AP Biology Chapter 29-30 Notes
*Note from Mr. D
You are welcome to write your notes in a notebook as well but this sheet will be due in your binders at the end of each unit. Your book research must say something different
then the classroom notes unless boxes are merged.
Topics and Research
Questions
Evolution: What are the two
categories that suggest
land plants evolved from
green algae?
Evolution: What are four
morphological similarities
between land plants and green
algae?
Derived Characteristics:
Describe Alternation of
Generations
Derived Characteristics:
Why are protective spores are a
derived characteristic?
Derived Characteristics:
What does it mean to have a
multicellular gametophyte?
Derived Characteristics:
Describe an apical meristem.
Classroom Notes/Book Research
Derived Characteristics:
What is our current
understanding of land plant
evolution?
Bryophytes: What does it
mean to be a bryophyte?
Bryophytes: What are the
three types of Bryophytes and
brief descriptions of them.
Seedless Vascular Plants:
What is vascular tissue? Job?
Types?
Seedless Vascular Plants:
What is a spore?
Seedless Vascular Plants:
What ploid is dominat in
Seedless Vascular Plants?
Seedless Vascular Plants: Use
correct terminology to describe
life cycle of a vascular seedless
plant?
Types of Spores?
Seeded Vascular Plants: What
is the evolutionary significance
of a seed?
Seeded Vascular Plants: What
are three main characteristics
and/or advantages of seeded
vascular plants?
Seeded Vascular Plants:
Describe the male and female
gametophytes as well as the
process of fertilization.
Male
Process of fertilizaton
Seeded Vascular Plants:
Describe a gymnosperm..
Female
Seeded Vascular Plants:
Describe the alternation of
generations of gymnosperms.
Seeded Vascular Plants: What
is an angio sperm?
Seeded Vascular Plants:
Describe the parts of a flower.
Seeded Vascular Plants: What
is the role of fruit?
Seeded Vascular Plants:
Describe the alternation of
generations of Angiosperms.