Biology (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
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7. A simple pistil consists of a single (a) calyx (b) carpel (c) ovule (d) filament (e) petal
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Biology (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 28.1 - Prob. 1LOCh. 28.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 28.1 - Prob. 2CCh. 28.2 - Trace the steps in the life cycle of a pine and...Ch. 28.2 - Summarize the features that distinguish...Ch. 28.2 - Name and briefly describe the four phyla of...Ch. 28.2 - What is the dominant generation in the pine life...Ch. 28.2 - Prob. 2CCh. 28.2 - Prob. 3CCh. 28.2 - Prob. 4C
Ch. 28.3 - Summarize the features that distinguish flowering...Ch. 28.3 - Briefly explain the life cycle of a flowering...Ch. 28.3 - Contrast monocots and eudicots, the two largest...Ch. 28.3 - Prob. 8LOCh. 28.3 - How do nonreproductive adaptations of flowering...Ch. 28.3 - How does the flowering plant life cycle differ...Ch. 28.3 - What are the two major classes of flowering...Ch. 28.3 - Prob. 4CCh. 28.4 - Summarize the evolution of gymnosperms from...Ch. 28.4 - What features distinguish progymnosperms from seed...Ch. 28.4 - Describe the significant features of the oldest...Ch. 28.4 - Are monocots considered basal or core angiosperms?...Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 1....Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 2....Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 3. The...Ch. 28 - Prob. 4TYUCh. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 5....Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 6....Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 7. A...Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 8. A...Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 9....Ch. 28 - Prob. 10TYUCh. 28 - Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 11....Ch. 28 - Prob. 12TYUCh. 28 - Test Your Understanding Apply and Analyze 13. You...Ch. 28 - VISUALIZE Sketch a seed of a gymnosperm and of a...Ch. 28 - CONNECT How do the life cycles of seedless plants...Ch. 28 - Prob. 16TYUCh. 28 - Test Your Understanding Evaluate and Synthesize...Ch. 28 - Test Your Understanding Evaluate and Synthesize...
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- Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 1. Seed plants lack which of the following structure(s)? (a) ovules surrounded by integuments (b) microspores and megaspores (c) vascular tissues (d) a large, nutritionally independent sporophyte (e) a large, nutritionally independent gametophytearrow_forwardTest Your Understanding Apply and Analyze 13. You are given a plant that you have never seen before (see figure). Is it a gymnosperm or angiosperm? A monocot or eudicot? What are the features that helped you make these determinations?arrow_forwardTest Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 3. The immature male gametophytes of pine are called (a) ovules (b) stamens (c) seed cones (d) pollen grains (e) polar nucleiarrow_forward
- Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 8. A flower that lacks stamens is both _______________ and _______________. (a) complete; imperfect (b) incomplete; perfect (c) complete; perfect (d) incomplete; imperfectarrow_forwardTest Your Understanding Evaluate and Synthesize 18. EVOLUTION LINK Where would you place the progymnosperms on Figure 28-2? Explain your reasoning. Figure 28-2 Gymnosperm and angiosperm evolution This cladogram shows a current hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships among living seed plants, based on structural evidence, molecular comparisons, and fossils. Relationships among extant gymnosperm clades and angiosperms remain controversial. The arrangement of the phyla shown here may change as future analyses help clarify relationships.arrow_forwardTest Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 2. Conifers, cycads. ginkgo, and gnetophytes are collectively called (a) club mosses (b) gymnosperms (c) angiosperms (d) eudicots (e) seedless vascular plantsarrow_forward
- Test Your Understanding Evaluate and Synthesize 14. VISUALIZE construct a cladogram based on the following data. Mosses are plants with no vascular tissue. Horse-tails, ferns, gymnosperms (pines and other plants with naked seeds), and angiosperms (flowering plants) are all vascular plants. Seeds are absent in all but the gymnosperms and angiosperms. Angiosperms are the only seed plants with flowers. (Hint: To help you construct the cladogram, draw a simple table showing which characters are present in each group. See Fig. 23-9.) Figure 23-9 Constructing a cladogram using outgroup analysisarrow_forwardKnow and Comprehend 12. Which of the following statements about ferns is not true? (a) ferns have motile sperm cells that swim through water to the egg-containing archegonium (b) ferns are vascular plants (c) ferns are the most economically important group of bryophytes (d) the fern sporophyte consists of a rhizome, roots, and fronds (e) the diversity of ferns is greatest in the tropicsarrow_forwardTest Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 9. After fertilization, the______________ develop(s) into a fruit and the ______________ develop(s) into a seed. (a) ovary; ovule (b) polar nuclei; ovule (c) ovary; endosperm (d) ovule; ovary (e) ovule; polar nucleiarrow_forward
- Test Your Understanding Know and Comprehend 11. This flowering plant may be the nearest living relative to the ancestor of all flowering plants, (a) Amborella (b) Archaeopteris (c) Gnetum (d) water lily (e) magnoliaarrow_forwardKnow and Comprehend 11. These plants have hollow, jointed stems that are impregnated with silica. (a) mosses (b) club mosses (c) horsetails (d) whisk ferns (e) hornwortsarrow_forwardKnow and Comprehend 10. These plants have vascularized stems but lack true roots and leaves. (a) mosses (b) club mosses (c) horsetails (d) whisk ferns (e) hornwortsarrow_forward
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