BIOL 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meiosis, Antheridium, Archegonium

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Seedless vascular plants dominated the landscape around 350 million years ago. Bryophytes, ferns, and other seedless were the principle plants for perhaps 100 million years. The major plant in the devonian time period. Now they contribute only ~5% of living plant species. Seedless have played a very important role in plant evolution, giving rise to seed plants. Brake fern (pteris vittata) remove arsenic from soil and water. Fiddleheads are one of the few edible parts of the ferns. Lygodium is an example of a world-wide problem involving hundreds of species. The water fern azolla forms a mutualistic relationship with a cyanobacteria, anabaena azollae. Both bryophytes and vascular plants are known as embryophytes. Multicellular embryo very well protected within the female gametophyte. Both bryophytes and vascular plants have a basically similar life cycle. Rhyniophytes, zosterophytes and trimerophytes all had branching photosynthetic stem systems without roots or leaves.

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