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The Evolution of Plant and Fungal Diversity

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  • Life on land offered many opportunities for Plant adoptions that took advantage of?
    B. Abundant CO2
    A. All of the above
    C. Initially if you pathogens or herbivores
    D. Unlimited sunlight
  • The cell walls of some plant tissues are thickened and reinforced by chemical called?
    Lignin
  • What is an example of a bryophyte?
    C. Liverworts
    B. Mosses
    D. Hornworts
    A. All of the above
  • Structures that keep plant cells moist are called
    Gametangia
  • All green algae (Chlorophyta) and plants share a common revolutionary ancestor. They both contain the photo synthetic pigments ____________ and ____________?
    Chlorophyll A and chlorophyll B
  • In most, the hyphae consist of chains of cells separated by _______ that have pores large enough to allow ribosomes, mitochondria, and nuclei to flow cell to cell
    Cross-walls (septae)
  • ________ Refer to any single celled fungus
    Yeasts
  • Unlike land plants, algae are supported by surrounding?
    D. All of the above
    B. Soil
    C. Air
    A. Water
  • Most ________ consist of a mass of threadlike hyphae making up a mycelium
    Fungi
  • Ovules develop into _______
    Seeds
  • Lifecycle involves an Alternation of a haploid generation that produces eggs and sperm and a diploid generation that produces spores in protective structures called?
    Sporangia
  • _________ adaptions for life on land distinguish the main lineages of the plant kingdom
    B. Three key
    C. Five key
    D. Two key
    A. Four key
  • Fungi secrete powerful ________ to digest food externally
    Enzymes
  • __________ embryos are present for plants
    B. Independent
    D. Living
    A. Dependent
    C. Dead
  • What is the name of this plant that Thrived in Devonian, about 400 million years ago?
    Rhynia
  • ________ Are found in a lineage that includes all living gymnosperms and angiosperms
    C. Sugars
    B. Spores
    A. Seeds
    D. A and B only
  • When the hyphae meet their _________ fuse
    Cytoplasms
  • The green algae ancestors of plants may have carpeted moist fringes of __________ and coastal salt marshes
    C. Ponds
    D. Oceans
    A. Lakes
    B. Rivers
  • _______ are heterotrophic eukaryotes
    Fungi
  • Zygotes develops into an embryo while attached to and nourished by the parent plants called?
    D. lignin
    A. Embryophytes
    B. Xylem
    C. Phloem
  • A _______ Is any rapidly growing fungus that reproduce asexually by making spores
    Mold
  • True or false…Some species of plants accumulated adaptions then enabled them to live permanently above the water?
    true
  • What is an example of a fossil fuel?
    A. All of the above
    C. Oil
    D. Natural gas
    B. Coal
  • Pines and flowering plants have _______ grains, structures that contain the sperm producing cells
    Pollen
  • Unlike land plants, algae all use Flagellated sperm that swim to fertilize and _______?
    Egg
  • What are plants and green algae called?
    Charophytes
  • _________ house separate male and female gametophytes
    Flowers
  • Chytrids are common in lakes, ponds, and _______
    Soil
  • Unlike land plants, algae receive light and perform photosynthesis over most of their _______?
    D. Air
    B. Soil
    C. Water
    A. Body
  • Seed dispersal mechanisms include? (Spread)
    Wind, animals, edible fruits, water
  • Bryophytes resemble other plants in having apical meristem’s and embryos retained on the parent plant but lack…?
    True roots, true leaves, and lignified cell walls
  • Ovaries develop into
    Fruit
  • ________ _______ _______ mark a lineage that gave rise to most living plants
    Lignified vascular tissues
  • __________ _______ Use only asexual reproduction for sport production and include species commonly called molds and yeasts
    Imperfect fungi
  • The absence of lignified cell walls in some plants limits their _______?
    B. Color
    D. Sugar
    A. Height
    C. Moisture
  • Which answer best describes a disadvantage to plant life on land?
    A. Reproduce and disperse offspring without water
    B. Anchor their bodies to soil
    C. Obtain resources from soil and air
    D. All of the above
  • The offspring of seedless plants are sent off into the world as haploid, ________ - ____ ______  that must survive independently as gametophytes before producing the next sporophyte generation
    Single-called spores
  • In many land plants, water and minerals move up from roots to stems and leaves using ________?
