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The Evolution of Seed Plants
Lab 4
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
02/26/2011

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Homospory
Definition
Sporophytes produce only one kind of spore
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heterospory
Definition
production of two different kinds of spores
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megaspores
Definition
develop into female gametes
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microspores
Definition
develop into male gametophytes
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seed
Definition
where the embryo is surroundied and protected by gametophyte and sporophyte tissues
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embryo
Definition
young sporophyte
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strobilus
Definition
several sporangiophores bearing sporangia
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elater
Definition
aids in the dispersal of the spores
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microphylls
Definition
small and simple leaves
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terminal strobilus
Definition
cluster of sporophylls at the end of the shoot
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Gymnosperm
Definition
naked seed plants, four phyla, seeds not covered by fruit, most primitive seed plants
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Cycadophyta
Definition
Cycads, zamia, dioecious
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pollen cones
Definition
male structure, small, sends out pollen, gametophytic stage
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ovulate cones
Definition
female, gametophytic
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megasporophylls
Definition
large leaves
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Ginko biloba
Definition
maidenhair tree, only species of Ginkophyta, deciduous, fan shaped leaves, dichotomous venation, dieocious, male trees have microsporangiate strobili, ovulate trees have large fleshy seeds
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Phylum Ginkophyta
Definition
only one species, Ginko biloba
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microsporangiate strobili
Definition
male cones in Ginko Biloba
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dichotomous
Definition
branching in two
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deciduous
Definition
sheds leaves anually
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Phylum Gnetophyta
Definition
three genera, 70 species, Ephedra, true seed plant
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Phylum Coniferophyta
Definition
cone bearing plants, over 50 genera, most common
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Strobili
Definition
cones
Term
male cones on coniferophyta
Definition
strobili composed of microsporophylls, pollen cones
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microspores
Definition
produced in microsporangia
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microsporangia
Definition
pouches on the lower surface of each microsporophyll
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pollen grain
Definition
microgametophyte, three parts
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pollination
Definition
pollen grains are carried by wind or other vectors to the female cones where the germinate. they develop pollen tubes within which the sperm are transported
Term
female cones
Definition
strobili composed of megasporophylls
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megasporangia of seed plants
Definition
called the nucellus, covered by one or two layers of tissue, the entire structure is an ovule
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seed-scale complex
Definition
the woody scale of the seed cone, modified shoots of indeterminate growth
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megaspore
Definition
gives rise to the mature gametophyte
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coat
Definition
protects the seed, made from the integuements
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embryo
Definition
consists of an epicotyl, hypocotyl, radicle, and several cotyledons
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epicotyl
Definition
embryonic shoot
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hypocotyl
Definition
embryonic stem
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radicle
Definition
embryonic root
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cotyledon
Definition
embryonic leaves
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tube cell
Definition
gives rise to the pollen tube
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generative cell
Definition
gives rise to the two sperm
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micropyle
Definition
opening into the pollen chamber
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