AP Biology Plant Diversity Question Sheet
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1. List characteristics that distinguish plants for other organisms in other kingdoms.
2. Diagram a generalized plant life cycle indicating which generation is the sporophyte or gametophyte,
which are haploid or diploid, and where meiosis and mitosis occur.
3. What is an embryophyte?
4. List three disadvantages and three advantages of life on land for a plant.
5. Using the classification scheme in your text list the plant divisions, give the common name for each
division, and categorize the groups into nonvascular, vascular seedless, and vascular seed plants.
6. Provide evidence to defend the position that plants evolved from green algae .
7. What are some of the more characteristics that make a bryophyte a bryophyte?
8. Describe two adaptations that made a bryophytes move onto land possible.
9. Explain in what way bryophytes are still tied to water.
10. List and distinguish between the three groups of bryophytes.
11. Diagram the life cycle of a moss, including gamete production, fertilization, and spore production.
12. Distinguish among spore, sporophyte, sporophyll, and sporangium.
13. Describe adaptations of vascular plants, including life cycle modification and sporophyte modifications
that have contributed to their success on land.
14. What is the evolutionary significance of seeds and pollen?
15. Distinguish between homosporous and heterosporous.
16. Explain the role of flowers and fruits in angiosperm reproduction.
17. Explain the role of stamens and carpels in angiosperm reproduction.