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Leaf my plants alone. LEAF It; PLANT It; or DON’T TOUCH IT! . Our Agenda for the Next 2 Episodes: . 1.Land Plants evolved from green algae -question session 2.Mosses and other nonvascular plants have life cycles dominated by gametophytes - question session
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Leaf my plants alone LEAF It; PLANT It; or DON’T TOUCH IT!
Our Agenda for the Next 2 Episodes: 1.Land Plants evolved from green algae -question session 2.Mosses and other nonvascular plants have life cycles dominated by gametophytes - question session 3.Ferns and other seedless vascular plants were the first plants to grow tall - question session
But, First: What is a Plant? • Multicellular • Eukaryotic • Photosynthetic • Autotrophic • Cell walls made of cellulose • Chlorophylls a and b exist to help run photosynthesis
Characteristics of Plants? • Plants dominate land and water • Have lots of diversity • Some less than 1 mm in length • Some more than 100 m tall • 12 phyla (divisions) have more than 290,000 known species • Some live a few weeks • Some live for thousands of years
The history • Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old • Only 1.2 billion years ago is there some evidence of cyanobacteria existence • Then, 500 million years ago small plants, fungi and animals started making thereway inland • Finally, 370 million years ago some plants appeared that could grow tall
Where did land plants evolve from? • Soil • Algae • Justin Bieber • God
Why move to Land? • Move to land from water provided many advantages: • More exposure to sunlight (photosynthesis) • Increased carbon dioxide levels • Larger supply of inorganic nutrients • Obtain direct sunlight by water and plankton • Also presented challenges: • Dying out due to evaporation
Distant Relatives of Plants? • Most probably developed from aquatic algae called: Charophytes • Similarities between Charophytes and Land Plants: • Rosette-shaped cellulose-synthesizing complexes • Peroxisome enzymes • Structure of flagellated sperm • Formation of phargmoplast
Difference between algae and a land plant 5 traits present in land plants, but absent to its ancestor, the algae: • Apical meristems • Alternations of generations • Multicellular embryo that is dependent on parent plant • Sporangia that walled spores • Gametangia that produce gametes
Plants can be classified in three general ways: • This system classifies plants by whether or not they have vascular tissue • Nonvascular plants (Bryophytes) • Mosses • Liverworts • Hornworts • Seedless Vascular Plants • Lycophytes • Pterophytes • Seed plants • Gymnosperms (“naked seeds”) • Angiosperms (seeds develop in chambers) • 90% of all plant life are Angiosperms
How did land plants survive in the Land environment? a)Rebecca Black nourished them with her sweet and angelic voice b)Adaptation c) God’s blessings d) With a pen.
Adaptations needed to move onto Land • Early adaptation to land: • Cuticle – A waxy protective covering on plant surfaces that prevents water loss • Keeps water in plant • Keeps out carbon dioxide • Plants with stomata survived • Apical Meristems: Localized regions of cell division at tips of shoots and roots • Inhibit growth of cells which protects body and internal tissue
Multi cellular; dependant embryos • “embryophytes” • Transfer of nutrients from parent • Alternation of generations • Sporophyte (diploid) and gametophyte (haploid) • Gametangia – gametes are produced within multi-cellular organ • Female – archegonia • Male – Antheridia • Vascular Tissue • Transport water and minerals
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What are bryophytes? a) Ms.Kanisek’s hair products b)Non-vascular plants c)A fancy term that God made up d)Vascular Plants
The Bryophytes • All non- vascular plants • 3 phyla • Mosses (Phylum Bryophyta) • Liverworts (Phylum Hepatophyta) • Hornworts (Phylum Anthocerophyta) • Botanists have identified 16,600 species • Don’t have vascular tissue • Do not form true roots, stems, leaves • Usually grow on land near streams and rivers
What’s so special about bryophytes? • Ecological and economic benefits: • Absorb damaging levels of radiation from the sun • Can form extensive deposits of inorganic material (peat) • Carbon reservoirs, thus, balancing atmospheric carbon levels • Some used as natural antiseptic for wounds
Classification of Bryophytes • Most primitive type of plants • Characteristics more closely related to plants than algae • Mostly terrestrial • Have alternation-of-generations life cycle • Seedless • Produce spores • No vascular tissue; so usually small (1-2 cm) • Bryophytes need water to reproduce sexually b/c sperm must swim to egg • In dry areas, reproduce sexually only when enough moisture is available • Asexual reproduction of haploid spores does not require water
Phylum Bryophyta • Thick green carpet of moss you see is actually thousands of tiny moss gametophytes • Each gametophyte attached to soil by rootlike structures called rhizoids (RIE-zoidz) • Rhizoids don’t have vascular tissue • Filament of cells in mosses • Do function like roots by anchoring moss and absorbing water and inorganic nutrients • Gametophytes can be male / female or both
Gametophyte Sporophyte Gametangia Protonemata (pre-gametophyte) Sporophyte Spores
Phylum Hepatophyte • Includes liverworts • Grow in moist, shady areas • Most have thin, transparent leaflike structure arranged along stemlike axis
Phylum Anthocerophyta • Includes hornworts • Look like liverworts • Also live in moist, shady areas • Share characteristic with algae: each cell has single large chloroplast instead of many small ones
What are Vascular Plants? • Vascular plants have specialized conducting tissues (xylem and phloem) that transport water and substances • Can grow larger • Live in more environments than nonvascular plants • Strong stems allow them to grow tall • Rise above other plants – more sunlight
Seedless Vascular Plants • Dominated earth until about 200 million years ago • 2 phyla • Lycophyta – Lycophytes • Pterophyta – ferns, whisk ferns, horsetails • Spores are mobile sexual reproductive parts of all seedless plants • Important for: REMOVE Carbon dioxide from atmopshere and become coal, which are used for fossil fuel
How did Leaves Develop? • 2 Hypothesis for the development of Leaves: • Microphylls: originated from sprongia • Macrophylls / Megaphylls: branched vascular systems; may have evolved by fusion of branched stems
Phylum Lycophyta • Club mosses • Look like miniature pine trees (also called ground pines) • They make strobilus (cone) cluster of sporangia-bearing modified leaves • One member of Lycophyta is spike moss native to American Southwest • Turns brown and curls up into a ball at night • When moistened, it uncurls and turns
Phylum Pterophyta • Diverse group of ferns • Some floating plant less than 1 cm across • Some reach 25 meters • Most have underground stem called rhizome • Some used as growing medium for orchids • Tightly coiled new leaves called fiddleheads • Fiddleheads uncoil to become fronds (leaves)
IB Assessment Statements • 9.1.5 – Dicotyledonous plants have apical and lateral meristems • Apical meristems are sometimes reffered to as primary meristems and lateral meristems as cambium. Meristems generate new cells for growth of the plant.
Bibliography • Allott, Andrew. Biology for the IB Diploma: standard and higher level. London: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print. • Damon, Alan, Randy McGonegal, Patricia Tosto, and William Ward. "9." Higher Level Biology. England: Pearson Baccalauraeate, 2007. 238-240. Print. • "Lands Plants, Diversity." Evolution of PLANTS. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. <home.earthlink.net/~cinidan/APBiology/PlantEvol.html>. • Reece, Jane B., and Neil A. Campbell. Campbell biology Jane B. Reece ... [et al.].. 8th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings :, 2009. Print.
Define apical meristems • 2 marks
-it is located in the apex of the root and stem • -growth in apical meristems allows roots and stems to elongate • -its shoot produces new leaves and flowers
State the significance of the seedless vascular plants • 2 marks
-growth helped produce the major global cooling-decaying remnants of the forests became coal, which are used for fossil fuel