human infections include ______, which is caused by ringworm. Systemic mycoses are rare but serious fungal infections that spread through the body from ________.
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mycoses, athlete's foot, inhaled spores
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Lichens consist of _____ or _____ within a fungal network
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algae, cyanobacteria
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Many lichen associations are _______.
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mutualistic
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In lichens, the fungus receives food from its _________.
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photosynthetic partner
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Lichens consist of fungi living in close association with _______ organisms.
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photosynthetic
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Lichens are important pioneers on new land, where they help to form ______.
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soil
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Lichens obtain minerals from the ____.
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air
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Some fungi have mutually beneficial relationships with _____.
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ants
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Some fungi can break down _______, including ______ like DDT and cancer-causing chemicals.
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toxic pollutants, pesticides
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We eat many fungi, such as _____ to cheeses modified by fungi.
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mushrooms
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Fungi provide _____ that are used to treat bacterial disease.
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antibiotics
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