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Basic unit of growth in plants
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internode
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ATP is what?
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nucleotide
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Reduction is defined as the ____ of electrons
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gain
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The principal poly sacc. in plant cell is
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cellulose
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Correct layer order in plant cells?
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Middle, primary, secondary,
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__________ are major classes of ___ plant growth.
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Alkaloids and steroids; 2ndary
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Narrow channels through membranes are _____
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plasmodesmata
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________ runs through previous channels
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Desmotubules
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Grana are stacks of _____ in choloroplasts
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thylakoid membranes
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Plastid w/ colored pigments is....
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Chloroplast
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Feeback inhibition is.
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First enzyme inhibits last
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Hydrolysis of starch to gluclose ____ part of citric acid cycle
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NOT
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_______ doesn't take place in mitochondria
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Glycolysis
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All ATP = 2 except for
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6 molecules via NADH
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Oxidation of NADH synthase occurs in
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lactacte and alcohol fermination
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Extra reactions take place in
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cytosol
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electrons extracted from glucose accepted by ____ to make _____
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oxygen; water
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Chloroplasts absorp what wavelengths of light?
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blue and red
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____ is in all photosynthetic eukaryotes
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Cha
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Accessory pigments
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absorbs colors of light
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Accessory pigments absorb....
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All colors of light
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Light from one pigment to other is
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resonance energy transfer
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_________ are featured in noncyclic electron flow
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ATP, NADPH, and O2
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____ only in elec. flow
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ATP
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CO2 fixation is by what enzyme?
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RuBP
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Calvin cycle synthesizes what specifically?
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PGAL
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what are the 3 main stages of the Calvin Cycle
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Carbon uptake, reduction, regeneration
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NAD+ is regenerated to keep...
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aerobic respiration gain
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Test 2
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Test 2
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Photorespiration occurs when Rubisco binds to ___ to RuBP instead of ___
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O2; CO2
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Photorespiration is wasteful!
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Yes, yes it is.
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In C4, what happens to CO2 when releaded in bundle sheath?
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Calvin Cycle
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In CAM, where does malate go?
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Vacuole for storage
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Compared to C3, C4 is
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well adapted to drier areas
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all hormones do what?
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communicate info
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Apical dominance inhibits growth of
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lateral buds
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Plant hormone that is a gas?
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Ethylene
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Cytokines synthesize where?
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in roots
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Auxin transport is polar because of
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all choices on the test.
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If Auxin is < Cytokinin, what grows?
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Shoots
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Absiscic acid is related with what?
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stomata
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"Ca2+ ions flow in, anions flow out.... "
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"K+ ions flow out."
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Positive tropism is
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moving towards a stimulus
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Auxin is where in the stem for cell growth?
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Darkside
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growing roots oriented horizontally amyloplasts in root cap
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slide down
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Protoplast gravity senses..
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contents pressure on sides
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Thigmotropism is not
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cells touching support length more cells on other side.
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What is an altered growth pattern?
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thigmomorphogensis.
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Nastic?
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independent of stimulus
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nastic movement in a venus flytrap....
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water flows out
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solar tracking is
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following the light
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photoperiodism
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change in day length
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Pr is not
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biologically active
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Long day = short night plant
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Night < threshold
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Short day = Long night plant
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Night > threshold
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If there is a flash of light and a high level of Pr in the middle of the dark period...
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flowers will be inhibited in a SD plant
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an air bubble is an
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embolism
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air bubbles are prevented via
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surface tension of meniscus spanning pores of barked pit pair membrane
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hydraulic lift =
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transfer of h20 by roots from moist to dry regions of soil
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Signal transduction pathway
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Reception
Transduction Induction |
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TEST 3
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TEST 3
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The formation of a new species from copies of chromosomes multiplying is known as
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polyploidy
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Polyploidy speciation often occurs because _____ happens during meiosis
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nondisjunction
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The study of all kinds of biological diversity and the relationships between them is called
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systematics
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The study of estimating the evolutionary history of groups is called
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phylogeny
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the study of naming and classifying living things is called
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taxonomy
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the largest category in the classificaiton hierarchy is ___ and there are __ of them
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Domain; 3
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The binomial for poison ivy is toxicodendron radicans. This plant belongs to the genus
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Toxicodendron
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When a taxon contains all descendents of a single ancestral species, the taxon is said to be
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monophyletic
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When a taxon contains descendents of a single ancestral species, but not all of them, the taxon is said to be
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paraphyletic
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In a sporic life cycle, the sporophyte is
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the spore producing generation
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Organisms in the kingdom protists date back to before
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1.8 billion years ago
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the largest photosynthetic organisms in the kindgom Protists belong to the phylum
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Phaecophyta
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Bacillariophyta are almost entirely
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marine
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Red algae are
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Rhodophyta
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____ phylum are small unicellular organisms that store starch and are important in cold water food chains
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Cryptophyta
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____ are not of the heterokont group
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Chlorophyta
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______ contain multicellular organisms
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Rhodophyta
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Green algae and land plants do not share a
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cuticle
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_____ are the chlorophyta order that is thought to be mostly closely related to land plants
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Charales
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Land plants are thought to have originated
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475 million years ago
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The earliest land plants ______ have to be in water for their entire life cycle
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DID NOT
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Hornworms belong to
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Anthocerophyta
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Liverworts are of the phylum
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Hepatophyta
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The body of a non vascular plant is called the
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thallus
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At maturity, the sporophyte of most bryophyts consists of the
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foot, seta, and capsule
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Peat mosses belong to the phylum _____, class _______
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Bryophyta; Sphagnidae
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The _____ stage of the bryophyte life cycle is dominant
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Gametophyte
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the ______ stage of the Bryophyte life cycle is the main means of dispersal
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spore
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_______ stage of the vascular plant life cycle is dominant
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Sporophyte
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A conducting tissue is not considred true vascular tissue until it has
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lignin wall thickenings
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______ is the type of vascular cyclinder that is made of a solid cylinder of vascular tissue
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Protostele
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Secondary growth _____
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adds width, produces new cells at vascular cambium, evolved more than one time, occurs in some early vascular plant groups
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A true leaf that is a small stem outgrowth within a single strand of vascular tissue is called a
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microphyll
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The megaphyll developed in this order:
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Even branching; uneven branching; planation; fusion
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_____ = two types of spores
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Heterospory
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_______ = gametophyte life stage is quite small and is retained in side the spore wall as it develops
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Endosporice development
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Basic definition of a species:
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a group of organisms that can reproduce fertile offspring and have similar appearance.
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Characteristics seen in earliest land plants:
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Less emphasis on h20
sterile jacket of cells to help repro fx. stomata |