MAKE CONNECTIONS What type of cell division occurs as a megasporedevelops into a female gametophyte? Explain. (See Figure 13.10.)

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A: Reproduce  means to produce offspring by a sexual or asexual process.

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Q: A student collected samples of cells from a woody plant during the spring and produced the drawings…

A: Mitosis can be defined as the process in which a single cell divides to form two daughter cells.…

Q: VISUAL SKILLS Which mature seed lacks an endosperm?What happened to it?

A: The seed is the embryonic form of a plant that is enclosed by a protective covering. The seed…

Q: Microgametogenesis _4. The generative cell subsequently detaches from the pollen grain wall and is…

A: The pollen grain are produced by the process of microsporogenesis in male reproductive part of…

Q: Ch. 22-3 Consider a cherry pit, which is a seed with a cherry embryo inside it. Trace the paternal…

A: Double fertilization is the process by which a zygote and an endosperm are formed in the flowering…

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Q: 8. Name and describe the major plant tropisms: photo-, gravi- and thigmotropism.

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Q: 11.What evolutionary changed occurred between these two plants that allow for plants to move away…

A: Gymnosperms were gone before by progymnosperms, the initial naked seed plants, which emerged around…

Q: . WHAT IF? If flowers had shorter styles, pollen tubeswould more easily reach the embryo sac.…

A: When a pollen grain lands on the stigma of a flower of the correct species, a pollen tube begins to…

Q: Name 4 different evolutionary adaptations that allowed plants to survive on land instead of in…

A: Evolutionary adaptation, or simply adaptation, is the process through which organisms adapt to their…

Q: 3. Discuss the main parts of an angiosperm leaf. 4. By applying concepts from this lab, predict how…

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Q: dentify: 1. A cell division characteristic of the Charophyta and higher plant marked by the…

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Q: b 13 (a)- Vascular Plant Reproduction Can you recognize if a cone is male or female? If provided…

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Q: Indicated regions of the meristem diagramed below, what differences in cell division patterns can we…

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Q: How does pollination differ from fertilization?

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Q: . MAKE CONNECTIONS Does the life cycle of humanshave any structures analogous to plant…

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Q: Are the sieve tubes - [made up of] parenchyma, collenchyma or scelerenchyma cells?

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Q: 5. Trace the path of carbon in a typical C4 type of plants- from its entry through stomata to its…

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Q: 3: Name the phylum for the majority of flowering plants, it includes the classes Monocotyledonae and…

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Q: a.) How many cells thick is the upper epidermis in the leaf structure? b.) Does this layer contain…

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Q: 13.Which region of the leaves is the location to which most of the photosynthesis takes place?Read…

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Q: 21) How does a seed differ from a spore? Group of answer choices A seed has a protective coating,…

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Q: Ch. 22-1 Early botanists admired ferns but found their life cycle perplexing. In the 1700s, they…

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Q: Stone cells in coconut shells are part of the division of labor in plants. What modifications do…

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Q: 3. In your own words, describe alternation of generations in plants?

A: Shift of ages is a kind of life cycle found in earthly plants and some green growth in which…

Q: 2. Describe the similarities and differences in the sporophyte generation and the gametophyte…

A: Gametophytic generation is haploid (n) which alternates with the sporophytic phase (2n). This is…

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