Chapter 29

1. List characteristics that distinguish plants from organisms in the other kingdoms.
2. Diagram a generalized plant life cycle indicating which generation is the sporophyte/gametophyte, which individuals are haploid/diploid, where meiosis occurs and where mitosis occurs.
3. Describe four major periods of plant evolution that opened new adaptive zones on land.
4. Distinguish between the categories division and phylum.
5. Using the classification scheme presented in the text, list the plant divisions; give the common name for each; and categorize them into nonvascular, vascular seedless and vascular seed plants.
6. Provide evidence to defend the position that plants evolved from green algae.
7. Describe two adaptations that made the bryophytes' move onto land possible.
8. Explain how bryophytes are still tied to water.
9. List and distinguish among three division of Bryophyta.
10. Diagram the life cycle of a moss including gamete production, fertilization, and spore production.
11. Compare environmental conditions faced by algae in an aquatic environment and plants in a terrestrial environment.
12. Provide evidence that suggests the division Bryophyta is a phylogenetic branch separate from vascular plants.
13. Describe adaptations of vascular plants, including modifications of the life cycle and modifications of the sporophyte, that have contributed to their success on land.
14. List and distinguish among the four extant divisions of seedless vascular plants.
15. Distinguish between homosporous and heterosporous.
16. Distinguish among spore, sporophyte, sporophyll and sporangium.
17. Diagram the life cycle of a fern including spore production, gamete production and fertilization.
18. Point out the major life cycle differences between mosses and ferns.
19. Describe how coal is formed and during which geological period the most extensive coal beds were produced.