Study Chapters 29,30 and 35

Key Facts

61 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Adaptations for terristrial life seen in all plants are:
Sporopollenin
Plants are thought to be most closely related to charophyceans based on:
All ofthe above
Megaphylls:
Are leaves with branching vascular systems
Bryophyes differ from other land plant groups because:
Gametophyte generation is dominant
Which of the following plant groups is incorrectly paired with its gametophyte generation?
Fern-frond growing from rhizome
Which of the following is most likely the closest relative of the vascular plants?
Bryophytes
The evolution of sporopollenin was important to the movement of plants onto land because it:
Provided a tough coating for spores
If a plant's life cycle includes both a male and female gametophyte, the sporophyte plant must be:
Heterosporous
Xylem and Phloem are found in:
Vascular plants
Which of the following functions may secondary compounds serve?
All of the above
Alternation of generations may have evolved in land plants when:
Zygote underwent mitotic divisions
Which of the following has been proposed by plant biologigists as the deepest branch that establishes the boundary of the plant kingdom?
The kingdoms Plantae, Streptophyta, and Viridiplantae
Large stores of organic carbon that help to stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are found in:
Boreal peatlands
Protacheophyte polysporangiophytes are:
Silurian fossils
If you could take a time machine back to the Carboniferous period, which of the following scenarios would you most likely encounter?
Swampy forests dominated by seedless vascular plants (ferns)