BIOL 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lycopodiophyta, Selaginella, Microphyll

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15 Jan 2023
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Have vascular tissues but do not make seeds. Used to have super narrow leaves with single vascular bundles. Tree sized forms inhabited swamps, these giants are no more today. Present day lycophytes are small and grow on forest floors in moist conditions. They all have microphylls (narrow leaves, single vein) Cone or strobilus: spores are produced in strobilus. Lycophytes used to have equal branches= slowly unequal branches with one that is main stem and is dominant. Photosynthetic tissue on it and convert into leaf= how megaphyill evolved. What is the advantage of the megaphyll= lots of photosynthetic tissue on it= more sa and can do more photosynthesis. Recent lycophytes are shorter and live in more moist areas. Seed ferns= ferns that have seeds, these are extinct. Transitional class from vascular seedless to vascular seed. Way more oxygen= everything bigger and taller (animals, plants) Ferns are the most abundant group of seedless vascular plants, with about.

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