Biology (MindTap Course List)
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Chapter 27, Problem 8TYU
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8. The green, gametangia-bearing moss plant (a) is the haploid gametophyte generation (b) is the diploid sporophyte generation (c) is called a protonema (d) contains cells with single large chloroplasts (e) b and c
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The green, gametangia-bearing moss plant (a) is the haploid gametophyte generation (b) is the diploid sporophyte generation (c) is called a protonema (d) contains cells with single large chloroplasts (e) b and c
Postlab: Bryophytes, Seedless Vascular Plants &
Gymnosperms
1. What is the conspicuous form of the bryophytes? Is this form haploid or diploid?
2. The part that produces the male gametes is called the....?
3. The part that produces the female gametes is called the...
4. Spores are produced by which cell division process?
5. What is the conspicuous form of the seedless vascular plants? Is it haploid or diploid?
6. What are microspores? Where are they produced in gymnosperms?
7. Megaspores give rise to which structure in gymnosperms?
8. How are most gymnosperms pollinate
d?
9.
In gymnosperms, the material that nourishes the embryo derives from what tissue?
10. How can you visually differentiate a male from a female cone in pines?
f. The mature female gametophyte is called a(n)
(A)
embryo sac
(B)
nucellus
(C)
megasporangium
(D)
endosperm
(E)
ovule
Chapter 27 Solutions
Biology (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 27.1 - Discuss some environmental challenges of living on...Ch. 27.1 - Name the green algal group from which plants are...Ch. 27.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 2CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 3CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 4CCh. 27.2 - Summarize the features that distinguish bryophytes...Ch. 27.2 - Name and briefly describe the three phyla of...Ch. 27.2 - Describe the life cycle of mosses and compare...Ch. 27.2 - Prob. 1C
Ch. 27.2 - How are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts similar?...Ch. 27.3 - Discuss the features that distinguish seedless...Ch. 27.3 - Name and briefly describe the two phyla of...Ch. 27.3 - Describe the life cycle of ferns and compare their...Ch. 27.3 - Compare the generalized life cycles of homosporous...Ch. 27.3 - Prob. 1CCh. 27.3 - Prob. 2CCh. 27.3 - Which of the following are parts of the sporophyte...Ch. 27.3 - Why are whisk ferns and horsetails now classified...Ch. 27.3 - How does heterospory modify the plant life cycle?Ch. 27 - Plants probably descended from a group of green...Ch. 27 - Which of the following is not a characteristic of...Ch. 27 - In plant life cycles, (a) the first products of...Ch. 27 - The bryophytes (a) include mosses, liverworts, and...Ch. 27 - The waxy layer that covers aerial parts of plants...Ch. 27 - Prob. 6TYUCh. 27 - Prob. 7TYUCh. 27 - Know and Comprehend 8. The green,...Ch. 27 - Prob. 9TYUCh. 27 - Know and Comprehend 10. These plants have...Ch. 27 - Know and Comprehend 11. These plants have hollow,...Ch. 27 - Know and Comprehend 12. Which of the following...Ch. 27 - Apply and Analyze 13. VISUALIZE Draw a simple...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 14. EVOLUTION LINK How may...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 15. INTERPRET DATA...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 16. EVOLUTION LINK Where...
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