BIOL 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Namib Desert, Microsporangia, Welwitschia

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Phloem = distribute sugars, amino acids, and products synthesized by the plant. Sporophyte generation is larger and more complex. Sporophyte is not dependent on the gametophyte. Roots = absorb water and nutrients from soil. Highly vascular leaves appear about 370 mya. Homosporous = bisexual gametophyte (seedless vascular plants) Lycophytes include club moss and spike moss. Lichen form a mutualism between fungi and green algae, and fungi and cyanobacteria. Alternation of generations applies to all plants. Most seedless vascular plants have small gametophytes. One innovation of vascular plants is a shift to life cycle dominated by sporophytes. Differences between bryophytes and seedless vascular plants. Still have flagellated sperm that need water to move. Horsetail and whisk ferns are living fossils . Look very similar to the species that lived 300 mya. Whisk ferns have only branching stems, no leaves. Giant seedless vascular plants converted co2 to organic carbon in. Microbes that could break down cellulose and lignin had not evolved yet.

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