Bio108
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- waxy cuticle
- protects plant from epidermis from drying out
- Bryophytes nonvascular plants
- alternations of generation with gametophyte predominating no roots anchored by rhizoids include liverworts, hornworts, and mosses
- Tracheophytes vascular plants
- sporophytes predominating roots stems and leaves present
- xylem
- conducts water and dissolved materials up
- phloem
- conducts sugars and organic nutrients down
- Lycophytes
- seedless vascular, microphyll leaves, clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts
- Pterophytes
- megaphyll leaves fern produce sori and horsetail produce spores in strobili
- sporophyll
- modified leaves that bear sporangia and usually clustered sori, strobili, homosporous
- evolution of alternations of generations
- further reduction of gametophyte to mircoscopic proportions and marcoscopic predominating sporophytes
- megaspore
- female gametophyte, ovule
- mircospore
- male gametophyte, pollen grain
- seed
- stored food, diploid embryo, seed coat
- Gymnosperms
- naked seeds without fruit includes cycads, ginkgoes, gnetophytes, conifers
- conifers
- oldest, tallest, most massive
- angiosperms
- the flowering plants