Exam 27: Seedless Plants

MATCHING Match the plant phylum with the appropriate word or phrase. a.Anthocerophyta d.Lycopodiophyta b.Bryophyta e.Pteridophyta c.Hepaticophyta -Marchantia

The multicellular sex organs in plants are known as:

If a plant produces microspores and megaspores, then by definition it is homosporous. ____________________

Each archgonium produces many eggs. _____________________

Prepare a table that lists the features that distinguish bryophytes from green algae and from other plants.

According to the fossil record, the oldest vascular plants are placed in the phylum:

Plants are a:

One type of asexual reproduction in liverworts involves:

In plants the fertilized egg develops into a multicellular __________ (young plant) within a female gametangium.

Many seedless plants produce spores of one morphological type, which is referred to as:

Microsporocytes divide by __________ to form __________.

Figure 27-1 Use the figure to answer the corresponding question(s). -The structure labeled A in Figure 27-1 is a:

The __________ are plants that made major contributions to the coal deposits formed hundreds of millions of years ago.

Figure 27-1 Use the figure to answer the corresponding question(s). -The structure labeled 1 in Figure 27-1 is a(n):

The strobilus of a spike moss contains:

Moss sperm are transported to the archegonia by:

In algae, gametangia are generally unicellular. _________________

Characteristics shared between green algae and plants include:

In mosses, the __________ grows into the leafy gametophyte plant.

Modern botanists think that all plants evolved from a common ancestor that was an ancient green alga, because: