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Seedless Plants
- Plants are multicellular eukaryotes and photosynthetic autotrophs. Plants evolved from ancestral green algae and exhibit numerous adaptations to life on land.
- Plants are divided into two groups: nonvascular (bryophytes) and vascular (tracheophytes). In vascular plants the tube-like xylem and phloem transport water, minerals and nutrients.
- The vascular plants are divided into the seedless vascular plants and the seed plants. The two groups of seed plants are the gymnosperms and the angiosperms (flowering plants).
- Bryophytes are non-vascular plants such as mosses and liverworts. They lack true roots, leaves and stems.
- In bryophytes the gametophyte stage is dominant. The sporophyte generation is dependent on the gametophyte plant.
- Ferns are an example of a seedless vascular plant. They inhabit moist environments, allowing the flagellated sperm to swim to the archegonia where fertilization takes place.
- Most seedless plants are homosporous; they produce a single type of spore that develops into a gametophyte capable of producing both male and female gametes.
Seedless Plants
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- Intro
- Origin and Classification of Plants
- Origin and Classification of Plants
- Non-Vascular vs. Vascular Plants
- Seedless Vascular & Seed Plants
- Angiosperms & Gymnosperms
- Alternation of Generations
- Bryophytes
- Moss Life Cycle
- Seedless Vascular Plants
- Adaptations to Life on land
- Adaptation 1: Cell Walls
- Adaptation 2: Vascular Plants
- Adaptation 3 : Xylem & Phloem
- Adaptation 4: Seeds
- Adaptation 5: Pollen
- Adaptation 6: Stomata
- Adaptation 7: Reduced Gametophyte Generation
- Example 1: Bryophytes
- Example 2: Sporangium, Lignin, Gametophyte, and Antheridium
- Example 3: Adaptations to Life on Land
- Example 4: Life Cycle of Plant


































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