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Q: How does the stilt roots of Pandanus aid the plant in survival in relation to its habitat?
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Q: How are male gametophytes and male gametes formed in angiosperms?
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- How do the main similarities and differences between seedless vascular plants and nonvascular plants affect function in these plants?What specific plant morphological characters consistently used as basis for classifying plants, in general, and the flowering plants, in particular? Name the specific classification systems (authors who) used them.What is a seed? What are four key adptations common in seed plants? What are the advantages of reduced gametophyte?
- Why are ginkgo trees unique in the classification of plants? What useful herb comes from this phylum? What is it used for?What are the molecular mechanisms that regulate the development and differentiation of plant tissue systems, such as the vascular, meristematic, and epidermal systems, and how do these processes contribute to the growth and adaptation of plants to their environment?from the fruit of wild daisy, there are hair like structures, what do these structures represent in the flower from which the fruit was derived?
- How do the life cycles of seedless plants and seed plants differ? In what fundamental ways are they alike?What adaptations make seed plants suitable for land life?What is sporopollenin? Why is this structure so important for the eventual evolution of early plants? What challenges did early plants face making the move to terrestrial habitats? What were the benefits?
- What is a gametophyte? How many different types of gametophytes are there in a plant life cycle? What do they look like (as shown)? Do the sporophytes and gametophytes of seed plants ever look like each other?Why are the stem-like and leaf-like structures of a moss plant not called stem and leaves?What are the five key traits that appear in nearly all plants but are absent in charophytes? If these traits are absent in charophytes what does that make them? What is a gametophyte? What is sporophyte? Are they haploid or diploid? What do they produce?
