Plant Systematics Lab Practical

What taxa do land plants belong to

Embryophytes

What are the characteristics of land plants

Cuticle, apical meristem, alteration of generations, parenchyma

What is the evolutionary order of land plants

Bryophytes, lycohpytes, monilophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms

What evolutionary feature separates bryophytes from lycophytes

Vascular tissue

What are characteristics of tracheophytes

roots, xylem, phloem, sporophyte dominant life cycle

What is the name of vascular plants

Tracheophytes

What evolutionary feature separates lycophytes from monilophytes

True leaves

What is the name of plants with true leaves

Euphyllophytes

What separates monilophytes from gymnosperms

Seeds

What is the name of plants with seeds

Seed plants

What separates gymnosperms from angiosperms

Flowers

What is another name for angiosperms

Flowering plants

What is a characteristic of bryophytes

Gametophyte dominant life cycle

What plants are in the bryophytes

(mosses + liverworts) + hornworts

What is a characteristic of mosses

Has transport tissue

What is a characteristic of liverworts

Archegoniophores and antheridiophores

What is a characteristic of hornworts

photosynthetic sporophyte

What is a characteristic of lycophytes

Single vein in leaves

What plants are lycophytes

Lycopods, selaginella

What is a characteristic of selaginella

Heterosporosity

What plants are monilophytes

Ferns and fern allies

What are characteristics of monilophytes

Free living gametophytes

What is a characteristic of leptosporangiate ferns

Leptosporangia

What is leptosporangium

Spore producing structure in ferns

What plants are gymnosperms

Conifers, gnetales, Gingko, cycads

How can you recognize a hornwort

“little crusty thing on a slide”

What plants are heterosporous

Selaginella, Azolla (water ferns), seed plants

What plant is this

Conifer

What plant is this

Cycad

What plant is this

Gnetales

What plant is this

liverwort

What plant is this

Leptosporangiate fern

What plant is this

Lycopod

What plant is this

Moss

What plant is this

Selaginella

What plant is this

Liverwort

What plant is this

Ginkgo