BIL 226 Study Guide - Final Guide: Vascular Plant, Neontology, Equisetales
22 Feb 2020
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Use your other three study guides to prepare for the cumulative part of the final. The following is to help guide you through your notes to prepare for the cumulative portion of the exam. Know the general anatomy of the main groups of bryophytes. Know how bryophytes are different from the tracheophytes. Know the meaning/significance of: gametophyte, sporophyte, gamete, spore, sporophyll, microsporophyll, megasporophyll, microspore, megaspore, archegonium, antheridium. Know the characters that set each group of bryophytes apart from the more primitive groups. Know the meaning/significance of isogamy, heterogamy, oogamy, rhizoid, thallus. Read the link to the web page on the doctrine, and be ready for a question or two. Know the synapomorphies that set tracheophytes apart from bryophytes, and which ones continued the inexorable trek towards a terrestrial existence. Know how seedless tracheophytes (sts) are still tied to water and why. Know the organs and which is the most primitive and most derived.
