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