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| Biologists hypothesize that all land plants evolved from what common ancestor? |
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| Green algae and plants share many biochemical and metabolic traits. what are they? |
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Have the same chlorophylls a and b, and carotenoids, xanthophylls (yellow) and carotenes (orange).
Store starch
Have cellulose, as a major cell wall component
Form cell plate during cytokinesis |
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| a complex multicellular eukaryote and may have cells with two anterior flagella |
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| All land plants are embryophytes. What does this mean? |
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| they develop from multicellular embryos enclosed in maternal tissues |
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| Do algae develop embryos? |
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| prevents plant tissue from dying out |
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| Tiny pores that allow gas exchange through the cuticle between the atmosphere and the interior of cells |
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| What do vascular plants contain to support upward growth? |
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| What stages do basic plant life cycles have? |
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| a multicellular haploid stage and a multicellular diploid stage (alternation of generations) |
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| the haploid stage, gives rise to haploid gametes by mitosis |
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| the diploid stage, begins when two gametes fuse, and produce haploid spores by meiosis |
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