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Evolutionary History of Plants
From Green Algae to Angiospores
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2009

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Charophytes (Green Algae and their relatives)
Definition
Sea.
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Liverworts
Definition
Bryophyte. Nonvascular. Stomata-like pores. HEPATOPHYTA.
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Hornworts
Definition
Bryophyte. Nonvascular. Open Stomata. ANTHOCEROPHYTA. also have pyrenoids.
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Mosses
Definition
Bryophyte. Nonvascular. True Stomata. BRYOPHYTA.
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Lycophytes
Definition
Seedless vascular. Vascular Tissues, Lognin, Root and shoot systems, apical meristems, diploid dominance.
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Pterophytes
Definition
Seedless vascular. heterospore, seeds, nonmotile gametes.
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Gymnosperms
Definition
Seeded vascular. Heterospory, seeds, nonmotile gametes.
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Angiosperms
Definition
Seeded vascular. Flowers, Fruits
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Nonvascular plants in general.
Definition
Bryophytes. Algaelyke. Bridge land and water.
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Gametanguium
Definition
A layer of protective cells that shelter gametes produced by bryophytes.
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Archegonia
Definition
Flask-shaped structures that are gametangia in bryophytes.
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Anetherida
Definition
Rounded gametangia where the flagellated sperm forms.
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thallus
Definition
gametophyte generation of a liverwort
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Stomata
Definition
Opening that regulate gas exchange in most land plants.
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protonema
Definition
filamentous web of tissue that is the first stage of moss.
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Seedless vascular plants
Definition
reproduce sexually by releasing spores. swimming sperm for water. Has vascular tissues.
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