Exam 32: Evolution of Plants

Monocots typically have leaves with _________ veins and flowers with ______ parts per whorl.

What three features serve to distinguish vascular plants from nonvascular plants?

All of the following are correct about dicots except:

Why is the evolution of secondary growth important for plants?

A fruit is a mature ripened ______ containing fertilized seeds.

Flowers frequented by insects are typically not _____ because insects cannot detect this color.

Dicots evolved _________ monocots.

The process by which flowers evolved brighter colors,nectar rewards,and fragrances to attract pollinators that themselves became adapted to certain types of flowers is called:

There are an estimated ______________ species of plants alive today.

List two of several of the adaptations plants evolved to enhance their survival on land.

Moths are attracted to _________ flowers that are heavily scented.

The _________ are the most abundant type of seedless vascular plant.

Of what advantage might it be for a plant to produce a seed rather than to be seedless?

Flower parts are connected to a base called a _____________________.

Plants are _____________ because they can produce their own food.

The symbiotic relationship with fungi called mycorrhizae:

_______________________ are symbiotic associations between fungi and plant roots.

Among the longest-surviving group of gymnosperms,the ___________ had relatives alive on earth during the days of the dinosaur.

The outermost whorl of a flower is called the:

When you see a fern,the large plant you are looking at is the: