BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Non-Vascular Plant, Hornwort, Marchantiophyta

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10 Mar 2014
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Plant embryo with supply of nutrients in it: traits of non-vascular plants, no true roots, stems, leaves. Nearly impossible to have a large non-vascular plants: three extant phyla of non-vascular plants. H2o retention (have a hard time retaining water) Have pores to allow the exchange of gases between the interior of the plant and the environment: bryophyte reproductive traits. Alternation of generations (between gametophyte and sporophyte: sexual reproduction of bryophytes: figure 29. 8. Haploid: protonemata, antheridia, archegonia: hornwort: important first colonizers of moist areas, asexual reproduction in bryophytes: Small pieces of parent plants that break off and start their own individual (clone) Importance of bryophytes (paraphyletic, it is a grade that includes all non-vascular plants: mosses are capable of inhabiting diverse and sometimes extreme environments, sphagnum bogs: peat moss, forms extensive deposits of partially decayed organic material known as peat. Peat can be used as a source of fuel. Sphagnum is an important global reservoir of organic carbon.

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