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Biodiversity: Plant Diversity I (part II)
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/26/2009

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Term
What characteristic determines the grouping of land plants?
Definition
Whether or not they have vascular tissue.
Term
What is the general term for non-vascular plants?
Definition
Bryophytes
Term
What are the two clades of seedless vascular plants?
Definition

-Lycophytes(club mosses and their relatives)

–Pterophytes(ferns and their relatives)

Term
What are the two clades for seed producing plants? Describe.
Definition

Gymnosperms, the naked seed plants, including the conifers

–Angiosperms, the flowering plants

Term
What are the three phyla in Bryophytes that are still found today?
Definition

 

–Liverworts, phylum Hepatophyta

–Hornworts, phylum Anthocerophyta

–Mosses, phylum Bryophyta

Term
In all three bryophyte phyla, ________ are larger and longer-living than ________.
Definition

 gametophytes

sporophytes

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