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Chapter 27, Problem 14TYU
Evaluate and Synthesize
14. EVOLUTION LINK How may the following trends in plant evolution be adaptive to living on land?
- (a) dependence on water for fertilization ➝ no need for water as a transport medium
- (b) homospory ➝ heterospory
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How may the following trends in plant evolution be adaptive to living on land? (a) dependence on water for fertilization ➝ no need for water as a transport medium (b) homospory ➝ heterospory
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Gymnosperms
1. What is the conspicuous form of the bryophytes? Is this form haploid or diploid?
2. The part that produces the male gametes is called the....?
3. The part that produces the female gametes is called the...
4. Spores are produced by which cell division process?
5. What is the conspicuous form of the seedless vascular plants? Is it haploid or diploid?
6. What are microspores? Where are they produced in gymnosperms?
7. Megaspores give rise to which structure in gymnosperms?
8. How are most gymnosperms pollinate
d?
9.
In gymnosperms, the material that nourishes the embryo derives from what tissue?
10. How can you visually differentiate a male from a female cone in pines?
1. Skunk cabbage has evolved stinky flowers because
(a) the smell prevents other plants from growing nearby all year long.
(b) all yellow flowers smell bad.
(c) the odor attracts pollinators.
(d) the odor repels pollinators.
2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of most plants?
(a) carries out photosynthesis
(b) has cell walls made of cellulose
(c) has yellow flowers
(d) has specialized reproductive organs
3. Much of the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere
(a) is produced as a waste product of cellular respiration in plants.
(b) is released as a byproduct of photosynthesis.
(c) is produced as a waste product of cellular respiration in animals.
(d) is produced by tree frogs.
4. The mature sporophyte of a fern
(a) produces haploid spores by meiosis.
(b) produces diploid spores by meiosis.
(c) produces diploid spores by mitosis.
(d) produces haploid spores by mitosis.
5. Fusion of male and female gametes in plants produces
(a) a eudicot stamen.
(b) a style.
(c) a haploid spore.…
Chapter 27 Solutions
Biology (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 27.1 - Discuss some environmental challenges of living on...Ch. 27.1 - Name the green algal group from which plants are...Ch. 27.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 2CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 3CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 4CCh. 27.2 - Summarize the features that distinguish bryophytes...Ch. 27.2 - Name and briefly describe the three phyla of...Ch. 27.2 - Describe the life cycle of mosses and compare...Ch. 27.2 - Prob. 1C
Ch. 27.2 - How are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts similar?...Ch. 27.3 - Discuss the features that distinguish seedless...Ch. 27.3 - Name and briefly describe the two phyla of...Ch. 27.3 - Describe the life cycle of ferns and compare their...Ch. 27.3 - Compare the generalized life cycles of homosporous...Ch. 27.3 - Prob. 1CCh. 27.3 - Prob. 2CCh. 27.3 - Which of the following are parts of the sporophyte...Ch. 27.3 - Why are whisk ferns and horsetails now classified...Ch. 27.3 - How does heterospory modify the plant life cycle?Ch. 27 - Plants probably descended from a group of green...Ch. 27 - Which of the following is not a characteristic of...Ch. 27 - In plant life cycles, (a) the first products of...Ch. 27 - The bryophytes (a) include mosses, liverworts, and...Ch. 27 - The waxy layer that covers aerial parts of plants...Ch. 27 - Prob. 6TYUCh. 27 - Prob. 7TYUCh. 27 - Know and Comprehend 8. The green,...Ch. 27 - Prob. 9TYUCh. 27 - Know and Comprehend 10. These plants have...Ch. 27 - Know and Comprehend 11. These plants have hollow,...Ch. 27 - Know and Comprehend 12. Which of the following...Ch. 27 - Apply and Analyze 13. VISUALIZE Draw a simple...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 14. EVOLUTION LINK How may...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 15. INTERPRET DATA...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 16. EVOLUTION LINK Where...
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