Exploring Plant Kingdom: Evolution, Structure, and Function
E N D
Presentation Transcript
Overview of Plants • Are plants multicellular or unicellular? Multicellular • Eukaryotic or Prokaryotic? Eukaryotic • Of what is their cell wall composed? Cellulose • How do they obtain nutrition? Autotrophs
Pines Flowering Plants Ferns Flowers Mosses Seeds Vascular System Plant Evolution
Plant Cell Structure Vacuole Chloroplast Cell Wall Nucleus
Station #1Evolutionary Advances of Plants Algae: Is it a Plant? www.alagebase.org - courtesy of Mike Guiry
Station #2Nonvascular Plants • Bryophytes - early land plants
Station #2Nonvascular Plants Contains Spores Rhizoid
Station #3 Plant Tissue Ground Vascular Dermal
Station #3 Con’t. • How does the human circulatory compare to xylem and phloem? • How does the human skeleton compare to xylem?
Station #4 Con’t. • What do roots do for the plant? http://www.botany.hawaii.edu http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/
Cuticle Vein Xylem & Phloem Mesophyll Epidermis Stoma Guard Cells Station #5Leaves
Station #5 Con’t. H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O A H2O B
H2O H2O H2O H2O Station #5 Con’t.
Station #7Gymnosperms Female Cone Male (Pollen Cone)
Pistil Stamen Style Stigma Anther Filament Ovary Petal Sepal Ovule Station #10Parts of a Flower
Station #11Two Types of Angiosperms Dicot Monocot
Station #11 Con’t. Monocot Leaf • Leaves Dicot Leaf
Leaves Roots Dicot Monocot Stems Monocot Dicot Station #12Cross Sections of Roots, Leaves and Stems Monocot Dicot
Pines Flowering Plants Ferns Flowers Mosses Seeds Vascular System Station #14