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Introduction To Land Plants & The Alternation of Generations

This document contains a lecture outline for Plant Diversity with 14 multiple choice and short answer questions about the early evolution of land plants, their adaptations to terrestrial environments, plant life cycles and reproduction. The questions cover topics like the divisions of land plants, which reproduce sexually or asexually, meiosis, and phenotypic plasticity.

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Introduction To Land Plants & The Alternation of Generations

This document contains a lecture outline for Plant Diversity with 14 multiple choice and short answer questions about the early evolution of land plants, their adaptations to terrestrial environments, plant life cycles and reproduction. The questions cover topics like the divisions of land plants, which reproduce sexually or asexually, meiosis, and phenotypic plasticity.

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Professor Susan Mazer, Fall 2013

Name ____________________________

Date:______________ Perm #____________

EEMB 3: Plant Diversity, Lecture #1: Introduction to Land Plants & the Alternation of
Generations
1. The earliest plants that colonized land approximately _________ million years ago dispersed and
reproduced by producing (seeds? spores? pollen?): ___________________
2. Two hypotheses to explain why plants have evolved to reflect green light are:

3. Four traits that are ancestral (and shared by) all land plants are:

4. Green algae are the (ancestors/descendants) _____________________ of land plants, and differ from
land plants in the following ways:

5. Define phenotypic plasticity in your own words. Then, use the term phenotypically plastic in a
clearly written sentence.

6. What is the cuticle and why is this structure a critical adaptation for plants that live in terrestrial (as
opposed to aquatic) environments?

Professor Susan Mazer, Fall 2013


7. What are the four Divisions of Land Plants for which youll need to know the life cycles?

8. Which of these Divisions are seedless (reproducing only by spores and vegetative, clonal
reproduction)?

9. Which of these Divisions produce seeds?

10. Which of these Divisions has the most species?

11. Are the Gymnosperms a Division?

12. What is the difference between vegetative and sexual reproduction?

13. When a cell undergoes meiosis, it begins as (diploid/haploid) _____________ and then produces
(how many?) ___________ (diploid/haploid) _____________ cells. Are the cells produced genetically
distinct from each other or genetically identical? Explain why.

14. If a cell with a ploidy of 4n undergoes meiosis, how many daughter cells are produced and what is
their ploidy?

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