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Note Taker Guide
for pg. 300-303
Strange Plants – corpse flower
Welwitschia Mirabilis
Estimated lifespan is 400 to 1500 years
Dragon
Fruit
Strawberry
and pear
flavor
Why do we need plants to eat?
We need plants to eat
Plant Characteristics
 Photosynthesis
is the process
plants use to
make food from
carbon dioxide
and energy from
the sun
Plant Cell Structure
Plant Characteristics
 Chlorophyll is the
green pigment that
captures energy from
the sun
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Plant Reproduction
Fern
Plants make spores
in the sporophyte stage
Plant Reproduction
 When the spores of some plants grow, the new plants
called gametophytes
Gametophyte Stage
 The fertilized egg of a gametophyte grows into a
sporophyte
Reproduction in Plants
Stage 1
Sporophyte
Production
and
fertilization
of sex cells
Produce spores
(cloning)
Gametophytes
Stage 2
Plant Classification
 Nonvascular Plants are plants without specialized
conducting tissues
 Liverwort is an example of a nonvascular plant
Plant Classification
 Vascular Plants have tissues to
deliver water and nutrients
from one part of the plant to the
other
 Fern is an example
of a seedless vascular plant
Vascular Plants
Gymnosperm is a vascular
seed plant that does not flower
Vascular Plant
 Angiosperm is a flowering plant with seeds inside a
fruit
Parts of a Vascular plant
 Roots
 Stems
 Xylem
 Phloem
 Leaves
 Epidermis
 Spongy layer
 Palisade layer
Origin of Plants
 Same kind of
Chlorophyll
 Similar Cell Walls
 Photosynthesis
 Store energy in the form
of starch
 Two stage life cycle
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Have two life stages which
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Can be Classified as
Food for Thought
Plants do photosynthesis, a
complicated process, and without
plants, we'd all be dead.”
Pamela Ronald
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