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Biology 204 - Study Questions (M. G. Simpson)
Lectures 11: Vascular Plants
1. Name 5 apomorphies of the Vascular Plants.
2. What is another name for the Vascular Plants?
3. What is the name of one of the earliest vascular plants (that lacked roots)?
4. Which phase of the life cycle is dominant and long-lived in the vascular plants?
5. What is vascular tissue?
6. What is the function and major cell types of xylem?
7. What is the difference between a tracheid and a vessel?
8. What is the function and major cell types of phloem?
9. What do sieve cells and sieve tube members have in their end walls that function in conduction?
10. What is a shoot?
11. What are the functions of a stem? of leaves?
12. What is the apical meristem?
13. What are the three developmental regions of a shoot or root?
14. What is the term for an immature shoot?
15. What do buds develop into?
16. What is the function of roots?
17. What do roots have that distinguish them from shoots?
18. Name the 3 mature tissue systems of plants, their constituent tissues and their functions.
19. What is lignin and where is it located?
20. What is a secondary cell wall, in what cells is it found, and what is its function?
21. What is a sclerenchyma fiber in terms of structure and function?
22. What kinds of leaves are found in the Lycopods.
23. What are the diagnostic (and apomorphic) features of the Sphenopsids (Equisetum)?
24. What are the diagnostic (and apomorphic) features of the Psilopsids (Psilotum)?
25. How are the leaves of the Leptosporangiate ferns different from those of Lycopods, Sphenopsids, and
Psilopsids?
26. What is distinctive about the leptosporangium?
27. Review the life cycle of a fern.
28. What is a fiddlehead?
29. What is a sorus?
30. What aquatic fern genus has a symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing blue green living inside?