[BIOL-1507EL] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (34 pages long!)
29 Mar 2017
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Plants will adapt when water is not available as the main transportation for fertilization: sporophyte: diploid generation, spore producing; meiosis, gametophyte: haploid generation, gamete producing, bryophytes: non-vascular, seedless mosses. Vascular, seedless fern: gymnosperms: vascular, naked seeds conifers (pine, angiosperms: flowers that protect the seed - flowering plants, fruit, palms. All plants in this text are multicellular, eukaryotes, photosynthetic autotrophs. Plants have cell walls made of cellulose. Generalized view of plant reproduction and life cycles. Nearly all plants will produce sexually and most are capable of asexual propagation (planting a potato results in asexual reproduction) In the life cycles of all plants and alternation of generation occurs in which a haploid(n) gametophyte and diploid(2n) sporophyte take turns producing one another. The history of terrestrial adaptation is the key to modern plants. The evolution of seed bearing plants played a key role in agriculture and the evolution of people.