    Vascular tissue
  • True or false….plants must maintain moisture inside their cells to avoid desiccation And is a disadvantage to plant life on land
    True
  • Pollination occurs when a pollen grains lands on the _________
    Stigma
  • Land plants maintain moisture in their cells using
    C. Sugars
    B. Cells that regulate the opening and closing of stomata
    Both A and B
    A. A waxy cuticle
  • Algae disperse the offspring by_____?
    A. Water
    D. None of the above
    B. Swimming
    C. Receiving light
  • Angiosperms evolved at least _____ million years ago and are flowering plants
    B. 120
    C. 100
    D. 150
    A. 140
  • Seedless vascular plants dominated vest “coal forests”… when these plants died they formed _______ deposits that eventually formed _________
    Peat, coal
  • About. _________ Million years ago, vascular plants evolved with ligning hardened vascular tissue
    425
  • Gymnosperms (do or do not) produce flowers? (They are a vascular seed plant)
    Do not
  • Mycorrhizae represent a symbiotic relationship between fungi and ___________
    Plant root cells
  • Phloem Consists of _______ cells and conveys ______
    Living, sugar
  • ___________ are thought to have evolved from common ancestors
    D. Gametes
    A. Zygotes
    C. Spores
    B. Charophytes
  • About ____ of angiosperms use animals to transfer the pollen
    A. 90%
    D. 70%
    C. 99%
    B. 80%
  • What is a zygote?
    B. A cell wall
    D. Lignin
    C. Fertilized egg
    A. A tissue
  • What is a Chara?
    An elaborate charophyte
  • In gymnosperms, such as pines and other conifers, this structure is the ______
    B. Spore
    D. None of the above
    C. Seed
    A. Cone
  • Some fungi are _________
    parasites (pathogenic roots)
  • _________ are made either sexually or asexually
    Spores
  • These are the only fungi with flagellated spores and I thought to represent the earliest lineage of fungi?
    Chytrids
  • Call is formed from ________ plants
    A. Seedless
    B. Seeded
    None of the above
    C. Both seeded and seedless
  • About _________ Million years ago, vascular plants evolved with ligning hardened vascular tissues.
    425
  • Unlike land plants, algae.....?
    D. None of the above
    C. Generally have rigid tissues
    A. Generally have no rigid tissues
    B. Generally have no Tissues
  • What have complex multicellular bodies and are photosynthetic cukaryotes?
    Charophytes
  • Gymnosperms have _______ seeds that are not produced in special chambers
    Naked
  • Gymnosperms and angiosperms have ______ grains that carry their sperm producing cells through the air
    Pollen
  • Gymnosperms produce ________ pollen (Winged sperm)
    Airborne
  • What is a Coleochaete?
    A simple Charophyte
  • _____ and _______ are formed from marine organisms
    Oil and natural gas
  • Angiosperms are the most successful _________ plants
    Terrestrial
  • In all plants, the gametes and embryos must be kept _________
    A. Dry
    C. On land
    B. In sunlight
    D. Moist
  • A ________ ________ Can develop that involves cells containing two genetically distinct haploid nuclei
    Heterokaryotic stage
  • Which do land plants obtain?
    C. CO2 from the air
    B. Water and minerals from roots in the soil
    A. All of the above
    D. Sunlight through the leaves
  • _________ Mark the angiosperm lineage
    B. Soils
    A. Seeds
    C. Flowers
    D. None of the above
  • ___________ must support their body in a non- buoyant medium?
    Plants
  • Single cells that can grow into a new organism without fusing with another cell Are called?
    A. Spores
    B. Pollen
    C. Zygotes
    D. All of the above
  • Early diversification of plants gave rise to seedless, nonvascular plants called?
    B. Chlorophytes
    C. Flowers
    D. None of the above
    A. Bryophytes
  • Xylem (makes wood) and consists of _______ cells and conveys water and minerals
    Dead
  • Fungal _______ are surrounded by a cell wall made of chitin instead of cellulose
    Hyphae
  • The seedless vascular plants include?
    B. Lycophytes (Including club Mosses)
    A. Both B and C
    D. None of the above
    C. Monilophytes (ferns and relatives)
  • What are growth-producing regions of cell division that are found near the tips of stems and roots called?
    Apical merisystems (Mitosis is happening here)