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| Adaptations for terristrial life seen in all plants are: |
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| Plants are thought to be most closely related to charophyceans based on: |
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| Are leaves with branching vascular systems |
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| Bryophyes differ from other land plant groups because: |
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| gametophyte generation is dominant |
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| Which of the following plant groups is incorrectly paired with its gametophyte generation? |
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| Fern-frond growing from rhizome |
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| Which of the following is most likely the closest relative of the vascular plants? |
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| The evolution of sporopollenin was important to the movement of plants onto land because it: |
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| Provided a tough coating for spores |
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| If a plant's life cycle includes both a male and female gametophyte, the sporophyte plant must be: |
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| Xylem and Phloem are found in: |
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| Which of the following functions may secondary compounds serve? |
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| Alternation of generations may have evolved in land plants when: |
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| Zygote underwent mitotic divisions |
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| Which of the following has been proposed by plant biologigists as the deepest branch that establishes the boundary of the plant kingdom? |
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| The kingdoms Plantae, Streptophyta, and Viridiplantae |
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| Large stores of organic carbon that help to stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are found in: |
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| Protacheophyte polysporangiophytes are: |
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| If you could take a time machine back to the Carboniferous period, which of the following scenarios would you most likely encounter? |
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| Swampy forests dominated by seedless vascular plants (ferns) |
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| In which of the following groups do sperm no longer have to swim to reach the female gametophyte? |
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| Gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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| What provides food for a developing sporophyte embryo in a gymnosperm seed? |
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| Female gametophyte tissue |
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| Which of the following is the corret path that a pollen tube takes to reach the female gametophyte in an angiosperm? |
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| Stigma, style, ovary, ovule, embryo sac |
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| How many generations are represented in a pine seed? |
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| 3: seed coat from parent sporophyte, food supply from gametophyte, and sporophyte embryo |
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| Gymnosperms rose to dominance during which of the following periods? |
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| If the angiosperm gametophyte generation has been reduced to so few cells, why hasn't it been eliminated from the life cycle? |
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| The gametophyte generation produces both the protective seed coat and nourishment for developing embryo |
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| Which of the following is a key difference between seedless vascular plants and plants with seeds? |
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| The spore is the agent of dispersal in the first, whereas the seed functions in dispersal in the second. |
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| An example of co-evolution is: |
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| A flower with nectar guides that direct bees to its nectaries |
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| Where would you find a microsporangium in the life cycle of a pine? |
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| At the base of the sporophyll in a pollen cone. |
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| Which of these plants is believed to be the only survivor of the oldest branch of the angiosperm lineage? |
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| The small shrub Amborella |
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| All photoautotrophic, multicellular eukaryotes are ____ |
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| ________ plants produce male and female gametophytes |
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| The gametophyte generation is most reduced in the _______ |
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| The Ginkgo, cycads, and conifers are _______. |
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| A ________ produces spores, no matter what group it's found in |
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| A ______ consists of an embryo, nutritive material, and a protective coat |
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| _______ are wide, specialized cells arranged end to end for water transport and are found in angiosperms |
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| A _____ consists of a filament and anther in which pollen is produced |
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| The female gametophyte in ________ consists of haploid cells in which a few archegonia develop |
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| The male gametophyte in _______ is contained within a pollen grain. |
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| supporting cells with thickened secondary walls |
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| supporting cells with thickened primary walls |
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| tapered xylem cells with lignin in cell walls |
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| bundles of long-schlerenchyma cells |
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| cambium cells that produce secondary xylem and phloem |
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| layer from which lateral roots originate |
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| parenchyma cells with chloroplasts in leaves |
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| protective coat made of cork and cork cambium |
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| cell layer in root regulating movement into stele |
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| parenchyma cells inside vascular ring in dicot stem |
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| Which of the following is incorrect? Monocots typically have: |
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| Which of the following is incorrectly paired w/ its function? |
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| Procambium--meristematic tissue |
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| A branch from a vascular bundle that extends into a leaf |
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| produces the ground tissue system |
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| the zone of cell elongation: |
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| is responsible for pushing a root through the soil |
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| which ofthe following is incorrectly paired with its type of life cycle? |
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| secondary xylem and phloem are produced in a root by the: |
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| which of the following cells are dead at functional maturity? |
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| clonal analysis of cells of the shoot apex indicates that: |
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| a cell's developmental fate is more influenced by position effects |
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| in what direction does a plant cell enlarge? |
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| perpendicular to the orientation to cellulose |
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| what do organ identity genes code for? |
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| What is a usual sign of the change of the apical meristem from the juvinile to the mature phase? |
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| a change in the morphology of leaves |
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| which o fthe following is essential to establishing the axial polarity of a plant? |
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| the assymetric 1st division of a zygote |
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