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Seeds A 58-64
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How do seed plants differ? ► Seeds contains an undeveloped plant and stored food for the young plant Include: grass, trees, shrubs, and bushes ► Angiosperms produce flowers ► Gymnosperms do not produce flowers ► “Angi” is a girl and she likes flowers; “Gym” is a boy and he does not like flowers.
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► First angiosperm appeared 150 million years ago Fruits, vegetables, and grains are angiosperms ► Gymnosperms are the oldest seed plants Include pine, fir, cedar, and spruce trees Appeared about 250 million years ago
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► Gymnosperms are divided into 4 sections Conifers, cycads, ginkgoes, and gnetophytes ► Most gymnosperms are evergreens they only lose a few leaves at a time and constantly replace them ► Others are deciduous lose all of their leaves in the fall
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What are angiosperms? ► most recently evolved ► Best-adapted division of seed plants ► About 235, 000 different kinds (largest division of the plant kingdom) ► Live in all climates; in all parts of the world ► A few cannot live on their own they have little or no chlorophyll are parasites
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What are cotyledons? ► Angiosperms are divided into 2 classes based on the number of cotyledons (a tiny leaf like structure inside a seed) ► Monocot contains only one cotyledon Over 60,000 different kinds Corn, rice, wheat, orchids ► Dicots contains two cotyledons over 170,000 kinds of dicots Bean plants, maple trees, rose plants
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Why do flowers have aromas? ► The aroma of a flower helps it to survive Some smell nice which attracts insects; the insects pick up pollen and as they move from flower to flower they drop off and pick up pollen which pollinates the flowers so they can reproduce
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Jack-in-the Pulpit flower
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