PLANTS!

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

Plant Evolution Flowers Mosses Vascular System Seeds Pines Ferns Flowering Plants

Plant Cell Structure Vacuole Nucleus Chloroplast Cell Wall

Station #1 Evolutionary Advances of Plants Algae: Is it a Plant? - courtesy of Mike Guiry

Station #1 Con’t.

Station #2 Nonvascular Plants Bryophytes - early land plants

Station #2 Nonvascular 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 Roots

Station #4 Con’t. What do roots do for the plant?

Station #5 Leaves Vein Mesophyll Stoma Guard Cells Xylem & Phloem Cuticle Epidermis

Station #5 Con’t. H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O A B

H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O

Station #6 Primitive Vascular

Station #7 Gymnosperms Female Cone Male (Pollen Cone)

Station #8 Angiosperms

Station #9 Angiosperm Specimens

Station #10 Parts of a Flower Filament Anther StyleStigma Ovary Petal Ovule Sepal Stamen Pistil

Station #11 Two Types of Angiosperms DicotMonocot

Station #11 Con’t.

Leaves Dicot Leaf Monocot Leaf

Station #12 Cross Sections of Roots, Leaves and Stems Roots Monocot Dicot Leaves Monocot Dicot Stems MonocotDicot

Station #13 Seed Dispersal

Station #14 Mosses Vascular System Flowers Seeds Pines Ferns Flowering Plants