1. The Plant Kingdom
Ch 13A and 14.6

2. Botany- the study of plants
Human population is expected to reach 9 billion in We have to figure out how to grow enough food in order to feed everybody, and we have to do it in a responsible way.
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3. Plant Characteristics
Eukaryotic
Multicellular
True tissues
Cell walls with cellulose
Mostly autotrophic, many chloroplasts in cells
All reproduce sexually, but many can also reproduce asexually

4. Plant Classifications
Presence or absence of vascular tissues and seeds distinguishes the different groups of plants.
Vascular tissue- specialized structures that conduct water and dissolved materials in a plant. Similar to the blood vessels in animals, used for transporting materials throughout the plant.
Seeds- structures that contain a young embryonic plant and stored food in a protective seed coat.

5. Plant Classifications
Nonvascular Plants
Vascular Plants Without Seeds
Vascular Plants with Seeds

6. Nonvascular Plants True mosses, liverworts, hornworts
These plants stay small (usually less than 2.5cm tall) due to the fact that materials must be passed from one cell to another & have no woody tissue for support.
Typically found in moist shady spots
Made of leafy shoots and rhizoids
Rhizoids are sort of like roots but they don’t actually absorb water in mosses. Their primary purpose is anchoring the moss in place.

8. Moss Life Cycle
Leafy shoots produce haploid gametes (sperm and egg), so the stage in the mosses lifecycle when the leafy shoots are present is called the gametophyte stage.
Sperm are released and fertilize an egg which causes a sporophyte to grow (diploid)
When the sporophyte capsule is mature it releases spores that are dispersed by the wind and that grow into new gametophytes when conditions are right
Gametophyte is the dominant generation

10. Vascular Plants Without Seeds
Ferns, horsetails, club mosses, whisk ferns
Some are epiphytes meaning they grow on other plants but are not parasitic
Most grow in cool, shaded areas.
Fronds (fern leaves) grow from an underground stem called a rhizome that produces roots and can reproduce asexually.

12. Fern Life Cycle
Spores are produced on the underside of the frond (sporophyte, diploid)
Spores are released and are dispersed by the wind
Spores germinate and form a tiny heart-shaped prothallus (gametophyte, haploid)
The underside of the prothallus produces rhizoids (they do absorb water and minerals in ferns) which produce gametes
Fertilization occurs and new fronds grow
Sporophyte is the dominant generation

14. Vascular Plants with Seeds
Angiosperm- “seed with a container (fruit)”, flowering plants
Gymnosperm- “naked seed”, mostly cone-bearing plants

15. Pine Tree
We will look at the pine tree as a representative genus for gymnosperms

16. Pine Tree Life Cycle Sporophyte is the dominant generation
Pine trees produce pollen cones and seed cones in the spring
Small pollen cones usually found toward the tips of branches produce pollen which contains the male gametes.
Released pollen is carried by the wind and lands on the open scales of small green seed cones either on the same tree or another tree
Seed cones close tightly once pollen is transferred. Then fertilization occurs and the seed develops
Later the seed cone opens and releases the seeds when the environmental conditions are right
Sporophyte is the dominant generation

18. Angiosperms “seed with a container (fruit)”, flowering plants
An ovary of a plant is the structure that encloses the seeds, and a mature ovary is called a fruit (apple, cherry, tomato, pea pod, corn kernel… see p.338)
A banana is technically a berry
A strawberry technically is not a berry

19. Seed Dispersal
Seed dispersal is important otherwise the new plants would all compete against each other and the parent plant
Humans and some animals carry fruits to other areas where they eat the fruit and discard the seeds
Some seeds have heavy protective coats and are able to pass through animals digestive tracts undamaged
Some fruits have sticky coatings or hooks and hitch a ride on passing animals
Some fruits are designed to be dispersed by the wind

20. The Flower Pedicel- the stalk that supports the flower
Receptacle- enlarged end of the pedicel that bears the remainder of the flower parts
Sepals- often green, “small petals”
Petals- large and brightly colored, located just inside the sepals

21. The Flower Stamen consists of a stalk (filament) tipped by an anther
Anther is where pollen is produced via meiosis
Pollen grains house cells that develop into sperm
Carpel or pistil consists of a long slender neck (style) with a sticky stigma at its tip
Stigma catches the pollen
At the base of the carpel is the ovary which contains one or more ovules.
Each ovule contains a developing egg

22. Pollination
Pollination- process where pollen is transferred from the anther to the stigma
Vibrantly colored flowers and nectar attract pollinators
Some plants’ pollen is transferred by the wind so they lack showy petals and nectar

23. Fertilization
When pollen lands on the stigma of the right species it stimulates the formation of the pollen tube
Pollen has 3 nuclei. One of those nuclei contains the information for the pollen tube. The other two nuclei are sperm nuclei.
Pollen tube grows down the style, enters the ovary, and then the ovule
One sperm nucleus fuses with the egg cell to form a diploid zygote
The other sperm nucleus fuses with two nuclei from the ovule forming the endosperm which will provide food for the embryonic plant.
Because seed formation requires the fertilization of two nuclei in the ovary by two sperm nuclei, it is termed double fertilization, and it occurs only in angiosperms.

24. Germination
The beginning of the growth of an embryonic plant within a seed.
Occurs when environmental conditions are right: proper moisture, temperature, and oxygen

27. Monocots and Dicots
Cotyledon- contains stored food to nourish the embryonic plant while it is in the seed and to supply the young sprout with energy until it can carry on photosynthesis
Monocots have one and dicots have two
There are other common characteristics found among monocots and dicots

28. Leaf Anatomy Stomata Lab