Chapter 29 and 30 (only Gymnosperms we will have Angiosperms later):
1. What is the alternation of generations?
2. Bryophyta – what is the dominant life stage? Vascular or non vascular, how does reproduction
work in the bryophyte (protonema, antheridia, archegonia) where does the sporophyte develop?
What are the parts of the sporophyte?
3. Vascular plants:
a. what is homospory and heterospory and why are they significant?
b. ferns and their allies – what is the typical lifecycle of a fern? What is the dominant
generation? What is unique about the gametophyte relative to the mosses and the higher
vascular plants? What are the parts- frond, prothallus, archegonia, antheridia, sorus,
sporangia
i. what are the three groups we discussed – Lycophyta, Sphenophyta and
Pteridophyta
4. What is the advantage of being a Gymnosperm over ferns and mosses?
5. What is the life cycle of the Gymnosperms? What is the dominant generation, what is the
microsporangium and megasporangium. What do they produce? What do these develop into?
What is a seed?
Chapter 31
1. What are the major parts of the fungus?
2. What are the two types of mycelia?
3. What is the general life cycle of the fungi – you should recognize and be able to define terms such
as plasmogamy, heterokaryotic, karyogamy
4. What are the five groups of fungi and their major characteristics and reproductive features?
5. lichens, mycorrhizae
Chapter 35
1. recognize and compare and contrast the anatomy of the stem, leaf and root in monocots and dicots.
Be able to label the parts.
Chapter 36
1. what are the three levels of transport in plants?
2. what is water potential and why is it important relative to the movement of water and fluids in
plants?
3. what is the apoplast and the symplast?
4. what is transpiration? What drives transpiration? How do different environmental conditions affect
transpiration?
5. What is bulk flow and how does it work?
Chapter 38
1. What are the plant nutrients? Know the functions of three of them (your choice).
2. Soil properties: soil horizons, porosity and permeability, infiltration, leaching.
3. what is cation exchange? How does it work?
4. Describe the relationship between Rhizobium and members of the legume family.
5. What are some adaptations plants and why do they exist – parasitic plants, carnivorous plants,
mycorhhizae?
Chapter 39
1. Signal transduction and how does it work
2. Gravitropism
3. Know three plant hormones (your choice) and where they are produced and their major action in
the plant. Do they interact with other hormones?