1. PLANTS!

2. 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

3. Plant Evolution Flowers Mosses Vascular System Seeds Pines Ferns Flowering Plants

4. Plant Cell Structure Vacuole Nucleus Chloroplast Cell Wall

5. Station #1 Evolutionary Advances of Plants Algae: Is it a Plant? www.alagebase.org - courtesy of Mike Guiry

6. Station #1 Con’t.

7. Station #2 Nonvascular Plants Bryophytes - early land plants

8. Station #2 Nonvascular Plants Contains Spores Rhizoid

9. Station #3 Plant Tissue Ground Vascular Dermal

10. Station #3 Con’t. How does the human circulatory compare to xylem and phloem? How does the human skeleton compare to xylem?

11. Station #4 Roots

12. Station #4 Con’t. What do roots do for the plant? http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/ http://www.botany.hawaii.edu

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

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

15. H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O H2OH2O

16. Station #6 Primitive Vascular

17. Station #7 Gymnosperms Female Cone Male (Pollen Cone)

18. Station #8 Angiosperms

19. Station #9 Angiosperm Specimens

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

21. Station #11 Two Types of Angiosperms DicotMonocot

22. Station #11 Con’t.

23. Leaves Dicot Leaf Monocot Leaf

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

25. Station #13 Seed Dispersal

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