EEB 390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Paraphyly, Flowering Plant, Gnetum

• School: U of M
• Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Course: EEB 390
• Professor: Jeff Smith

Document Summary

How will we move through this: humans are just one branch in the tree of life. Green plants : at least 500,000 species (5450 species of mammals, ~10,000 species of birds, includes green algae, ferns, mosses, owering plants. 30 species insect pollinated: vessel elements and xylem trees and vines, double fertilization! (only angiosperms, ephedra: temperate or subtropical, ca. Welwitschia grows in the coastal desert of southwestern africa, in angola, namibia, and south africa. Pitcher plants: latreen plants: carnivorous plants, the pitchers are modi ed leaves, attract insects also have larger things fall into pitcher, pitcher secretes lecture, pitcher is a tree shood, pitcher gets fertilizer by taking animals dropping. Amorphophallus: monocots: arales, largest owing structure in owering plant. Strangler gs: roots have been woven into bridges. Brugmansia: scopolamine, related to tomatoes and nightshade, has scopolamine zombie drug can knock people out. Dendrocnide moroides: stinging bush: leaves have stings leading to someone committing uicide, some of most painful plants on planet.