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How are fungal classes/groups classified?
What are the structural features that help fungi in absorptive nutrition?
What are the different roles of a fungus?
What are the characteristics that you would use to classify an organism as a fungus?
What are the features and/or highlights of the different classes/groups of fungi? Give examples.
What are the common features of fungi and animals?
What are the characteristics that are common for green algae and plants and what are the
differences?
What is the characteristic of the life cycle of plants?
What are the evolutionary events that occurred in how plants evolved and the order of their
evolution?
What is the importance of the evolution of the vascular system?
What are the tissues that comprise the vascular system and how did they they evolve as plants
evolved?
What are the features/highlights of nontracheophytes (3 phyla) and tracheophytes
(3 groups)? Give examples
Differentiate the Life cycle of moss vs. life cycle of fern.
What are the important adaptations that allowed plants to colonize land?
What was evolutionary advantage of plants with seeds?
What are the different parts of the seed and how did they evolve?
What are the different Gymnosperm groups? Give examples
What are the common features of Angiosperms which are different form gymnosperms?
Differentiate the Life cycle of gymnosperms vs. angiosperms.
Know the terms, monoecious, diecious, perfect flower, imperfect flower,
double fertilization, microgametophyte, megagametophyte.
What are the differences between monocot and eudicot?
What is the evolutionary trend of sporophyte vs. gametophyte?
How do the parts of a fruit develop? What is a simple fruit, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, accessory
fruit? Give examples
List some modifications of root, stem and leaf?
What is the meristem? What are the different meristems and what is their significance?
Describe secondary growth and the order of vascular tissue in the tree trunk.
What are the features of the different types of cells in the plant their function and areas of location?
What are the primary meristems and what tissues do they give rise to?
What are the factors that influence osmosis?
What are the different processes by which molecules can enter cells?
How is water transported from the root hair to the stele of the root? What is the significance of the
Casparian strip?
What is the difference between apoplast and symplast?
What is the mechanism of flow of water up the tree? What is guttation?
What is considered a source and sink in the transport of sugar in the plant?
How does food get transported from the leaf of the plant to the vascular tissue and how does it get
from the vascular tissue to the other parts of the plant?
What is the mechanism behind the opening or closing of stomata?