Exam 27: Plants Without Seeds: From Water to Land

Suppose you find a new eukaryotic organism with the life cycle shown in the figure. The observation that chloroplasts of this organism have phycoerythrin would lead to the hypothesis that it is related to the

Unlike the other groups of nonvascular plants, the _______ sporophyte has no stalk and is persistently green-a trait shared with vascular plants.

Refer to the figure, which shows alternation of generations in plants. In a plant with this type of alternation of generations, the zygote develops on a

In heterosporous land plants, _______ produce _______.

An archegonium is _______ and produces _______.

A(n) _______ is defined as a shared derived trait.

Plants that produce one kind of spore are called ______, and those that produce two kinds of spores are called _______.

Which is the correct order of development in a moss gametophyte?

Which part of the moss life cycle is paired with an incorrect description?

An abundant type of coal is formed almost entirely from plant material buried during the Carboniferous period.Which plant group was most likely a major contributor to these coal deposits?

In addition to strobili, one of the unique features to first appear in the _______ were true _______, a synapomorphy shared with vascular plants.

Match the description below with the correct group of seedless vascular plants from the list that follows. Their vascular tissue includes xylem and phloem, they have megaphylls, and there is a differentiation between the main stem and side branches rather than dichotomous branching.

Which of the following is a synapomorphy specific to stoneworts and land plants?

Cells contained within the _______ of a sporophyte undergo meiosis to create haploid cells.

Which is the correct order of appearance of features during plant evolution?

The common ancestor of vascular plants had

A field biologist has brought you a plant fossil to analyze.To determine whether it is a vascular plant, you would look for the presence of fossilized

In a plant species that has alternation of generations,

Though _______ contain true roots, they differ from other members of the tracheophytes because of the arrangement of their vasculature.

These multicellular green algae retain their eggs in the parental organism, and their growth pattern is both branching and apical.