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PLANT LAB
Name____________________
Period ___________________
You may go to the stations below in any order, and complete the tasks and answer the
questions at each station. Use page 344-358 of your text and your notes to help you if
needed.
1. Look at the first slide on the microviewer and read the explanation from the
microviewer guide. Explain the difference between a complete and incomplete
flower.________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
2. To which group of seed plants do the trees that these sample branches were
removed from belong? __________________________ How can you tell?
___________________To what which phylum do these belong?
______________
3. Look under the microscope at the slide. What do you see in the middle of the
plant stem? _________________________What is the purpose of these
structures? ____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
4. This short plant is a type of moss. Is it a vascular or non-vascular plant?
_______________To which phylum does it belong?________________How does
it reproduce? (use your textbook)_______________________________________
5. View both the monocot and dicot stem slides. How are they different?
__________________________________________________________________
6. These are leaves from a gingko tree. Why do you think its scientific name is
Gingko biloba? ___________________________________________________
To which group of seedless plants do they belong? _______________________
To which phylum do they belong? ____________________________________
7. Look through the microviewer to see the male reproductive parts of a flower on
slide 2. What are these? ________________ What is part F?
_____________What is part A? ________________ What does part A produce?
_________________
8. Are these ferns seeded or seedless? _________________Are they vascular or
non-vascular? _______________________How do they reproduce? (see your
text, notes) ______________________Where might we find their reproductive
structures on a leaf? ______________________What is the name of the phylum
containing ferns? ____________________
9. Compare this hydrangea leaf to the iris leaf “blade” next to it. How do they differ?
___________________________________________________(look at the veins).
To which group of angiosperms does each belong? (see notes) hydrangea:
_______________iris: _____________
10. What are 3 examples of fruit structures shown on 357, and how is each dispersed?
_______________________________
11. Look at the model of a plant cell. What occurs in the green, bean-like structure of
plant cells? _____________________________ Which part of the plant cell lends
support to the plant? ____________________
12. Look at the examples seen here. What do all these things have in common?
_____________________________________ From which flower part did they
develop? ______________________ To which group of plants do they belong?
_____________________________________
13. Look at the root slide under the microscope. Note the root hairs. What is the
function of these roots and root hairs? _________________________________
________________________________________________________________
14.Look at the microviewer slide #4 to see the female parts of a flower. What is G?
__________________What is Y? _______________ What is O?_____________
What is produced by the ovary?____________What develops from the ovules?
_____________
15. What is this plant, and to which phylum does it belong? ___________________
_____________________________________ Although it looks like a palm, this
is actually from a palmlike plant which reproduces using large cones.
16. Look at the cross sections of leaflets under the microscope. Can you see the
stomata? What is their function? _______________________________ What
does the cuticle do? _____________________? What is the overall purpose of a
leaf? ___________________________________________________________
17. What is the outer covering of these plants’ leaves called? __________________
Why would it be so thick? __________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
18. (do #1 first) Poke into the flowers provided and look inside. Is each one a
complete or incomplete flower? Write the flower name and whether complete or
incomplete. A. ______________________________________
B. ______________________________________
C. ______________________________________
D. ______________________________________
19. Name the flower parts tagged in the model.
A. ____________________________
B. ____________________________
C. ____________________________
D. ____________________________
E. ____________________________
F. ____________________________
G. ____________________________(the round thing)
20. Using the computers, find diagrams or clear photos of plants from the phyla listed
below. You may print, cut, and paste them, or draw them on a separate sheet of
paper. Be certain to label each with name of plant pictured and its phylum.
A. Bryophyta
B. Psilophyta
C. Lycophyta
D. Sphenophyta
E. Cycadophyta
F. Gnetophyta – 1 each of Gnetum, Ephedra, and Welwitcshia