BIOL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lycopodiophyta, Fern Ally, Lycopodiopsida
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General characteristics: multicellular, autotrophic, sexual reproduction, alternation of generations (fig. 30. 10, p. 593: _________________, bryophytes are ______________ plants, have no specialized tissues for internal transport of materials b. Internal transport mainly by osmosis or diffusion: gymnosperms and angiosperms have vascular tissues. a. b. F: stomata close to conserve water by limiting evaporation. 30. 2, p. 587: more advanced plants spend more time in the sporophytic stage and less in the gametophytic stage, more primitive plants spend more time in the gametophytic stage and less in the sporophytic stage. 30. 3 & 30. 4; p. 588-589: have swimming sperms (fig. 30. 5, p. 589: need water for sperms to swim to eggs, confines them to moist areas. Seedless vascular plants (table 30. 1, p. 592: most of the seedless vascular plants (i. e. tracheophytes) that flourished in the past are extinct, their present- day descendants are, lycophytes club mosses (fig. 30. 11, p. 594: pterophytes (i. e. fern allies, ferns (fig.
