Biology 2217B Final: All Species Names
24 Apr 2016
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Ferns, club mosses, horsetails; club mosses invented the vasc. system, ferns invented leaves. Conifers (pinophyta); also cycads (cycadophyta), ginkgo (ginkgophyta), ephedra (gnetophyta); naked seeds. Monocots (liliopsida) and dicots (magnoliopsida); seeds enclosed in an ovary (i. e. fruit) Low resistance to decay; masts, boxes, ladders, ship spars, aircraft crates. Most valuable gum resin, also perfumes and incense. Buckley"s cough syrup and glue for microscope slides (pinophyta) Stabilizer in food, and for printing, paint production, glue (leguminosae) Few companies still make chewing gum from this. Seaworthy ropes, light clothes, cigarette filters, teabags (hard fibre) Rope, string, floor mats from leaf fibres (hard fibre) Used in wwii for life preservers (surface fibre) Deposits of vegetable matter, accumulated in bogs/swamps that have slowly decomposed; very compact and carbonized; only useful where wood is scarce. Wild corn from which z. mays was domesticated from. Used to be called gramineae, found on all continents. 2n = 14; staff of life , earliest cultivated in.
