BIOL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phytochrome, Desiccation, Seta

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These trends are also a consideration for classifying green algae as ancestors of land plants: Find organisms that are eukaryotic and can photosynthesize. Find organisms that use special, evolved pigments (chlorophyll a and b) Scientific classification aims to make sense of what might otherwise appear to be unrelated or random. Taxonomy the naming and classifying of species, or a category in a formal system of classification. Systematics the modern scientific study of the evolutionary relationships among organisms. Phylogeny the evolutionary history of related species. Conditions 450-700 mya: aprox 2% oxygen in atmosphere, about tenth of today"s level. Now possible for multicellular eukaryotes to survive on land as long as they retained enough water: fossil records of land plants first occur ~450 mya (liverwort fragments) Environment was changing so there was less uv but water is essential and required for reproduction: constrained to moist environments. Major initial challenges: gas exchange, protection from uv damage, and water retention.

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