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15 Cards in this Set
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Challenges with plants adapting to land |
Nutrition, reproduction, water, support |
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Land plant features |
3D structures, lower surface surface area to volume, specialized tissues |
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Plants evolved from______ over______ years ago |
Green algae, 400 million |
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3 main types of plants |
Vascular, non vascular, seed bearing vascular |
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Byrophytes characteristics |
Nonvascular, lives in moist habitats |
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Byrophytes types |
Liverworts, hornworts, mosses |
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Mosses characteristics |
Mats, primitive conducting system |
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Advantage of plant haploid life cycle |
Many spores produced per zygote |
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Examples of tracheophytes |
Lycophytes, pteridophytes, seed plants |
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Tracheophytes charecteristics |
Vascular tissue, branching capability, tracheids |
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Lycophytes and pteridophytes characteristics |
Reproduction moisture dependent, can produce more spores due to larger sporophyte generation, seedless |
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Lycophytes characteristics |
Club mosses, previously very diverse, coal deposits |
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Examples of pteridophytes |
Horsetails, whisk ferns, other ferns |
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Stems contain |
Vascular tissue such as xylem and phloem |
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Function of phloem |
Food transport |
